Youtube as a tool for learning English

Youtube and its music videos is a tool for the English classes.

An easy way for learning English is listen to music in English. If you read the lyrics at the same time you can learn lots of words, expressions, you improve your pronunciation, etc.

I show you a tool that let you listen to the song and read the lyrics at the same time in Youtube. It's a extension for Google Chrome.

Follow this link: Musimatch and install the extension (remember, in Google Chrome).

Once installed you'll watch the videos with their lyrics:

And if you want to download the song in MP3, you only copy the Youtube's URL and paste in the next web page:

Then press on the Record MP3 bottom and in a few seconds the song will download into your computer.

Assign Kahoot as homework

Now, the teachers can assign Kahoot as homework. Here are the instructions (for Android phones or tablets):

• Go to Google Play and download the app Kahoot (obviously, only the first time you're going to play).
• Open Kahoot app.
• At the bottom of the screen, press Enter PIN

• Now, write the Game PIN (the teacher gives you it) and press Enter.
• Click on Accept.
• Press on number 1 (the questions are in groups of three).

• Finally, write your name or nickname and clic on OK, go!

• And... Ready? Steady? Go!!
• When you finish round 1, press on number 2, and so on...

Halloween recipes

Hace unos días os proponíamos hacer comida terrorífica para Halloween y el resultado fue increíble. Las comidas que trajeron los niños y niñas nos sorprendieron muchísimo. Ese día todo el Colegio disfrutó comiendo ojos, arañas, dedos cortados, brujas, huesos, momias, telas de araña, tumbas, trozos de cementerio, ...

Muchísimas gracias a tod@s por vuestra colaboración. La convocatoria fue todo un éxito. Y a las pruebas nos remitimos... Haced clic sobre la imagen y podréis ver todas las comidas:

Almuerzo Halloween

Pretendemos, con la ayuda de todos, hacer el próximo día 30 de octubre un almuerzo Halloween.

Así todo el alumnado del Colegio tendrá la oportunidad de almorzar hamburguesas monstruosas, plátanos fantasma, brochetas monstruosas, brownies de fantasmitas, fresas fantasmagóricas, paninis de momia, huesitos crujientes, dedos de bruja ensangrentados, ojos sangrientos de galleta, tumbas de chocolate...

  

Podéis entrar en estos links para ayudaros con ideas, utilizar algunos de los ejemplos dados (hay recetas muy sencillas y otras más elaboradas) o... ¡¡traer vuestras propias creaciones!! ¡¡Seguro que estarán… De muerte!!

• https://www.mundoprimaria.com/halloween/recetas-infantiles-halloween.html

• https://www.guiainfantil.com/recetas/postres-y-dulces/halloween/recetas-de-halloween-faciles-para-ninos/

• https://www.directoalpaladar.com/recetario/17-recetas-de-halloween-para-pasarlo-de-miedo-cocinando-con-tus-peques

• http://www.crecerfeliz.es/Ninos/Alimentacion/Recetas-de-Halloween-para-ninos

Si no queréis entrar en esos enlaces también podéis descargaros un .pdf que hemos preparado con algunas recetas. Clic en la imagen para descargártelo:

British flag for colouring

Sometimes young pupils want to colour a British flag. You can download one if you clic on the picture below:

(pdf document with 1 flag)

(pdf document with 4 flags in 1 sheet)

Picture from: http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/

Frequency adverbs

Here is a frequency adverbs picture, It can help you with the grammar.

Future

Will future expresses a spontaneous decision, an assumption with regard to the future or an action in the future that cannot be influenced.

Form of will Future

Positive	Negative	Question
I will speak.	I will not speak.	Will I speak?
I’ll speak	I won’t speak	-----

Use of will Future

·         A spontaneous decisión. Example: Wait, I will help you.

·         An opinion, hope, uncertainty or assumption regarding the future. Example: He will probably come back tomorrow.

·         A promise. Example: I will not watch TV tonight.

·         An action in the future that cannot be influenced. Example: It will rain tomorrow.

·         Conditional clauses. Example: If I arrive late, I will call you.

Signal Words:
- In a year, next …, tomorrow
- Suposición: I think, probably, perhaps

(From: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/future-1-will)

Online exercises: 
Exercises 1
Exercises 2 (positive, negative, question)

Can you hear me?

In this song a deaf boy describes its world, what he can see, how he feels the sun, He's happy but he'd like to hear our voices singing.



Can you hear me? by Bob Chilcott

I look around me as I grow
I'd like to tell you all I know

I see life
With all it's energy
The city streets
The rush of time
This is my world
It's where I like to be
So much to see
So much to find

I sometimes sit and wait a while
I see the sun
It makes me smile

Can you see it?
Can you see it too?
Can you see it?
Can you see it too?

I feel life
With all it's energy
The joy of waiking every day
This is my world
It's where I like to be
So much to do
So much to say

I sometimes sit and feel the sun
Its warmth
Is there for everyone

Can you feel it?
Can you feel it too?
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it too?

My world is a silent one
But it's enough for me
I hear you
Through your hands
The movement sets me free
But it could be a special thing
To hear your voice
To hear you sing

Can you hear me?
Can you hear me too?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me too?

I look around me as I grow
I'd like to tell you all I know

Can you hear me?

Ethan's song

Below you can see, listen and read a beautiful song. It was written by a mother for her blind son.

Ethan's song by Katherine Mount

What do you see when I sing?

What do you feel when you’re watching me?

Can you imagine what music can be?

Where do you go in your mind

When you can see that I’m singing?

What do you hear inside your head

Music...

Your music...

I know that I feel joy

When sound connects to feeling

When that vibration meets the air

Maybe you can see the notes

Floating to the celling

Or maybe there’s simply

Nothing there for you

Nothing there

What do you see when I sing?

What’s the emotion for what I do?

Can you imagine what it means?

Music

My music

And your music

Will always be yours

I’ll never hear it

Any more than you’ll hear mine

And our music

Is through our hands

And that’s just fine

It’s beautiful

What do you see when I sing?

I see you watching and loving me

So I’ll sing for both of us

I’ll sing it loud and strong

And your music

Is my music

And we’re both

Where we 
Belong

Spelling with surprises

Can you spell the next "words"? Try it, try it...

·         I.1.2.C.U

·         R.U.O.K?

·         I´s T

·         I.C.U

·         E.Z

·         B.Z

·         1.4.U

·         I.1.T

·         I.8

·         U.2

·         Y?

·         C.U.@.9

·         2.E.Z.4.U

·         A.B.S.E.Z.2.C

·         I.M.N.A.C.T

·         I.C.U.R

If you can't discover the sentences, clic here.

Trademarks in English

Do you translate some trademarks into Spanish?
Try to translate the next:

As you can see, better, don't do it!!