Acappella Christmas

Merry Xmas - A special Carol

HOMEWORK for 16/12/10 1NA-Vicente Soler- tuesday and thursday.

Outcomes Student's Book

GRAMMAR PAG 45.Excercice A.

GRAMMAR REFERENCE, PAG 144.HAVE/GET SOMETHING DONE.

VOCABULARY, PAG 45.Excercice A

Wiktionary & Wikisaurus

Wiktionary,the free dictionary

2,170,516 entries with English definitionsfrom over 400 languages

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page

Wiktionary: Wikisaurus

This is the main project page of Wikisaurus—a Wiktionary subproject and a wiki namespace aiming at creating a thesaurus—a dictionary of synonyms, antonyms and further semantically related terms such as hyponyms, hypernyms, meronyms and holonyms.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikisaurus

How To Use Modifiers More Effectively

http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/writingexercise1/ht/modifiers.htm

Homework for 14/11/2011 - 1NA - VS

OUTCOMES Student's Book

Grammar Exercises page 144.

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• Writing: "An email about a festival" . Activity on platform (EOIcampus)

• http://presencial.eoicampus.org/mod/assignment/view.php?id=19412

EOI Murcia Student Meeting Point se presenta a los premios web de La Verdad

Animado por una amiga he presentado mi blog a los III premios Web del diario La Verdad en la categoría de paginas personales / blogs.

Podéis acceder a la pagina de votación mediante el enlace de abajo y votar. Para poder votar hay que registrarse. Gracias por vuestro apoyo.

Podeis votar a partir del 11 de diciembre que es cuando se cierra el plazo de inscripción.

http://premiosweb.laverdad.es/2010/web/331/eoi-murcia-student-meeting-point.html

How to Improve your Vocabulary

Here are 100 advanced English words which should you be able to use them in a sentence will impress even educated native speakers! Perfect if you want to impress the examiner in examinations like: IELTS, TOEFL and Cambridge CAE and CPE.

http://www.world-english.org/improve_vocabulary.htm

Giving Advise

Homework for 30/11/2010 - 1NA - VS

OUTCOMES Student's Book

Writing -Giving Advise, pages 120, 121.

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• Writing: "An email about a festival" . Activity on platform (EOIcampus)

• http://presencial.eoicampus.org/mod/assignment/view.php?id=19412

Homework for 25/11/09 - 1NA - VS

OUTCOMES Student's Book

Grammar (The Future)

Exercises A,B,C,D on page 19

Grammar Reference

Exercise 1 on page 139

English Attack

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http://www.english-attack.com/eng/beta-preview

EF - Education First

Englishtown - The World's Leading Online English School

www.englishtown.com

As the world's leading online English school, Englishtown enhances the English learning experience to ensure students learn English faster than ever!

Learn English! EF podEnglish

www.youtube.com

Learn English with EF podEnglish, bite-sized 5 minute English lessons. Perfect for beginners, intermediate and advanced students, these video lessons are as good as having an English teacher in your pocket! Created by EF & Englishtown, the world's largest language school with over 400 schools in 50.

Sightseeing

Vocabulary - Festival and Carnivals

Notting Hill Carnival looks ahead to London 2012

By Andy DangerfieldBBC News, London

Notting Hill Carnival - your questions answered

Homework for 23/11/09 - 1NA - VS

OUTCOMES Student's Book

Exercises on pages 16-17 - Vocabulary and Reading

Listening Exercises - Sightseeing

http://www.esl-lab.com/travel/travelsc1.htm

La Isla bonita - Madonna (sightseeing)

Non-defining relative clauses - quizzes

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/nondef.htm

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=146_clauses

Homework for 18/11/2010 - 1NA - VS

Outcomes Student's Book

Page 14 - Vocabulary - Exercise B

Page 15 - Grammar - Exercise A

Page 138 - Non-Defining Relative Clauses - Exercise 1 an 2

Homework for 9/11/2010 - 1NA - VS

Outcomes Student's Book

Page 41 -Vocabulary

Pages 142, 143 - Grammar Reference

Think about next question:

Do you think that football is the opium of the people?

Arguments againts and for this.

should and should have, would and would have, could and could have

This link explains the difference between the modal auxiliary verbs should, could and would and how they are used.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv195.shtml

Other website about should have with exercises

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/shouldhave/menu.php

Enjoy yourself

Homework for 05/11/2010 - 1NA - VS

Outcomes Student's Book

Page 39 - Grammar : exercise B

Page 41 - Grammar: exercises A,B,C,D and E

Cheers

Homework for 2/11/2010 - 1NA - VS

Read the text on page 38-39 Outcomes Student Book

and after that you have to find out this: phrasal verbs, link words, prepositions, demonstratives.

wwWhat's New: IdiomDictionary – Descubre el significado de 5.000 expresiones en inglés

El problema cuando uno aprende un nuevo idioma, es que por mucho que estudie casi siempre nos faltan recursos y es que una lengua no se domina hasta que uno no conoce y utiliza con solturafrases hechas y expresiones coloquiales.

Precisamente en esto puedo ayudarnosIdiomDictionary, una web que asegura contener el significado (con ejemplos) de unas 5,000 expresiones en inglés, que nos ayudarán a tener más soltura a la hora de comunicarnos en este idioma.

Desde su página principal podremos ver un listado de algunas de estas frases, aunque también podremos localizarlas desde el buscador, en el caso de que queramos conocer alguna concreta.

Un recurso muy valioso si queremos conseguir un conocimiento más profundo de este idioma.

Fuente: http://wwwhatsnew.com/2010/10/28/idiomdictionary-descubre-el-significado-de-5-000-expresiones-en-ingles/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+WwwhatsNew+(Wwwhat's+new%3F+-+Aplicaciones+Web+gratuitas)&utm_content=Google+International

Next Event - EOI - Storytelling with Tim Bowley!

Storytelling with Tim Bowley! Don't miss it! It'll be fun.
Assembly Hall EOI 17-18 intermediate level / 19-20h advanced level

Grammar of habits

Grammar of habits (includes used to)

http://www.englishcafe.com/blog/grammar-habits-includes-used-49180

Some quizzes

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/presentsimple/multichoice/test1.html

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/presten3.html

Enjoy yourself,

How to make a vocabulary map

MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions. Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map and see each other's changes as they happen. (http://www.mindmeister.com/content/about)

This an example:

Homework for 14/10/2010

Student's book - page 136 - Grammar Reference - Exercises 1-2 and page 9 - A.

Workbook - page 4

Vocabulary builder - exercises page 5.

Cu.

¡¡¡ No olvides hacerte soci@ !!!

Como asociarte

SMS Dictionary

A practice sms dictionary

http://www.smsdictionary.co.uk/

Learn Real English

How To Speak Like A Native Speaker

Dear Friend,

• Are you a good English reader, but not a GREAT English speaker?
• Do you feel that textbook English is not teaching you the REALEnglish you need?
• Is it difficult for you to understand native speakers’ conversations?
• Have you already improved your English, and are you ready to go to a whole new level?

Have you noticed that native speakers rarely use the formal English you learned in school? Why not? Because you learned formal English in school, but most native speakers use casual Conversational English when they speak to each other.

Source: http://learnrealenglish.com/

Proyecto Agrega

Entre las actuaciones comprendidas dentro del Programa Internet en el Aula, red.es, junto con el Ministerio de Educación, el Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio (en adelante "MITYC"), y las CCAA (las Comunidades Autónomas y las Ciudades Autónomas serán denominadas en adelante "CC.AA.") están desarrollando acciones con el objeto de apoyar la integración de las tecnologías en la educación, destinadas a centros de enseñanza financiados con fondos públicos de régimen general no universitario y de régimen especial, así como centros de formación de profesores y escuelas universitarias de formación del profesorado.

El objetivo de Agrega es facilitar a la comunidad educativa una herramienta útil para integrar las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación en el aula. Se podrá acceder a cualquier contenido, desde cualquier lugar, utilizando distintos criterios de búsqueda.

Las características del Proyecto son las siguientes:

• Es una iniciativa global de interés común entre Red.es, el Ministerio de Educación y las CC.AA. que se centra en los contenidos y en el hecho de compartir criterios comunes de catalogación de los mismos, aspectos esenciales para impulsar un modelo sostenible de generación y aplicación de contenidos digitales al proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje en el aula, así como para el impulso del desarrollo de una industria de producción de contenidos digitales curriculares en línea.
• El Proyecto pretende aunar los esfuerzos de generación y aplicación de contenidos digitales curriculares en línea que han venido desarrollando las Administraciones Públicas y el sector privado, y sentar las bases para potenciar la participación de ambos en la generalización del empleo de dichos contenidos en las aulas del sistema educativo español.
• El proyecto está dirigido a miembros de la comunidad educativa, con especial énfasis en los profesores y alumnos de enseñanza reglada no universitaria sin conocimientos especializados de tecnología.
• La definición del Proyecto permite su integración con las diversas iniciativas que, en esta línea, han venido impulsando las diferentes CC.AA., en aras de una mayor eficiencia en el empleo de los recusos públicos.

Fuente: http://www.proyectoagrega.es/default/Portada

Two new links

Dictionaries

Linguee.es - http://www.linguee.es/

Search millions of sentences translated by other people.

Vocabulary

Wordsteps.com - www.wordsteps.com

WordSteps is a place for people to learn foreign words and keep their vocabularies in fit condition. Here you can not only enrich your vocabulary, but you can also track your progress and recall the words you could forget.

ENGLISH WRITING

Printable exercises to help students improve their writing skills -

by Bob Wilson at autoenglish.org

http://www.autoenglish.org/writing.htm

Aprende idiomas a base de frases traducidas con audio en Tatoeba

http://tatoeba.org/spa/

Hugh Laurie: the British accent vs the American

Happy Summer Holidays

Han llegado las vacaciones de verano y hasta este blog se merece un pequeño descanso. No habrá nuevas entradas durante algunas semanas, pero no dejéis de estar atentos a las novedades que aparecerán a la vuelta de las vacaciones.

Voy aprovechar este tiempo para revisar los contenidos, mejorar su organización y darle una nueva imagen.

Feliz verano a tod@s.

Calificaciones de Junio

NOTA INFORMATIVA SOBRE LAS CALIFICACIONES DE JUNIO

LAS CALIFICACIONES DE JUNIO DE TODAS LAS MODALIDADES (OFICIAL - PRESENCIAL Y ON LINE - Y LIBRE) SE PUBLICARÁN EL DÍA 28 DE JUNIO EN LOS TABLONES DEL CENTRO.

SE TENDRÁ ACCESO A LAS CALIFICACIONES EN INTERNET ENTRANDO EN LA ZONA DE USUARIOS EN LA WEB: www.eoimurcia.org

Thinkfinity - Miles de recursos gratuitos para profesores, padres y alumnos

Verizon Thinkfinity Content Partners produce the program's nine discipline-specific, standards-based Web sites. Each site includes lessons for teachers, activities to use in and out of the classroom, games for young children and teens, adult literacy resources and reference materials for anyone in the education field, as well as for parents and afterschool practitioners.

http://www.thinkfinity.org/

Revisión Exámenes Junio - 2NI

Próximo miércoles 16 en el horario habitual de clase (15'00-17'00)

Suerte.

eType – Para escribir inglés sin errores ortográficos

As you type, we...

Complete your words

Translate to your native language

Prevent spelling mistakes

Make coffee - Just kidding...

In short, eType helps you type right!

Mas información en:

http://wwwhatsnew.com/2010/06/10/etype-para-escribir-ingles-sin-errores-ortograficos/

http://etype.com/

Radio Babel

Bienvenidos a la primera experienca radiofónica en la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Murcia con la colaboración de Radio Nacional de España.

http://www.radiobabel.eoimurcia.org/

Useful Topics - Oral exam

ORAL TESTS. PRE-INTERMEDIATE LEVEL.

ORAL TEST 1.

Deliver a three-minute talk based on the following questions. You can add as many

other details as you like.

• What do you like about your city/town/village?

• What are its attractions?

• What is special about it?

• Does it have any disadvantages?

• What is its population?

ORAL TEST 2.

Deliver a three-minute talk about your ambitions, intentions and plans for both the

immediate and the not so immediate future. Give reasons and as many details as

possible.

ORAL TEST 3.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

Most British children leave home when they are under eighteen. Are you in favour or

against this custom?

ORAL TEST 4.

Deliver a three-minute talk based on the following prompts:

• Would you like your parents to arrange your marriage for you?

• Is it a good idea? Why / Why not?

ORAL TEST 5.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

Everybody should learn a foreign language

ORAL TEST 6.

Deliver a three-minute talk based on the following prompts:

• In your country, what age must people be to drink, smoke, vote?

• Do you agree with the legal age limit?

• Give arguments for and against, taking into account your personal opinion

ORAL TEST 7.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

• In your free time, what is your favourite activity?

• Why?

• How often do you do that?

ORAL TEST 8.

Deliver a three-minute talk about these questions:

• What do tourists like doing in your country?

• Where do they go?

• What do they usually do?

• Do you know any foreigners living in your country?

• What do they like about it?

• What do they find different?

If you don’t know any foreigners, make up your answers.

ORAL TEST 9.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

Advantages and disadvantages of strict boarding schools

ORAL TEST 10.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

• What kind of music do you like?

• Have you ever seen your favourite band live?

ORAL TEST 11.

Deliver a three-minute talk about your life or about the biography of somebody famous.

Don’t forget to include:

• Date and place of birth

• Some family background

• Education

• Some important events

• Any other detail of interest

ORAL TEST 12.

Deliver a three-minute talk about cooking:

• Your favourite recipe

• What ingredients you need to make it

• How to make it

Give all kind of details because your teacher is a very bad cook and she may not

understand.

ORAL TEST 13.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

• What sports and games did you play when you were a child?

• How has this changed?

ORAL TEST 14.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

Imagine you work in advertising.

• How can you sell a soft drink, such as fizzy lemon?

• What information would you give about it in the advert?

Compare it with an advertisement from TV or radio that you particularly don’t like.

ORAL TEST 15.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

• Do you remember your dreams?

• How often?

• What kind of dreams do you usually have?

ORAL TEST 16.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

Advantages and disadvantages of keeping fit

ORAL TEST 17.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

Describing a house that belongs to a famous person. Don’t forget to include the

following prompts:

• Location

• Size

• Number and type of rooms

• Furniture

• Any other interesting detail

ORAL TEST 18.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

What should one do to have a healthy lifestyle?

ORAL TEST 19.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

Describe your ideal boyfriend / girlfriend

ORAL TEST 20.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

Has your life changed over the past ten years? In which way?

ORAL TEST 21.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

Compare things you could do when you were young with things teenagers can do

nowadays.

ORAL TEST 22.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

What is your opinion about people who spend lots of their money on fashion?

ORAL TEST 23.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

Describe an important event in your life

• When and where it happened

• Why it was important

• What people were involved

• How you remember it nowadays

ORAL TEST 24.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

Horoscopes: are they a commercial fraud?

ORAL TEST 25.

Deliver a three-minute talk about the following topic:

Describe a film that you’ve recently seen

• Type of film

• Features

• Actors and actresses

• Where and when you saw it

• Why you liked it or disliked it

Fuente: Internet - EOI Avilés. April 2008

http://blog.educastur.es/gsanmartin/files/2008/04/oral_tests_april08.pdf

Examen Oral - Alumnos M. Pilar Castro - 2NI

10 de junio, aula 10 a partir de las 9.20 horas

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10th of June, room 10 from 9.20 a.m.

Nota: esta información no es de la web oficial de la escuela de idiomas. No me hago responsable de cambios o errores en la transcripción de la información. Para conocer el día, el aula y la hora exacta que te corresponda, ponte en contacto con tu profesora.

Se confirma la huelga del día 8 de Junio

AVISO IMPORTANTE PARA ALUMNOS OFICIALES Y LIBRES DE NIVEL INTERMEDIO 2 INGLÉS:

SIGUIENDO INSTRUCCIONES DE LA DIRECCIÓN GENERAL DE FORMACIÓN PROFESIONAL Y EDUCACIÓN DE PERSONAS ADULTAS, CON MOTIVO DE LA CONVOCATORIA DE HUELGA PARA EL DÍA 8 DE JUNIO, EL EXAMEN DE CERTIFICACIÓN DE INGLÉS DE NIVEL INTERMEDIO (NI2) PREVISTO PARA ESE DÍA EN TODAS LAS EE.OO.II DE LA REGIÓN, SE TRASLADA AL VIERNES, 11 DE JUNIOA LA MISMA HORA (16.30)

NOTA: LAS PRUEBAS DE EXPRESIÓN ORAL A LA QUE ESTÁN CONVOCADOS LOS ALUMNOS NO SUFREN NINGUNA MODIFICACIÓN.

Ref: http://www.eoimurcia.org/

Calendario Exámenes Finales - Junio - 2NI

8th of June - 16.30 - Aula 12(*)

Oral exam - 27th of May (after class - 17.45) / 10th of June (Aula 10) - 9.20(*)

Convocatoria Exámenes Junio Alumnos Oficiales

Criterios de calificación de 2NI

(*) Información no oficial - consultar con la profesora ante cualquier duda. Todavía esta pendiente saber si el día 8 habrá huelga. Estad atentos a la página oficial de la escuela de idiomas y al campus eoi.

Resources

El website que se referencia en la página de facebook de este blog contiene recursos para el aprendizaje con listening de buena calidad y actividades con evaluación de los resultados.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/IMP-EOI-MURCIA/178683403120?ref=ts

Keys Units 13 and 18

Unit 13

Unit 18

Inogolo

English Pronunciation Guide to the Names of People, Places, and Stuff

The practical, easy-to-use website devoted to the English pronunciation of the names of people, places, and miscellaneous stuff. The site contains a searchable database of names with both phonetic and audio pronunciations in English.

http://www.inogolo.com/

Beedictionary

Search, Save and Master Words

• Search from more than 300,000 words and phrases
• Multiple usages to clarify the context
• Audio, phonetics, meanings, synonyms and antonyms
• Save the words to your personal deck and access from anywhere
• It's FREE

http://www.beedictionary.com/

Homework for 13/05/2010

Coursebook - page 129

Revise Grammar - Relative clauses

This link may be useful

http://esl.about.com/od/grammaradvanced/a/relative_clause.htm

Homework for 11/05/2010

Revise Using Grammar page 96 - Going to, will probably, might

On the platform - Unit 21 - The Environment

Watch the viedo and do a summarize

THE STORY OF STUFF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8

Homework 04/05/2010

Conditional forms (I,II y III)

Write 2 or 3 sentences of each Conditional forms (I,II y III) and mix conditional forms.

Revise Grammar if it would be necesary.

Coursebook - page 138 - Using vocabulary - 1 Collocations.

New resource - bab.la

http://en.bab.la/

http://en.bab.la/dictionary/

We offer translations in many different languages, ranging from colloquial and regional expressions to more technical or field-specific vocabulary. Special features include search filters, synonyms, pronunciation, sample sentences and much more. Simply choose your preferred dictionary from the list below. Help us to improve our dictionaries by suggesting new translations in the entry box at the end of the page.

Learn with the bab.la Vocabulary Lessons!

Quizzes Games

bab.la Survival Guide

The bab.la Survival Guide is a collection of travel survival guides to foreign languages. There are three categories of free survival guides to download, print and pocket. The different survival guides are available in Chinese, German, English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Turkish.

And more....

Keys Unit 15- CourseBook - Sport

Homework for 29/04/2010

Listening Activity on platform (Campus EOI)

http://presencial.eoicampus.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=13502

Review Conditionals forms

http://www.shertonenglish.com/resources/es/conditionals/type1.php

http://www.shertonenglish.com/resources/es/conditionals/type2.php

Quiz

http://english-quiz.net/conditionals-first-test.html

http://english-quiz.net/conditional-first-test.html

http://english-quiz.net/conditionals-second-test.html

http://english-quiz.net/conditionals-third-test.html

http://english-quiz.net/conditionals-exercise.html

http://english-quiz.net/conditionals-test.html

Keys - Review unit - 9-12

Homework 27/04/2010

Coursebook - pages 88-89 - Review: Units 9-12

Workbook - 12 - Food - pages 52 - 55

Activities unit 12 on platform Campus EOI.

Keys Unit 12- CourseBook - Food

Random Thoughts of a Geordie Down-Under: Should have, should've, should of

Random Thoughts of a Geordie Down-Under: Should have, should've, should of

Should've Said No

Homework for 23/04/2010

Unit 12 - Coursebook

Pages 84, 85, and point 2 on page 86.

And this sheet.

Shertonenglish

Este website se define como una red social de alumnos y profesores en la que encontraras muchos recursos para el aprendizaje del Inglés en la red.

Requiere registro,pero es gratuito. Se financia por donaciones.

Tienes la posibilidad de hacer un curso de Inglés en 52 semanas, recibiendo incluso las lecciones por correo electrónico. Para realizar las lecciones lee atentamente las instrucciones que aparecen en la página.

Una buena opción bien realizada.

http://www.shertonenglish.com/

Unit 17 - Friends and Family - Keys

Used to / Would

Used to / Would. Significa 'soler', para hablar sobre el pasado, acerca de algo que solíamos hacer hace tiempo pero que ya no hacemos....

http://www.shertonenglish.com/resources/es/miscelaneous-topics/used-to.php

Homework for 25/04/10

Pages 122-125 Student's Book

Enjoy

A For and Against

A For and Against Essay

View more presentations from Sònia Turmo.

A 'for and against' composition

Work Sheet - Learner's Diary

Key to exercises in Innovations

The Passive