PEBAU Exams

Hi there!

Here I'm attaching a series of exams for the PEBAU. Hopefully, they may go for your September exam as well. 🐱 Do all of them!
Enjoy your summer holidays as much as you can!
See you guys soon!


 Practice:
Exam1, Exam2, Exam3, Exam4, Exam5, Exam6, Exam7.

Relative Clauses

Hi my friends!

This post includes two worksheets for you to practise relative sentences. The type of exercise we are working with is the combination of two sentences using a relative word. Don't forget this is precisely the way you likely are going to be asked to do in the new PEBAU exams.

See you around.

Practice: Exercise1, Exercise2.

Reported Speech Practice

Hi ya!

I'm including here the set of exercises we have done in class (Exercise1). I'm adding also a new battery of mixed exercises on reported speech (Exercise2). Both sets include key. Enjoy practising: you'll have tons of amusement! 😉

Cheerio!


Practice:
Exercise1, Exercise2.

Modal and Perfect Modal Verbs Practice

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Here I'm leaving a link with practice on modal verbs. You'll find gap-fill, multiple choice and rephrasing exercises. Tons of work! Practise!







Practice:  Exercises on modals.

Rephrasing Tense Practice

Hi guys!






Here I'm posting a new set of online and doc exercises on sentence transformation. Enjoy!




Practice: Exercise1, Exercise2, Exercise3, Exercise4.

Extra Practice for Unit 1

Dear students,

I don't intend to overwhelm you at all, but as you are asking me for more materials for you to practise, there you go, a set of worksheets on Unit 1. So now, you don't have an excuse...

What's more, I promise I'll commit myself to uploading an extra practice set of worksheets for every unit. But, I want you to keep your end of the bargain and work hard.

See you around!


Worksheets:
Reading: Worksheet, Answer-key.
Listening: Worksheet, Audio1, Audio2, Answer-key, Tapescript.
Grammar: Worksheet, Answer-key, Worksheet2, Answer-key2.
Vocabulary:  Worksheet1, Answer-key1, Worksheet2, Answer-key2.
Writing:  Worksheet1, Answer-key1, Worksheet2.

50 Incredibly Useful Links For Learning & Teaching The English Language

Teaching a new language to non-native speakers may be one of the most challenging educational jobs out there, so ELL teachers can use all of the help they can get! Thankfully, many excellent resources for ELL and ESL exist online, from full-service websites to reference tools and communities, all designed to make the task of educating ELL students just a little bit easier and more effective.

We’ve scoured the Internet to share 50 of the best of these resources, and we hope you’ll find lots of valuable content and tools through these incredibly useful links for ELL educators.  

Websites
Resource tools, printables, and other great stuff for ELL educators are all available on these sites.
1. UsingEnglish.com: On UsingEnglish.com, you’ll find an incredible collection of tools and resources for learning and teaching English as a second language, including a grammar glossary, printables, and teacher handouts.
2. EverythingESL: EverythingESL is an awesome place to find ESL teaching resources, from lesson plans to teaching tips and resources.
3. Colorín Colorado: Colorin Colorado is full of useful information, activities, and resources for ELL teachers, especially those at the Pre-K to third grade level. However, most activities can be adapted all the way up to high school, making this a diverse and useful website.

Articles & Advice
Check out resource lists, journal articles, and ideas for best practices in ELL on these links.
4. Preschool English Language Learners: This resource list from the state of Illinois has a variety of support resources for preschool English language educators, with scholarships, journals, books, and more.
5. Doing What Works: Visit Doing What Works to find best practices for teaching Literacy in English to kindergarten through fifth-grade learners.
6. What Works Clearinghouse: In the What Works Clearinghouse, you’ll find scholarly publications for effective outcomes in English language learning.

Organizations
Take advantage of the great opportunities and resources available from these organizations that benefit ELL teachers.
7. National Council of Teachers of English: This professional association for educators in English studies, literacy, and language arts offers plenty of benefits for bilingual teachers.
8. National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition: Find data, grants, even professional development resources for ELL educators from the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition.
9. TOEFL: As the official language test for education, TOEFL’s website is incredibly useful for sharing test-taking and studying information with students.
10. International Reading Association: This association of literacy professionals has excellent resources for literacy educators, including journal articles and an educator community.

Learning Resources
Enrich your students’ learning by sharing these excellent English resources that they can check out in the classroom or on their own.
11. Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon: Check out this lexicon that offers images demonstrating the true meaning of the word, making it easier for English language learners to understand.
12. ManyThings: On this website, you’ll find quizzes, word games, puzzles, and a random sentence generator to help students better grasp English as a second language.
13. bab.la: Bab.la is a really fun site for ELL learners, with reference tools like a dictionary and vocabulary, supplemented with quizzes, games, and a community forum.
14. ESL Basics: On this site, you’ll find free English videos for both students and teachers.
15. English Pronunciation: Okanagan College’s resource offers 13 different unit lessons for learning and teaching English pronunciation.
16. BBC Learning English: In this website from the BBC, students can find help with grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, with plenty of references to current events. Plus, you’ll find a special section for ELL teachers.
17. ESL Gold: ESL Gold is, no joke, golden, with seemingly endless learning resources for English. Students can practice pronunciation, find a book to study, and even talk to someone in English on this site. Plus, teachers can find a job, search for textbooks, discover games, and so much more.
18. Real English: Check out this free site for learning English, with loads of videos from real English speakers, plus quizzes and community support.
19. Repeat After Us: In this online library, students can get access to a huge collection of English texts and scripted recordings.
20. Google Translate: An awesome resource to use for simple translations, Google Translate can help your students see how its done and better understand translations between two or more languages.
21. ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Direct your students to this ESL cyber listening lab with study guides, quizzes, and even teacher features.
22. Vocabulix: This online tool is designed to help jumpstart students’ vocabulary skills, with more than 90 vocabulary lessons, and the option to create lessons of your own.
23. Wordsteps: Wordsteps makes it easy for students to build their own vocabulary collection, and even access their vocabulary through a mobile device for English language learning on the go.

Teaching Resources
With these resources, you can find great ways to communicate more effectively, explore lessons, and be a great ELL teacher.
24. Utah Education Network English Language Learner Resources: Check out this list of great resources for ELL, with teaching ideas, forums, and even news and research.
25. One Stop English: Specially designed for English language teachers, One Stop English has a monthly topics series, news lessons, and even an app for on the go ELL teaching.
26. Casa Notes: This ingenious tool allows ELL teachers to effectively communicate with non-English speaking parents. You’ll be able to quickly make and customize notes that you can translate and send home to parents, effectively communicating information about field trips, conduct, homework, and more.
27. ESL Party Land: A great site for ELL teachers, ESL Party Land has lesson plans, strategies, worksheets, flashcards, quizzes, games, and even vocabulary resources to help you be a better ELL teacher.
28. Clip Art Collection: Check out this collection of royalty-free, language-neutral clip art designed to be used for foreign language instruction.
29. Activities for ESL Students: Thousands of teacher contributions can be found on this site full of quizzes, exercises, and tests for teaching English as a second language.
30. Szoter: Using this online annotation tool, ELL teachers can write directly on images to explain their meaning to students.
31. Oxford University Press Learning Resources Bank: A service of Oxford University Press, this learning resources bank for English language teaching has courses, titles, and interactive English reading tools.
32. English-Test.net: Encourage students to self-test with this website, offering free English tests, grammar exercises, and worksheets.
33. EduFind English Online Tests and Learning Games: Check out these test and games that offer a great way for students to test and improve their English language skills.

Reference
From reference books to a pronunciation guide, you and your students will get a lot of use out of these links. 34. Dictionary.com: This site isn’t just for looking up words, although it’s quite useful in that function. Dictionary.com also offers a word of the day, games, quotes, translation, and much more.
35. Thesaurus.com: Like Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com goes beyond simple reference, bringing inspiration and fun in the form of synonyms, fun word facts, and even search trends.
36. Common Errors in English Usage: Read Paul Brian’s Common Errors in English Usage on this website, and even get links to the book’s blog, calendar, and entry-a-day Facebook page.
37. Play & Learn English: Through the Early Childhood Education Network’s Play & Learn English resource, you can share letters, print, shapes, writing, and other relevant images for learning the English language.
38. Idiom Site: With the help of this site, English language learners can make sense of common idioms.
39. Fonetiks: Direct students to this incredibly useful pronunciation guide with instant sound and samples by native speakers.

Communities & Blogs
Get help and regular feedback for ELL education from these communities and blogs.
40. Learning the Language: On Education Week, Lesli Maxwell covers educational policy and social issues relating to English language learning in the US.
41. Dave’s ESL Cafe: Check out Dave Sperling’s ESL cafe, where ELL teachers and students alike can enjoy a great community of English learning, plus job resources and stuff for teachers.
42. Englishtown: Join this community of English learners from around the world to gain insight for your ELL students.
43. Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day: Want a regular dose of ELL resources? Check out Larry Ferlazzo’s blog that shares news, learning resources, and other great links for ELL teachers.
44. ESL Podcast: Follow this podcast to share English language learning opportunities with your students on a regular basis.
45. ESL Resource Center: The ESL Resource Center is “where English and people connect,” offering live chat rooms and forums for English practice. There are even ideas for drama and role plays, teacher development, and story telling resources.
46. Teacher Talk: Several ELL teachers contribute to this blog, sharing teaching practices, materials, ideas, and guides.
47. Pain in the English: This fun blog is a great resource for explaining grey areas of the English language to your students.
48. TEFLtastic with Alex Case: Follow Alex Case’s blog to find news, views, and reviews for English language teaching.
49. The English Blog: Visit The English Blog to find resources, reviews, and much more for both learners and teachers of English.
50. Inspiration Lane: Inspiration Lane is designed to be an interactive reading activity to share with your entire ELL classroom with new learning content each day. This is a cross-post from content partners at onlinecollegecourses.com;

Storytelling: Fairy Tales

Hi there!


Do you like fairy tales? I certainly do!!!
And they are a good way to learn English, as you may have been able to see. After Christmas you had a  look at these videos of fairy tales and watched at least three, so that you could have something to tell your classmates!!!!

Then in little groups you were telling one another different fairy tales!!!! In case you still want to see more, click here and you will be redirected: Fairy Tales.

Urban Legends presentations

Hello guys!


A new task for you, this time, an oral presentation! What you need to do is to choose an urban legend from the lists that I'm posting here, then summarise it and give your opinion: all in a maximum of 3 minutes.

This is the page where you could find the list of URBAN LEGENDS for you to choose in order to do your presentation: Full list of urban legends. But here you have the most popular with a small introduction for you in case you feel overwhelmed with so many to choose from: Most popular urban legends

Remember that each one of you has to choose a different one.

Communicative Activities

These are communicative activities based on the portfolio of languages for primary education, secondary education and other compulsory teaching.

In order to facilitate and improve the development of the communicative competence in foreign languages among the students in Andalucia, the “Dirección General de Participación e Innovación Educativa” has compiled a list of up to 452 communicative activities to be used by language teachers in the classroom in English, French and German.

I’ve been having a look at them and there are activities from A1 to B1, so, unfortunately, there are no activities for higher levels than B1!!! However,  I believe they can be very useful for you, especially for those who work in English and for those who would like to revise (those for B1).

These are the communicative activities based on the Portfolio of languages:
PEL ACTIVITIES.

Why not hook on a series?

I guess you must have already tried to watch documentaries, news, films and the like, in English.You've got plenty of possibilities to do so: DTT, DVDs, BlueRays, the Internet, etc.

In my case, I am really hooked on TV series, that's why I like spending time watching my favourite series in English. I wanted to recommend you three I am really fond of. The first one is called “ONCE UPON A TIME” (actually, you can watch it currently in Antena 3 at ten on Tuesdays: don't forget to change the language of the DTT into English!!!! ) and it mixes reality with fairy tales, doing this in a very imaginative way. The second one is named “MODERN FAMILY” and it deals with family in a modern way (as the title suggests) (And I think you can watch it in Neox on the same day: what a pity!!! You need a recorder if you want to watch both!!!! ). And the third one’s name is “HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER” and it focuses on the life of a group of thirty-somethings, their friendship and their lives (It could be like a continuation of FRIENDS) (And you can also watch it in NEOX in the afternoon).

So these are my recommendations, but anything you like (whatever it is), try to watch it in English and try to do it on a regular basis!!! You will see how your English understanding improves!!!!!

Task 1ºBach #1701: Relative Clauses

Complete the sentences with a relative pronoun or adverb.
1) Where's the restaurant ................you went to last night?
2) He doesn't like people ................are moody.
3) This is the cinema ..................I saw my first film.
4) I can remember the day .................I first started school.
5) These are the trousers ................I bought.
6) Is that the journalist ...................interviewed David Beckham?

Combine the sentences using relative pronouns or adverbs. Put the relative pronoun into brackets if you can omit it. Some can be defining and others non-defining clauses.
1) That's the girl. She spoke to me yesterday.
2) What's the name of the book? You wanted me to read it.
3) I rent a house. It's very small but comfortable.
4) The hotel was very expensive. We stayed in that hotel.
5) The car was stolen. It was a BMW.
6) The man smoked forty cigarettes a day. He died of a heart attack.
7) That's the building. I work there.
8) Those are the boys. Their mother works in the post office.
9) The businessman was very rich. I saw him last night.
10) That is the dog. Its owner is French.
11) Al arrived early. He went by moped.
12) The boys were brothers. They went by bus.
13) The girls were OK. They had pizza.
14) Sue and Karen went home early. Their fathers came to the café.
15) She remembered the day. Her baby dog was born on that day.
16) My parents organised a party. It was my birthday.
17) This is the mobile phone. It costs €300.
18) The Sierra Nevada are the mountains. I had a skiing accident.
19) This is the teacher. She is always friendly.
20) I met a boy. He can speak three languages.
21) She usually wears the designer clothes. I bought them for her birthday.
22) My brother has met a girl. Her boyfriend is English.
23) The hospital is very modern. She went there after her accident.
24) The trainers are now reduced in the sports shop. I bought them last week.
25) My sister is a fantastic swimmer. Her legs are very long.

Language For Exchange

Fancy practising your English with native people? Are you going to Britain but you want to meet people in advance? Would you like to teach others your mother tongue?

Language For Exchange is a good point to start from. This is just a simple website where you only have to register to access a comprehensive database of people around the world who want the same as you: learn a language.

So simple: fill in your details and find your language partner. A free service that seems to have enough members, of whom you can see the profiles and in most cases even the photos, people of all ages and countries with whom to speak and practise English. The site also has forums and blogs in different languages, in which you will find resources to keep learning. Take a look at it and decide to practise real English.
Visit Language For Exchange.

Verb Conjugator

Problems with the verb tenses? Do you need a helpful tool that conjugates any English verb for you?
Look no further, you got to the right place. Here I provide you with an interesting conjugator engine that will help you learn any verb in the different tenses. Through the following hyperlink, only put the verb in its infinitive form and click on the button, you will get basic conjugations in any of the tenses that the English paradigm has, so this way you will get rid of doubts. Click here to start: Conjugator.