AMERICAN ENGLISH.PRONUNCIATION AND VOCABULARY

Do you know any typical American English words? For sure, COOKIES or CANDY come to your mind. Now, we are going to check some other differences as far as pronunciation and vocabulary are concerned. 


PARTS OF THE FACE FOR ELT (1º, 2º ESO)

The parts of the face are also very important when describing a person.Watch the following video to complete your description from Creative English



DAILY ROUTINES. What do you usually do? ELT PRESENT SIMPLE AND VOCABULARY


Which things do you do everyday? Which are your favourite?
As you know, to talk about our routines we use the SIMPLE PRESENT (remember, the base form plus "s" for third person singular. Auxiliary verb Do/does for negative and interrogative)
In the following video, you can see some of them and also make a quizz at the end.


 

WHAT ARE YOU WEARING? CLOTHES VOCABULARY

Can you describe the clothes you are wearning at the moment?A good help can be the following worksheet in which there are pictures of some typical clothes:

TIPS TO REMEMBER 

  • WEAR means llevar puesto (I'm wearing a tracksuit)
  • CARRY means llevar, transportar (I'm carrying a school bag)
  • PUT ON means ponerse. TAKE OFF means quitarse
  • GET DRESSED means vestirse. GET UNDRESSED means desvestirse
  • NAKED means WITH NO CLOTHES (desnudo). BAREFOOTED means WITH NO SHOES (descalzo)
  • TO BE DRESSED TO KILL means something like BEING REALLY GORGEOUS: de punta en blanco

  • When describing clothes, don't forget to write adjectives before nouns: A RED SKIRT, A SILK SHIRT (note that materials are also adjectives and don't need preposition in English:  una camisa de seda in Spanish: a silk shirt (CAMISA DE SEDA), or a wool sweatshirt (un jersey de lana)). That is, we never use the prepositon OF.


STORIES WITH SUBTITLES: THE GREATEST TREASURE. ELT LISTENING

Let me present an activty quite interesting for 2nd or 3rd year of ESO. It is watching a story with subtitles. It is called The Greatest Treasure. 
To do this activity, you should listen to the video first without reading the subtitles and get the general idea. Then, you can watch it as many times as you wish. 
Here is a list of words which appear in the story which can be useful to understand it. After listening, you have ot answer the following questions.