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Friday 28 September 2012

VOCABULARY TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE'S APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY



We've been learning and practicing vocabulary to describe people in class. Adjectives to describe appearance & personality-character and also clothes. Here are the pictures and texts used on the screen in class if you want to revise.
1) Above the pictures of people. Read below the descriptions and match each with the correct person.
a) He's in his 20s. He's tall and well-built with curly brown hair. He's got a beard and a moustache.
b) He looks about 50. He's short and a bit overweight. He's bald.
c) She's a teenager. She's slim and medium-height. She's got shoulder-length hair and a fringe.
d) She's in her 40s. She's quite tall and thin. She's got grey hair and it's short and straight. She wears glasses.

Link to more on DESCRIBING IN ENGLISH.

2) The exercises with the adjectives that describe personality.


Images taken from "English File", OUP.


How to order adjectives if there are several:


Here a video with vocabulary:




Sunday 23 September 2012

POLL: WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT GOING BACK TO SCHOOL?


We start with a first poll about your opinion on starting school again. Vote!
What do you like about going back to school?







  
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BACK TO SCHOOL (FROM DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW)



To start off our second week, here's a picture that shows, very expressively, how going back to school can been seen from different points of view...
- a girl from Primary schools seems to go very happily laughing and jumping.
- a toddler doesn't seem to like his first day at nursery school very much and cries.
- a Secondary school student isn't happy at all and grumbles about it.
- a College student seems to be tired before he even starts because of all the work he has to do.
- and finally a mum goes wild because she doesn't have to cope with her children at home.

Tuesday 18 September 2012

A CHINESE PROVERB

Here's a Chinese proverb so you can reflect about before you begin school...

Monday 17 September 2012

HUMOUR: BACK TO SCHOOL WILL NEVER BE THE SAME WITH TWITTER


WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL & TO THIS BLOG. 2012-2013

 
Today's the first day of the 2012-2013 school year. Once again we open up this blog to give students opportunities to keep in touch with English in context.
This course, I'll be teaching 2nd ESO and 1st BAC, so many entries will have focus on them, but you know that the blog is open to everybody.
So welcome back to school and to this blog, hope eveything goes well for you all.

Tuesday 11 September 2012

9/11, ELEVEN YEARS AGO

Today's the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attack on NY Twin Towers.
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