Can you spell the most confusing words in English?

Can you spell the most misspelled words in the English language?

Do you find yourself in trouble when having to choose between beautiful or beautifull?

Then this is the test for you!

Let me show you some examples...

So, what do you think?

Do you accept the challenge?

Can you spell the most confusing words in English

Conditional Sentences --> Listening exercise

It's Saturday!

But my biological clock doesn't get it (sigh)...

Anyway, today I'm posting a special conditional activity. It focuses on the listening skills and I think it is a perfect activity for this Sunday afternoon (you now that it will be raining, right?)

In order to complete this activity you need to dowload the following worksheet:

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (CONDITIONAL) 

It is a listening comprehension activity based on episode 15, season 2 of the famous American TV series HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. 

 Let me introduce you the plot of this particular episode:

"When Ted misses his important business trip to Chicago, he tries to trace his steps back to the original incident that triggered the series of events that made him miss the flight"

It is the perfect episode to practise the 3rd conditional because....

Can you really change your past? 

Most probably not!

 You can download the episode in English with Spanish subtitles by clicking on the following link:

HIMYM_ season 2 episode 15

Or you can watch it online here:

HIMYM_ Lucky penny

St George, the dragon and a very interesting resource!

This is a very interesting webpage from the Art Institute of Chicago containing some interesting resources for teachers and parents. 

I've fallen in love with their 'story time' section. In fact, I'm using the one dealing with St. George and the Dragon.

The only problem is it is a reading comprehension activity (no sound involved). But the graphics are cute and my students loved it. 

Didn't you, guys?

Here's the link: The Art Institute of Chicago

TIME IDIOMS

OMG, OMG, OMG! Look what I found!

A compilation of time idioms! 

In a sole picture! 


Annnnd...........Including their respective contexts! 

(and I must confess that I got really excited when I found it, is that even normal?)

(I'm afraid that the picture appears slightly small in your screens. But don't worry, click on it to read the idioms properly)

C U 2MORO IN CLASS!

If you had problems decoding the title of today's post, you would love these materials!

Btw, the encoded message was: see you tomorrow in class! (I agree, the sentence is not very imaginative).

Anyhow, we all now that the ICTs have become an integral part of our lives (and now I am talking to both my students and the teachers who read my blog).

                          

In fact, my students have repeatedly enquired one class focused on them.

So, I spent some time racking my brains and finally compiled some materials for a class dealing with SMS/FACEBOOK/TWITTER LANGUAGE.

LEVEL: BEGINNER

THAT'S GR8!

LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

SMS LANGUAGE

LEVEL: EXPERT

FACEBOOK LANGUAGE

Conditionals---> Answer Key

How you doin'? 

I've been quite busy the last couple of weeks. It's always the same after the holidays: resits, marking, preparing classes...

All in all I've been like...

And, believe me, the pile of TO DO tasks keeps getting higher. In fact, I'm actually wearing my highest heels just to reach the top (just kidding! or sort of...)

So, here I am, trying to cross out some overdue tasks. The most important one, in my opinion, was to post the answer key to the conditional sentences I uploaded two weeks ago.

Conditional sentences: THEORY AND EXERCISES

ANSWER KEY TO CONDITIONAL EXERCISES

Hey you! I've brought you something :)

Hello everyone!

You've been asking for some exercises to revise all the contents we've seen in class so far. Click on the link below to download a copy with some cumulative exercises to help you review. 

GRAMMAR

Cumulative exercises (with answer key)

VOCABULARY

Optional cumulative exercises (vocabulary) with answer key

When in Rome...

Does it ring a bell?

The complete idiom is: 

"When in Rome, do as the Romans do"

Can you guess its meaning?

No?

(Well, my students in Bachillerato should have guessed it. Ehem. Ehem)

Okay. Here's another clue to help you.

Can you think of an equivalent idiom in your first language?

PS: Btw, do you know these two? I absolutely loooooove them!

Tense revision exercises

More cumulative exercises focusing on verb tenses!

Click on the following to download the exercises in .pdf format (Answer key is included)

Tense Revision

Past Simple, Past Continuous, Present Perfect, Past Perfect

Conditionals

"Teacher, if you post more exercises on the blog, I will do them all at home"

And that, dear friends, is a statement which I'm not very used to hear these days (please, note that my student even used the conditionals that I had just explained). What's not to love?

I'm sure that those fellow teachers who read my blog will understand completely why my face turned into this:

Okay, okay, maybe I don't have such an expressive face. 

And maybe, I don't look as good as her when I'm excited. 

But you get my point, right?

So here I am, posting more CONDITIONAL EXERCISES for you (and now I'm talking to my dear students) to practise. 

Help yourselves!

(Answer key will be posted soon)

Conditional exercises

Unit 6--> Copy set

Good evening!

Here's the copy set of UNIT 6 involving magical worlds and fairy tales. I hope you like it. 

Click on the following link to download your copy. And remember, you can always get your printed copy at the copy shop.

Unit 6 Copy Set

Here's also a very nice presentation involving some of the most famous fairy tales. I used it this morning in class in order to introduce the unit to my students. It consists on some clues describing the most important elements or characters of these fairy tales and students have to guess their titles.

Fairy Tales- Guessing exercise

Upcoming...

See you tomorrow in class!