Halloween Tales

The Tallest Building in the World (intermediate) (15:17)
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (intermediate) (16:43)

New Year's Resolution

LISTENING (Upper-Intermediate). Esol Courses.com. New Year's Resolution.

LISTENING (Intermediate) by Icall

VOCABULARY Worksheet. 

CONVERSATION AT THE LIBRARY (1st December)

WHY DOES THE PRESIDENT PARDON A TURKEY FOR THANKSGIVING?
http://ashleyanderson.suite101.com/why-does-the-president-pardon-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving-a312636

FUNNY COMMERCIAL. Budapest is the capital of ...?

SPEAKING SESSION (10th November 2011)

TOPIC: Food & Drink, Eating Out, Restaurants

FUNNY COMMERCIAL: Beauty is Nothing Without Brains


VOCABULARY
- Eating Out (ego4u.com)
Use the words given to complete some sentences.
- Eating Out (learenglish.de)
Vocabulary, dialogues, games and tests.
- Food (learnenglish.de)
Vocabulary, dialogues, games and tests.
- English used in Restaurants.

WORDSEARCH PUZZLES. (Printable material)
- Fruit Wordsearch
- Vegetables
- All types of Food and Drink. (Play Online)
- Food and Drink. (printable or online)
- Fish and Seafood.

LISTENING
- The Recipe (mansioningles.com)
Read, listen and answer.
- Ordering a Meal (esl.about.com).
You will hear a man and a woman ordering a meal in a restaurant. Listen to what they order and write down the answers to the following questions.
- Breakfast recipes (esl-lab.com)
You will hear a father and daughter talking about breakfast choices. Which is most appealing to you?
- Dinner Reciples (dailyesl.com)
Read along with the audio recordings.
- Jamie Oliver Valentine's recipe (esolcourses.com)
Short video clip of a celebrity chef talking about Valentine's day. Another activity for the same activity. Click here.
- Eating Out (BBC Learning English)
Listen to the conversation between John and Fiona.

LISTENING + EXERCISES
- Restaurants (listenaminute.com)
Listening + 9-Page Handout + Quizzes on Restaurants

USEFUL SITES
- Food and Drink (michellehenry.fr)
- tvfoodanddrink

ENJOY YOUR MEAL!!!

ACTIVITY 5. Digital Storytelling

One activity I use with my first year students is making a powerpoint presentation introducing themselves and their families. They record themselves and they add their voices to the slides. This is a similar activity but the information has a video format. Narration should be added but my microphone doesn't work properly and I just added some background music. That's not the same but I hope it will be enough to get the idea.

ACTIVITY 3.

GOOGLE DOCS
Just to start with, LET'S HAVE SOME FUN! Here is a powerpoint presentation I use to introduce the Joke Contest to my students. Not that easy!


In order to practice presenting documents from Google Docs on my own blog here is one of the activities I work with my 4th year students.



SLIDESHARE
The simple present tense is often confused with the present continuous tense. This slideshow will explain when to use each one.

Present simple vs present continuous

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PICTURE TRAIL
What do you know about Vincent Van Gogh? Who is who in the slideshare? Use the link Vincent Van Gogh to tell a friend about his name, job, country, year of birth, friend's name and some of his most famous paintings.

MY PLICK
Guess the song by writing it into Direct Speech! What's the name of the song? Who sings it?

Reported Speech Songs