Bloggin' away

Happy Valentine’s Day!!

Carmen Lopez — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:31:43 +0000

Watch this silent movie and write the story below as a comment.

If you need extra inspiration, have a look at the list of all the Valentine’s Google Doodles since 2000 until today.

Build your own test

Carmen Lopez — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:16:10 +0000

Oxford University Press series Headway offers you the possibility to build your own custom-made test to revise those areas of grammar you feel you need revising.

This is the link to the intermediate level test builder

Write a story

Carmen Lopez — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:25:46 +0000

Write a story which begins:

When Chris saw the car parked outside his/her house, his/her heart started beating faster …

Image courtesy of Flikr, peprice

Plan your story in detail:

Who’s Chris?
How old is Chris?
What does he/she do?
What’s Chris like?
Whose car was that?
How did Chris feel when he/she saw the car? Why?
What did he/she do?
What happened in the end?

Lost in the Desert

Carmen Lopez — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:31:22 +0000

This picture is on page 45 in your books. Last Monday we did the activity in class that consisted in imagining the story behind the picture and you came up with extraordinary stories! Now I’d like you to write down those amazing stories and send them as comments to this post. And if you missed last monday’s lesson you can have a try now:

who’s this man?
how did he end up in the middle of the desert?
what might/ must have happened?

Blogging again!

Carmen Lopez — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:33:15 +0000

Well, here we are again! It’s been 2 years since I last wrote here and I think I’ve missed it. We’ll keep our Facebook groups as a complement but we won’t be using the Moodle course any more. They are moving to a new hosting and they won’t be back until March so we must forget about it. I think the Facebook groups are all right for sharing links and posting messages quickly and easily but in order to keep a more organized archive of activities and resources I think we’ll come back to my old blog.

Welcome to Bloggin’ away and I hope you enjoy it!

Are you a Vegetarian?

Carmen Lopez — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:20:23 +0000

Here you are a link to the ELLA lesson you started in the ICT Lab last Monday.

Such Tweet Sorrow

Carmen Lopez — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:51:38 +0000

Two families in the same town have loathed one another for years. But a boy from one and a girl from the other fall in love – deep, sweet and destructive… Does it ring a bell? Sure it does, but this is not your classic Romeo and Juliet but an amazing project that uses Web 2.0 tools to bring you the story live and in real time – in modern Britain and on Twitter. Check it out!

2 interactive lessons

Carmen Lopez — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:30:03 +0000

Today we went to the ICT Lab and worked on 2 interactive lessons:

Money
Grammar revision: Inversions, Passive voice, Cleft sentences, Conditional sentences, and Wishes and regrets

Classwork update

Carmen Lopez — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:24:59 +0000

We have started lesson 5 and got to page 66. We are revising conditional sentences right now

28th January

Carmen Lopez — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:22:44 +0000

We went to the ICT Lab and did an interactive lesson on books. If you missed it or didn’t have time to finish you can find it in Bloggin’ Time, the author’s blog.
In About Writing, another blog by the same author, you can find some guidelines to write your book review.
Oh! send your reviews here, not to Bloggin’ Time!