A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and a preposition: give up, set up, run out, go away… are phrasal verbs. Many people have negative feelings about phrasal verbs. Why? Because it’s impossible to know the meaning of a phrasal verb from the words. For example, if you say ‘I’ve run out of milk’ It doesn’t mean that you run, it means that you don’t have any milk.
Try it! Click on Bob Wilson’s web page. You can watch the video as an introduction and then test yourself in some online phrasal verbs exercises.
Are you ready for the future? Have you though about it? Can you contribute to a better future? How? How do you image yourself in ten or twenty years time? What are your expectations? What will you do to achieve your purpose?
Try it! Watch the video and start a discussion in class, decide if you are agree with these students and try to answer the questions mentioned.
Opposites are words that are contrary or radically different in nature, qualities, direction, result or significance. For example: male-female, long-short, up-down…
Try it!Click on this matching quiz and match the opposites. Drag from the right column to the left column.
Try it! Read the research and write an article explaining your opinion. First try to sum up the main points of the research as an introduction and then explain your point of view. Do you think new technologies make learning difficult? Have they a negative influence on the students? Or, on the other hand, are you really in favour of using new technologies? Why? Can they help you in your day-to-day learning? How? Finally, end your article with a conclusion.
Let’s go to the idiom jungle again (if you haven’t done it yet, look for the 27th July and 26th August 2009 posts).
Try it! Click on the idiom jungle and test yourself in this online exercise. This time it’s a multiple choice activity about fish, food and meat. Learn about idioms and good luck!
Snag films is a useful web page with a lot of American videos to learn about different topics: history, science, museums, technology, health…
Try it! Click on snag films topics and choose the one you want lo learn more about. Some videos are only available for American people, nevertheless you can find some interesting reports at your disposal!
In Love with Shakespeare is a didactic unit for Batxillerat designed by Anna Aznar and Jordi Jordan. It can be done as a whole or selecting some of the units. The main objectives here are to develop communicative strategies, both spoken and written, and to get to know some aspects of English culture (basically history and literature), with the aid of ITC.
Try it!Click on the link and pass your mouse over the picture, the different units will appear. Click on the first one, Tudor England and start by learning about the context in which Shakespeare lived: the monarchy, the city of London and the way they dressed. Again, pass the mouse over the screen and click on the different pictures. By searching the web sites provided, you must find out about Henry VIII, his wives and how Elizabeth I accessed the throne. You must also identify the main characters in Tudor history in a number of portraits. Then, you can click on Tudor London and complete a description of the city at that time after reading a website, learn about London monuments and place them in a map.
Try it! Click on Bob Wilson’s web page. You can watch the video as an introduction and then test yourself in some online phrasal verbs exercises. 
