European Day of Languages

In how many languages do you know the word 'hello'? Go to the following link and listen to it to find out: http://edl.ecml.at/Portals/33/sound/hello.mp3

26 September is the European Day of Languages. This year, 2012, it is the 11th time it is celebrated since it first started in 2001. It is an initiative organised by the Council of Europe and it involves 47 countries. 

© Council of Europe, Strasbourg www.coe.int/EDL

In order to celebrate this special day on our blog, here you have some links from the official European Day of Languages website where you can find out about this day and how people around Europe celebrate it, some sites where you can have fun playing games related to languages, quizzes to test how much you know about languages around Europe or even a test where you can find out your knowledge about European languages!

• Languages facts: learn some important thins about European languages 

           http://edl.ecml.at/LanguageFun/LanguageFacts/tabid/1859/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

• Once you've read the language facts, are you ready to take a quiz?

           http://edl.ecml.at/LanguageFun/LanguageQuiz/tabid/1873/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

•  How about some memory games?

           http://edl.ecml.at/LanguageFun/MemoryGame/tabid/1532/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

• In how many languages do you dare to self-evaluate your language skills?

Enjoy!!

Back to work

We're back! I hope you all had a great summer, but now it's time to get back to work. You still have a few more days before you start school and I'm really looking forward having you there again.

Here you have a video with some of the work that the students in 2ºESO made last year. I don't have them in my class this year and I will miss them. That's why I want to share this video with you, to remember them and all the great work they did.

Hope you enjoy... and... WELCOME BACK!!!

Improve your grammar skills

Hi! I hope you had a wonderful Easter break but now it's over and we have to get back to work. I promised you I'd post some web links with grammar activities for you to review and improve your grammar skills. Here you have some of them to dig up your abilities after the time off.

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/

http://www.ego4u.com/

http://a4esl.org/

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/esl-english-grammar-exercises.html

http://english-zone.com/index.php

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/

Enjoy! :D

Modal Verbs

Modal Verbs

Infinitive or -ing form?

Here you have the document with all the information on infinitives and -ing forms. I hope from now on you have less trouble remembering when to use one or another.

Infinitive or gerund?

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Dreams

Last week, in our 1ºBach. classes, we studied past tenses and we ended up writing about our dreams: the strangest, the scariest, the funniest... dream that we've ever had.

I always forget my dreams, but it seems that my students are really good at remembering theirs and they came up with great stories that they'd like to share with you.

Feel free to comment on their stories :)

VI Edición del Premio Espiral de Edublogs 2012

Our blog is participating in the 6th Edition of the Espiral Edublogs Awards for the first time. It's been such a pleasure that they accepted us and it will be a great way to get people outside the school to know our blog.

English Corner CORMAR on Espiral Edublogs