Daily routines

How to improve your English

Compound adjectives in English

Modal verbs

Modal verbs for ESO-3 students from Ana Arias Castro

MEANING

• CAN/CAN'T: ability, possibility
• MUST/MUSTN'T:: obligation/prohibition
• SHOULD/SHOULDN'T:: advice

EXERCISES

• can/can't 
• can/could/be able to
• have to / has to
• must / mustn't 1
• must / mustn't 2
• mustn't / don't have to
• can / may / must / could / might 
• can / must / should
• deduction: may / might / could / must / can't (British Council)
• musn't / can / can't / have to / don't have to / must (British Council)
• have to / don't have to / must / mustn't (Oxford)
• can / should / must (Learn English Feel Good 1)
• can / should / must (Learn English Feel Good 2)
• can / must / should ( Learn English Feel Good 3)
• can / could / should / might (Learn English Feel Good 4)
• can / should / might (Learn English Feel Good 5)
• can / can't / must / mustn't / needn't /have to / don't have to (Speak Speak)

Revision for 4º ESO exam

GRAMMAR:
Revision of tenses
Charts of tenses
More tenses and exercises:

• Revision of tenses
• present simple / present continuous
• past simple / past continuous
• future simple / going to / future continuous
• present perfect and past simple
• REVISION OF ALL TENSES EXERCISE

Comparatives and superlatives
Used to / didn't use to
Conditional sentences
Passive sentences

VOCABULARY:
Some- / any- compounds
Marketing

INTERACTION:
At the restaurant
Shopping for clothes
Asking for a refund

WRITING
How to write an essay
Describing a process
Connectors

Neiu4 0-summary of tenses from Ana Arias Castro

Revision for 3º ESO exam

GRAMMAR:
Revision of tenses
Charts of tenses
More tenses and exercises:

• Revision of tenses
• present simple / present continuous
• past simple / past continuous
• future simple / going to / future continuous
• present perfect and past simple
• REVISION OF ALL TENSES EXERCISE

Comparatives and superlatives
Conditional sentences
Quantifiers in English

VOCABULARY:
Places in a town
Travel checklists
Travelling
Food

INTERACTION:
At the restaurant
Shopping for clothes
Asking for a refund

WRITING
How to write an essay
Connectors

Neiu4 0-summary of tenses from Ana Arias Castro

How to write an email

Email writing from Ana Arias Castro

MORE:

• Wikihow

ACTIVITY:

In this activity you are going to write an email to a friend telling him/her what people have told you since your last email. These are some of the things you have been told:

• Your mother told you: "Don't arrive so late any more."
• Your best friend said: "I want to travel to Madrid next week end."
• The school director asked: "Are you going to go on a school trip with primary students?"
• Your teacher said: "You have to study these contents this week."

Of course you can add more information in your email but include some of the ideas above.
Remember to include some of the following connectors:

• first,
• then /later (on) / next / after that
• because / so
• however / although
• in spite of / despite
• in my opinion
• finally

Compare these people

Compare these people from Ana Arias Castro

How to improve your essays

Compare these two texts:

TEXT 1: TOBY

Toby got up at 6 o’clock.

Toby had a bone for breakfast.

Toby was happy.

Toby jumped and ran.

Toby played with Ron and Pastor.

Toby went to the river.

Toby swam.

Toby liked the river.

Toby went back home.

Toby had dog food for dinner.

Toby barked at a cat.

Toby went into his shed.

Toby slept at 11 o’clock.

Writing a text: structure

Every day I get up at 7:00 and I go downstairs for breakfast. I usually have a glass of orange juice and a large cup of tea and toast. I don't usually have coffee, just sometimes at the weekend. I always read the newspaper while I'm having breakfast.

Later I go upstairs, have a shower and get dressed. Then I pack my books for school and go to school by car. I drive to school in my car because I live 10 km away from school. After that I am at school for about 4-6 hours. I sometimes have lunch at school, a sandwich and some fruit but I don't like having lunch at school because it is rather stressful.

After school, at 4.30 I go back home and rest for about half an hour. Then I have another cup of tea and prepare my classes for the following day: check my students' work, prepare exams, etc.
At about 7,00 I often go for a walk or walk on a treadmill for one hour because I like to do exercise.
After that I have dinner, usually fruit or yoghurt but never meat or fish.

In the evening I always read for over an hour and I often watch TV or surf the net before I go to bed. However, I don't watch TV if I don't like the programmes they are showing.
On weekdays I go to bed at about 11:00 and fall asleep very quickly.

• RED: frequency and time expressions
• BLACK: frequency adverbs
• BLUE: sequencing
• ORANGE: sentence linking

Graded Readers Sheet

Graded readers sheet 2018-2019 from Ana Arias Castro

Let's write an essay

Choose one of these topics:

• My favourite invention
• Internet: good and bad aspects

Write a three-part text:

• Introdution: short, introduction to the topic. Just one or two sentences.
• Body: Defend your ideas. Give arguments for and against. 
• In my opinion, personally...
• A variety of tenses and rich vocabulary
• Connectors of additions and/or contrast: besides, moreover, however, although...
• Conclusion: Summaries the ideas mentioned and back your opinion.

How to Write an Essay from Tino Grandio

Essay topics eso 4 from Tino Grandio

Today's eTwinning session

FOR ALL OUR STUDENTS:

• MY HEALTHY LIFESTYLE MOTTO - students and teachers create their mottos with canva.com. The mottos should motivate the members of the project and inspire to lead a healthy way of living - until the end of April. 
• WORD ART IMAGES dedicated to partners' healthy lifestyle (made with wordart.com) - until the middle of May. 
• COMMUNICATION in the forum that corresponds to your group

GROUP ACTIVITIES (April and May)

    GROUP 1 - Two activities (Silvia Vázquez)

• Presentation about healthy eating. Please use one slide for each healthy eating habit (for example one for eating 5 times a day, another one for eating fruit, etc.) This is the link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XCiRjcSGhgZqUpHUYELwxusUPRct9QiBIk5mM97FpYw/edit?usp=sharing Feel free to change the template, add your own pictures, etc. DO NOT change other people's work. Rather add a note with your comments.:-D
• Padlet about healthy eating. Write short notes about minor tips or advice on how to improve your food and eating habits.

    GROUP 2 - Two activities (Pablo Pérez, Patricia García, Silvia Méndez)

• Presentation about unhealthy eating. Please use one slide for each unhealthy eating habit that you can think of (for example one for eating just once a day, another one for not eating fruit, etc.) This is the link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LYDkYDEEgLA4GioMyw6GMlTNA9hXX5BSe04ZDEhmxsM/edit?usp=sharing​  Feel free to change the template, add your own pictures, etc. DO NOT change other people's work. Rather add a note with your comments.:-D
• Padlet about unhealthy eating. Write short notes about minor tips or advice on how to improve your food and eating habits.

    GROUP 3 (Antía Vázquez, Mario Gayoso)

• Presentation about Sport in our Life. We will investigate advantages of doing sport and its influence on the quality of our life . Our task is to create several pages in the document on how doing sport can improve our life and make it much better . We may mention not only professional sport but also people's amateur efforts or just regular activities.Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zWtmOEkXc_4V1oRowdRrZNsZd9ARPNizDDuPrtqvZ6k/edit?usp=sharing

    GROUP 4 (Samuel Fernández)

• Our topic is 
• 'Unhealthy habits'. 
• We will make a presentation on Unhealthy habits which a person may develop and what negative impact can they have on person's life. This work is aimed on Students' research so that they'll realise negative consequences of harmful habits to avoid them in the future. 
• Here is the link: 
• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1glGvSYN56dlADFBtd-T7-35tUVbSNniclXeDjF7BRnI/edit?usp=sharing

    GROUP 5 (Tania Rodríguez)

• Presentation about Healthy Entertainment: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KafD-vlp2l6VX3RCnVtiCgyGDVm2DpaDyNI_fDb8rDQ/edit#slide=id.g3843e23bc8_0_206

• PADLET: AN EXTRACT FROM MY DIARY - describe in details and illustrate your healthy habits of the day chosen. 

    GROUP 6  (Jennifer López)

• AN INSPIRING e-mail MESSAGE (write a message to any person in the project and convince him/ her that healthy life is worth living. You can use phrases for giving advice and write the examples to prove your advice is right). Write your email here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KafD-vlp2l6VX3RCnVtiCgyGDVm2DpaDyNI_fDb8rDQ/edit#slide=id.g3843e23bc8_0_206
• Think of and suggest two-four questions to the questionnaire to find out about project partners' habits to spend their free time/ ways of entertainment and present it on etwinning. Here is the link for the questions: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Xtc4K014K6-ZWBvqIQYNtACyJ3yw8usEyJtmtEWVMxg/edit#slide=id.g3845cd517c_0_134

How to write an email

Email writing from Ana Arias Castro

MORE:

• Wikihow

ACTIVITY:

In this activity you are going to write an email to a friend telling him/her what people have told you since your last email. These are some of the things you have been told:

• Your mother told you: "Don't arrive so late any more."
• Your best friend said: "I want to travel to Madrid next week end."
• The school director asked: "Are you going to go on a school trip with primary students?"
• Your teacher said: "You have to study these contents this week."

Of course you can add more information in your email but include some of the ideas above.
Remember to include some of the following connectors:

• first,
• then /later (on) / next / after that
• because / so
• however / although
• in spite of / despite
• in my opinion
• finally

February 24th - Rosalía de Castro's Day

Revision for ESO-4 exam

GRAMMAR:
Revision of tenses
More tenses:

• Revision of tenses
• present simple / present continuous
• past simple / past continuous
• future simple / going to / future continuous
• present perfect and past simple
• Past perfect
• REVISION OF ALL TENSES EXERCISE

WRITING:
Comparatives and superlatives
Used to / didn't use to
Conditional sentences
Passive sentences

VOCABULARY:
Some- / any- compounds
Marketing

INTERACTION:
At the restaurant
Shopping for clothes

WRITING
How to write an essay
Describing a process
Connectors

Neiu4 0-summary of tenses from Ana Arias Castro

How to organize your vocabulary

These are just some ideas:

1. Keeping a notebook to write down new words you come across is a good idea. However, you should revise  the words you've written down every now and them to make learning effective.
2. Classify the vocabulary into groups according to type of word, meaning, level of difficulty, etc.
   
3. Diagrams can also be a useful tool if visually organising words is helpful for you:
   
4. Writing down expressions, not just words, as you encounter them, will help you associate them in the future. Some words tend to collocate and appear in association with others:
• to and fro
• see you later
• do one's homework
• to make a noise
• to be in the red
• and so on

Email phrases

Description of a process

HOW TO MAKE A SANDWICH

Image by Ricardo Martins -  cc-by-2.0.

by Antía Vázquez
First, the red ham and lettuce and tomato are bought. Then these ingredients are cut. Later, two slices of bread are taken. Then the ingredients are put on a slice of bread. Finally the sandwich is eaten.


SPANISH OMELETTE
by Patricia García
First the potatoes are cut thin. After that they are fried in a frying pan with a lot of oil. While the potatoes are fried, some eggs are mixed. Then all the ingredients are mixed together including some onion and "chorizo". Later they are put in the frying pan and after a few minutes it is turned over. Finally it is put on a tray and served.


SPANISH OMELETTE (second version)
by Silvia Méndez
First, big potatoes are chosen. Then the potatoes are peeled and sliced.  Later, the potatoes are fried; then the eggs and the potatoes are mixed. After that, turn it over and let it fry. Finally, it is served and eaten.

How to Write an Essay (ESO-4)

How to Write an Essay from Tino Grandio

Essay topics eso 4 from Tino Grandio