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What adjectives would you use to describe people's personality?

PERSONALITY What adjectives would you use to describe people's personality? Me My classmate (His name is …....................) Someone in my family (My ….................) Someone in my class (Can you guess who s/he is?)

WITTY PUNS ON WORDS

Hairless hero: Iranian teacher shaves head in solidarity with bullied pupil

'When Iranian schoolteacher Ali Mohammadian noticed that one of his students was bullied after going bald as a result of a mysterious illness, he decided to show solidarity and shave his own hair. In no time, his entire class shaved their heads and the bullying stopped' Hairless hero: Iranian teacher shaves head in solidarity with bullied pupil

ACTIVITY: Picture Description

Pick a picture that you like and describe it, according to what we have been practising in class. You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond

PICTURE DESCRIPTION

Describing pictures 1. Describing landscapes Key phrases used when describing landscapes This is a landscape. There is a (noun) in the background / foreground, on the left / in the middle / on the right. There are some (noun + s) in the background / foreground, on the left / in the middle / on the right. There is a (noun) (verb + ing) in the background / foreground, on the left / in the middle / on the right. You can see what appears / seems to be a (noun) (verb + ing) in the background / foreground, on the left / in the middle / on the right. Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canada. Courtesy of Wikipedia. This is a picture of a lake in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. In this picture, the sky is clear and the sun is shining. There are several mountains in the background. There is some ice on the mountains, but there are no trees. There is a small glacier in the background, on the left. There is a lot of ice at the foot of the mountains on the right. ...

¿Cómo aprenden inglés los españoles? #aporelingles

Cómo aprenden inglés los españoles #aporelingles A por el inglés: fortalezas y debilidades El inglés es la asignatura pendiente de muchos españoles. Aprenderlo no es misión imposible aunque, como a todo, hay que dedicarle tiempo. Además, los españoles también tienen puntos fuertes a la hora de manejarse en el idioma porque no todo son errores. Eva Sereno Redacción Aprendemas - 16/01/2014   Los españoles, en general, no destacan por su conocimiento de nivel de idiomas, a pesar de que en los últimos años se ha experimentado un i mportante avance en el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras por la introducción de los programas de bilingüismo en las aulas y ante la necesidad creciente de dominar algún idioma para incorporarse al mercado de trabajo ya sea en España o en el exterior. [Ver cursos de Inglés ] El inglés sigue siendo hoy en día la lengua que más se demanda en la mayoría de la...

MOTIVATION - INSPIRATION

A veces motivarse no es fácil . Aquí hay diez frases  para que veas las cosas desde un prisma más positivo . Eso sí, en inglés, para que al mismo tiempo que te inspiras, perfecciones el idioma. Toma buena nota y a comerte el mundo: 1. “If you can dream it, you can do it”. Walt Disney. 2. “All human activity is prompted by desire”.Bertrand Russell. 3. “A man never knows what he is capable until he tries”. Charles Dickens. 4. “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety nine percent perspiration”. Thomas Edison. 5. “Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently”. Henry Ford. 6. “It always seems impossible until it’s done”.Nelson Mandela. 7. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing”. Henry Ford. 8. “If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you”. Robert Collier. 9. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm”. Winston Churchill. 10....

Introducing oneself

GENERAL LIST OF LONDON TOURS: webquest

GENERAL LIST OF LONDON TOURS Here is a general list of tours with possible visits. Students have to select one route and some research about. Here are the instructions you have to follow to do this task: 1. Make groups of three. 2. You will have to create a presentation of at least 20 slides 3. Start describing the most important places I the route you have chosen (you might add more if you please) 4. Your description must be clear and concise. This is not a copy and paste exercise, so you have to describe the place in your own words. Copy work will be punished. 5. At the end of the presentation you will have to add a quiz with 10 more slides containing a test with 10 questions with four possible answers about the places in your presentation. GUIDED TOUR 1 : THE SEAT OF POWER 1. Westminster Abbey: 2. The Houses of Parliament and the Big Ben 3. Westminster Hall 4. Whitehall: 5. Downing Street, 6. Scotland Yard… 7. The London eye TOUR 2: ROYAL LONDON 1. Westmin...