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Looking at a picture: Tobias and the Angel

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Tobias and the Angel by Andrea del Verrocchio (XV Century)

Writing a Microstory

Tobias is sitting in his garden …

Tobías is sitting in his garden playing the Lira and suddenly he sees an angel. He's wearing a long tunic and sandals he has big beautiful wings, they walk the dog around the mountain hill, when they see the neighbors having a barbecue and they invite them.

To be continued....
Encarna and Monika.

Tobias is sitting in his garden. He’s looking at the sky, and then he gets up and he walks around the river with his dog. Suddenly he finds an angel in the road and they walk happy together.

Erika and Jennifer

Tobias sitting in his garden and he is thinking about the universe in his garden, because he is seeing the beautiful colours of the country, the blue sky and he can also hear the water running in the river. Tobias is a very good fisherman and he goes nto fish to invite his best friend: the Angel and his old dog. But the dog isn’t very happy because it prefers meat.

Fátima and Manolo

Tobías is sitting in his garden with his dog; suddenly an Angel comes and says: “ Let's go for a walk to the river to fish”. They are fishing for a few hours but they take only one fish. Later they play with his dog throwing stones to the lake. When suddenly the dog is missing they look for it everywhere but they listen to the dog barking. The dog's bark is coming from a castle they run to the castle and they can't belive! The dog has two fishes. It's fishing more than us.
Then, They cook the fish and drink wine while they watch the landscape. At night the Angel returned to heaven.
“See you, Tobias!, the angel says.
“ See you, Angel,!” Tobias says.
Tobias is very happy, he has a new friend.

Rita and Yaiza

Tobias is sitting in his garden, his garden is very big, with many trees and plants, he’s fishing in the lake, when suddenly, an angel goes down from the sky. The angel tells Tobias: “Come with me, take my hand, let’s go for a walk together, and I’m going to tell you a story”.

The story is about a child who doesn’t have parents, and he is very sad. His mother died when he was born and his father died in the war. The child lives alone and has to beg to eat, until one day finds a rich man who took him to his house. He lives better, but unhappy, because he can’t play with his friends.
The angel tells him: “Wealth doesn’t bring happiness”.

Mónica Cano and José Luis Trejo

Tobias is sitting in his garden, He´s playing with his dog, after one hour He goes to fish in the next river, He catches one fish, then He goes to the castle and when he´s walking, suddenly he sees a man. When he´s near, he sees that he is an angel. He´s very happy!

Rogelio and Belén

Tobias is sitting in his garden looking at the sights of his lands and playing with his dog. Later he reads a tales book and then he goes to sleep.

Suddenly, an angel appears in his dream. He’s very scared but the angel calms him. Then Tobias and the angel go to fish to the river crossing the forest. His dog goes with them. Tobias fishes a big fish and later they cook and eat the fish. In the evening they come back to Tobias’ castle.
When Tobias wakes up, he is alone. His dog is playing with him and there isn’t any angel.
“A nice dream!”, -he thinks - “But... and this fish here?”

Jesus and Paco.

Tobías is sitting in his garden, he is thinking, he is looking at the blue sky when suddenly an Angel goes down from the sky the Angel tells him: “Tobías, come with me!. Because our god wants to give you an special thing. Your life will change, you are going to be a rich man, you are going to have a wife and chilren too!”

Scherezade and Tina

Tobias is sitting in his garden, he is reading a book about god. Tobias and friends are having a fish barbecue and for dessert they have greek yoghurt.

After lunch they play cards and suddenly Tobias’s friend goes flying to the sky. Tobias is alone and he is bored, then he goes to sleep.

Daniel and Sergio

Tobias is sitting in his garden,Tobias is cooking fish for lunch,suddenly,an Angel is falling from the Sky. And then,the Angel ask him:
-Hello, I´m hungry, can you give me a piece of fish please?
And Tobias answers:
-No , I have only one. But if you want to eat, you can take my dog and prepare Hot Dogs.
Then, the Angel answers :
-Ok , but I don´t have Moustard.
Tobias says: No problem, I can give you.
Finally, the Angel accepts the dog and the moustard, and the Angel is going back to Heaven.

José Jaime and Jetzabel

Tobias is sitting in his garden, he is playing with his dog and suddenly it´s starting to rain and he is going back to his castle.

In his castle, his wife is waiting to him for dinner. After dinner, they start to read a new novel when they have a phone call and they say that his dog is lost.
Finally, they´re looking for his dog in the river, then the dog appeared behind the trees.

Agatha (Margarita) y César.

One day, Tobias is sitting in the garden.

He´s playing with her dog, when suddenly… he sees an angel.
He´s wearing a long tunic and sandals. They go for a walk near the river and both eat fish in the hills.

Manuel

My friend and I

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Christmas words

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Simple Past

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Simple Past - Regular verbs

The regular past tense in English is formed by adding "ed" to the verb. This past tense regular verb ending has three distinct sounds:

/t/ as in stopped, walked, relaxed
/d/ as in arrived, lived, used
/id/ as in wanted, needed, hated

See the following table and practice the verbs.

TIME and PLACE: Prepositions AT, IN, ON

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Source: http://www.engames.eu

10 tips para aprender idiomas todos los días

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10 tips para aprender idiomas todos los días

What's your favourite colour?

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COLOURS

Read the following list of words. Say the color of the word instead of the word itself.

RED GREEN YELLOW BLACK BLUE RED BLACK

GREEN RED PURPLE GREEN BLUE YELLOW

BLACK PURPLE RED GREEN BLUE YELLOW

PURPLE YELLOW GREEN BLACK RED BLUE

What you just experienced was left-brain / right-brain conflict. Your right brain saw the color but your left brain insisted that you say the word. The conflict made this activity slow and often frustrating. You have been forced to be this way because it is how you learned how to read. You have read this way for many years and it is ingrained in you. Your left brain first wanted to say the word, but then it analyzed the color. Meanwhile, your right brain knew all along the colour, but was dominated the whole time by the left brain trying to do a simple right brain job.

This, That, These and Those

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Have you ever been to London?

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Watch this video and contrast the use of the Present Perfect tense and the Simple Past.

What questions were they asked? Have you noticed the difference?

You can revise and check the use of the Present Perfect tense in the following slideshow.

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Now you can do these exercises:

Exercise One. Present Perfect exercises.

Exercise Two. Present Perfect exercises.

Exercise Three. Present Perfect: Simple or Progressive?

Exercise Four. Present Perfect or Past Tense?

Exercise Five. Using FOR or SINCE

Exercise Six. Using FOR or SINCE

Some other exercises using ALREADY, STILL and YET
Click here.

Christmas

2010-12-15T21:44:00.007+00:00

Open publication - -

Something about Christmas traditions in Britain.

In English speaking countries, children don’t get their presents on Christmas Eve (24 December). Santa comes at night when everyone is asleep. Santa’s reindeer can fly and take him from house to house. They land on the roofs of the houses and then Santa climbs down the chimney to leave the presents under the Christmas tree.

In the morning of Christmas Day (25 December), children usually get up very early to unwrap their presents. Then they have plenty of time to play with their new toys.

Christmas dinner is served in the early afternoon. Most people eat turkey and sprouts and a Christmas pudding.

26 December is called Boxing Day. It hasn’t always been a holiday. People used to go back to work on that day where their bosses gave them little Christmas presents in small boxes. That’s why the day is called Boxing Day.

And about New Year...

Here is everything that you need to know about the New Year's celebrations in English-speaking countries:
- December 31 is New Year's Eve.
- January 1 is New Year's Day.
- Americans call the whole festival New Year's: What are you doing between Christmas and New Year's?

-British speakers call it New Year or the New Year: What are you doing between Christmas and New Year?
- If you say Sylvester, English speakers will think that you are talking about a cartoon cat.
Traditionally, it's not a time for fireworks. The Americans have fireworks on July 4, the British on 5 November ("Guy Fawkes' Night"). But after seeing the famous pictures of the celebrations at the Brandenburger Tor on 31 December 1989, English-speaking countries realised that the Germans might have a custom worth stealing. Firework displays as the year turns are getting more and more common.
-The new year festival is important in Scotland. It's called Hogmanay. They do strange traditional things with bagpipes, the stomachs of sheep (haggis), and pieces of coal. The Scots say that foreign visitors are welcome (but maybe they mean as victims).
- In other English-speaking countries, people just go to parties. It's the same procedure every year. At midnight they sing an old song in a Scottish dialect, called "Auld Lang Syne", which might mean: "Let's kill all the English this year." (No one really knows.)
- You could explain to your British friends that many Germans watch an old Freddie Frinton comedy sketch on New Year's Eve. But they will probably not believe you.

Would you like to know more things about Christmas? Visit these links:

This site has some amazing facts about Christmas. Click here.

This is a great site for kids to access. They can fill in a letter to e-mail to Father Christmas and find out about the hows and whys of Christmas.Click here.

This site has information about how Christmas is celebrated around the world. Click here.

The BBC Newsround site has some lovely Christmas pages. Click here.

Christmas around the world

Here you can find a collection of historical Christmas celebrations for many different countries. The celebration or activity is the earliest history for each country NUT note that they may not represent the current Christmas celebrations of today. Click here.

Have alook at these sites as well:
Christmas celebrations around the world
Christmas traditions around the world.
Christmas Songs and Carols

The Christmas Mindmap

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Introducing Myself

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Interesting book written by learners, introducing themselves.

Open publication

Connectors 1: Being a trapeze artist.

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Have you ever been to a circus? Have you seen the trapeze artists? Have you seen them flying on the air? Isn't it amazing?
They can do that because they train for long hours every day and because when they are "flying", they are all connected with their arms and hands. Otherwise they may fall onto the floor and be injured.

Connectors are things that connect with others.

In English a connector is a special word that connects a sentence with another sentence or a word with another word. For example: so, because, and, although, ... They are special words that connect one sentence or word with another.

Example:
She stayed at home because she was very tired.
Although we wanted to see the film, we didn't go.
It was very late to go out so I watched TV.

Remember: "Practice makes excellence" So, here you have some exercises to help you

Click here to practice SO and BECAUSE
Click here for AND, BUT, SO

WH-QUESTIONS Exercises

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Rudyard Kipling, the writer of "The book of the jungle", wrote a short poem about asking questions. This is the poem:

I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

From it , we learn that if you want to know something, the best is to ask questions. The more questions you ask, the more information you get.

What questions do you ask yourself every day?

Am I a happy person?

What can I do to be a happier man/woman?

What other questions can you ask yourself?

Take a moment to think about them, Write them on a piece of paper and think about the possible answers.

Also, some people like questioning things about their past actions. For expample, if you want to find a reason you ask: "Why did I react like that? Why did I give that anwer?

What other questions can you ask about a personal past action or event?

To help you practice with the use of WH-Questions, here you have some exercises.

WH Questions - WH WORDS
Questions exercises in English Exercises .org

More more exercises with WH-Questions using the past, click here.

The weather

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BACK TO SCHOOL

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Learning is a journey, not a destination.

Where is your limit?

For many of you, this is a special day: It's going to be your first day at school after so many years and for other students, it's a new opportunity to go on with the English learning process. Whatever your purpose is, English is going to be from now on "something important in your life".

However, you are not coming to school alone, you're bringing the shadows of your many failures and mistakes when you studied many years ago. When was the last time you told yourself: I'd like to learn English? Do you remember? How many times did you try?

Think you are a lucky person because a wonderful door is being opened to you NOW. The door of learning. This year you'll discover that learning is fun and joy and that your dreams can be true. There is no limit to dream. Dare to do it!

Look at this video. They are two Chinese dancers: she without an arm and he without one leg.

They may possibly not have perfect bodies, but they make of their dancing something perfect. Even his crutch is part of the choreography. Where are their limits?

If they can do it? Why not you?

Welcome back to School
Welcome!!

My house. Mind map

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The house

Follow this link to increase your vocabulary about House and Furniture. Here you can find some more useful vocabulary and extra exercises to practice this vocabulary.

Past Times

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The Simple Past is used to describe a complete action. To form past tenses, it’s helpful to remember this:

Although most past tense verbs end in -ed, certain verbs have irregular past tense forms that do not follow this rule.

Be, have, and do are the most commonly used irregular verbs. Unfortunately, memorizing these irregular verbs is the only way to completely master the past tense.

Remember, practice makes excellence.

If you want to have fun and learn the pronunciation of irregular verbs, click here.

Some interesting exercises about the Simple Past. Click here or here

Past Tense Ending -ed

View more presentations from guestab0d7d1.

And if you want some more practice about the -ed of regular verbs. Click here. It's a wonderful exercise from the British Council.

Now, have a look at this video and do the exercise.

What did you do yesterday?

A bit of Pre-hispanic History about Gran Canaria

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How much do you know about The first inhabitants of the Canary Islands?
What do you know about Christopher Columbus' voyages? Read the texts.

St Valentine's Day

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HANDBOOK 2010

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HANDBOOK 2010

Health:
1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants..
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy
5. Make time to pray.
6. Play more games
7. Read more books than you did in 2009 .
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
9. Sleep for 7 hours.
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:
11. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present
moment.
13. Don't over do. Keep your limits.
14. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
16. Dream more while you are awake
17. Envy is a waste of time.. You already have all you need..
18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with His/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present
happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and
fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree...

Society:
25. Call your family often.
26.. Each day give something good to others.
27. Forgive everyone for everything..
28. Spend time w/ people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30. What other people think of you is none of your business.
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch..

Life:
32. Do the right thing!
33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
34. GOD heals everything.
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change..
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
37. The best is yet to come..
38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

Last but not the least:
40. Forward this to everyone you care about, I just did.

Superman CAN do it!

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Superman is a fictional character. He comes from planet Kripton. He is adopted by a family from Kansas (USA) and named Clark Kent. He works as a reporter for a newspaper The Daily Star Very early he started to show superhuman abilities that he used for the benefit of humanity. These are some of his wonderful abilities:

Strengh. He can lift tons of weight.

Flight. He can fly and jump long distances.

X-ray vision. He can see through solid objects.

Super hearing. He can hear more sounds than any other human being.

Invulnerability. He can protect his body from any form of harm.

Heat vision. He can emit heat energy from his eyes.

And ... what about you? Of course, you are not a superman but you have a lot of wonderful abilities. What are they?

If you want to do some interesting grammar exercises about CAN / CAN'T click on the following links,

Exercise ONE

Exercise TWO

Exercise THREE

Exercise FOUR

Exercise FIVE

Now... insert a comment and write down your super abilities...

Kurban Bayrami or Feast of Sacrifice

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The Feast of the Sacrifice is a religious holiday that is celebrated throughout Turkey and remembers the ram that Abraham sacrificed in place of his son Ismail (Isaac). During the four-day festival, lambs are still traditionally slaughtered and the meat distributed to the poor and needy. This is mostly done in professional abattoirs, but some of the ritual slaughters take place in public places. This is a major public holiday in Turkey, and many businesses and shops close during the festival

ram: a male sheep.

Now, Go to this link and download the text, read it and answer the questions.

Click here to download the text.

Language Unites Europe -Turkey

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