Types of houses

Types of Houses

Review the types of houses. Play the kahoot games below!

 Let's play!

Kahoot: Types of houses

Kahoot: Types and Rooms of House(s)

Types of houses 3

Rivers

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The Future (All)

 Future Perfect and Future Continuous

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Future Perfect and Future Perfect continuous

  

Past Simple or Past continuous

 In the following sentences change the verbs into their corresponding past tenses.

1.    John visits his parents every week.
2.    The wind blows furiously.
3.    The boy is eating around the table.
4.    She looks beautiful.
5.    She sings very well indeed.
6.    The woman sees the man. 
7.    He doesn't like his teacher.
8.    He is upset. 
9.    A portrait of Abraham Lincoln hangs on the wall.
10.    He is wearing a blue t-shirt and black trousers.
11.    The boy runs down the street at top speed.
12.    The books are on the floor.
13.    She puts her books on the table.
14.    They say good bye.
15.    The man tells a lie in order to escape punishment.
16.    I like how the writer writes.

17.    The kite flies into the air.
18.    They are best friends. 
19.    In a flash, she runs up the stairs.
20.    I know him from my school.

FCE Speaking Parts

 Part 2 Describe Pictures

Describing and Comparing:

• You can see...
• Both pictures show...
• However, the first picture shows...
• In the other picture

Giving your opinion:

• They seem...
• It looks like...
• They could be...
• I think..
• They are probably... 

Part 3 Speaking

Useful Language:

Rose during Co-Vid

    

 On 14th March 2020, the Spanish government declared a national lock-down. Physical buildings were closed and labour moved to the virtual world. My worst fear became my new normal. How did I cope? In this blog, I am going to share my experience as a language assistant and ESL teacher living in Spain during a global pandemic.

Facing My Fear

   

At the start of the lock-down, my assigned school commissioned its language assistants to create resources for the students. The working hours were 16, however, they could be completed at one's pace. That's a good thing. An advantage from this bad situation. However, it marked the manifestation of one of my worst fears. The first week of resource creation went well. Then the second, third , etc. weeks came and I felt my teaching soul being sucked from my body by this pandemic dementor. The routine wore me down and I felt as if I was chained to a desk and a slave to my laptop. 

The breaker of chains came when I decided to mention to my bilingual coordinator, the creation of a website where the assistants could include resources. This website would give students AND teachers unlimited access to its contents. The creation of a website (garcialorca.blogspot.com) helped to change the momentum as it involved creating videos and audios for the students. This added a little pep in my step. The best parts of virtual classes were the creation of videos and speaking to the students using Jitsi meet.

The Teaching World with Masks

The end of the state of emergency and the return to the physical buildings came with its challenges. Teachers and language assistants, armed with two face masks, disinfectant spray, paper towels and hand sanitising gels, had to go to the drawing boards to think about non-contact interactive activities. 

  

 At my assigned school, I collaborate with 6th grade and help with the preparation for the external exams, A2 KEY and B1 Preliminary for Schools. The current situation calls for the maintenance of  2 metres of distance and the prohibition of sharing. As a result, I use a tablet and a website where I put the lessons and its activities for the students. The students use tablets instead of books. Kahoot, islcollective video lessons and esl live worksheets have become my friends.These web-tools have been helping me to create interactive activities for the students. 

Also, my team and I decorated the doors of the school with winter themed decorations. Couple weeks later the community of  Madrid got one of its heaviest snowfall in history. I wonder if the decorations had anything to do with it!

 

Also, as a part time teacher of ESL, I have developed a website (rayofrose.blogspot.com) where I add resources and materials for the students. I try my best to include digital materials in my lessons. For the younger students, I laminate and sanitise the flashcards and materials so that they are able to touch and interact with them. 

  💛  The pandemic has not diminished interaction in the esl teaching and learning world, rather it has changed the manner in which we interact. Now, we interact in the virtual world and with precaution.💛

How has this pandemic affected your teaching and learning lives? Share your experience in the comments section below. 

Videos Grammar

 

Find the differences FLYERS

Describe the pictures

Asking Questions

Find the differences

Listening Practice PET

 Part 1

Part 1 audio

Part 2 

Part 2 audio

Material for Parts 1 & 2

Part 3

Part 3 audio & activity

Part 4

Part 4 audio & activity

Part 5

Part 5 audio & activity

Part 6

Part 6 audio & activity

Part 7

Part 7 audio & activity

Part 8

Part 8 audio & activity

FCE Part 9

Part 9 audio & activity

FCE Part 10

Part 10 audio & activity

Part 11 

Part 11 audio & activity

Part 12

Part 12 audio & activity

Part 13 

13 audio & activity

Grade 6: Review of Unit 4

Questions about Animals:

Choose a colour: RED or YELLOW

Ask a friend one of the questions highlighted in the colour that you have chosen.

1. What is your favourite animal and why?
2. What wild animals can you see in your country? Which is the largest?
3. Why do people have pets?
4. Do you have a pet? Why or why not?
5. Do you think it is okay for people to keep animals like lizards and snakes as pets?
6. Why do humans have ?
7. Where is the best place to see animals in your country?

Phrasal Verbs

Match the phrasal verbs (1-8) to their meanings (a-h).       

1. Get on
2. Let someone down 
3. Put someone down 
4. Break up
5. Ask someone out 
6. Make up 
7. Hang out 
8. Look up to someone: 

a. spend time relaxing
b. disappoint someone
c. Invite on a date
d. Have respect for
e. Stop being a girl or boy friend
f. Like, be friends
g. Forgive each other
h. Be critical of someone

Present Perfect Simple and Continuous

How do you form the Present perfect simple?

How do you form the present perfect continuous?

  Let's watch the video below twice. 

For the first viewing, we watch it in 'watch video without quiz' mode.

For the second viewing, we watch it in 'interactive quiz' mode and answer the questions.

Relative Clauses

We use relative pronouns in relative clauses. 

Can you tell me some relative pronouns and their uses?

For example: 

Who -     for people.

Let's play a game with relative clauses. Click the slide below.

Picture Story

  Today we are going to practise telling stories using pictures.

 Step 1: 

Look at the pictures and think about the words that you know for the things you can see.

Step 2:

Look at the things that are the same and the things that are different. 

Step 3:

Look at the people: how are they feeling in each picture?

Step 4:

Add time words such as one day, once upon a time, then, etc. 

Here are some to help you:

Step 5:

We use the past simple to describe the actions in each picture.

0 1 2 3 Conditional Exercises

First	Second	Third
use for future situations that are possible, likely, or expected	use for future situations that are impossible, unlikely, or hypothetical	use to reflect on the past
If it rains tomorrow, I will stay home and read.	If it snowed in July, I would be very surprised.	If I had been late for work today, my boss would have fired me.
if + present, will + infinitive	if + past, would + infinitive	if + past perfect, would have + past participle

Activity 1

Activity 2 

Activity 3

Activity 4

Game

Conditional Online exercises

Conditional Tense

Activities:

There are 3 tasks. Do all of them.

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Past Simple explanation

 Past Simple Irregular verbs MATCH

Baby! Not A Monkey!

A woman got on a bus, holding a baby.

The bus driver said, “That’s the ugliest baby I’ve ever seen.”

In a huff, the woman slammed her fare into the fare box and took an aisle

seat near the rear of the bus.

The man seated next to her sensed that she was agitated and asked her what

was wrong.

“The bus driver insulted me,” she fumed.

The man sympathized and said, “Why, he’s a public servant and shouldn’t say

things to insult passengers.”

“You’re right,” she said. “I think I’ll go back up there and give him a piece of my mind.” “That’s a good idea,” the man said. “Here, let me hold your monkey.”

What's the meaning?

1. huff

2. slammed

3. fare

4. fare box

5. aisle

6. rear

7. sensed

8. agitated

9. insulted

10. fumed

11. sympathized

Pronunciation Practice

1 got on a bus

2 the ugliest baby

3 in a huff

4 slammed

5 took an aisle seat

6 sensed

7 agitated

8 insulted

9 fumed

10 sympathized

11 passengers

12 go back up there

13 piece of my mind

14 good idea

Questions:

1. What was the woman holding when she got on the bus?

2. What did the driver say to her baby?

3. What did the man who was sitting next to the

woman think of her baby?

Weather Forecast

 

While we were sailing, my friend tuned in to listen to the weather forecast on a local radio station. Over the airwaves, there was a pause and an audible shuffling of papers, followed by a voice saying, “I’m sorry, I can’t find the forecast, but let me look out of the window--Oh! it’s a lovely drying day.”

What’s the Meaning ...

 1. sailing

2. tuned in

3. weather forecast

4. local

5. radio station

6. airwaves

7. pause

8. audible

9. shuffling

10. lovely

Pronunciation Practice

1 tuned in

2 weather forecast

3 radio station

4 airwaves

5 audible

6 shuffling of papers

7 look out of the window

Questions:

1. What were the writer and his friend doing?

2. What were they listening to?

3. Did the radio announcer have a problem

with the forecast? What happened?

Book Sale

“I may want to read it again one day” is the reason why my husband keeps every book he reads. Over 25 years most of them, never opened again after the first reading, have accumulated in our cellar. One day, however, thinking he’d never notice their absence, I donated most of them to a charity book sale. As I stood admiring the empty cellar, I heard Frank call to me, “I’m home early so I can get to the book sale before it closes.”

While he was gone, I prepared for the worst. But when he arrived home empty- handed, I asked him if there had been any books that interested him.

“Yes, there were lots of good ones,” he replied, “but I’ve got them all,”

What’s the Meaning ...

 1. accumulated

2. cellar

3. however

4. donated

5. charity

6. sale

7. admiring

8. empty- handed

Pronunciation Practice

1 reason

2 accumulated

3 cellar

4 absence

5 donated

6 charity

7 admiring

8 worst

9 empty- handed

10 lots of good ones

Questions

1. What does the writer’s husband do to every book he reads?

2. What did she do with the books one day?

3. What did her husband say when he came home from the charity book sale?