Teacher Dave @ Cultura Inglesa Mirassol

Teacher Dave @ Cultura Inglesa Mirassol http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com EMAIL teacherdave_natal@yahoo.co.uk Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:14:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png Teacher Dave @ Cultura Inglesa Mirassol http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com Intermediate Group http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/intermediate-group-2/ http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/intermediate-group-2/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:57:10 +0000 gringomaclure http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/?p=408 ]]> Hello Rafael, Marut, Aygun, Miki, Martina, Andy, Sven, Moe, Mari and David…

Try some quizzes:

Sports quiz – play, go or do

More Sport Vocabulary

Another Sports Quiz

Music Crossword

Freetime Activities

Revising Tenses and Questions

Present Perfect Continuous

For Since or Until?

Hunter Shoots A Bear – a fun game to practise your English verbs! Watch the video and click a choice!

THE PLAYLIST FOR OUR GROUP:

MIKI: Mariah Carey featuring Nicki Minaj – Up Out My Face (with lyrics)

DAVID: Jessica – Goodbye

SVEN: Savage Garden – To the Moon and Back (with lyrics)

ANDY: Dropkick Murphys – Shipping Up To Boston

MARTINA: Semisonic – Closing Time (with lyrics)

RAFAEL: Eric Clapton and friends (live) – Sweet Home Chicago

MOE: Ting Tings – Great DJ (with lyrics)

MARI: Slightly Stoopid – Mr Collie Man (with lyrics)

MARUT: Demet Akalin – Canta

AYGUN: Tarkan – Acimayacak 2011

And, my choice:
R.E.M. – It’s the end of the world as we know it (Karaoke version)

Rebecca Black – Friday Parody

]]> http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/intermediate-group-2/feed/ 0 gringomaclure Intermediate Group http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/intermediate-group/ http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/intermediate-group/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:01:13 +0000 gringomaclure http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/?p=395 ]]> Hi everyone,

Here are some activities today to try!

Click here for the Travis song.

Try this Weather quiz.

Weather crossword.

Future grammar.

Practice “will” quiz.

Practice “going to” quiz.

Usually and used to.

Used to quiz.

Adverbs of Frequency

Do you understand the weather forecast in English? Go to this website and click “forecast video”

Another small weather quiz.

Here is another song about being “stuck in a traffic jam”. The subtitles tell you what the people are thinking. REM – Everybody Hurts.

This website has many activities to practice grammar and vocab. You choose some to practice.

If you still have time – try lyricstraining.com

]]> http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/intermediate-group/feed/ 0 gringomaclure Vocab and Grammar Practice http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/vocab-and-grammar-practice/ http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/vocab-and-grammar-practice/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:06:26 +0000 gringomaclure http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/?p=388 ]]> ing or ed adjectives.

continuous or simple.

present continuous.

Present Simple or Continuous?

Feelings vocab game.

Cities in the world game. Good luck!

Vocab games – click on the “personality” exercises.

]]> http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/vocab-and-grammar-practice/feed/ 0 gringomaclure Intermediate Group http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/376/ http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/376/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:59:18 +0000 gringomaclure http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/?p=376 ]]> A video of Johnny Cash singing “Folsom Prison Blues” at San Quentin.

And here’s another video of Johnny singing with his wife June in front of prisoners. Watch here.

Here is an advert for Specsavers glasses. What does the policeman say at the end? Watch the video here.

Crime Vocab practice

Grammar Practice. Try some of these conditionals sentences.

Can or must? activity

Deduction questions.

A new website I found with lots of grammar practice. Englishgrammarexercises.com

]]> http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/376/feed/ 0 gringomaclure English for Art and Design http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/english-for-art-and-design/ http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/english-for-art-and-design/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:44:11 +0000 gringomaclure http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/?p=371 ]]> Hi everyone,

Here are some activities for you to try!

A cool website and blog with new and interesting typefaces.

Create your own font online

Listen to an interview with the people from bancomicsans.com

A programme about choosing a piece of public art for London’s Trafalgar Square

Gleb suggests myfonts.com and I also looked at tyopgraphy.com – great websites with very interesting fonts!

Esther suggests dafont.com too.

]]> http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/english-for-art-and-design/feed/ 0 gringomaclure Practice from this week http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/practice-from-this-week/ http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/practice-from-this-week/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:09:42 +0000 gringomaclure http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/?p=368 ]]> Hi guys,

Here are some activities to practice this week’s vocab and grammar.

1) infinitve or -ing?
2) infinitive or -ing?
3) Prepositions
4) much and many.
5) Adjective Order
6) inf or -ing
7) few and little
Clothes and fashion

]]> http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/practice-from-this-week/feed/ 0 gringomaclure Education http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/education/ http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/education/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:55:58 +0000 gringomaclure http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/?p=366 ]]> Watch this video about education and answer the questions. You might want to watch it twice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

If you have time, try these activities about Education:
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/intermediate/b_vocabulary/bank07/

OR

Watch another RSA video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg

]]> http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/education/feed/ 0 gringomaclure http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/363/ http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/363/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:44:09 +0000 gringomaclure http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/?p=363 ]]> Recent British Design
Go to:

http://www.bl.uk/bipc/aboutus/oursuccstor/index.html

Choose a video to watch about a recent design and invention in Britain. Watch it again and follow the script.

]]> http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/363/feed/ 0 gringomaclure Online Practice http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/online-practice/ http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/online-practice/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:07:21 +0000 gringomaclure http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/?p=356 ]]> Hello Gisela, Sol, Jenny, Crystal, AJ, Antoine and Marg,

Starbucks

First of all, please read this recent article from the BBC and answer the questions:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12125440

Do you drink Starbucks?
Why are Starbucks changing their logo?
What new products will they sell in their shops?
What does James Gregory think about the change?
What do you think – is it a good idea?

Superlatives and Comparatives practice

Please go to the Guiness World Records website. Look around and watch some of the videos. Write 5 examples of superlatives you find on the website.

More practice – choose some activities to do
1. Comparatives and Superlatives
2. 2nd conditional
3. More Exercise for comparatives and conditionals.

Finally, here are two funny Marmite adverts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMg5mJUr8dU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlsBem2JOl0&NR=1

]]> http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/online-practice/feed/ 0 gringomaclure Hello Intermediate Class! http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/hello-intermediate-class/ http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/hello-intermediate-class/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:02:49 +0000 gringomaclure http://teacherdavenatal.wordpress.com/?p=350 ]]> Hi Andac, Vincent, Eri, Severine, Elena, Chicko and Yuko,

Try these activities to practice mixed tenses:
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/intermediate/a_grammar/file01/nef_int_grammar01_b01/
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/intermediate/a_grammar/file01/nef_int_grammar01_b02/
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/290.html
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/228.html
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/140.html
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/past_perfect_simple_past.htm
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/structures/error_text_tenses.htm

If you have time – read some Calvin and Hobbes!
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/

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