Welcome!

ESL CLASSROOM CORNER

Welcome to the blog of the ESL classroom. I'm Elena Foncubierta, your English teacher. 

This is the new blog you are going to be using in the ESL classroom this year! So, this means most of our activities will take place here. However, you need to stay updated because the blog will have different activities every week, so make sure you check it out. I hope you have fun learning :)

HALLOWEEN CORNER

 

In this section, we will be talking about the upcoming festivity: Halloween. As it takes place on October 31st, we will dedicate 5' of our lesson. Let's begin with a brief introduction about Halloween:

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, "the night of 31 October when children dress in special clothes and people try to frighten each other"...

 

Speaking activities

Unit 1: Climate Change

Activity 1: Observe the following pictures.

Let's compare the photographs with the person sitting next to you! 

Once you have finished, in pairs again, you have to watch the following video and follow the repetition instructions that are proposed. This way, we can also work in pronunciation. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKdxf1oN4ps

Was it useful? :)

Reading activities

Unit 1: CLIMATE CHANGE

READING 1: In this first activity, you will be reading a text and answering the following questions in a piece of paper. Let's look at the image below!

Source of the image: ISL worksheets.

Once you have read the text, you need to answer the following questions in a Google Document and share it with me through your email. Answer:

1) What are scientists interested in? 

2) In the first paragraph, it appears an "it", what does it refer to?

3) Again, in paragraph 1, we see "them", what does it refer to?

4) What can warmer ocean water do?

5) In the 3rd paragraph, we see "they" and "their". What's the difference between them?

6) What can a hurricane do?

Listening activities

Unit 1: Climate change

Activity 1:

Watch the following video about how we can prevent the climate change, and answer the following questions with your partner!

Open the link and watch the video below:

 The 3 Rs

Once you finished watching the video, you need to answer the following questions about it in a shared Google Document:

1) What is climate change? How is it affecting us?

2) What happens to the characters in the video?

3) What do we understand by saying the 3 Rs?

4) What are some examples of preventing the climate change shown in the video?

Extra Activity 2: 

To master the topic, you can do the EdPuzzle below!!!

EdPuzzle about 3 Rs

Writing activities

This is the writing corner... here, I will be posting writing tasks throughout the course in order for you to improve your writing skills. However, my idea is that you create a blogger! In pairs, you will be able to share your writings, and the rest of students will be able to comment on your ideas too. This way, we can exchange our thoughts and I can also evaluate you.

Unit 1: Climate change

Activity 1: 

This first task of the unit will consist on you creating your blog. Even though this is a task you should already know how to do, you need to register on Google and then search blogger. It will ask you for a username, so you can choose anything your partner and you find suitable. 

But wait... this is just the intro. After this is done, you need to write about the different ways you can prevent climate change. You also need to write about what you do in your life (recycle, reuse, etc.). Of course, your blog needs to be visual and colourful.