WHAT IF ...

A song I used in class to motivate my students for learning the conditional clauses.

Next week we are going to analyse the different conditional clauses, their uses and their struture.

Coldplay- What IF


What if there was no ………………….
Nothing wrong, nothing …………………….
What if there was no ………………………
And no reason, or ……………………….

What if you should ……………………
That you don't want me there by your side
That you don't want me there in your life

What if I got it ………………………….
And no poem or ……………………….
Could put right what I got …………………….
Or make you feel I …………………………

What if you should ……………………..
That you don't want me there by your side
That you don't want me there in your life

Ooh ooh-ooh, that's …………………………
Let's take a breath, jump over the side
Ooh ooh-ooh, that's ……………………….
How can you know it, if you don't even ……………..
Ooh ooh-ooh, that's ………………………

Every step that you …………………………
Could be your biggest ……………………………
It could bend or it could ………………………..
That's the risk that you …………………………

What if you should …………………….
That you don't want me there in your life
That you don't want me there by your side

Ooh ooh-ooh, that's …………………….
Let's take a breath, jump over the ……………………
Ooh ooh-ooh, that's …………………
How can you know when you don't even ………..
Ooh ooh-ooh, that's …………………… (BIS)

Student exchange: The Comenius Programme

In class We have started a new topic: Student Exchange.

We have been talking about some student exchange programmes, such as the Comenius Programme and the advantages of participating in such projects for both teachers and students.


Read more about The Comenius Programme at: http://www.britishcouncil.org/comenius-benefits-teachers.htm

Halloween is coming ...

Choose a game!

Learn about Halloween, enjoy yourself and improve your English.

The students' first tests...

I have been correcting the students' first tests. The results range from bad to excellent. I have been trying to motivate the students who have more difficulties. I hope I succeed ...

However, much of the work must be done by them.

In their tests I used a text I encountered on the web. This text was about the benefits of having a epal.

Have a look at this text: http://www.foreign-languages-guide.com/international-pen-pals.html

Pele's biography (Pelé was born seventy years ago)

Pelé, the most famous soccer player, was born in Brazil 70 years ago. He was the only soccer player who succeeded in winning three World Cups.

Happy Bithday Pelé!


Watch a video with his biographt at:

http://www.biography.com/articles/Pele-9436416

Use online quizzes to test your modals ...

Use these online quizzes to test your modals.


http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/398.html

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/528.html

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/lefg1_mixedmodals1.html

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/lefg1_mixedmodals2.html

A multilingual world ...

We have already started Block 1: A multilingual world.

Right at the beginning of this block, we talked about different types of activities that students can do outside the classroom to improve their English. My students were able to present many different ideas.
Then we read the text: Making cyberfriends is fun! We read this text because having a cyberfriend can be a wonderful way to meet a native speaker and improve your language skills.
At home, many of my students wrote their first email to their American epals. They could put into practice what we had learned at school. They used the educational site: http://www.epals.com/.

In the web I have found a good site about some of the ways to improve our English.

Ways to improve your English
Practice, practice and more practice! It is true that the more you try to speak English the more you will naturally improve. Just by using the English language as much as possible, your fluency will rapidly develop. Speak on the phone, write e-mails and letter, make lists, read as much as possible. Surround yourself with English!

Make contact with native English people. If you have friends who are English then speak with them about as many different topics as possible. The more diverse your subject matter, the wider the vocabulary you will develop. Try mixing with different kinds of English people, those in different jobs and with diverse interests in order to expose yourself to wider varieties of vocabulary and language usage. Speak English whenever you can: in shops, at the pub, in a queue - seize your opportunity to communicate!

Watch English television. Many films are in English and this is a great place to start to listen to faster spoken sentences, colloquial expressions and accent varieties. Be aware of which English you are listening to though as in many mainstream films you will be listening to American accents which are very different from British accents. Television soaps are an excellent way to pick up idiomatic expressions and casual language usage.

Read newspapers. Read all the English text you can find. Newspapers are a good way of reading lots of smaller articles if you do not feel ready to tackle a book. The tabloid newspapers use more basic English vocabulary and sentence structures and will be easier to read than broadsheet newspapers. Cartoons are a excellent way of involving humour in your reading and offer visual clues to the text.

Find a pen friend. Writing skills can be improved by writing to an English person regularly. Perhaps you can find an English person who wants to learn your native language? You could both write half a letter in English and the other half in your native language and correct each other's messages. Exchanging letters, e-mails or chatting on instant messengers on the internet are great ways of making friends. The messages from your English pen friend will expose you to new words and sentence structures.

Make it fun! If your language learning is not enjoyable then you will find it hard to be motivated. What do you find fun, amusing or fulfilling? Try to incorporate the English language into that. If you like computer games, find an English language interactive adventure game where you have to understand and use instructions to play; if you like cartoons, read them in English; if you like comedy, watch English comedies or go to see a English comedian. Play word-based board games, do crosswords, chat in internet chat rooms or read crime thrillers - whatever floats your boat, as long as it is in English!

Read the whole text at : http://www.myenglishlanguage.com/improving-your-english.htm

Born on this day: John Lennon

John Lennon was born on the 9th October 1940; consequently if he was still alive, he would be seventy today.

On 8th December 1980, he was shot by a disturbed fan in New York.

He became worldwide famous as a member of the Beatles. But, in the the last years of his life, he dedicated himself to promote peace in the world. Do you know his song: "Give Peace a Chance"?

A wonderful song- Imagine

Watch John Lennon's biography

Interests and ambitions...

We have been talking about students' interests and ambitions.
Many of my students refered that they would like to travel to other countries in the world and visit cities like New York and London.

There's a song that refers to New York and to people's expectations towards it.

Listen to this song now and try to fill in the gaps with the correct words.



Empire State of Mind

Ooohh New York x2

Grew up in a town that is famous as the place of ............... ...............
Noise was always loud, there are sirens all around and the streets are mean
If I can make it here, I can make it ..............., that's what they say
Seeing my face in .................... or my name on marquees found down on Broadway

Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of ...................
Baby, I'm from New York
Concrete ................. where dreams are made of
There's nothing you can't do
Now you're in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will ................. you
Hear it for New York, New York, New York!

On the ................., there ain't never a curfew, ladies work so hard
Such a melting pot, on the corner selling rock, ............... pray to God
Hail a gypsy cab, takes me down from Harlem to the Brooklyn Bridge
Some will sleep tonight with a .................. far more than an empty fridge

I'm gonna make it by any means, I get a pocketful of .............
Baby, I'm from New York
Concrete ............ where dreams are made of
There's ................. you can't do
Now you're in New York
These street will make you feel brand new
Big lights will ............. you
Hear it for New York, New York, New York!

One .............. in the air for the big city,
Street lights, big dreams all looking .............
No place in the world that can ...............
Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

In New York
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There's .............. you can't do
Now you're in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will ............ you
Now you're in New York!

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There's ................. you can't do
Now you're in New York
These street will make you feel brand new
Big lights will................inspire you
Hear it for New York!

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Magnificent!

I succeed in getting two tickets for the U2 concert on Saturday afternoon, and I had the opportunity to see them alive.

It was truly magnificent!

• The musicians;
• The sound;
• The lights;
• The stage;
• The interaction between the musicians and the public;
• The environment inside the stadium;
• The public’s enthusiasm;

Bono said : “ I surrender to YOU”
Truly magnificent!

The U2 are in Portugal ... I wish I had a ticket and could see them alive...

Which words are missing in this song?

Magnificent lyrics
Songwriters: Clayton, Adam; Eno, Brian; Evans, David; Hewson, Paul; Lanois, Daniel Roland; Mullen, Laurence;

Magnificent
Oh, oh, magnificent

I was born, I was born
To be with you in this space and ...........
After that and ever after
I haven't had a clue only to ......... rhyme
This foolishness can leave a heart black and ......., oh, oh

Only love, only love can leave such a .........
But only love, only love can heal such a ........

I was born, I was born to sing for you
I didn't have a .......... but to lift you up
And sing whatever song you wanted me to
I give you back my ............... from the womb
My first cry, it was a joyful ........, oh, oh

Only love, only love can leave such a ......
But only love, only love can heal such a ........
Justified, till we die you and I will magnify, oh, oh
Magnificent, magnificent, oh, oh

Only love, only love can leave such a .......
But only love, only love unites our .......
Justified, till we die you and I will magnify, oh, oh
Magnificent, magnificent, magnificent


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these lyrics are submitted by OarSmaN
these lyrics are last corrected by Katja Olsen


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