ENGLISH ESO 3

VEGETABLES and FRUITMany students find it difficult to remember the names of the different types of vegetables in English. In the following video by Linguaspectrum you can remember or learn many of them and practise phonetics and pronunciation at the same time. Just click on the word vegetables.Now practise writing some of them in this activity.What about remembering some vocabulary about fruit? Just click on fruit. But if you really want to learn some more things about fruit and nuts, click on those words and watch the video.

HEALTHY EATING

After reviewing some vocabulary, let's find out about nutrition. You're going to click on the following link and work on a task about Healthy Eating. You must follow the instructions and copy the answers to the activities in your noteboook.

Please, click on Healthy eating for a healthy life and start your research. Don't do number 7 or the last activity in green. Instead, do the How healthy are you? quiz and find out if you eat healthily.

If you have any doubts about vocabulary, you can use the online dictionaries on the right.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE: PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS

To start with, review how to pronounce the -ed ending in regular past and participle forms. You can do it by reading and practising with the examples given in the attachment below.

If you need a general review of Past Simple -regular and irregular verbs; negative and interrogative form-, you can do the exercises about this tense at the end our website English ESO 1.

Perhaps some will need some more practice about Past Continuous and its contrast with Past Simple. You can practise the form of the first tense on the following websites: 1, 2, 3

For the contrast between Past Simple and Past Continuous, you can do these other activities: Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3, Exercise 4, Exercise 5.

A CHRISTMAS QUIZ

Christmas is here again. You already know a lot of things about Christmas in Britain, but can you answer all the questions in the following quiz? If you can't, don't worry, you'll be able to find the answers by clicking on the links next to the questions.

Find out some more things about Christmas traditions in this CHRISTMAS WEBQUEST.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE: PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE

You can review and learn about this tense in the Powerpoint presentation in the attachments. Then, you can do the activities at the end of the ESO 2 page to practise the basics about this tense.

Now, here you are some more activities to practise the new aspects this year. First, you can do two more activities to practise time expressions with FOR or SINCE: 1, 2.

in the following activities you will practise the contrast between Present Perfect Simple and Past Simple: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Next, some activities to practise BEEN TO / GONE TO: 1, 2, 3.

Finally, just one more as a general review. Good luck!

FASHION AND CLOTHES

These days we remember vocabulary about clothes that you learnt some years ago, and we're going to learn some more in your book and on the websites given in this section. First, look at this website. Click here to find out about other clothes and parts of clothes. Then, add 10 new common words to your classification of clothes and accessories.Finally, one of the best ways to learn about fashion now is to surf the many websites of shops online today. Here you can have a look at some of them. You can learn new words and see what is fashionable now in the UK and in the USA. These websites will also be especially useful for you in this unit when you have to do your final writing task in Unit 4. Here you are some websites of famous British and American shops: Topshop and Gap. You can learn a lot by clicking on the labels or the menu for the different clothes and accessories on each website.

You can use the dictionaries given on the right-hand side of this site if you want to make sure of the meaning of some words in Spanish.

Finally, you can watch two videos about people shopping. You can also listen and repeat so you practise pronunciation and speaking in general for your speaking project. Just click on the words for the elementary video, and for the pre-intermediate one.

POEMS: CALLIGRAMS

Last year you wrote some beautiful haikus and we published a digital book with a selection of the best ones.This year we're going to write some shape poems or calligrams. As its name suggests, these poems are written in a shape which represents the subject of the poem. I hope the result is good enough to publish a book this year as well!

For some help with your calligrams, please look at the file on the attachments below. You'll find the instructions and the link to a website that can make it easier for you to write it. But remember, the final product must be given to the teacher on a nice piece of cardboard!

GRAMMAR PRACTICE: CONDITIONAL CLAUSES

You can do some more practice on Conditional clauses in the following exercises:

Practise Zero Conditionals here: 1, 2, 3.

First Conditionals: 4, 5, 6.

Second Conditionals: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

Finally, you can practise a mixture of the previous types of Conditional Clauses in these exercises: 12, 13, 14, 15.

CREATIVE WRITING

How creative are you? Are you an imaginative person? You can show that you are by doing the task attached at the bottom called

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ....?

Read the questions first. The instructions are at the end. When you have your paragraph or your answers ready, hand them to the teacher. She will publish the best and most creative ones on our website.

VERB COLLOCATIONS: DO / MAKE

You can learn about the general use of these verbs and many of the most common expressions with DO or MAKE in English in the following website. You can also practise doing some exercises. Just click here.

INVENTIONS

Would you like to see the MIURO working? Watch the following video from Youtube and answer the following questions.

1. What is there inside the Miuro?

2. What can Miuro dance?

3. What can it connect to?

SOME MORE BRITISH INVENTIONS

These days we have seen some of the many British inventions such as the pencil or the toaster. Here we're going to find out about some other inventions. Click on the words to go to a website where you will discover some details. Choose three inventions and try to answer the questions below, as far as possible.

1. What is it called?
2. What is it?
3. What can it do? / What is it used for?
4. What is it made from?
5. Who was it invented by?
6. When was it invented?

BRITISH INVENTIONS: tin can, cat eyes, crossword puzzles, electromagnet, lawn mower, penicillin, periscope, modern seismograph, rubber bands, television, telephone, thermos flask, waterproof fabric.

Remember! You can use the dictionaries on the right-hand side at the top of this page for unknown words.