3rd Term Video - 1st Bac. A

Hi, 1st Bach. A

Answering your question, YES, you can record this term too.

Looking forward to your vids... - Free Topic, you choose.
Hope they're better than this ;) 

 Enjoy your long weekend!

2013 Connectors

Connectors: My PPT and previous entries with lots of activities

Some more exercises on different ones:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Rephrasing (mostly Connectors but not only): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Read: "Meet the Greeks - Sparta"

Have you tried The Conjunction Game?:

This video may help you:

What does she look like?

Let's see how to answer these 2 questions:
What do you look like?

What are you wearing?

Previous years' entries: 1, 2, 3, 4

This interactive book:

Finally, a song to listen to and write down:

1) the adjectives

2) the verbs in the Simple Past Tense:

We're being googled!

Passive time...

Plenty of Revision on the Passive Label

and more:

Theory: 1, 2 (My PPT)

Exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Listen to these songs, sing along
Can you identify the verbs in the Passive voice? 
And the Tenses?:
"Kids" - MGMT
"With or without you" - U2

"Some day you will be loved" - Death cab for Cutie

"I will not be moved" - Natalie Grant

"The way" - Fastball

"Don't let me be misunderstood" - The Animals

"Remembered" - BBOSS feat. Class

"Feel" - Robbie Williams

"Moonshadow" - Cat Stevens

"Please don't go" - KC and The Sunshine Band

"Sweet dreams" - Eurythmics

or

The Simple Past Tense

Revise it here

See some examples.

Can you tell the rules from them?:

What are you wearing today?

To revise previous entries, click the "Clothes" label

More practice:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9, 10,  11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

Create, choose and share your best avatars on your blog:

 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

 

Sigh no more

(Juliet's famous balcony in Verona full of present day Juliets)

What lies behind a song...

Do you know that the English band Mumford & Sons 

includes references to Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

in their song "Sigh no more" and that it's not their only quote from him?
They're just one of the countless artists inspired by "The Bard".

I hope you'll enjoy the song:

Happy Day!

April 23rd - World Book Day

Time to remember 2 of our greatest writers: 

Miguel de Cervantes and in the English class William Shakespeare

Previous years' entries: 1, 2, 3

Watch a biography of W. Shakespeare's
Interactive: The life and language of Shakespeare

Listen to some of his Sonnets: 1, 2, 3

Do you know his plays and characters?

Watch his animated plays:

Take these quizzes to test your knowledge: 1, 2, 3, 4

Bible or Bard? - Can you identify these quotations? 

But...

What would have happened if Shakespeare had had Writer's block?:

At the airport

Revise Vocabulary, Listening and videos: Flying away 2011

New practice: 

Airport info and Quiz

Read some airport vocabulary and conversations: 1, 2,  3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (video)
Going through Customs - Listen and watch: 1, 2:

Practise: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Airport announcements:

Now it's your turn to speak...
Practise conversations:
Checking In 
Going through Customs