Beautiful days to come...

 

 

Easter holidays are about to come, spring is already here and we are ready to spend some well-deserved beautiful days after a tough school term. I would sound a bit of a stretch (have a look at the meaning of this phrase below) if I said it's something like heaven!

 

 

Easter holidays are an excellent break in our routines to recharge our batteries so as to be set for our final school term!

Learning English from the News:   UN: Earth pushed beyond limits  (BBC Learning English) 

 

Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high (The Guardian)

Earth's climate more unbalanced than ever, WMO warns (DW)

Earth is Being 'Pushed Beyond its Limits     (BBC News)

Learning English Grammar (adjective order, adjective phrases):   Favourite things  (BBC Learning English) 

 

  Here's my musical hint for today:    It's a beautiful day by Michael Bubblé. And here's a version with the lyrics for you to sing along.

 

Real Easy English:   Talking about CHOCOLATE  (BBC Learning English)  

 

 

 

Here are some more activities for my students:

• English in a Minute:  phrases with LIFE  (BBC Learning English)

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  The English We Speak: A bit of a stretch  (BBC Learning English) 

  
  

• Office English:  Socializing  (BBC Learning English) 

• Listening exercise for you to do:   What English phrases really mean  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

     

 

   

English with Lucy: 5 highly common mistakes in English  

 

 

 

"All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl"

Speak English Fluently with Movies 🎬 Real Conversations, Real English  1  

 

 

 

Vintage tennis:  CONNORS - BORG  - Masters 1978

 
 

 

Football Classics: 1977 Liverpool FC 6-0 SV Hamburg  

   

 

 

 

 

Summer dreams

 

 

Summer is here and our expectations are so high as we have so many things to do ahead, so many experiences to live, so many people to meet. Then we will have such good memories when autumn comes of all we did, of all we lived and of all the people we met. Who knows? We may meet our future partner or our best friend, Who knows?

 

 

DAY THREE

SUMMER REVISION  >>  Activities for my students in 1º ESO:

 

Match these questions to these answers and think about the question/answer that makes reference to the physical description of a person, his/her personality or his/her health state:

    Questions                 >>>>                                 Answers                           >>>>               Goal

 

How are you?                            I'm a nice person, but sometimes a bit moody                APPEARANCE

What do you look like?              Fine, thanks! And you?                                                  PERSONALITY

What are you like?                    I'm not very slim and I've got brown eyes.                     HEALTH

• Now have a look at the post Victory belongs to the most tenacious and the comments made and then try to write a comment describing Rafa Nadal physically. Here are some notes that can help you.  
• Write another comment (it could be in the same post) about your personality. Here are some notes that can help you.
  
• Some exercises to describe appearance and personality (Agenda Web)
  

 

And remember that all the activities proposed will be compiled in my site: Summer Revision for 1º ESO

 

   

Here's my musical hint for today: I can dream about you by Dan Hartman. You can have a look at the lyrics in this version with lyrics.

 

 

 

Here are some activities for you to do: 

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  The English We Speak: Jump through hoops  (BBC Learning English)
  

• A listening exercise for you to do: Is it wrong to eat plants?  (BBC Learning English) 

• English in a Minute: How to use the word 'PRETTY'  (BBC Learning English)

• Learn how to speak naturally:  How to talk about things you like  (BBC Learning English)

 

 

Vintage tennis:  Nadal II 

Rafael Nadal vs Roger Federer - 2006 Final / Roland Garros Classic Match (Eurosport summary) & Rafael Nadal vs Paul-Henri Mathieu - 3nd round | Roland-Garros 2006

Vintage tennis: Documentary about duels between Connors vs McEnroe  (in French with Spanish subtitles) another documentary 

 

"All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl"

Learn English with Ratatouille - Remy Meets Linguini  

Heaven is better now

 

Heaven is better now with the jokes of humorist Martín Morales and with the guitar music of Manolo Sanlúcar.

 

 

   

Here's my musical hint for today in memoriam of these two great Spanish guitar players: Paco de Lucía & Manolo Sanlúcar 

 

Paco de Lucía & Manolo Sanlúcar 

 

Some activities for you to do: 

• News Review: Do dogs cry happy tears?  (BBC Learning English)
  

• Listening exercise for you to do:  Being a beauty influencer  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)   

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  This is a Friday phrase which is not very suitable for my students, as they haven't done anything at all during the summer: Do you deserve a pat on the back?   (BBC Learning English)

• Frankenstein (Drama story) Episode 6:  Death comes to you  (BBC Learning English)

• Quizz on:  Adverb position     (BBC Learning English)

English with Lucy >>>  20 Different Ways To Wish ‘Happy Birthday’ & 'Happy Anniversary'   

"All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl"

Mind Your Language - Jesus First Roman Catholic by Juan Cervantes  

 

US Open - Jimmy Connors: Magical US Open Run of '91  

Legends of the past

Nowadays we have got rivalries such as Federer-Nadal, Nadal-Djokovic, Djokovic-Murray... but not long ago we had one of the most legendary rivalries of all times in tennis and that was between Jimmy Connors, who managed to reach the semi-finals of the US Open at the age of 39, and John McEnroe, a genius with such a moody character who is remembered not only for his excellences in tennis, but also for his ill-tempered arguments with the umpires.

By the way, did you know that the chair umpires in tennis are like the referees in football?

Here are some videos about these two great players, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors:

The Legend of John McEnroe

Legends of tennis - Jimmy Connors

Jimmy Connors Chronicle

Duels - Connors vs McEnroe - Documentary (in French)

 

Jimmy Connors - Magical US Open Run of '91 

 

Some articles to read about the issue:

• CONNORS SEES TROUBLE IN ROW WITH MCENROE (The New York Times)

• McEnroe and Connors Agree: There Is No One Around Quite Like Them (The New York Times)

 

Activities for my 2º ESO students:  Using the superlatives, write about the worst and best things of 2017?   

Example: Itrabo has the best wine in the world, but the people in Molvizar it is the worst wine in the world.

 

Lucy tells us about 10 boy names YOU pronounce INCORRECTLY.

HIGHWAY TO B2.....

VOCABULARY. 

1. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the word in CAPITALS.

1. That man is a police....     INSPECT     2. Jack is a very bad....      LOSE      3. Einstein was a great....   THINK 
4. I've always wanted to be an.....   ACT      5. The ...... all went back to the ship.     SAIL    
6. The town is full of tourists and other....    VISIT    7. Jack the Ripper was a famous....     MURDER

2. Word combinations. First, say what the thing is and does. Secondly, try to guess the item we give the definition of.

1. a cassette-player     2. a stain-remover     3. a water-softener    4. a water-purifier    5. a cigarette-lighter   6. a voice-stress-analyser     7. a machine that washes dishes     8. a special kind of pot that cooks things under great pressure   9. a liquid that is used to thin paints    10. another kind of liquid that removes paints   11. a machine people use to dry their hair   12. a kind of medicine or liquid that some men hope  will restore their hair     13. a small gadget people use to open tins     14. a very simple kind of machine that people use when they sweep carpets     15. a powder which kills ants     16. a screw that pulls corks out of bottles    17. a small gadget that opens bottles

Solutions to USE OF ENGLISH exercises in the previous post.

1.  1d   2c  3a   4b

2. 1. I wish I hadn't said that.     2. I wish you wouldn't ask me so many questions.   3. I wish you hadn't asked that question.    4. I wish you wouldn't make that noise.      5. I wish I hadn't done that.    6. I wish you wouldn't do that.    7. I wish I had got here earlier.    8. I wish you wouldn't say things like that.    9. I wish you hadn't said that.    10. I wish you hadn't done that.    11. I wish I hadn't asked that question.