I love chocolate…

19 12 2009

and Cadbury’s is among my favourites. Click on the caption and watch  very very sweet video.

Cadbury, The Guardin





Verb patterns

12 11 2009

A colleague from school has given me a very useful handout to work with verbs that are followed by the infinitive, the gerund or both.  Thank you, Reyes.

You can print it if you want and you can also so the online exercises suggested.





The Essence of Britishness

10 11 2009

I’m sure you have found out lots of things about Britons and I’m sure you want to learn more.

You can find the lesson in ELLA (English Language Lab Asturias) along with other useful activities.

If you want to do “The Essence of Britishness” again, click here.

Don’t forget to visit ELLA from time to time. Hope you enjoy it!





How to become a contributor

7 11 2009

One of my burning ambitions for this year is that you become a regular contributor to Bloggin’ Time. Last Thursday I gave you a copy with instructions to follow to do so. You can access to them and you can keep them in your computer.

Click here if you don’t have an email account.

Click here for the instructions to become a contributor.





Your greatest achievements.

2 11 2009

Tomorrow we will start our lesson by listening to your greatest achievements. Don’t forget!





ELLA is back!

28 10 2009

There are new units in ELLA (English Language Lab Asturias) for you to do online. The units cover the three levels taught at schools of languages.

Have a go! Try them and enjoy English. There are lots of activities and lots more are coming. I’m sure you’ll find them useful.

English Language Lab Asturias

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New links

19 10 2009

I’ve just added to new links to the blogroll. One of them belongs to a teacher at out school (Ana Arrondo) and the other one contains internet resources, reviews, news and trivia both for learnesrs and students of English. It is called The English Blog.

I hope you find them useful. :)





Swine Flu

8 10 2009

So many recommendations! Swine Flu seems to be the main conversation topic these days. Everywhere you go, there are people who know of someone who has had it or who is afraid of having it. Thanks to Linda, who told me about this video, we could see that swine flu is a global worry.

If you want to watch the video again and check for vocabulary and pronunciation, here you are.