Tips for a better course start

Check these three documents brought to you thanks to the incredible work of Luke Palder. In here you have tips to improve your writing, skills and methods when learning English.


This guide shows you how by only following these 23 steps you will produce more effective and correct writings.

The next document is aimed at you only in case you are a beginning student. Here you will find some important points, perhaps, you hadn't previously thought of  in your English learning process.

The four skills for a language user are: Speaking, Writing, Listening and Reading. Are you interested in practising and improving them? Then, have a go on the following guide:

Video & Quiz. Present tenses contrast.

I hope that watching this video and taking the corresponding quiz will help you fully understand the "difficult" topic we are mainly dealing with this unit. Pay attention to the uses of both tenses in situations of real life.

Unit 2. Present Continuous / Simple

This document will help you to revise and to understand better what is the main grammatical topic in this unit. Download it or just go to the full-screen mode in order to check it:

Watch this presentation in order to distinguish with clearer examples between the different uses that this tenses have:

Now, you can practice what seen before by following the links below:

http://speakspeak.com/a/html/d3a001_grammar_beginners_present_simple_continuous.htm
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_present_progressive2.htm
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/simcon1.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro
http://www.inglestotal.com/present-simple-and-present-continuous-diferencias-y-ejercicios/
http://www.autoenglish.org/gr.prescon.i.htm
http://madridteacher.com/Grammar/activities/pres-cont-paul.htm
http://theenglishyouneedblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/present-continuous-listening-game.html

I Would Like to Buy a Hamburger...

Teaching English is never easy:

Many of you might feel identified with such situation, that's why I propose you search the net for videos in which comic situations connected with the hard task of teaching - learning of English take place.
This is your first chance in this course to gain a positive point for first term, and the ten funniest videos will be shown to all three 2nd ESO (groups A, D, E) and 4th ESO (D) in a special lesson the next 20th of October in the examination room.
Have fun and send as many videos as you like.
("Don't quit, we never quit, again, again!!")

Unit 1. Present Simple

Here you have notes to download, a presentation and easy-to-do exercises in order to extend and consolidate everything about present simple tense seen in this first unit. I'm waiting for your comments to clarify any doubts that may arise.

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-present/use/exercises?05
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/curso/lesson02/06.html
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/curso/lesson02/07.html
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/simple-present-exercises.html
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-present/form/exercises
http://esl.about.com/library/beginner/bl_bgpressimple.htm

The Present Simple

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The First Monday...

                                   

The very first day in this new course is Monday; that's why I recommend you listen to this Wilco song, just to start it with new energy and to have the chance "to make as many mistakes as you want".

You also know that the starting of the course has always a common part in all subjects, which is the diagnostic test. From this blog we are always trying to work autonomously, so here you have a list of links from which you can test your English and have an idea about how your English is like in the beginning of the course. Don't get too high or too low by your results and bear in mind that there is always room for improvement or worsening, it's all up to you.

The best of the lucks in this new course!

http://www.cambridgeesol.org/test-your-english/index.php/index.php?page=survey&surveyID=4

http://www.stratfordschool.com/english/test.html

http://www.world-english.org/test.htm

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests

http://www.angelfire.com/on/topfen/tests.html