Are you ready for the Innocents' Day?

We will celebrate the Holy Innocents' Day tomorrow. Some people will play all kind of jokes and foolishness. However, the most famous tradition in our country says that you have to hang a "llufa" on the friends' and people's back. But, do you know how to make one? It's very easy, you need a newspaper and scissors.
First, take out a page from the newspaper and fold it as an acordion. Look at the picture:

Now, it's time to cut the "llufa". Look at the pictures...and that's all! When you open the "acordion" you will have a "llufes"' chain. Now you can use it as you want: you can decorate your bedroom or you can cut the chain and you will obtain lots of "llufes".


Remember this tradition is in Spain because different countries around the world have a similar date on the 1st of April and they call it April Fools' Day.

Christmas 2015

A nursery rhyme for these days

Hello everyone! 
This is a cute Nursery Rhyme for very young children.

Little Jack Horner is a naughty but a lovely boy  :))

Welcome winter

Do you want 
to know what to do along the Christmas holidays?

Click on the pictures and find out different options for you and your family.

Expand your vocabulary!

Music vocabulary words from Inès Rosado

More music vocabulary words

Matching activity

British life and culture

A journalist is someone who investigates, collects or presents information. This can be presented through newspapeers, magazines, radio, television and the internet. Look at this video. It deeps into British life and culture.

When we talk about the written press in Britain there are some differences between a Tabloid and a Broadsheet, aren't they?
What do you think about having TV in the bedroom?

Daily songs for very young children

The morning



Open your eyes,
shake your head,
look at the sun,
make the bed.
Drink your juice,
brush your teeth, 
go to school,
wave to me.



Rock, scissors, paper

The senses song

The food train chant

 

Funny feelings

How to work feelings with children?

Let their imagination flies and listen to them when a picture appears. We will be surprised and proud of their learnings. Have fun looking at these pics and checking English with children.

Christmas and digital age

Hi everyone! here you have a cool song for these days. Click on the pic and have fun listening to the song and fill in the gaps.

It's Christmas time!

Hi everyone! Christmas is coming and we are ending the first term of this school year. Also, Christmas means that you have to study your poems for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, so why don't you try to memorize this one at home? Here you have my assistand who will help you. After that, you will find an amazing Christmas song for these days. 

Now test your knowledge on how Christmas is celebrated around the world, using this interactive advent calendar.
No peeking before the correct day.

Once upon a time...

Castellar del Vallès organizes the last Story Time in 2015.

If you are interested in this activity look at this link and have fun tomorrow morning with "Terrible Tommy-Tom Cat"

photo by JM.P. taken on December 12th. 

A wish: become a follower

Following a blog shows readers and the authors that you are a fan. So, why don't you follow this blog? I checked the pageviewers and it has been very high along the last week. 

If you don't know how to do, here you have the steps you have to chase: go to the right and tap on "Join this site" button under the "Followers" widget (as the picture below shows). After that, you have to choose "google" and write down your mail and password. For ending, you have to tap on "follow this blog"

Thank you very much for your understanding!

Listening skills for year 6

In this link you will find a conversation in a restaurant. When you finish the listening you will have to answer some questions.

In this one, you will listen to a telephone conversation about free time. And, as the other one, you will have some questions to answer.

Practise listenings

Listen to the conversations after clicking on the pictures and do the exercises to practise and improve your listening skills. 

New web for preeschoolers

Hi everyone, here you have a new web. Click on the picture and you will find different songs, games and rhymes to practise and review them with little kids. 
Have fun!

Christmas vocabulary

Christmas vocabulary from Inès Rosado

Countdown to Christmas

Open a flap daily and you will have some Christmas surprises.

Europe Code Week

Hooray! 

Here I have my certificate for participating in 

Europe Code Week 2015

Good manners

As a teacher, one of the most important things you can do is lead by example. There’s no point in asking our students to be helpful and polite when we don’t hold the door open for others or we don’t say “Please” and “Thank you.” Being nice, kind and fair is something most of us do naturally (because someone else, years ago, taught us to do it!) but it’s important to remember, especially for teachers of young children, that our students are watching our every move. They are learning important lessons about how the world works by what they see.

Besides that, they learn from the lessons we teach in the English lessons. So, why don't we introduce fair poems? This is one of the most favourite activities I like to work with children. Poems and chants help kids with phonics but also they make them be aware about the importance of manners and empathy. 

Here you have two examples:

Please and thank you
are magic words
we need to say
very often, every day.

Please and thank you
are useful words
to help you be polite
and make people feel alright.

Please and thank you
are the best words
to say people
with a big bright smile!

IT'S JUST FINE

It's fine to be
happy or sad.
It's fine to be
brave or scared.
It's fine to have
short or long hair.
It's fine to play
or just watch.

It's fine to be alone
or want company.
It's fine to be thin
or fat.
It's fine to wear jeans
or a skirt.

It's fine to dance
or sit down.
It's just fine
to be
what you
want to be!

Justin Bieber

This is a new song in Lyrics training. I think you are going to fill in the gaps easily!

Try your best and have fun listening to and typing  this cool song.

Remember, you can press the BACKSPACE button to listen to the last sentence again and type it correctly. If you don't understand, jump the gap pressing the TAB button.

150 years of Alice

Tomorrow, November 26th, 2015 will be an important day. We will celebrate the first publication of Alice in Wonderland. The UK publisher Macmillan published the first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. If you remember, it was written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, signed with Lewis Carroll.

For that important celebration I want to link you an amazing blog by Claudi Mans. 

He has an important collection of Alice in different languages and along this year he is doing different publications of his collection. 
I highly recommend it to you. It's worthy!
At the same time, we will celebrate Thanksgiving Day. This important day is celebrated the last Thursday of November so let me say to all of you

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Thank you!

Hi everyone! It was an amazing day yesterday ;D

Lessons along the day, children everywhere, teachers´meeting and the presentation in the evening!

It was a nice experience and the environment among the teachers was calm and warm. Here you have some pictures from the act. Thank you very much for your support!

Presentation

Hi everyone!

I have a presentation today. I prepared this ppt to help me to explain the main points about eTwinning. I want to encourage different teachers to participate in the largest teacher network in Europe. eTwinning has been considered one of the most important and appreciated tool by the European Comission to develop projects. So, if you are a teacher, don't doubt in asking to me. I will answer to

you soon.

 

eTwinning presentation from Inès Rosado

Encouragement

A challenge

Hi CS students! 

 Here you have an excellent way to practise present simple and phonics. 

You will understand why that tense works in that way. 

Remember that 3rd person of singular takes and -s.

Are you able to learn it by heart?

Tap on the picture above and put the words in order (by clicking on them) to form questions

Singular and plural

Follow this ppt and try to remember these basic rules

Singular and plural from Inès Rosado

Phonics

Phonics games will help you to practise sounding out words, which will help you to read.
Tap on the pics below to the free phonics games. 
You have lots of fun while developing your phonic knowledge and skills.

I am Paris

I am Paris and Je Suis Paris. 

My condolences to all of the victims of this horrendous act and repugnant barbarism. 

 I am really shocked!

So sad.

Tools for teachers

The British Council and the BBC offer this place for teachers. Click on the picture and you will find from software to help us prepare classes to a glossary of ELT terms.

How do you describe yourself?

If you could describe yourself in only one sentence, what would that be?
I encourage you to tell me in a message.

Happy song

Do you know Connie Talbot?

If you don't, I highly recommend this activity.

Here you have an opportunity to know her and her optimistic song.

Tap on the picture and fill in the gaps in the lyrics training web.

Enjoy English singing in English! 

Present Simple

PRACTISE IT WITH THESE ACTIVITIES:

1  2  3  4  5  6

NEGATIVE FORM ACTIVITY

INTERROGATIVE FORM ACTIVITY

HERE YOU HAVE SOME VIDEOS TO GET FAMILIAR WITH THE TENSE

Tellagami

Tellagami is a mobile app that lets you create and share a quick animated Gami video.

Here you have an example. 

It's very easy to create one. So, why don't you try it? Here you have the link

Earning a badge!

As some of you already knew,

I have been doing a training course about eTwinning network. I've just finished Today and  I got  a badge!
That means that I worked right. By the way, if you tap on the pic, you will have the information about this training course. Have a nice weekend!

Worthy to have a look

I am five days away from finishing an amazing training course on line about the eTwinning network, but do you know what it is? eTwinning is the community for schools in Europe. It offers a platform for staff working in a school in one of the European countries involved to communicate, collaborate, develop, share and feel and be part of an excellent community in Europe.

Thanks to this course I have learned some new tools to use in the projects. Also I learnt that collaboration is the aim of this network. Partners will share their publications in a common platform: the eTwinSpace! It's amazing and students can use it as a way of sharing information, communicate and upload different materials.

Also, I'm very proud of me because I have my own profile inside the web. 

Step by step ;D

Here you have

Lyrics Training

Songs are a great way to learn English and Lyrics Training is a good way to learn through songs! 

You can choose from three levels and complete the text as you listen or just use it for karaoke - it's up to you! 
Click on the picture below and listen to Bobby McFerrin.

 

Click on BEGINNER. You can press the BACKSPACE button to listen to the last sentence again and type it correctly !

Otherwise, If you want to jump the gap, press the Tab button. 

Social skills

Hi everyone!
The coexistence in the classroom is sometimes complex. 
Because of that, this video made me think about some social skills we have to work with children.

and the winners are...

Araceli and Ariadna have been the artists who had the idea and made it happen: congratulations for making an awesome Halloween model!
They worked very hard on it. 
Here you have some pictures taken at home. 

Happy Halloween!

Boo!!! 

We like finding the ten hidden jack o'lanterns and we also love playing games with the rest of the pictures! (I spy ten Jack O'lanterns)

Apps

Dear all,

some families ask me about apps that they can download for their kids.

There are thousands of them at Apple app store and Google Play, and a growing number of them are going on . These apps are very friendly and they have an attractive look.

For children, apps encourage the practice of skills, grammar and vocabulary through activities which are attractive for students. Among them, the ones offered by the British Council can be highly recommended, especially LearnEnglish Grammar and LearnEnglishPodcast for real English.

More interesting ones

A new song for 6th graders

This is an old song that tells the story of meeting a new friend at the beginning of a school year. Through its lyrics, it is able to remind childhood.

This is a stop motion that Alison Work made for her interactive media class in high school. Congratulations Alison!

Present-To Be- exercises

Click on the image and practise the verb TO BE.