Listening: at the airport

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening-skills-practice/travelling-abroad

Grammar: present present

PRESENT PERFECT.

PRACTISE THE PRESENT PERFECT

PRESENT PERFECT VS PAST SIMPLE


http://www.autoenglish.org/gr.perf.i.htm

IRREGULAR VERBS PRACTISE

Culture me: History of Halloween

Video: origins of halloween

https://create.kahoot.it/#quiz/60d2d6c7-4d34-4166-af23-852975b5abcd


A spooky story (grammar exercise)

Biographies

Jay-Z

"I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. "

"Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I grew up in rap and movies the same way. "


One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor. 
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jayz.html
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jayz.html

biographies

http://www.famouspeoplelessons.com/f/50_cent.mp3

http://www.famouspeoplelessons.com/s/shakira.html

Preparing oral presentations

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/speaking-exams/oral-presentation

http://www.edutopia.org/practice/public-speaking-oracy-skills-real-world

European day of languages

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/37dec0dc-9312-41a3-8b36-642f9cbca795

European day of languages

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/37dec0dc-9312-41a3-8b36-642f9cbca795

practice at home

Here you will find useful links to do exercises at home.

https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/preint/?cc=global&selLanguage=en

https://www.youtube.com/user/EnglishLessons4U

The polyglot

Tim Doner’s Language Method

(Adapted from: http://languagefan.com/timdoner/,  Christopher Huff    April 17, 2014)

As “the world’s youngest polyglot,” Tim Doner has the attention of many language learners and admirers who want to know how he achieved what he has.

A polyglot is a person who learns and uses five or more languages. Tim can speak 23 languages!

He was born in New York in 1995 and when he was 17 he published his first youtube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/polyglotpal

What is his secret? Is he a genius? Tim Doner’s language-learning method includes several ideas:

Imitation
First, Tim is very entertaining when he speaks another language. Tim used to be a child actor, he likes to imitate accents. Doing this helps him to improve his pronunciation.

Vocabulary and Grammar.

Tim loves lists of vocabulary. He uses several flashcards applications and games to help him memorise the new words. He can learn new vocabulary with pictures.

In addition, when he learns a new vocabulary item, he learns two more that sound similar.

Finally, grammar is important, too. Tim says if you’re just aiming to travel abroad  and be like a tourist, grammar is unnecessary. But for him, grammar  is a formula into which different vocabulary can fit.

Music, TV and Exposure

Tim mentions the importance of exposure. “All it takes” for a good accent, he recommends, “is a lot of dedication and practice and listening.”, for example in songs and films.

Tim cites the following benefits of watching TV in another language:

1. You will hear a native rate of speech,
2. often a more colloquial register,
3. which trains you to comprehend more
4. while having fun!

But don’t limit yourself to TV, Tim says, just make sure of one thing: “it has to be constant, 24/7 exposure. Anything on the Internet, YouTube bloggers, newspapers, music, whatever comes to mind…”

Motivation

Finally, Tim has a great motivation to study languages beacuse he is also interested in history, political science, and cultural diversity of languages.

In the end, Tim sums up his motivation with a quote from Nelson Mandela: “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart”

More:

THE FULL LIST OF 23 LANGUAGES English    French Hausa   Wolof Russian   German Yiddish  Hebrew Mandarin

Turkish Indonesian  Dutch Swahili Hindi    Ojibwe Persian  Croatian Spanish Arabic     Pashto Farsi   Italian

Other famous polyglots. ·     Luís Figo, retired footballer. He is fluent in five languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian and French. ·     Clarence Seedorf, retired footballer and  former manager of A.C. Milan. Seedorf speaks six languages fluently:Dutch, English Italian,Portuguese, Spanish and Surinamese. ·     Viggo Mortensen, Danish actor. He speaks fluent English, Danish, and Spanish, is conversational in French and Italian, and understands Norwegian and Swedish. and also has some knowledge of Catalan. ·     Ramona Irgolic, singer, songwriter, world traveler and model. As she has a good ear, Ramona taught herself several languages. She is fluent in English, German, Slovenian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and Croatian. She is currently learning Serbian, Indonesian,Sundanese ,Malay, Dutch and understands Russian, Czech, Slovak, Polish among some more.

Questions:

What is a polyglot?

How many languages can Tim speak?

What are the 4 points of his method? Make a summary.

Do you consider him a genius? Why?

MORE:

FREE APPS TO LEARN VOCABULARY

VOCABULARY APPS

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The best museums in the world

According to the travelers, this is the list of the most important museums around the world.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/13/travel/tripadvisor-worlds-best-museums-2016/



ACTIVITY:

CHOOSE TWO MUSEUMS AND FIND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

1.- Where is the museum?
2.- How much is the ticket? Any special price for students?
3.-When does it open?
4.- Is there a special exhibition these month?
5.- Would you like to visit it? why?

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