COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES

Pay attention to the rules to do the comparative and superlative adjectives specially to the irregular ones, they have a particular way.

REVIEW - CHECK PLEASE THE RULES FOR THE ADJECTIVES

REVIEW OF ALL THE ENGLISH TENSE

You can find the usage of each one of the tenses and some additional examples in this video.Take advance of this useful material and helpul explanation.

REVIEW THE PASSIVE VOICE

Pay attention to all the  neccesary tips and concepts for all the structures used in passive voice.Here you can find and excellent explanation and good examples to work in it.

A guide to use energy on the earth

It is very difficult to imagine how  our daily life would be without energy. The uses of energy are so varied as human activities. This video can give some important information about that. Lets go to this lesson with energy too!!!

BALLADS IN ENGLISH- COLLECTION

For all those who love the romantic music!!! Here you can find some special collection. Hope you can enjoy this so much as I do when I listen to it.

ORDER TO USE ADJECTIVES

Here you can find some examples for using adjectives in a correct order. I hope you can understand this topic in a very easy way

WH QUESTIONS

WH QUESTIONS

WH QUESTIONS SONG

WHAT A WONDERFUL VIEW!!!!!!!

I HAVE THIS BIG PRIVILEGE.

Wonderful view from my window. A special contrast of many colors.My litlle bush greeting that shiny moon.

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