Imagine, by John Lennon

 First of all. Listen to the song and read the lyrics at the same time:

Then, click on the picture and listen to the song and fill the blanks (when finish press on "Terminado"): 

Christmas time

 First of all, click on the picture and do the exercise (choose the right word). When you finish, press "Terminado" and check your answers:

Then, press on the picture and complete the crossword, you have to find a secret message. When you finish, press "Terminado" and check your answers:

There is / There are

 Clic on the picture and do the exercise about there is / there are:

Superlatives

Read the information about the superlatives and do the exercises:

Superlatives, una ficha interactiva de victor
liveworksheets.com

Present continuous tense

• We use the present continuous to talk about things that are happening now.

• We make the present continuous with the verb to be + verb-ing. E.g.: You are reading.

• How to form the gerund:

o We add -ing to the verb; e.g. play → playing.

o We take away the final e e.g. cycle → cycling, write → writing.

o We double the consonant after one vowel, one consonant e.g. run → running, hop → hopping.

You can do the next exercise as interactive here. 

Practising the time

Here, there are two worksheets about the time. When you finish each one press "Terminado" and then "Comprobar mis respuestas".

What time is it?, una ficha interactiva de TEACHERROSAANA
liveworksheets.com

What-s the time?, una ficha interactiva de kstrzeminska
liveworksheets.com

The 2020 presidential elections in the USA

 Every four years, on a Tuesday in November, people in the USA elect their President.

The 2020 United States presidential election is the 59th presidential election, and it is on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.

There are two candidates:

• Donald Trump

 

Donald Trump is the 45th president of the USA. he was born on 14th June, 1946, in Queens, New York City. His father, Fred Trump, was a builder. His mother, Mary Anne Macleod, was a housewife, an inmigrant girl who had moved from Scotland when she was 117 years old. Fred and Mary got married and had 5 children, three boys and two girls.

Trump took a degree in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1968. In the seventies and in the eighties, he was a sucessful businessman: he built hotels, casinos and became very rich.

• Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., Joe Biden, was born on November 20th, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware in 1965 followed by a law degree from Syracuse University in New York in 1968. Biden was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, at the age of 29. From 1991 to 2008, while serving in the Senate, he was an adjunct professor at the Wilmington, Delaware, branch of the Widener University School of Law.

Trump is republican (conservative).

Biden is democrat (liberal).

Democrats symbol is a donkey and republican symbol is an elephant.

Halloween interactive book

Here it is a interactive book about Halloween. You learn Halloween vocabulary playing with it. Click on the picture to go to this web.

If you prefer a link: http://chagall-col.spip.ac-rouen.fr/IMG/didapages/halloween2/index.html

What's the largest creature in the world?

British Council has got a chant to learn the comparatives and the superlatives.

We can start with the Preparation, then listen to the chant, then we can do two games and finally, we can learn the chant.

Everything is here: https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/grammar-chants/its-bigger-mouse

Download the preparation and the games (they are also online).

What's the largest creature in the world? Listen to the grammar chant and find out! Can you hear the comparatives and superlatives in the chant?

Easy Stories in English

Easy Stories in English is a webpage with a lot of listening audios (for 5th and 6th level). If you clic on the picture you go directly to beginners level.

There are two posibilities:

Below each recording there is a triangle and the text "Read the transcript".

1. Only listening (click on the triangle).
2. Listening and reading the transcript at the same time (click on the triangle and on "Read the transcript").

Tutorial para entrar al correo del alumno/a y a LeoCYL

(Aunque este blog es para mis clases de Inglés, pongo este tutorial para facilitar a mis alumnos/as la entrada al correo Educa)

Debido a la crisis del Coronavirus somos muchos los que hemos pedido a nuestro alumnado que entre en su correo con algún fin. Igualmente les estamos pidiendo que entren a LeoCYL para realizar lecturas. Por si alguien no sabe cómo hacerlo aquí os pongo un sencillo tutorial de cómo acceder a ambos sitios:

Riddles

1.       What letter of the alphabet is an insect?

2.       It is on your head and under your hat. What is it?

3.       Everyone has it and no one can lose it. What is it?

4.       What has four legs but cannot walk?

5.       What’s green, but not a leaf, copies others, but is not a monkey?

6.       It is round and yellow, it is like a ball of fire. It rises in the east, it sets in the west. What is it?

7.       Cold head and feet, round as a ball, always turning around itself. What is it?

8.       What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

9.       What animal is the best at baseball?

10.   How do you know carrots are good for your eyes?

11.   What comes down but never goes up?

12.   Take off my skin and I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?

13.   It is orange and sounds like a parrot.

14.   What always goes to bed with its shoes on?

15.   Where does yesterday come after today?

16.   What do you have to break before you can use it?

17.   This is something black and white but it’s not an old TV. It’s a type of animal that starts with the letter Z.

18.   I have wings, but I’m not a bird. I am small and colourful. I live in gardens and forests. I used to be a caterpillar. What am I?

19.   I have four legs and a tail. I have no teeth. I can swim and dive underwater. I carry my house around with me. What am I?

20.   Where can you find cities, towns, shops and streets, but no people?

Click here to download the answers.

I'm a little snowman

Probably you can't watch the video. In this case, press on "Abrir una nueva ventana".

Si no puedes ver el vídeo porque te pone "Parece que hay algún problema", no te preocupes, haz clic en el botón rosa "Abrir una nueva ventana" y lo podrás ver sin problema.

(From Tiger 2. Editorial MacMillan)

LYRICS:

I'm a little snowman.

I'm a little snowman,

short and fat.

I'm wearing a scarf

and I'm wearing a hat.

When it's snowing,

hear me say,

come on children,

come and play!