USE THIS LINK TO LEARN SOME COMMON PHRASAL VERBS

PLEASE GO TO  THIS IMPORTANT LINK IN ORDER TO SEE SOME PRACTICAL AND USEFUL PHASAL VERBS. TRY TO MEMORIZE THEM IN THE SHORTEST AND POSSIBLE TIME.

COMMON PHRASAL VERBS

PHRASAL VERBS

HERE YOU CAN FIND SOME USEFUL MATERIAL  TO WORK AND TO LEARN ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT TOPICS IN ENGLISH. JUST TRY AND PRACTICE THEM VERY OFTEN IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR USAGE IN CONTEXT.

CARNIVAL OF RIOSUCIO

YOU ARE WELCOME!!!!!!

INGRUMA HILL

This is a beautiful picture of Ingruma Hill. 

Riosucio Caldas

 

ADELE - SET FIRE TO THE RAIN (VERBS)

She has an amazing and lovely voice, we can see and hear that she sings with her heart too. She can moves big sensibility among all her spectators. Really it is a great and beautiful song.

ACTIVITY ONE

After listening the song many times, try to look for the meaning of these common verbs: 

Let, fall, claim, stand.say, play, win, set, pour, lay, stay, close, feel, wake up, help, look for.

ACTIVITY TWO

Remember these verbs in past tense and guess if they are regular or irregular and then write the base form:

was, were, kissed, saved, knew, watched, touched, threw, burned, cried, heard, could, felt, died

ACTIVITIES FOR COMMUNICATION (FLUENCY) AND GRAMMAR

SOME  STRATEGIES

Role-play

Choral drilling pronunciation

Dictation

Discussions

Gap-fill exercises

Story writing

Copying words

Repeating new words

Describing pictures

Learning conversations by heart

Problem solving

Story completion

Form filling

Information gap

True/ false questions

GRAMMAR PRESENTATION TECHNIQUES

1.Using a song text

2.Using a time line

3.Reading

4.Using a picture

5.Using realia

6.Personalising

7.Explaining directly

8.Acting  and presenting

9.Discovering

10 Using a chart

11. Eliciting

12. Comparing L1 and L2

READING ACTIVITIES OR STRATEGIES

A newspaper article	Your diary
A dictionary	A letter
A magazine	An advertisement
Subtitles at the cinema	A timetable
The receipt from a supermarket	Instructions for a machine
A label of a packet of food	A novel
The bill in a restaurant	The price list of some places
An official form of some kind	A piece of student´s homework
See the topic in a text	Look for known and unknown words
Schema theory or diagrammatic notes	Mind maping or spider notes

OTHER EFFECTIVE READING STRATEGIES

Read each word very carefully in order to understand the entire text.

Write the meaning of new words in L1.

Look up unfamiliar words in a bilingual dictionary.

Look  for linking words that help explain relationship between sentences.

Ask the teacher for help whenever there is an unfamiliar word.

Translate a difficult section of text into L1.

Think of other words that are similar to the unknown words.

Read a lot of different things in order to expand the vocabulary and improve  the general comprehension.

Try to understand the relationship between the main ideas and supporting details.

Look at titles, subtitles, pictures and other visuals.

Read a text very quickly the first time to get the main idea(gist).

READING SKILLS

Skimming: looking through a text quickly to understand the main ideas or gist. This involves some inference and interpretation.

Scanning:  looking through a text quickly to find words that match what you are looking for. This doesn’t usually involve interpretation.

Extensive reading: reading for the informational content of a text- you are not interested particularly in the language used but in the information.

Intensive reading: paying attention to the exact words which are used.

WRITING ACTIVITIES OR STRATEGIES

A school report

Write a paragraph asking for further information about an advertisement

Do a description of a person or a particular situation

Write a letter to one friend

Write on a radio or tv advertisement

Write a  description on a landscape using imagination

Write a short free composition

Write a journal entry or a diary

Take notes in english class

Write a recipe

Write messages to the classmates

Write cartoons

Writing and ending story

TALKING OR SPEAKING ACTIVITIES OR STRATEGIES

STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH

Role plays

Parent power

Describing a picture

Completing a questionnaire

Having a discussion

Reading a dialogue aloud

Creating and reading a weather forecast

Filling the gap

Find someone who…

Telling a story  or a joke

Doing an exposition

Singing

LISTENING ACTIVITIES OR STRATEGIES

LISTENING ACTIVITIES OR STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING ENGLISH

Short stories of fables

People talking or discussing

Radio or T.V. programs

Public announcements

Videos or movies

Lectures

Explanations

Conversations or oral presentations

Songs or taped texts

Descriptions or taped passages

Drawing a picture or a map while listening

Following an instruction

Make a list of things you hear

Answer the questions about a short text

Repeat a dialogue after listen to it

Reorder a dialogue, paragraph or a text after listen to the tape

Listen and write the missing words

Listen for the main ideas

Listen for specific information

Listening to check if your answers are right or not

Listening for a dictation

Listening to check for mistakes

Listening to take notes

Listening to the other learners or teacher

Listening to match pictures with the descriptions

Beautiful San Andres

TAKE ME BACK TO MY SAN LYRICS

Take me back to my san andres

In the Caribbean, the very best

is the beautiful island of San Andrés

/ On Johnny Cay and Sound Bay Beach

The pretty sands are like golden peach /

Take me back to my San Andrés

To the wave and the coral reefs

Back to be where the sunshine bright

where the sea changes colors day and night

(x2)

San Andres is like a paradise

With the coconut trees and the fireflies

/ Underneath the bright blue sky

The lovely people go passing by /

(Chorus)

(San Andrés... So beautiful!)

The tall brown girls, the strapping boys

the rolling waves and the moon light bright

/ And anywhere in the world we'll be

San Andres will be in our memories /

HERE WE CAN FIND ANOTHER DIFFERENT VERSION OF THE SAME SONG, PLEASE COMPARE THEM AND DO YOUR OWN CONCEPTS.

PROTECT NATURE

We must not only protect our nature on earth but all biodiversity we can find in the ocean too. Uncountable species there are needing our protection too.

Tribute to the earth ,interesting link.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.336420336412961.90090.120374854684178&type=1

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TRIBUTE TO THE EARTH

Moral sensibility is all what human being needs to protect this beautiful place which has been given to us as the most special gift. Take care of it!!!!

PLANET EARTH

PLANET EARTH FOREVER

We have a big privilege to be part of this wonderful and amazing planet. It is full of miracles: opening flowers, all kind of fauna and flora, green and magestic mountains or hills, cold waters of rivers and seas, including the strange serenity of deserts. So we have the responsability to look after every single living thing on it.

Wonderful performance

This is a wonderful performance, what is the special in such beautiful choreography? All the performers here are deaf. so there are no limits for doing everything what we want or love.

When you tell me that you love me.

Pretty  and romantic voices for a special song.

READING COMPREHENSION - SELLING HUMAN EGGS

Selling human eggs

A twenty-five-year-old English woman has advertised 1) __________ own eggs for sale 2) __________ the internet to pay off  her credit card debt. She 3) __________ that she has three jobs - a day job and two part-time jobs in pubs 4) __________ the evening, but thinks selling her eggs would be a better way to 5) __________ out her money problems.

Last year, the law changed and children 6) __________ from donated eggs can be told 7) __________ their biological mother is. Since then, fewer women have been donating eggs. Critics 8) __________ that it is dangerous to donate eggs and also say that people should do it for free and not for money. Despite the 9) ___________, it is likely that paying for eggs 10)___________________more common in the future.

Questions

Select the correct answer according to the text.

Principio del formulario 1 the her hers	6 born be born are born
2 in at on	7 that whom who
3 tells says speaks	8 saying says say
4 in on at	9 advices critics advertised
5 sorting sorted sort	10  will become will became had become

Find in the text the following categories.

1.      A  phrasal verb: _______________________________________

2.      An adverb: ___________________________________________

3.      A conditional verb: ____________________________________

4.      A past participle verb: _________________________________

5.      A connector: _________________________________________

6.       A conjuction: ________________________________________

7.       A relative word: ______________________________________

8.       An adjective: ________________________________________

9.      A composed noun: ____________________________________

10.   An infinitive verb: ____________________________________

READING COMPREHENSION - INTELLIGENT PILLS

TOPIC:   ______________________                 DATE: ____________     GRADE: __________

Intelligence pills

      Instructions: Read through the text, answer the questions that follow.

Some scientists have predicted that healthy adults and children may one day take drugs to improve their intelligence and intellectual performance.  A research group has suggested that such drugs might become as common as coffee or tea within the next couple of decades.

To counter this, students taking exams might have to take drugs tests like athletes.  There are already drugs that are known to improve mental performance, like Ritalin, which is given to children with problems concentrating.  A drug given to people with trouble sleeping also helps people remember numbers.

These drugs raise serious legal and moral questions, but people already take vitamins to help them remember things better, so it will not be a simple problem to solve.  It will probably be very difficult to decide at what point a food supplement becomes an unfair drug in an examination. 

Principio del formulario

Questions

Q1 - Only children will take pills to improve their intellectual performance.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q2 - Intelligence pills are already as common as coffee or tea.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q3 - Coffee is as common as tea.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q4 - Students could have to take intelligence drugs tests.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q5 - A sleeping pill helps people remember numbers.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q6 - Vitamins to help people study are illegal.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q7 - Food supplements are unfair.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q8 – There are already drugs that are known to improve mental performance.

 Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q9 - Food supplements must be taken by athletes.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q10 – F Red bull is a drink for athletes.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Final del formulario