Writing
Liberal Arts
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After watching this, think about creating your own piece of art. Get inspired with the film and the text by William Blake Songs of innocence and experience and write a story or a poem containing some or all of these words and expressions:
– ‘A wise man in a red hat said to me: “Everything is going to be OK”‘
– ‘Nobody feels like an adult’
– dare
– bet
– cocoon
– caterpillar
– butterfly
– destiny
– vampire
– innocence and experience
– grateful
Silver Linings
Did you enjoyed the film?
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Now, try to write something about it. Use some or all of these words:
– Silver lining
– host
– guest
– crazy
– monster
– song
– sense of humour
– white lie
– eagles
– giants
– bet
Some Weblinks to Study English
Here you have some links to websites which contain a lot of activities to practice your English.
- Thanks to Eulàlia for this website with explanations in Spanish:
- The Isabel Pérez website has lots of explanations and exercises to practice the basic verb tenses.
- From Departament d’Educació de la Generalitat, look for any topic or grammar issue you need to review, practice or improve, sometimes you only have to follow the explanations by clicking on the “Play” button, and after that, click on “evalua’t” and then on “practica”):
- Another website from l’Xtec to practice basic linguistic issues.
- In this website, you have to click on “menu” to make it appear on the top-left of your screen. The activities are grouped into levels, from 1st ESO to 2nd Batx. Choose the level according to your needs.
- A very useful one, with all kind of resources, explanations and advice: ego4u.com
- The website of the EFL’s publishers, which links to the web page of your books: the EFL Beginners and EFL Elementary
As I told you, here you have some links to different websites where you can practise English:
- Short stories (listening and reading)
- Grammar exercises
- Huge bank of exercises
- Listening activities from BBC
- Pronunciation
- More pronuntiation (listening and repeating)
- A listening game
- Another game
- Basic pictures dictonary
Remeber you have more dictionaries on the right. You can also have a look at your favourite bookshop and look for a practice book which fits you (level: BEGINNER). I hope you’ll enjoy your work.
Happy holidays!
Present tenses
To practice persent simple and present continuous contrast:
Present Simple
Click on these images to start practising the present simple tense:
http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/present_simple.htm
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Useful websites for English Learners
This time I am giving you some websites of general interest for English learners:
- Maybe the best one: the BBC Learning English website.
- Some interesting and useful British Council sites:
- Practise your grammar with the British Council Short Movies
. - LearnEnglish Central provides English language practice for everyone, but especially for teenagers and adult learners.
- LearnEnglish Podcasts are a way for you to practise your English language listening skills.
- Practise your grammar with the British Council Short Movies
- You can also visit Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab, it has a big amount of listening quizzes and other very useful staff.
- In Yappr you can learn and practice English while watching videos, practicing your pronunciation, it used to be all free, but now only some contents are, look for them!
- Finally, some games
, also from BBC. They are intended to be played by British kids to demonstrate their knowledge about Maths, Science and English, but I think you will enjoy them, too!
Pronunciating