Blog para aprender inglés del IES Guadalpeña.

29 March 2012

Easter is coming!

I want to share with you these two videos related to Easter. Have fun!





27 March 2012

Brainbox games to improve speaking and memory skills


Brainbox games can be very useful to activate your memory, practise vocabulary and understanding questions. There are many different games, so you can deal with many topics. The aim of the game is to watch a card fon ten seconds and try to memorise all the details and information in order to answer the questions about it. And you learn a lot!  For example, with NATURE, you learn about plants and animals:

22 March 2012

Yada Yada English - Conversation strategies



 This website gives vocabulary, conversation strategies and role-play exercises  to face real situations like "asking for help", "at a bank", or "at the doctor's".
It also has special sections, like HOTEL ENGLISH and DAILY IDIOMS.

20 March 2012

Postcrossing

The Postcard Crossing Project   is a gorgeous idea to remember the time when you received real postcards at home. Our students don't know how exciting this feeling can be! If you register, yu can request an address to send your postcard, and you will recive another from a different place. This way, you can practise your English and get some information about interesting places (culture, geography, etc). I'm willing to start!!!


12 March 2012

ELLLO - Video listening

www.elllo.org  is an astounding website with loads of videos recorded by people from all over the world, and the topics are very varied. The best thing is that they have exercises with self-correction, and you can turn the subtitles on or off, or even read the transcript at the end. Here you have an example:

08 March 2012

The Guardian - Learning English

The Guardian has an interesting site to help you learn English where you can find graded texts taken from their news reports, and activities related to them.
This is an example. You can visualize the document or download the PDF file on the right margin:


01 March 2012

Learn English Through Movies

This website  uses film trailers to do listening exercises. Here you have an example from the film Hugo: (the exercise is here)