Relative Clauses

One of the things we have seen lately is how we use and form relative clauses. You can click here for further interesting information and activities to practise and test yourself.

Travelling the World

Summer is almost here and lots of people make trips and travel during their holidays. Have you ever been to a foreign country? Have you ever thought which foreign country would you like to visit if you had the chance?

The first time I went abroad I visited England. I stayed in Oxford for three weeks. It is such a beautiful place! Enjoy the presentation:


Some years later I spent almost a year in the Inited States of America and I has the time of my life enjoying New York City for a week:

Mi cuarto álbum

Reported Speech

As you know, we have just finished working on reported speech. You can click either here or here for further clarification. Moreover, you can do more activities:

Quiz 1

Quiz 2

More activities

Help yourselves!

Picture Description

Very soon we will begin working on how we can describe pictures in English. Here is the worksheet we will use in class, with links to interesting information in other websites:

1 Analising and Describing Pictures 

World Book Day and Copyright Day

On 23 April we celebrate Book Day and Copyright Day. But do you know why? This day is the anniversary of the death of three important authors around the world: William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. All of them died on 23 April 1616 (although there are some days of difference because some countries followed the Julian calendar and others the Gregorian one). That is the reason why UNESCO chose this day to encourage people to enjoy reading.

Modal Verbs

Here you can get some more information on modal verbs, as well as further practice. Don't miss it!

Be my Valentine!

Yesterday we did some activities with this beautiful song titled Valentine by Kina Grannis. Here you are the video so that you can enjoy it again:

Happy Valentine's Day!

February 14, St. Valentine's Day, is said to be a day for people who are in love. No matter whether you have a boyfriend or girlfriend or whether you like someone in particular or not, there must be lots of people you love: your parents, your brothers and sisters, your relatives, your friends . . . In fact, there are many people that make our lives nicer, aren't there?

Here you are some interesting links you should visit. The idea is for you to skim them and choose the ones you want to work on. But bear in mind that you should send comments showing what you have done or learnt.

There are many reasons why we love people. Click here to read 21.

You can also write a short love poem. Here you just have to drag and drop while in this site you can use a magnetic board.

There are funny love limericks here and famous quotations on love in this website.

If you really like a person you can use this calculator to see how happy you will be together but if you think you need something more exciting you can always read this kissing advice.

Apart from that, you can read about the origins of the day here .

But if you still don't like this topic, then perhaps you should do these activities and learn how to say something interesting.

Are you a language lover? Have you got foreign friends? Then click here and learn how to say "I love you".

If you like it so much you have done everything, go to this site and choose other activities, there are hundreds!

And remember, I wish you a happy Valentine's Day!

I Will Always Love You!

Thinking about St. Valentine's Day, I've come across this love song by the deceased Whitney Houston. Click on the link, choose the mode more appropriate for you  (beginner or intermediate will be OK) and enjoy it! You can also sing along at the karaoke mode.

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You, Music Video, Song Lyrics and Karaoke

Conditional Sentences

As you know, we have been lately studying Conditional Sentences. If you need further clarification and activities, click here and keep on learning!

Peace and Non-Violence

America has celebrated Martin Luther King Day since 1983 on the third Monday in January. Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. was an important person in the American Civil Rights movement, who believed in non-violence. He campaigned against segregation and inequality and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. In 1963 he gave his most famous speech, which contains the well-known phrase I have a dream.

Here you can enjoy most of this important speech. Then, think about the way in which you can contribute to improve the world and post a comment beginning like this: 

"I have a dream that . . . "

Do you need some kind of inspiration? Then you can listen to Someday, a song from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Watch the video and listen to it. It has a beautiful message.

Now you can read the lyrics here. Think about them . . . and of course, think about the things you can do to improve the world!

Forms for the Future

Lately we have learnt about the four different forms English has to refer to future time: be going to, Present Continuous, Present Simple and 'will'.

For an explanation and activities on be going to, click here.

Remember that we use Present Continuous to talk about totally planned activities. You can review it here. And we can use Present Simple to talk about official timetables. You can review it here. 

But we can also refer to the future using the modal auxiliary verb will. You can click here for further explanation on this topic. Moreover, you will have the opportunity to do some more activities. I hope it helps!

Singing Peace

Last Friday we had a very musical lesson as we got ready for the celebration of Non-Violence and Peace School Day, which will be held next Wednesday. We did some activities on Cry by James Blunt and we also enjoyed an interesting video on his return to Kosovo. We also listened to his song No Bravery, and we talked about it. 

Did you like the videos? 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, my dear students! I hope 2013 will bring you moments of joy and fun. 

Here you can enjoy the fireworks with which London welcomed the New Year. They are great! Below, you can also feel the atmosphere at the countdown in Times Square (New York). Which one do you prefer?