Idioms

Vocabulary about the house

On this post we are going to learn vocabulary about home:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:This_Old_House.jpg

Here you have activities.
More activities.

1. I will describe a house and you have to draw this house.

The Christmas Story

100 cheesiest movies quotes of all time

Present continuous videos

In this entry you have several videos to see how and when you can use present continuous.

Introduce yourself

See these videos and make your own introduction:

Female musicians

Video games

Do you like video games?
What is your favorite video game?
Complete the senteces with these verbs: fly, ride, play, fight, help, travell, drive, see.

In Metal Gear, you can _____ people.

In Driver, you can _____ fast cars.

In Call of Duty, you can _____ online.

In God of War, you can _____ with gods.

In Grand Theft Auto, you can _____ ride a bike?

In Resident Evil, you can _____ zombies.

In Assassins Creed, you can _____ to the past.

In Devil May Cry, you can _____ .

Answer these questions:

Can you travell to the past?

Can you play online?

Can you drive fast cars?

Can you see zombies?

Can you ride a bike?

Can you fight with gods?

Can you help the people?

Can you fly?

Listen this song

The most powerful punch in the world

The Rolling Stones

Click on this link and read this interview about Rolling Stones

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_Fingers

Answer this questions:

How many versions has the The Rolling Stones of Poison Ivy?

Was Poison Ivy known in UK?

What bands made this American songs known in UK?

Who are Chuck Berry and Slim Harpo?

What does it mean "blues purist"?

What was the first thing he wrote?

Who are the authors of "I wana be your man"?

Who wrote "As tears goes by"? Who sung this song?

Traslate this titles to Spanish:

"Confessin the blues"
"It's all over now"
"As tears go by"
"I wanna be your man"
"That girl belongs yesterday"
"I am a king bee"
"Better move on"

Opinion questions

Would you like to have a band?
Do you like Rolling Stones?
What is your favourite band?
What is your favourite instrument?
What is the best language to sing?
What was the best age to make music?
What is your favourite singer?
What is your favourite guitarist?

Complete the gaps of this song

Well if you ever plan to motor west

Just take my way that the highway that the best

Get your kicks on Route 66

Well it winds from Chicago to L.A.

More than ______miles all the way

Get your kicks on Route 66 

Well it goes from St Louis, down to Missouri

Oklahoma city looks oh so ______

Youl see Amarillo and Gallup, New Mexico

Flagstaff, Arizona don't forget Winona

Kingsman, Barstaw, San Bernadino 

Would you get hip to this kindly tip

And go take that California ______

Get your kicks on Route 66 

Well it goes from St. Louis, down to Missouri

Oklahoma city looks oh so pretty

Youl see Amarillo and Gallup, _______

Flagstaff, Arizona don't forget Winona

Kingsman, Barstaw, San Bernadino 

Would you get hip to this kindly tip

And go take that _______ trip

Get your kicks on Route 66

Get your kicks on Route 66?

What differencies do you see among this last version and Rolling Stones version?

What do you like much?

Do you know another version?

Do you know another Spanish version?

Do you know any Spanish rock and roll?

Modal verbs; would

                   

What have you learnt doing this post?

Broken things

We're going to see broken things and you have to explain how this happen:

What happened with this pencil?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rufino_uribe/354103483/sizes/z/in/photolist-xhSCt-4mLrTd-6ewwva-ekVYjG-7SaLGJ-drHpcG/

What happened with this construction?

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullidos,_bastardos_y_cosas_rotas

What happened with this tent?

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidente_del_Paso_Diatlov

What happened with this ship?

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batallas_de_la_Segunda_Guerra_Mundial

What happened with this jar?

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_antigua_de_la_pen%C3%ADnsula_ib%C3%A9rica

What happened with this cockroach?

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blattodea

Vocabulary video

Here you have a video to learn some words.



Make a sentence with those words that you have seen on this video

Ken Robinson

Interesting speeck about education made by Ken Robinson. If you don't agree with our model of education, this is your opportunity to see another interesting model.

What do you think about these opinions?

Global warming

Talk about causes, effects and solutions:

True or false

There are at least 20.000 species of bees.
Bees are the best pollinators on the world.
Bees cannot pollinate tomato flowers.
Bees live like a family where there isn't a superior authority.
Thanks to the action of bees we can have a lot of fruits and vegetables every year.
Bees only live in the American continent.
A fly is bigger than a bee.
Monocultures are very valuable for bees because they have a lot of plants to collect nectar.
Hives are the places where human being live.
Bees can made honey and sugar within a hive.
Alfafa is very useful because it fertilize the soil.
There are places on the world where there aren't bees

Correct these mistakes

The farmer farm vegetables and fruits.
I have took a lot of honey in my life.
When I was a child a couple of bees sting me.
Honeybees is very intelligent and helpful for the environment.
The greehouse effect is very dangerous in the future.
I would like plant crops in my country house this year.
I bought 200 seeds to plant watermelon, carrots, cucumbers, strawberries and motorcycles.