Listen and answer the questions:
Then, work on the vocabulary activities in number 3!
Monday, 24 November 2014
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Monday, 3 November 2014
The Cask of Amontillado
Storytelling. Enjoy!
The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe:
The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe:
To learn a bit more about Poe:
Listening: Haven´t we met before?
You´ll listen to a conversation between two students. Listen and answer the questions.
http://www.esl-lab.com/small/smallrd1.htm
Then, do the following practice activities to review the vocabulary: Mixed-Up Sentence, Sentence and Vocabulary Matching, Text Completion Quiz
http://www.esl-lab.com/small/smallrd1.htm
Then, do the following practice activities to review the vocabulary: Mixed-Up Sentence, Sentence and Vocabulary Matching, Text Completion Quiz
Sunday, 26 October 2014
Sunday, 5 October 2014
Saturday, 27 September 2014
8 Letters in Search of a Word!
Try this vocabulary game!
The aim of the game is to gain points by creating words from the selection of 8 letters given to you on-screen ! You have a time limit.
Beat your own score!!
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/word-play/8-letters-in-search-of-a-word/
The aim of the game is to gain points by creating words from the selection of 8 letters given to you on-screen ! You have a time limit.
Beat your own score!!
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/word-play/8-letters-in-search-of-a-word/
Monday, 18 August 2014
Life on the Road - Listening
(1247) Listen and work on the Vocabulary Quiz and Comprehension Quiz.
Work on the go - Todd continues talking about his daily life as a web creator living on the road - Listen and circle the correct option. Then work on the vocabulary and comprehension quiz - (1248)
Julia: So talking /
walking of working overseas, how does that work? How do set that mind / kind
of lifestyle up?
Todd: You mean like the nomadic lifestyle?
Julia: Yeah, yeah, when you want to travel and just
be free / three and
Todd: Well, it's interesting. Like I think people
get the wrong idea about working that type of life, being like a nomad. First
of all you're actually not a tourist and in a lot of ways / way you're
not a traveler. Like I actually worked and oddly enough, you know when I was just traveling and just living
/ leaving from city to city and working digitally from / for my
computer, I put in more than forty / fourteen hours a
week. I actually probably put in maybe fifty or sixty because I had so much
time. I had nothing to do usually so I would / could work usually five
to six days a week and usually ten hours per / a day. So the first thing
/think is that you work a lot and because you work a lot, you have to look
for places / spaces that are conductive, conducive I'm sorry, that are conducive for working. So
the first thing you need is you need a hotel or like usually a short term
apartment because it's usually best to say / stay in one place for about
a month and you need a pace / place that has a good desk and a good
chair. I cannot emphasize the importance of a good chair. A good chair is
actually so much more important than cable TV or a nice bed or a pool or
whatever because you're going to sit in the chair all the time. So when I would
travel, I would go to a hotel and the first thing I could / would ask is
can I see...
Julia: The chair?
Todd: Can I see the chairs in the room and if I
didn't like the chair, I'd say like look I'm going to be here / there
for two weeks I'll stay but you gotta get me like a nice / dice chair. So
that was one thing. So usually you want to get like a short-term housing. You look on the internet, you know, two weeks at
a time and usually you can find something cheap / cheaper. You usually
want to be in a major city because you need to have internet and that is the
most important thing. You'd be surprised at what countries have fast internet.
Like Vietnam really fast and you can work wireless from the beach. I used / use to sit on
the beach with my laptop and have high need / speed wireless in some of
the cities in Vietnam.
Julia: Wow.
Todd: Yeah, it's amazing. You know, Thailand,
Bangkok, it's surprising / surprisingly not that fast. So Bangkok wasn't
that fast but if you went to a smaller city like Chiang Mai, the internet wasn´t
/ was really fast.
(1249) Todd talks about his time as a digital nomad, working without a permanent residence.Listen and fill in the blanks:
Julia: What about meeting people? What about like a
_____________ ____________ or just basic human interaction?
____________ does that work?
Todd: ____________ you meet lots of people but there´s a couple ____________
things you need to do. One is I usually ____________
away from anything touristy or where the tourists are ____________ people just assume you're a tourist and nobody will ____________ to meet
you. The best place to meet people ____________ is
a gym. So in every city, I would ____________
to, I would sign up for a gym for ____________
weeks or one month and you always meet people ____________.
So gyms are great, you meet people right after ____________.
You kind of feel like you're in a normal work ____________. Parks, you meet a
lot of people in parks. ____________ go
to where the local people are, maybe a ____________
court or libraries, stuff like that, so usually places ____________ people are actually trying to do
something productive, ____________ study
or exercise or whatever, you meet people.
Julia: That
____________ going to be my next
question. What about your ____________?
How do you maintain a health when you're living ____________
kind of...
Todd: Well,
yeah, you gotta eat well and you gotta ____________.
I did go to the hospital in Chiang Mai because a dog bit me. Yeah.
Julia: Oh,
no. Did you have to____________rabies shots?
Todd: I
had to get a rabies shot and it was ____________
cheap so in most countries healthcare is really cheap. ____________ healthcare is excellent, I mean absolutely
fantastic. And you ____________ Vietnam
it's cheap. You know even in big places____________Taiwan
or Korea, you know, you'd be surprised like it's not that ____________. You just got to go to the
hospital and ____________ sew you up.
Julia: And
language problems? Did you ever have any language ____________?
Todd: No,
usually not. I mean like I lived in Thailand for ____________
years so I can speak Thai but like Taiwan ____________
spoke really good English. I went to Korea, didn't ____________ a word of Korean. I stayed there
for six ____________ working from there
and everybody was so nice. A ____________ of gestures so I got by and actually I ____________ getting
on the plane to go home from Korea ____________ I
realized I didn't know even how to say ____________
and no in Korean or one, two, three, four, ____________
and I was in their country for five weeks, ____________
weeks. So, yeah, the Koreans were very nice.
Julia: Good.
Todd: So have ____________ sold you?
Would you like to give it a ____________?
Julia: Yes, I would but I, my problem is
like ____________. Like if I'm not given
a schedule, if I ____________ have
deadlines, if it's all up to me, I, ____________
know, I'd just spend all day at the beach and ____________
for a massage, maybe do some shopping, go to a ____________ , or something. I can't see myself working when I ____________ like I'm traveling and on holiday.
I don't know.
Todd: ____________, that's the catch.
Julia: The
mindset, I guess yeah.
Todd: Yeah,
____________ the hard part.
Once in the page, look for a Vocabulary quiz and a comprehension quiz, (next to the audio notes) work on that too!
Thursday, 14 August 2014
NEFI FILEs 1 and 2 - OUP
Grammar:
Vocabulary:
Transport and Travel
Money
Games:
Irregular pasts
Strong adjectives
Wednesday, 13 August 2014
The Oval Portrait
Read the
following interpretations of the story. They were posted at http://www.eliteskills.com/c/5243
where you can find all the comments.
§ Which
one do you agree with? Why? Which one do you think has nothing to do with the
way you interpreted the story? Why?
§ Write
your own interpretation of the story, what you believe is the theme and how you
can relate it to your daily life. Then, if you want, yo can post it in the web page (http://www.eliteskills.com/c/5243 )
Monday, 4 August 2014
Present Simple VS Present Continuous
Future Forms
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/presentformsforfuture/exercise1.html
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/presentformsforfuture/exercise3.html
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Wella Trend Vision 2014 Urban Native: Unexpected Color Combinations
Watch the video and answer the questions:
1) What are Undone cuts like?
2) What does the Undone style allow?
3) Where does Phillip´s inspiration come from?
4) How are the Undone colours placed? What is the result?
5) What does the point of the triangle signal?
6) What is the girl´s natural hair level? Can you talk about the tones and colours he is going to use for the base and underneath? (Tone and volume)
7) What about the rest of the hair?
8) What is he doing with the hair in the foil?
9) Why does he use a dry brush?
10) What does he usually do when he does the gloss?
Monday, 28 July 2014
Hairdressing Vocabulary
Beauty Salons
Read the text. Look up the words you don´t know and fill in the blanks with the following words:
up-dos
lowlights
blow dryer straightener braid
hairstyles pigtails
blow dry
rollers hairstylists washes
roots dye conditioner shampoo
hairspray
styled rinses
perm
split ends
highlights
bun
washbasin hairdresser
ponytail French twist
There are many things you can get
done at a Beauty Salon.
We can have massages to relax
us, facials to clean and
purify the skin on our faces and even get our nails painted. I love to get manicures where
they make my fingernails look nice, but I don't like pedicures where they try and make my toenails nice. It always
tickles my feet when the woman paints my toes.
Sometimes there is a (1)_______________at a beauty salon which is a
person who works cutting hair. Many times they are also called (2) _______________ because they also
create different (3) _______________ which
can be considered a type of art.
Before the hairdresser cuts your
hair she normally (4) _______________ it
in the (5)_______________. First she
uses (6) _______________ to
clean the hair and then she uses (7) _______________ to
keep the hair from getting into tangles. Finally she (8) _______________ the hair with
water.
When it is cold outside you need
to (9) _______________ your hair
with a (10)_______________. You don't want to catch a cold walking
around with wet hair.
Women with straight hair who want
curly hair use (11) _______________everyday.
Women who want their hair to always be curly go to the beauty salon to get a (12)_______________. However, if they want
to straighten their hair, they use a (13)_______________. (14)_______________ keeps all of your
hair in place, so that it doesn't get messed up when you move.
When women want to change the
colour of their hair they (15) _______________ it,
using fake chemical colours. Many times women do not want to dye all of their
hair and instead just do small pieces. When they make the hair a colour lighter
than their original colour they are called (16) _______________,
when the colour is darker they are called (17) _______________.
If you don't maintain the colour, your (18) _______________begin
to grow and show your real colour.
When women go to fancy events they
often have their hair (19)_______________.
A (20) _______________or a (21) _______________are examples of common (22)_______________. In general when women do their own
hair they normally only put it in a (23) _______________ if
it is long. Little girls often (24)_______________ their
hair and put them into (25) _______________,
or two smaller ponytails.
I need a hairdresser now because
my hair is unhealthy because of all of the (26) _______________.
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Present Perfect Continuous Vs Present Perfect
Enter these pages in order and you´ll find some practice! Be nice students and do them all!
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Listening: Mike's plans
Monday, 30 June 2014
World Cup Fever in NYC
For Game One of the 2014 World Cup, fans of Brazil gathered to
_______________ the action at a Brazilian restaurant in the Brooklyn
area of New York. They ______________with excitement for a goal against
the team from Croatia. They ______________ not have to wait long.
Juliana Marcussi ______________ as some Brazilian supporters climbed on tables to dance. She says that football is more than just a sport to people from her home country.
“It’s sort of a religion for Brazilians. It _______________ our faith in our country. Even if there are some troubles as we are having right now, you still believe in it because it’s part of you.”
The next day, supporters of the team from Mexico ______________ at a Mexican restaurant in Queens. Marilyn Estrada is a waitress at the restaurant. She says she ______________ excited that Mexico had just _______________Cameroon.
"I feel really, really happy because we won our first game in the FIFA World Cup, one-zero, so that's exciting. It represents Mexico as a strong country. We ______________win. We ______________ win this World Cup. We______________ go all the way!"
Two Mexican-American friends, Pedro and Diego, talked about Mexico’s victory as they rode a train a short time later. They spoke with VOA reporter Adam Phillips.
“The best moment was when, you know, we ______________ that goal, that definite score. Being that we already had some chances and we _______________ get it in there, and we got the job done and that’s what matters. Luckily, the goalie saved us because... We were about to get scored on, and he______________ in the air…
"Do you think it’s going to go all the way?”
"Of course, we’re _______________ for the best. But we’re fanatics."
One restaurant on the island of Manhattan ______________ a crowd of mostly German football fans. They had just ______________ the country’s national team score yet another goal against Portugal.
Michael Momm, the owner of the restaurant, was born in Cologne, Germany. He ______________ excited about the German team.
“Fantastic. Actually, much better than I _______________. Germany is always nervous before we start. But we are definitely a championship team. We always rise to the occasion."
Nicole Weik, who ______________born in Berlin, also cheered on Germany. She______________ a white German football jersey with a three star design. The stars represent the three German World Cup championship wins.
"Right now we are here to get our fourth star.As Germans, we are quivering for the games forever. And so we have to _______________ every game, even though we are on vacation!"
There are many games left to______________ before the FIFA World Cup 2014 ends in the middle of July. The fans of the different national teams in New York City______________ excited. They are so excited, in fact, that anyone who ______________ ______________ ______________ one team in particular might wish them all success.
I'm Jonathan Evans.
Juliana Marcussi ______________ as some Brazilian supporters climbed on tables to dance. She says that football is more than just a sport to people from her home country.
“It’s sort of a religion for Brazilians. It _______________ our faith in our country. Even if there are some troubles as we are having right now, you still believe in it because it’s part of you.”
The next day, supporters of the team from Mexico ______________ at a Mexican restaurant in Queens. Marilyn Estrada is a waitress at the restaurant. She says she ______________ excited that Mexico had just _______________Cameroon.
"I feel really, really happy because we won our first game in the FIFA World Cup, one-zero, so that's exciting. It represents Mexico as a strong country. We ______________win. We ______________ win this World Cup. We______________ go all the way!"
Two Mexican-American friends, Pedro and Diego, talked about Mexico’s victory as they rode a train a short time later. They spoke with VOA reporter Adam Phillips.
“The best moment was when, you know, we ______________ that goal, that definite score. Being that we already had some chances and we _______________ get it in there, and we got the job done and that’s what matters. Luckily, the goalie saved us because... We were about to get scored on, and he______________ in the air…
"Do you think it’s going to go all the way?”
"Of course, we’re _______________ for the best. But we’re fanatics."
One restaurant on the island of Manhattan ______________ a crowd of mostly German football fans. They had just ______________ the country’s national team score yet another goal against Portugal.
Michael Momm, the owner of the restaurant, was born in Cologne, Germany. He ______________ excited about the German team.
“Fantastic. Actually, much better than I _______________. Germany is always nervous before we start. But we are definitely a championship team. We always rise to the occasion."
Nicole Weik, who ______________born in Berlin, also cheered on Germany. She______________ a white German football jersey with a three star design. The stars represent the three German World Cup championship wins.
"Right now we are here to get our fourth star.As Germans, we are quivering for the games forever. And so we have to _______________ every game, even though we are on vacation!"
There are many games left to______________ before the FIFA World Cup 2014 ends in the middle of July. The fans of the different national teams in New York City______________ excited. They are so excited, in fact, that anyone who ______________ ______________ ______________ one team in particular might wish them all success.
I'm Jonathan Evans.
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Tuesday, 24 June 2014
Thursday, 19 June 2014
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Monday, 16 June 2014
Pronunciation Game!
All the words are pronounced with long /i:/ and short /I/
Listen and find the pairs!!
Sunday, 15 June 2014
Monday, 9 June 2014
Friday, 30 May 2014
Friday, 16 May 2014
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