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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Using “advanced” structures

26 10 2009

We are advanced students of English, aren’t we?  Then, let’s show it!

It is by using a wide variety of structures and vocabulary that we show our command of a language, and the best way to show that we have an advanced level of English is by using advanced structures.

If you want to do some revision on Passive Voice, have a look at what we have done in our lesson today.





Protected: Some more exercises

26 10 2009

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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.





Back to school again!

1 10 2009

Yes, we’re back to school again.

Welcome to this new course which, hopefully, would be your last one.

Today we start another new experience. We are meeting new people and we are anxious about it. At least, I am!

I hope you join this blog and you enjoy the blogging experience. I would like it to be another meeting point outside the classroom, one in which we will share lots of things. If you are new, I would like you to take a “virtual walk” and “dive” into it and see if you find anything that suits your needs as a student of English.

Some of the articles in the blog are by the students I taught last year. I hope you also contribute to the blog not only writing articles, but also suggesting links you think could be useful for all of us as they did last year. Without your contributions, nothing would be the same.

See you!  ;)





Thank you very much

28 05 2009

Just a note to let you know that it has been a pleasure for me to be your teacher. The last year is supposed to be the most demanding and you have been great students. If I have taught you some English, even just a bit, I have done my job. But, I just want you to know that I have learnt a lot from you. Some of you are, perhaps, a bit disappointed because you were expecting something different in your English lessons.I apologise if that is the case.

Just a last piece of advice: NEVER GIVE UP. Don’t think of English as something impossible for you. If you have reached this point, you can go further and further. Take advantage of all the opportunities that are available to go on improving your English. Read and listen to as much English as you can and, if you feel like writing send your ideas to our blog. I won’t be adding things to it for a time, but when the next year starts you can take part in it as well, even if you are no longer “my students”.
Thank you again because the enthusiasm you showed in the lessons encouraged me to go on with my job as a teacher. You have been so patient!

I hope you do well in your finals!





The importance of music in films nowadays

27 05 2009

It’s said that music and sound efects have always been an essential part in movies… But I think we still don’t know how much. To show this, I’ve looked for this video in youtube. It’s a modified trailer to Disney’s Mary Poppins. Same images, different music… Different film

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