UNIT 1: AMAZING PEOPLE (3rd ESO)

This unit is focused on answering the question: who inspires you? All the activities will lead you to answer it in a special way, as you will see...

DESCRIBING PEOPLE

To talk about that inspiring person, you will need lots of adjectives. They will help you talk about that person's personal qualities.  Here you have a matching activity to practise the ones studied:

 

We also revised the SIMPLE PAST TENSE and studied the PAST CONTINUOUS. Here you have some extra practice: 

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

EXERCISE4

Need a break? Why don't you watch this video about how the Moken kids can see under the water? There is an exercise in the book that tells you about them.

HELPING OTHERS

Again some new vocabulary, this time related to the different ways in which we can help people. Here you have some practice:

SUBJECT and OBJECT QUESTIONS

This can be a bit tricky, but with some extra practice you will ace it!

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

Finally, we studied some linking words (because, so, although) you can use to write a profile. Here you have some practice:

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

Hope all this has helped you to be able to answer the question we started the unit with:

Who inspires you?

HALLOWEEN COMPETITIONS: AND THE WINNERS ARE...

We must admit that we are thrilled: this year many students decided to take up the challenge and participated in the Halloween competitions, using all their wit and artistic skills to produce the works we showed in the previous post. Thank you!!!

Unfortunately, there can only be two winners and they are...

BEST MEME/GIF: Ariadna Feito (1st ESO) 

Her meme shows all we asked for: our school in a ghostly way, a wicked witch and a creepy image that we can all identify with if such a terrible thing happened to our school...

BEST SHORT CLIP: Matthew Harvey (2nd Bach)

You will all agree that we have a genuine film-maker among us 📽👏!The sound effects, the editing, the script... are just mind-blowing. And what about the learning? Even better! Don't forget: procrastination kills!!

All participants got a special marshmallow lollipop and a no-homework pass. Besides there were balloons for everyone who attended the ceremony.

Here you have the winners with their presents (30 euros each to spend as they like!!!) and the proud English teachers. 

            Have a spooktacular Halloween!!!

VII HALLOWEEN MEMES/GIFS COMPETITION and I SHORT CLIPS COMPETITION: PARTICIPANTS

Now that the deadline has passed, we can all enjoy the terrific memes, gifs, and short clips sent by students. Well done everyone!!!

You can choose your favourite. The English Department will do so too. Remember that the winners will be announced during the break next Monday 28th. There may be surprises for everyone...

MEMES

Hugo Feito - 3rd ESO

Manuel Antonio Valle - 1st ESO B

David Suárez Veiga - 4th ESO

Llara Valle - 1st ESO

Aitor Zarauza - 2nd Bach

Óscar Valdés Novas - 2nd Bach

Ariadna Feito 

Leo Durrer - 3rd ESO 

Lola Lo Campo - 1st ESO

Martina Álvarez Guardamuro - 1st ESO

GIF

Ainhoa Fernández - 

SHORT CLIPS 

Diego Pérez Prieto - 1st ESO

Enrique López

Sara Couso - 1st ESO 

Matthew Harvey - 2nd BACHILLERATO

UNIT 1: MAKING MUSIC (4th ESO)

We are sure all students will like the topic of this unit: who doesn't like music? It brings so many positive things...

The WDYT? question is an interesting one: How can music bring people together? There are many answers and you will find out some while working with this unit. Let's see an example: in the following video you will see lots of famous artists who got together to sing the song "We Are the World"  written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie in 1985 to raise funds to help with the famine that was devastating Ethiopia at the time. 

To talk about music, we need to refresh some vocabulary. Here you have a matching activity to practise it:

Time to learn a new verbal tense: the PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS. Here you have some practice:

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

EXERCISE 4

Need a break? Try this GAME, especially if you like pizza 😉!

Now, you should get back to work and make sure you know when to use the PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE or the CONTINUOUS FORM. Need more practice?

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS

What about learning vocabulary related to FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS?

These FLASHCARDS will help you. 

Time to study something that may be new for many: QUESTION TAGS. Here you have some extra practice:

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

Tired? Try this memory game:

Questions are quite tricky in English, aren't they? Well, imagine including prepositions in them, it becomes a nightmare! Don't worry, here you have some extra practice;

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

The writing of the unit is  A REVIEW (of a concert or music festival). If you need extra help, you can try this PRACTICE.

That was a lot of work, wasn't it? Let's finish with some music, the same way we started, to liven up,  things a bit 😉! Here you have a more recent version of the song we started this post with. This time the purpose was to help people in Haiti, who suffered a terrible earthquake in 2010. 

2ND ESO, UNIT 1: STORIES

 

Do you like stories? What's your favourite type? Do you prefer films or books? We are going to talk about all that in Unit 1. Let's start practising some useful vocabulary:

1. TV, films and games MEMORY GAME:

2. PRESENT SIMPLE BAAMBOOZLE

3. PRESENT SIMPLE QUIZ:

4. PRESENT CONTINUOUS PRACTICE

5. PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS PRACTICE CARDS

6. PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS MIND MAP

7. PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS QUIZ SHOW:

1ST ESO - UNIT 1: SCHOOL LIFE

Here you have a bunch of activities to practise and revise the contents of Unit 1:

1. DAILY ROUTINES: A MATCHING ACTIVITY

2. THE TIME: REVISION GAMES

3. PRESENT SIMPLE FUN GAME

4. PRESENT SIMPLE: ONLINE GAMES

5. SCHOOL SUBJECTS: A SONG

6. SCHOOL SUBJECTS: A MEMORY GAME

 

When do you do these activities?

Get some practice!

 

Activity to practice Present Simple affirmative and negative:

Third person singular-Spelling rules

Learn the school subjects:

 

Yes-no questions:

HALLOWEEN 2024

Halloween is coming again!!!  And we have good news and new competitions for you:

Once more we invite you to take part in the VII HALLOWEEN MEME/GIF COMPETITION; click on the picture and find all the information about it:

And, since we know that there must some great movie makers and film lovers amongst you we have decided to organize the I SHORT CLIPS HALLOWEEN COMPETITION.Again, you can find information about it in the clip below:

4th ESO STARTER UNIT: WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

STARTER UNITS are always about revising what you learnt during the past school year. Don't worry if you feel a bit rusty after the summer, we all tend to disconnect 😉!

We will start revising some vocabulary related to HEALTH and WELL-BEING. Click on the words to get to a Quizlet to practise it. If that one is too easy for you, here you have a more demanding version of it: HEALTH and WELL-BEING 2.

Time to revise some grammar. Verbal tenses are essential, so you must make sure you know everything about them.

PRESENT SIMPLE / PRESENT CONTINUOUS 

EXERCISES

MODAL VERBS are used all the time. They all share some common characteristics and are a bit tricky, because they can have different meanings:

ABILITY (CAN/COULD)

OBLIGATION (MUST/HAVE TO/MUSTN'T/DON'T HAVE TO)

ADVICE 

Let's have a look at some more vocabulary, this time ADJECTIVES to describe PERSONAL QUALITIES. Here you have a matching game:

We also learnt about some tricky words: JOURNEY - TRIP - TOUR - TRAVEL. This video will help you understand these words:

Back to verbal tenses! 

PAST SIMPLE / PAST CONTINUOUS

EXERCISES

You can also try this activity:

Then we revised USED TO (to talk about past habits and states).

EXERCISE

Need a break? Here you have a GAME to keep practising USED TO.

More verbal tenses, this time PRESENT PERFECT and PAST SIMPLE. 

EXERCISES

Again a GAME can help you learn and have fun at the same time 😉.

Thought you had finished? Unfortunately not! We also have to revise the main FUTURE TENSES. This chart can help you understand how to use them better:

You will need lots of practice, so here you have:

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

EXERCISE 4

Now you will certainly need some fun:

If you work with all these activities,  you will be ready to start learning new things! Let's do it!

2ND ESO, STARTER UNIT: WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

A new school year after a looong summer holiday, so maybe you will find this bunch of activities useful to brush up your English. Are you ready? Let's start!!

1. VOCABULARY: ROUTINES FLASHCARDS 

2. POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES QUIZ:

3. A WHEEL TO PRACTISE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH "HAVE GOT"

4. VOCABULARY: COUNTRIES AND LANGUAGES

5. A GAME: THERE IS/ ARE

STARTER UNIT: WHAT DO YOU KNOW? (3rd ESO)

You all know starter units are all about revision and revision means that you have already studied all that, so you should already know it all. However, I am sure that some extra practice can be helpful. Here you have some extra practice for all the things studied in this unit.

VOCABULARY: ACTIVITIES

VOCABULARY:THE ENVIRONMENT

VOCABULARY: ADJECTIVES

If you need extra practice on these contents, just click on them and you will go to a page that offers a lot. Just choose the exercises that suit you best 😉.

PRESENT SIMPLE

PRESENT SIMPLE QUIZ

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

PRESENT CONTINUOUS MEMORY GAME

PRESENT SIMPLE/ PRESENT CONTINUOUS

COMPARATIVES and SUPERLATIVES

TO BE: SIMPLE PAST

Need a break? Try this GAME

THERE WAS / THERE WERE

QUANTIFIERS

TOO MANY/TOO MUCH/NOT ENOUGH... + NOUNS

TOO / NOT ENOUGH + ADJECTIVES

Need a break? Try this game:

PAST SIMPLE

Need a break? Try this GAME 

USED TO

1ST ESO - STARTER UNIT: What do you know?

Starting school again after the looong summer holidays is not easy, so I will try to help you brush up your English. Here is a list of engaging activities you can use. I hope you will find them useful! 😉

1. A WORD SEARCH: COUNTRIES

2. TO BE affirmative and negative form

3. TO BE questions

4. THE FAMILY: vocabulary games

5. THE FAMILY: memory game

6. THE FAMILY: balloon game

7. DESCRIBING PEOPLE: word search

8. DESCRIBING PEOPLE: a wheel

9. DESCRIBING PEOPLE: Guess who

10.GUESS WHO UNSCRAMBLE:

11. ACTION VERBS:Quizlet

12. UNIT REVISION QUIZ

LA REGENTA: A GUIDED TOUR OF OVIEDO (4th ESO Interdisciplinary Project)

Nearly two months ago, in April,  students in 4th ESO enjoyed a trip to Oviedo as part of the school trips funded by the school for each level. The Spanish Language Department organized the visit and decided to show students the main sights in the city related to the novel "La Regenta", by Leopoldo Alas Clarín. The visit also included going to the Museum of Fine Arts. 

Students had a task: they had to take a photo of their favourite sight, sculpture, painting, building... and then write a short text giving the main information about it and explaining why they had chosen it.

Finally, some students prepared a Sway presentation with all this information. The purpose was to allow other students to get to know more things about the city.

Here you have their presentation:

"La Regenta": a tour of Oviedo

On 26th April, 4th ESO students visited Oviedo and learnt about the main sights of the city in a guided tour. They also visited the Museum of Fine Arts. They had a task: choose the thing th…

Ir a este Sway

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO BE GREENER? LET'S HELP THE ENVIRONMENT

Students in 4th ESO, non-bilingual group, have been learning about all the issues that, unfortunately, affect the environment and our planet Earth nowadays. But they haven't done so in a pessimistic way, quite the opposite. They have learnt that there are many things we can all do to help our dear planet. We can all make a difference!

Throughout a Learning Situation, they have reflected on a particular issue and created leaflets showing the problem and how we can help.

Here you have their work:

ENERGY

                 by Claudia and  Alba

DEFORESTATION

by Dani and Salomón

PLASTIC POLLUTION 

by Andrea García and Erika

CLOTHES

by Andrea Ibáñez, Adriana and Coral

TRANSPORT

by Iker and Pablo

I hope their hard work helps you become aware of some of the issues that affect our world today and makes you decide to help as much as possible. 

Remember, YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

A BUSINESS PROPOSAL

 

In unit 4, students in 2nd ESO learnt many things about money and got to know lots of stories of young people like them who have managed to create their own businesses. That was the starting point for a new learning situation: working in pairs or small groups, they had to make a business proposal to get money from investors. They prepared a presentation and they sold their business proposals to their classmates, who also gave interesting feedback. 

Here you have some of the ideas they had. As you can see, most of the students proved to be pet lovers 😉!

2nd ESO A

By Alexia and Mencía

By Leticia, Isabela and Ana

By Claudia and Ada

By Laia and Alba

By Curro and Leo

2nd ESO B

By Lucía

By Pablo Martínez

By Mateo and Luis

By Hugo Feito and Pablo Díaz

By Helena, Adara y Aitor

By Miguel y Sonia