AN ADVENT CALENDAR ABOUT BRITAIN

CLICK on the picture below and you will know a lot about Christmas traditions in Britain.

Shannon's Thanksgiving Day

Hi everyone! I want to start by saying that I miss all of you very much! It has been almost 6 months since I left Spain and I think about it every day. Last year I talked about my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was last week, on November 22nd and I have some photos to show you of how my family and I spent Thanksgiving. I went shopping the day before Thanksgiving to get all of the food. My mom and aunts cooked on Thanksgiving and my dad carved our turkey. We had a small Thanksgiving this year, only 12 people, but normally we have many more. We ate a lot of food and then watched some football games. My uncles love football. The women in my family don't like to watch football so they sit and talk. It was a fun day but we were all very tired at the end. I want to make another blog after Christmas so you can all see how we celebrate Christmas in America and I am very excited because my brother will come home for Christmas.                                      Shannon

Thanksgiving on PhotoPeach

DUMB WAYS TO DIE by Tangerine Kitty

PRESENT SIMPLE & CONTINUOUS

Present simple or present continuous? on PhotoPeach

GAMES TO PRACTICE PRESENT TENSES HERE

SPIDER'S WEB

A great video recorded by María González, a teacher at P.U.A. Primary school for Halloween.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

HALLOWEEN: Symbols & Traditions on PhotoPeach



Halloween QUIZ on PhotoPeach



More games and quizzes HERE

Our new assistant teacher.

Today, October 23rd I have met our new assistant teacher. His name is Steven and he has just arrived to Seville. He flew from California to Seville one day ago!. I don't know many things about him yet but he told me that he is from San Diego in Califonia, the west coast of USA. He wants to learn Spanish and he is going to help you with your English. This first week you can ask him more things about his life back in his country.

WELCOME STEVEN!!! TO SEVILLE AND TO OUR SCHOOL!

FIX IT by Coldplay

GOAL!!!!!!!!!!

If you are fond of soccer you can learn English reading this comic and doing the activities HERE

WE LOVE PUBLIC EDUCATION!!

#Marea Verde San José de la Rinconada SEVILLA on PhotoPeach

GIVE EARTH A HAND!!!

HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!

T-shirt Day at IES Carmen Laffón

T-shirt Day is here!!!!

As you already know, you have to wear a T-shirt, you will probably have at home, with a sentence or some words in English. We will comment them in class and decide which one we like best!!! I hope you enjoy this activity as we did last year. 

GET YOUR T-SHIRTS READY FOR NEXT THURSDAY!

Marina visited Wellington, New Zealand.

I visited Wellington in New Zealand. It is the capital city of New Zealand, it is in the North Island.

The legend says the city was explored on the 10th century. The city receives its name in honor of Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington and the winner of Waterloo battle.

Wellington has an oceanic climate: mild and humid throughout the year, the rainiest season is Winter.

There are 410.000 inhabitants in Wellington but it is not the  biggest city in New Zealand, it is Auckland.

People play many sports there, but mainly rugby and soccer. 
                                        Marina Guzmán Gasent

YOUR LIMERICKS

I know, it has been a long time since you sent me your limericks but... better late than never!!!

I have chosen two poems among the ones you sent to me. I think both are very good and they have some things in common: sport and girls! Here you are:

          THERE WAS A PRETTY YOUNG GIRL

          WHO LOVED PLAYING FOOTBALL AND VOLLEY.

          ONE DAY SHE FELL AND HURT HER LEG.

          SHE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL AND TOLD THE NURSE.

          THE NURSE TRIED TO UNDERSTAND BUT.. SHE WAS SO YOUNG!!
                                                     by Teresa Limones

             
             THERE WAS A YOUNG WOMAN ON THE BEACH

           LOOKING AT SOME YOUNG PEOPLE PLAY A MATCH,

           THE SUN WAS VERY BRIGHT

           AND THERE WAS PLENTY OF LIGHT

           THEN THE WOMAN FELL ASLEEP ON THE BEACH.

                                       by Andrea Nieto

                       Congratulations Teresa and Andrea!!!!

Closed due to illness!

As you may know by now, I have a very sore throat and I have to stay at home without speaking (which is very hard for me as you may know!!!),
I hope I will be back next Monday.  Meanwhile I leave you a lively song by Jamie McDell, a singer from New Zealand,  to sing this weekend. See you soon!

A new teacher from the USA

Yesterday April 25th, Shannon's mum came to visit us. As she is a teacher of Spanish back there in New Hampshire, she was our teacher yesterday and she told us about her life, her job, her students and she answered all our questions very kindly. There are many differences between her school and ours but she said she liked Seville very much. THANKS MAUREEN, COME BACK AGAIN!!!! We wanted a photo with Shannon and her mother!!!

Pablo's Glog about Leonardo da Vinci

Van Gogh's glog by Carlos Santos

The London Olympic Games

London 2012: tha facts and figures.

More about London Olympic Games.

SUMMER ENGLISH

All the information HERE

HAPPY EASTER!!!

As you know, there are different customs in other countries for Easter holidays. In some English speaking countries, especially United States, children love Egg hunt on Easter Sundays.
You can find a lot of information about it HERE.

A Photopeach about Easter traditions

World Poetry Day 2012

Today March, 21st is the first day of a new season: Spring, but it is also the World Poetry Day. The idea is to promote the reading, teaching, publishing and writing of poems.
Poems are like music because of the rhythm and the rhyme. Look and listen this example:
IF (a popular poem in English) by Rudyard Kipling.


You can listen to more poems HERE. It is an interesting project called FAVOURITE POEM PROJECT where people record videos talking about their lives and read his/her favourite poem. (I recommend you "I'm nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson)

Some old popular short poems in English are called LIMERICKS. They were often used in Nursery Rhymes. Can you tell me how to write a limerick?



Are you ready to write a poem, maybe a limerick? Come on!!! I will put them in the blog and there is a prize waiting for the best one!!!!

SIMPLE PAST

You can practice Simple Past Tense HERE

Welcome to Seville!!! a new glog by Ale Baños

Stonehenge

You have information about it HERE

WELCOME TO LONDON by Rocio

Welcome to Seville!!! a new glog by Sara

MUSIC IS THE RHYTHM OF LIFE!!

Welcome to Seville!!! a new glog by Carlos

SOMEONE LIKE YOU by Adele

Adele won six Grammy awards some days ago. She is a wonderful singer who has recovered her voice. This is the song some of my students chose as their favourite one. I hope you like it.



You cand find the official GRAMMY AWARDS WEBPAGE here

St. Valentine's Day

There are many activities about St Valentine's Day HERE

SHE'S LEAVING HOME by The Beatles

A GLOG (an example)

This is a fantastic glog I found about owls (click HERE). Have a look and see what you can do with Glogster.

PRESENT SIMPLE or PRESENT CONTINOUS or PROGRESSIVE?

You can find details about these two verb tenses and a lot of exercises HERE

PRESENT TENSES GAMES

You can play a game in another blog

SIMPLE PRESENT or PRESENT CONTINOUS

Present simple or present continuous? on PhotoPeach

What are they doing?

PRESENT CONTINUOUS or PROGRESSIVE

More practice: PRESENT CONT.

More exercises HERE

THRILLER by Michael Jackson

Can you guess who sent me this song?