Level 2- Extra listening 2!

The Christmas The Lights Went Out

This link takes you to a Christmas story. It's beautiful and it will help you practise the Simple Past and learn lots of new vocabulary.

We'll work in class with the story in two weeks. Try to identify what happens to each character.

Give it a try!

Level 1-More listening activities

October 10th is a holiday, so there's no class.

Here is some extra work for the week.

For each link: do the preparation exercises. Watch the animation while you listen. You can read the transcript if you need to. Then do the tasks.

Meet Johnny

Meet Sarah

Meet Olivia

TIPS: take your time. Focus on what you understand. Do it first without transcript and then with the transcript. Repeat it several time.

Level 1- Extra listening practice

Go to this link: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/big-city-small-world/series-1-episode-1-meeting-friends

This is the first episode "Meeting friends" of a series.

Do the Preparation task first. Then listen to the audio. Next go to each Task and do the activity. If you need help, you can read the Transcript at any time.

Level 2-Suggested listening practice

Dear students, I suggest you go to the link and do this listening. It will be very useful for what is to come in class!
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/i-wanna-talk-about/my-life-uk
1. Do the preparation task.
2. Then listen to the audio.
3. Next go to each task and do the activities.
If you need help, you may read the Transcript at any time.
And just in case, an online dictionary: www.wordreference.com (for English-Spanish) and www.thefreedictionary.com for English.

You may also browse through other activities in the British Council site.

Level 2- Holiday

Happy student's day on the 21st! And here's a little something not to miss English lessons so much...


Writing (from skills 2 pg 10) PART A
You are an experienced climber who is going to visit Argentina for the first time during the winter holidays. Write an e-mail to Andescross to get information about tripos and other activities (trekking, mountain biking, backcountry skiing, etc), best time of the year and prices.

Write it in the comments section and I will correct it and publish it.

Download Level 2

Level 2 students can now download New Framework Student's book CD2 at:
http://www.mediafire.com/?8p3sfsr69yjthzi
Thanks Julian for uploading it!

NEW FRAMEWORK audio

For workbook audio go to: http://www.mediafire.com/?xypave2av4gy4h3

For the student's book audio (CD1): http://www.mediafire.com/?1fg41aape6f19v1

Pedro

Christian decided to write about his friend, Pedro.

Home country Argentina

City: General Acha- La Pampa

Marital Status: married

Family: Estela, his wife and Walter his son.

Language: Spanish

Pedro´s Day

Pedro is the town librarian.He lives with his wife Estela. He has got one son and he is married with Mary. He wakes up at 6:00 am. and then he takes a shower. He has breakfast with his wife Estela .He reads the newspaper. He leaves the house at about 7.00 am. He goes to work in the bike. He gets to the library at about 8:00 am. He classifies the books on shelves and he helps the people to find them. He leaves work at about 5.00 pm and plays football with his friends. On Saturday he goes fishing with his friends at lake DonTomas in Santa Rosa.

Pedro lives in  General Acha. This is a small town of La Pampa .The area is very green and it has got a lot of trees.The town has got a park, at night there come a lot of parrots that sleep there. The lake is Utracan about 10 min from town, where the people go swimming. The town is very quiet.

Resources for extra practise and reviewing

Check it out!
This link will take you to the NEW ENGLISH FILE ONLINE SITE. 
http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/elementary/;jsessionid=AC2761E8ECA3544BA7C81DAC926BD866?cc=ar&selLanguage=en
It has great resources. If you're in Level 1, go to files 1, 2 or 3 as we progress.
If you're a student from level 2, you may do anything on files 1, 2 or 3 as review. Then as we progress you will be able to cover 4, 5 and 6, at least.

Bruce Wayne

I'm republishing Julian's entry so it shows on the main page

Hi, it's my project..

Julián said...

Bruce Wayne

Home country: USA
City: Gotham city
Age: 38
Marital status: single
Family: He is an orphan. Alfred, his butler.
Occupations: He is the president of the Wayne's company

He hasn’t got parents, they died in an accident.
He is a succesfull businessman. He is a single man but has got many women.

Bruce’s day
Bruce is the president of the Wayne’s company. He takes difficult decisions about the company but don’t spend much time there. He goes to many important parties and social events. He is always surrounded by many attractive women. His best friends are his Butler, Alfred, and Rachel, the journalist. Every morning, He wakes up and he imediately does exercise in your sophisticated gym. He has fruit juice for breakfast, he reads the newspaper and he watches TV.
He lives in a little village just outside of the town. His house is a big castle. It’s got many bedrooms with en suite bathrooms and an enormous living room. There’s a double garage where Bruce keeps his cars and his motorcycles. It’s got a fabulous gardens with many trees.
At night He turns into Batman, a superhero but without superpowers. He fights for peace, equality and against injustice. He knows all the martial arts and he wears a special suit. He has got a hiding place called Batcave, where he keeps his super car and his suit with a cape
Gotham city
Bruce lives in Gotham city. It's a big metropolis. It’s a dark city with many high buildings. There are many thieves. In the downtown there is the bulding of Bruce’s company. There’s a river and a large bridge. There aren’t any park or lake. It’s a very dirty. People are worried and scared but Batman is always there to help them.


Julián.

Esteban's life

Esteban preferred to write about his own routine.

HOME COUNTRY:	Argentina
AGE:	40
JOB:	Bioengineer

Every morning he gets up at seven o´clock and then has breakfast.

Then he leaves the house at about past half seven.

He gets to Ramos Mejia Hospital at about eigth  o´clock.

At 12 a.m. he leaves the Hospital to take the subway.

Esteban gets to his second jobs.

Then the leaves ANMAT at seven o´clock. On Saturdays and thurdays he trains Karate.

At the weeckens, he travels to Entre Rios.

Esteban lives in San Cristobal, about fifteen minutes from the center.

Trere are many stores cook articles.

This is a place of much traffic. In addiction there is a hihway near.

He lives on the 2^nd floor in a house. It is an old house. It has got twoo bedrooms downs tairs and one upstairs.

This bedrrom has the woorden floor and it has got a balcony. He spends most of his time in the living room watching tv, at the weekend.

SpongeBob

B0B ESPONJA’S LIFE

By Nadia

Home Country: Ocean Pacific

City: “Fondo de bikini”

Age: 18

Marital Status: Single

Family: His pet and his parents.

He’s a only child!!

Language: English

Bob Esponja’s Day…
This’s Bob. He’s a chef. He works in a Cascarudo’s restaurant

Every day, he wakes up at half past eight but he gets up at nine o’clock and has breakfast. He likes eating two toasts of bread with milk and juice orange. Then he brushies his teeth and gets dressed.

A quarter to ten he walks to work and at ten o’ clock he starts work

At twelve o’ clock he stops working and he has a lunch with his classmate Calamardo. Calamardo hates a bob’s good mood. It dislikes a Bob. He’s sad because of it.

Then they start work again.

At half past ten he finishes working and goes home. A quarter past four he arrives home and takes a shower.

Five o’ clock he goes to his best friend Patricio’s house.They love being together.

In their free time they go hunting jelly fish and take it your jelly, this is very difficult but they have a fun together!!!!!!!!

After a long day….Bob comes back to his home and takes a dinner with his pet Gary. At nine o’ clock they go to bed to sleep.

Bob Esponja’s house…

He lives in “Fondo de bikini”. This is a small town in Ocean Pacific. There’s a beach about thirty minutes from his house.

There is a big supermarket in the area. There isn’t a sports centre or swimming pool. There are two restaurants near his house but there aren’t any bars in the area.

His house is near Calamardo’s house and Patricio’s house.

He lives with his pet Gary, it’s a snail of sea.   

His house it’s a pinneaple  It’s got a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and a garage.

It’s got a first floor and stairs. It hasen’t got a big window but it’s got a terrace. His favourite room’s the kitchen because he loves cooking a lot of foods!!!!!!. It’s got a cooker, a small table, one chair, a clock, a cupboard and his old fridge.

Francis Mallman by Angélica Marti

HOME COUNTRY:	Argentina
AGE:	55
JOB:	cook, journalist

Francis Mallman prefers the village tranquility of Garzón in Uruguay.

He has a restaurant.  It’s name is Garzón.  The menu includes lamb, duck, ravioli, chilled almond soup, beef with potatoes, salmon rusti  or grape fruit and parmesan salad.

He works also as a journalist for international magazines and T.V programmes .  He travels all over the world discovering new things in Asia, Europe and Australia.  He says “I want to make my programmes in places.  I know and love, places I can embrace”.

In the holidays he goes to Patagonia.  He likes Chubut and loves riding around in his jeep with his girl friend.  He cooks outdoors and improvises anything: pasta, vegetables and all sorts of soups.

He wears jeans, like sleppers  and sunglasses.  Every morning He has four coffees with milk but not with sugar, and for breakfast he likes to eat bread and cheese.  He never drinks fizzy drinks and early each morning He goes out running trough the streets of Garzón.

He says “In Garzón we are Happy”.

Garzón is a small village in Uruguay.  The people from the town work in farms.

The park of the small town has a beautiful design with old palms trees and benches.  Near the church, in the hotel Garzón there are nice gardens with flowers.  It has got five bedrooms with king beds and private bathrooms.  There are wood burning chimneys.

In the rooms there are pictures, lamps and a mirror.  The windows are big and the floor is brown.

The hotel is open  during in summer time.  There is a swimming  pool and a comfortable lobby.

Level 1- End-of-term Project

In order to integrate several topics dealt with during this first level course (March-July 2011). I asked students to pick a character or famous person and prepare a presentation about them. It should include a brief profile, an overview of the character's main activities and a description of their home and of the area where they live.

OPEN THE COMMENTS SECTION TO PUBLISH YOUR PROJECT. Don't forget to sign!

The Spirit

This is a student's tasks log. It will be used as another learning tool for my students and I, their teacher, to communicate. It is mainly a class board in which to pin projects, task instructions and news.
Anyone is welcome to browse. Bear in mind that whatever is published has been penned by an English as a Second Language Student. Information is most probably fictionalized, so remember not to take data to the letter.
Welcome!
Mariana Campos, ESL Teacher