Language exchanges

Hello again!

Now that we're doing the orals some of you feel the need to practise more, but don't really know how to. Please have a look at this post from EOI Guía, where they suggest lots of pages offering exchanges.

Another alternative is to try and make a little conversation group yourselves. Why don't you meet for a drink once a week after class? Just for fun! Even if there isn't a teacher there to correct your mistakes, you can still help each other, like we do in class. In any case, you'll be working on your fluency and losing that "stage fright" you seem to have... besides, you'll be making friends! If you are up to it, I can create a conversation group in our Facebook and you can start from there... Give it a try!

A third suggestion, watch this video giving you some ideas on how to make conversation with a stranger. It might be of help if you're trying to talk to strangers. You never know! In any case, it's good listening practice!

Frequent Mistakes

Here you have a list of the most important mistakes I've detected at the correction of your writings. If you work on them, I'm sure you'll never have problems again with these items. I hope they're useful for you. See you soon!

More Quantifiers

You can work more activities about quantifiers, besides you can find more activities in the site:AGENDA WEB and in the Grammar Tip there is an explanation about it.

Electing a US President

Here you can see again the video we watched yesterday, "Electing a US President in Plain English" . It's taken from The Commoncraft Show. If you want to read the transcript of the video, you can find it here.

Few or a Few?

If you still have problems with few/a few, or little/a little, you should check this article taken from the blog called English as a Second Language.

At the bottom of the same article you can find some online activities that will help you to improve your grammar knowledge.

Good luck everybody!

Videos and Lyrics

Songs are a uselful tool for the teaching and learning of foreign languages. With them you can learn and practise grammar, vocabulary, expressions, and so on.

Some weeks ago, Tania sent me this link. Here you can see musical videos and the lyrics of the song at the same time. Enjoy it!

Passive Voice

Here you have a wide explanation of passive voice taken from English Grammar Online 4U. If you want to do some online activities this is your link.