What Do You Want For Christmas or "Reyes"?

Xmas Songs

Joni Mitchell — River lyrics

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It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
But it don't snow here
It stays pretty green
I'm going to make a lot of money
Then I'm going to quit this crazy scene
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I made my baby cry

He tried hard to help me
You know, he put me at ease
And he loved me so naughty
Made me weak in the knees
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and I'm sad
Now I've gone and lost the best baby
That I ever had
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I made my baby say goodbye

It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on .

Writing Stories NI1

Writing a story NI1 >>>> You can open FULL SCREEN to read better!

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Transport & Travel

NI1

To revise and extend what we have studied in unit 2C

Click HERE to practice vocabulary and pronunciation

Click HERE and do a listening activity...


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GET GET GET (phrasal verbs)

CULTURAL WEEK in EOI ARUCAS!

Jornadas culturales 2009: PROGRAMA

YES!!! We are having some cultural days at the EOI Arucas and you are all invited to come. Activities will be on Tuesday and Wednesday evening and Thursday morning (17th-19th November). Of course you will be expected to come in your lesson time but you are free to come to any of the other activities - more information at the end of the week.

Meanwhile, you can start getting ready by preparing a cake recipe for the cake competition. Send it to arucaseoi.gmail.com and bring your cake to be judged on Wednesday evening (around 5.30) or Thursday morning (around 11am). Mmmmm - my taste buds are coming alive already!

If cooking isn't your thing, then why not take part in the mini saga competition? Write a story of no more than 50 words and hand it in to your teacher in order to compete. Here are two examples:

Nobody's Perfect

At school he had been no good at maths, but outstanding at writing and reading. But who needs arithmetic? He entered the competition with enthusiasm, and produced a brilliant, witty, profound, and paradoxical story. He was inspired. it was an absolute masterpiece. The judges sighed. Another one with 51 words.

Like Mother, like Son

1955

Dear Mummy

I hate this boarding school. Food awful, prefects bully me.

Please take me home.

Love, David.

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Dear David
Nonsense! Chin up.

Mother

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1997

Dear David
I hate this home. Food awful, nurses treat me like a child.

Fetch me immediately.
Mother

Dear Mother
Nonsense! Chin up.
David
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AIR TRAVEL (NA1)

As these days we are working with air travelling we are going to listen to some people about waht they do while they on board...

Click HERE to do the listening activity.

MONEY MATTERS (NI1)

Kevin talks about being broke (having no money) in New York.
Click HERE and listen to the conversation.

HALLOWEEN

Halloween History and Origin
Halloween is the one of the oldest holidays still celebrated today. It's one of the most popular holidays, second only to Christmas. While millions of people celebrate Halloween without knowing its origins and myths, the history and facts of Halloween make the holiday more fascinating.

Some people view Halloween as a time for fun, putting on costumes, trick-or-treating, and having theme parties. Others view it as a time of superstitions, ghosts, goblins and evil spirits that should be avoided at all costs.

As the Christian debate goes on, celebrating Halloween is a preference that is not always viewed as participating in an evil holiday. Halloween is often celebrated with no reference to pagan rituals or the occult.

The History Halloween
Halloween is on October 31st, the last day of the Celtic calendar. It was originally a pagan holiday, honoring the dead. Halloween was referred to as All Hallows Eve and dates back to over 2000 years ago.

All Hallows Eve is the evening before All Saints Day, which was created by Christians to convert pagans, and is celebrated on November 1st. The Catholic church honored saints on this designated day...

Click here for more information, games, tricks, customes,recipes, etc

Describing people NI1

Click here to find and revise some personality adjectives, with definitions and exercises.

• easygoing
• ambitious
• cheerful
• hardworking
• trustworthy
• impatient
• optimistic
• sensitive
• moody
• sociable
• indecisive
• reserved
• lazy
• attentive
• punctual
• humorous
• modest
• bossy
• intelligent
• impulsive
• considerate
• imaginative
• independent
• selfish
• self-confident
• responsible
• talkative

Practice UNIT 1

NI1
Sports:
To revise unit 1B

Listening

Vocabulary Exercise 1, exercise 2

NA1
General:
Test your skills here

Writing. OPINION ESSAYS

Improve your writing. Activity for Advanced Students of English.
Click below and see explanations with examples on how to write an OPINION ESSAYopiinionessays

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FOOD & RESTAURANTS

Click HERE to listen to a conversation in a restaurant and do the exercise.


Click HERE to revise your vocabulary and pronunciation on FOOD!


More practice here!

Improve your vocabulary learning through MIND MAPS:

Mind Map example>

English Intonation

English Pronunciation

I’M ONLY SLEEPING (The Beatles)

Fill in the gaps with these words. There are three extra words which do not fit anywhere!

ceiling -crazy -dream - feeling - head -heart - seems -speed --tends -world

When I wake up early in the morning, Lift my__1__, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a ___2___/ Stay in bed, float up stream

Please don't wake me, no -don't shake me
Leave me where I am / I'm only sleeping

Everybody___3__ to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're __4__
Running everywhere at such a___5__
Till they find, there's no need

Please don't spoil my day / I'm miles away
And after all / I'm only sleeping

Keeping an eye on the__6__ going by my window
Taking my time

Lying there and staring at the __7__/Waiting for a sleepy feeling

Please don't spoil my day / I'm miles away
And after all / I'm only sleeping

Keeping an eye on the ___6__going by my window
Taking my time

When I wake up early in the morning, Lift my__1__, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a ___2___/ Stay in bed, float up stream

Please don't wake me, no - don't shake me
Leave me where I am / I'm only sleeping

ANSWERS IN COMMENTS

AGATHA CHRISTIE

The Queen of Crime Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She has sold over two billion books worldwide and has been translated into over 45 languages. In a writing career that spanned more than half a century, Agatha Christie wrote eighty novels and short story collections. She also wrote over a dozen plays, including The Mousetrap, which is now the longest running play in theatrical history. Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was the first to feature her eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. One of the most famous fictional creations of all time, Poirot's 'little grey cells' triumphed over some of the most devious criminal minds ever created in crime fiction. Christie’s last published novel, Sleeping Murder, featured her other world-famous sleuth, the shrewdly inquisitive Miss Jane Marple of St. Mary Mead. Miss Marple appears in twelve novels, and twenty short stories; the first novel to feature her was The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930. The Poirot and Marple novels have been widely dramatized in feature films and television movies. Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), And Then There Were None (1945), and Death on the Nile (1978) are a few of the successful films based on her works. Agatha Christie also wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. She also wrote non-fiction; one book Come Tell Me How you Live, describes her archeological travels with her husband Max and the other two are collections of poems, stories and verses, some with a religious theme. She also wrote her Autobiography which she completed in 1976. Although synonymous with crime fiction, the breadth of themes in her novels is quite extraordinary and she deserves her place as one of the best-loved writers of all time.

I could personally recommend you to read one of her thrilling stories this summer or watch one of the films,say...

Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, A Christmas Tragedy; Passenger to Frankfurt; A Murder is Announced, etc, etc **ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HER, HER STORIES, AND FILMS is HERE

And a funny video by Monty Python!

28 disciples and 3 Christs?

A funny video by the Monty Python where the Pope discusses about The Last Supper picture painted by Michelangelo...
Key words:Your Holiness, Renaissance artist, ceiling of the Sixtine Chapel, Statue of David, Florence, it took me hours, kangaroo, disciple, Supper, paint out, Jewish, mother of a blow out, Bible, final snack, the last-but-one =penultimate, mariachi band, Redeemer, bloody photographer, fascist...

You can see another newer version of the same sketch HERE!

DO vs MAKE

do make

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ANOTHER / OTHERS

Typical mistakes:
- Where are the others photos?
The another boy was smaller
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When other is used as an adjective , it cannot have plural form. Others is only used as a pronoun, to mean 'other ones' or 'other people.'
Compare:
-Where are the other photos?
-Have you got any other colours?
-Some metals are magnetic and others aren’t.
-Can you tell the others that I’ll be late?
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*ANOTHER can be used in the sense of ‘an additional’, ‘an extra’.
Can I have another pint of beer, please?
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Another can also be used in this way before a plural expression beginning with a number or few.
--- Another three pints, please.
--- I’ll be away for another few weeks...

SEE MORE:
Other Another
An appropriate song for this post:

RUN LIKE HELL

- Pink Floyd Lyrics

Every All

All & Every

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A Good Turn

A short story called "One good turn", written and read by Misterduncan.

Misterduncan

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READ MY COMMENT

Infinity

End of class is not the end of anything. English is forever, to Infinity...and beyond!
Ok. Let's start our summer revision and continuity with something as simple as this song:


Just two words to be learnt:
FREAK: a person considered abnormal for her/his behaviour, appearance or ideas.
TRUST: believe.

Without YOU

Love... tell me,
Why do your candles light the longest?
Your guitar keeps weeping in me ...


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I Am The Sea !!

- Waterboys Lyrics

What does your ring tone say about you?

Click HERE to listen while you read
Ring Tones

Publish at Scribd or explore others: School Work Business & Economics Books Non-fiction money sales

Now...Do a QUIZ about text messages.
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FINAL TEST ideas

Exam Tips

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TRY THIS LISTENING!

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IMPROVE YOUR PRONUNCIATION

Listen to this story, step by step,as you read and repeat to improve your English pronunciation.


SEE MORE HERE!

MARYLIN MONROE- An Icon of our Time...

Let's visit the post in Saro's Blog about Marylin Monroe and do the Reading activity to practise for the Final Test!
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GORGEOUS!
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I just hope Marta knows who this woman is...

READING Tests

Read and learn while you fill in the gaps in these two activities.

(1) National Heroes.

(2) American History.

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QUOTES FOR THIS WEEK

He is able who thinks he is able.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best One knows.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

Advantages & disadvantages Composition

As we know, it is quite probable that we will have to write an essay of this type when we take our Final Test. So this post will help you improve what we have already seen in class:
For & Against articles...(click)



Only two weeks two go!
... Countdown (5,4,3,2...)
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DESIRE - Buddha Bar

Desire

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Open full screen to see sweet... exquisite images.

Time (song)

A song to remember for ever. Quite convenient for this moment of my life... Sent by My Brother from Heaven via You tube-
Easy activity in which all you have to do is listen for pleasure, read the lyrics and guess themissing words. Answers at the end of the slides show.
I suggest you open full screen to see the beautiful images...

Time

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Help Yourself

Lyrics | Amy Winehouse Lyrics | Help Yourself Lyrics

Any comments? Add:

LISTENING test INTERMEDIATE

Click Here to do a listening activity
about an intelligent dog going to
the theatre...


Test your level on the four language skills
INTERMEDIATE level.
Any comments? Add:

LISTENING test ADVANCED

Click HERE and do a listening comprehension activity, filling gaps, about the use of mobile phones while driving.


Test your Level on the four language skills
+ ADVANCED level

Any comments? Add:

Have A Cigar (Pink Floyd)

I Am the Walrus (Beatles III)

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SEE THE BEATLES SINGING THIS SONG HERE
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Any comments? Add:

NA1 Grammar &Vocabulary Unit 5

REVISION & EXTENSION UNIT 5

Na1 Unit 5 Revision

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TEST YOUR LEVEL OF ENGLISH today

How good is your English level?
What's your domain of the four language skills? Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing...? Are you ready to go a step forward and study a higher level next year...?
.-Do the European Portfolio Self Assessment Test...
..........................................and find out!

+ ADVANCED level students
+ INTERMEDIATE level students.