Where are you from? Where do you come from? What's your nationality? These questions above are commonly used in English when we meet someone for the first time. However, what else do you say and ask when you get to know someone new?
News for C1 News for C2 _______________________________________________ So, let's read the latest news and please feel free and leave a comment with your good news.
Have you ever met anybody from a foreign country? I'm sure you have. Do you like socializing in English? Let's go to a party tonight. Yes! why not? So, I guess you need some useful expressions all around the wide topic of Social English.
Below you'll find the e-Twinning label that we've just received from the educational authorities. Now we're taking part in an international project, which is called English is Fun. Basically, we're trying to learn English through music, lyrics, songs, e-mails, photos, presentations, language games, TreasureHunts, musicals and even, little theatre sketches. Everything is for fun and we're totally convinced that your Englishwill become even funnier and very entertaining through this e-Twinning project.
When you are writing or speaking in English, you often need to express frequency and the way you usually do things. So, basically we've got several ways to say that in English. We can add -ly to adjectives, in order to get adverbs like: general -- generally, or quick -- quickly. On the other hand, we could use a whole sentence like: I usually celebrate my birthday(by) making a cake. The sentence in red, therefore, answers the question: 'How do you celebrate your birthday?'. So, there are various ways of expressing how we do things in English.
For more information, please feel free to watch the following presentation on adverbs, or you can even ask any questions about them, leaving a comment for this post.
Have you ever got lost? I'm sure you have, at least once in your lifetime.
So, here's your section to share those amusing situations, when you got lost in anywhere you went to. Please, feel free to write about your anecdotes travelling, enjoying your holidays or even finding the way back home.
In order to get some inspiration for your entertaining stories abroad, here you'll find some common and useful expressions about Directions. With them, you'll learn how to give and ask for directions, and hopefully, you'll find your way back soon.
Still talking about our hilarious travelling anecdotes in the classroom, however, we've just realized that we do need a more elaborated task or project to practise with in class. So, we've been thinking about makingup a Treasure Hunt or a ScavengerHunt among our Basic 1&2 groups. What do you think about it?
Yes, your opinion is really important, but can you express your opinion in English?
During this course, I've been asking my students about their impressions and opinions and sometimes, they don't have enough words or expressions to talk about their own stuff and issues. So, here's your special document, for you all, special and unique people, who are learning the English language. That's all for you, just because of you, the most selective and extraordinary learners of English.
Today we've just started a new English section: On the phone. So, we're studying all the telephone language, expressions and everyday situations, when you're on the phone.
"Yummy, delicious, very rich. What a good meal!" are common expressions when it comes to cooking and enjoying a new and excellent dish at one's table.
Today, my wife and I have decided to share some time in the kitchen, so that we could enjoy cooking British dishes together. Barnacles /ˈbɑːnəklz/ or Fish and Chips today? Here's our first British recipe cooked in Galicia. Chicken & Mushrooms Pie
Ingredients 500 g pack fresh puff pastry, or frozen and defrosted
Rebecca: "Daniel, How wonderful that you and your wife cook delicious food together! My Spanish roommates often think that my American food is strange. One weekend I made bagels, a kind of bread that look like donuts, but aren´t usually sweet. In the US, we often eat toasted bagels with cream cheese for a quick, tasty breakfast. My roommate tried one and said it was delicious!" Here're Rebecca's recipes: Bagels
To play the role of a waiter or waitress and some customers, you could click on this YouTube video list about Food & Drinks. Please, enjoy your role-plays and this video about the restaurant vocabulary.
Verb Tenses are extremely important to understand the English Language. They are different from the Spanish ones. So, we'd better think about the English grammar, rather than comparing both languages, or assuming that English will be the same as our own language.
Therefore, here's a site for you to practise English Verb tenses from the beginning to the end. To sum-up, there're basically three points to take into account: 1st Think about the English grammar, 2nd apply common sense and 3rd do not translate every single word into your own language.
I hope you find these grammatical activities and explanations useful for your English.
Still interested in Basic Grammar, you could have a look at these two short and simple grammar e-books by www.espressoenglish.net (Basic 1, Basic 2), but please remember that they are not complete, simply because it's Basic Level, that is, not every single grammar exception. Enjoy these verbs with The Pink Panther:
Are you interested in Language learning? If you are reading this, you'll probably be aware of the different ways of learning a language. However, this is more like what you are able to do with what you know. No matter how full your mind is (language contents such as grammar, vocabulary, phonetics and so on). What really matters is what you can do with these language contents. If you agree with some of the words above, I think you should have a look at these Quotations on Education. What's your favourite quotation? Please let me know about it and leave a comment below.
In English we use Modal Verbs and in Spanish we use perífrasis verbales. So far, so good, but... Are you still going to compare both languages every now and then? I mean, would you like English Modal verbs to be like Spanishperífrasis verbales? Of course, you do. Come on, don't be silly and wake up: Languages are completely different, they are not normal at all. They are just great! Enjoy the video below:
If you don't agree with the video above, please go to this link.
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If you do agree with the video, you'll get much practice here. What are the main differences between both links above? You can write the answer by leaving a comment for this post. Thanks for your kind attention.
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Have you ever got lost? I'm sure you have, at least once in your lifetime.
In order to get some inspiration for your entertaining stories abroad, here you'll find some common and useful expressions about Directions. With them, you'll learn how to give and ask for directions, and hopefully, you'll find your way back soon.
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Still talking about our hilarious travelling anecdotes in the classroom, however, we've just realized that we do need a more elaborated task or project to practise with in class. So, we've been thinking about making up a Treasure Hunt or a Scavenger Hunt among our Basic 1&2 groups. What do you think about it?
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Maybe you need a theatre script to follow a good restaurant situation. So, here's your .pdf to play the role of a waiter all day long.
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