03/09/2014

NEW SCHOOL YEAR




New Year Resolutions for students are always related to what to do in order to improve and do your best during the school year. Why don´t you try the following?

 Banish the self-doubt; just say "NO" to these thoughts and others like them:

 “I can’t do this.” “I’m not as smart as my classmates.” “I’ll never get good marks"


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12/09/2013

WELLCOME AGAIN

Hi everybody! I´m glad you are here again to learn new things, to meet new people and greet the old ones. Are you ready to go on? Don´t worry if you think "you don´t know much", we´ll be together.

17/10/2012

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT HIM? This is Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian daredevil who stunned fans around the world on Sunday by breaking the sound barrier in a hair-raising dive from the fringe of space, was "born to fly". (Taken from The Telegraph) If a human-being is able to do things like that, won´t you be able to do some more practise on grammar at home?

17/04/2012

LEARN AND HELP











Donate rice

Learn English and donate rice!!
Check out this website and give it a go (or more...) For each answer you get right 10 grammes of rice are donated through the UN World Food Programme to help End Hunger.

16/04/2012

MODALS

Are you having problems with MODALS?
There are plenty of exercises in the
Grammar box but, if you don´t want to
look for them just click HERE and try!



EMPLOYMENT

Let´s practise a bit on vocabulary related to JOBS.
Click HERE and start working.

27/03/2011

CLOCK CHANGES IN MADRID




It comes again Spring Time and, as usual I have started feeling "Asthenia". They say changing time helps but I think I´m going to feel asleep until Summer holidays. What about you?
Remember last night clocks were turned forward 1 hour. If you want to know more, just click here.

11/01/2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011

It seems it was just yesterday when we started a new school term and we have already started a new year. Haven´t days gone too fast?
I talked about new school year´s resolutions then and, now it is the time to do the same about the new year´s ones. I am not going to point out a lot; I just want to mention one right now: TO QUIT SMOKING!

21/09/2010

NEW SCHOOL YEAR RESOLUTIONS



The end of summer and the beginning of the school year has always been the new year
to me, so it is the right time for me to make some New Year´s Resolutions.
Question of the day:

Do you have any New School Year Resolutions?

If you share them with us I´ll share mine with you but, meanwhile here you have some ideas:
1. Set up a study space
2. Balance spare time and school
3. Get enough sleep
4. Do all the homework on time
5. Read more books and watch less TV
6. Get organized
7. Take studies seriously

10/06/2010

FOOTBALL IN SOUTH AFRICA

I´m sure most of you are looking forward to what is going to start in South Africa but, what do you know about this country?
Do you know the country´s motto is "UNITY IN DIVERSITY"?
Do you know it has got more than 11 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES?

Find out more information here and be ready to enjoy what is coming.

21/04/2010

BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS, ... are....


Cool Myspace Generators


Would you like to create your own graffiti?
Just think about a book you have liked and, write a comment describing what a good book is for you, or send a quotation like the one above and I will show you how to do it.

BOOK´S DAY

What do Cervantes, Saint George, roses and books have in common?
Investigate a bit and write your answer here.
Just in case you don´t know how to star, there are some clues bellow:



Miguel de Cervantes





Saint George and the Dragon

12/02/2010

A CLASS DIVIDED

We have been talking and discussing about Rights and Responsibilities. Watch the video "A Class Divided" and answer to the following questions:

1. What do you think about the video?
2. For this experiment, the teacher has used what is called a socio-affective point of view. What kind of strategies has the teacher used throughout the two days classes in the video?
3. After watching the video, what can you say about the following?
PREJUDICES, DISCRIMINATION, RACISM...
4. What conclusions does the teacher get after analysing the relationship between the handkerchief and the school output?
5. Have you ever seen that kind of relationship in your life?
6. When the students met later on being adults, one of them suggested that kind of experiment should be compulsory in all the schools. What do you think about it?
7. Once you have seen the video, what conclusion have you arrived to?