V Premios Sociedad de la Información

This blog, ESL Bloggers, has been selected as one of the finalists in the fifth edition of the awards : "Premios de la Sociedad de la Informacion". Our blog takes part in the category: Best Public Initiative of e-Education.
The names of the winners will be known during the ceremony which will be held on 11th of November, 2009, at "Universidad Loboral" Theatre in Gijón.
Regardles the final result of the contest, it has been an honour to have been nominated and then selected as one of the finalists.
I would like to thank the organisers for this initiative, which contributes greatly to the develpment of communication, education and business through the so called New Technologies.
My most since thanks to CTIC foundation and the Government of the Principality of Asturias for organising and promoting this important contest.

If you click on the logo below, you'll find further information, such as the names of all the finalists in the different categories, as well as links to all the websites and blogs.

Once Upon a Time in America

The following set of activities was designed for my intermediate level students at E.O.I. Aviles. While some of the tasks are quite easy, others are more challenging. As all of you have guessed by now, they are dedicated to the U.S.A. You can improve your English as well as your knowledge of the States at the same time.
Come on! Have a go! You don´t have to do all the exercises or follow a fixed order, you can pick up the ones you feel like doing from the index. I encourage you to try and do all of them, though.

and start a journey to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean!

Unit 1- Exercises

Click on the title below and do the exercises:

Where are these people from?

Where are they from?

Countries and Nationalities

Learn the Alphabet with Ray Charles

Shall we learn the Alpabet in English?

Some of you have just started leaning English, others may need to revise what you already know and for the rest of us, it will always be a pleasure to enjoy this cute song performed by the one and only Ray Charles.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G

H, I, J, K

L, M, N, O, P

Q, R, S,T, U, V

W, X, Y and Z

Now I've said my ABC's

Won't you sing along with me?

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Now I know my ABC's

Next time won't you sing with me?

if you are ready for some spelling practice.

Scaring away.

This video has nothing to do with learning English but it's so funny I just couldn't resist showing it to you.
Have a good laugh!
It can give you some ideas for Halloween.



Do you feel like playing some Halloween games? Click on the words and pumpkins below if you aren't too scared.

Phonetic Symbols.

If you have always thought that understanding phonetic symbols is just too difficult for you, don't despair. It just takes some practice to get used to them but they can be very useful to help you improve your pronunciation.

Vowels :

Study the chart of .

Move the mouse over the symbols and examples to hear them.

Consonants :

If you want to do some activities to practise phonetic symbols
and sounds in English

Videos from ESL Tower.com

Beginners ; Starting out.

Hi! How're you doing?
My name is Mª Jesús and I’m you new English teacher.
What's your name?

Here you are, ready to start learning a new language and here I am , ready to do my best to help you reach your goal.
I'm not going to tell you it'll be easy, it will require patience and effort but , step by step, your English will improve and you will find out that you can have fun as well as you learn.

Come on! Let's start from scratch.

We are going to practise how to greet people and introduce ourselves with the following activities:

• Dialogue
  
• Watch the videos and then fill in the gaps.
• Match the texts and the videos.
• Uses of the verb to be, the personal pronouns and possessive adjectives.

Now let's practise with numbers:

• Learn the numbers.
• Listen to the numbers.
• Write the numbers that you hear.
• Number quizz.
  

You can find more exercises with numbers in the section called Kids.

Sean Conery is Bond, James Bond.

I can't think of anyone better than James Bond to teach you how to introduce yourselves. He's the best, so ... pay attention, specially you, guys. You could lean one or two things from him. He can show you how to be classy, attractive and cool, real cool.
And you shouldn't miss that nice British accent of his. I love it!

Watch this video and see how James Bond introduces himself.

'What's his name? Who is he?'
'His name's Bond, James Bond.' ( Who else could he be? )

By the way ... do you like James Bond films? Who's the best James Bond ever? Do you prefer Sean Conery or Pierce Brosnan , or any of the others?
Why don't you send me a comment with your answers to these questions? I'd like to know your opinions.