CREATE AVATARS AND REVISE VOCABULARY

Do you want to create your own avatar? This is what we've done in class. Good stuff to revise parts of the body and adjectives to describe people's appearance for this UNIT 1. Furthermore, if you have a facebook account you can tune it with your created avatar. Go ahead, it's good fun!! To go to this website click on this link: Create an avatar

Or on this other: Downloadable avatar

This link will download the avatars yau've made in class to practice your description. You'll also find some handy vocabulary. Click on it and... do your best!!!
1º ESO class avatars

Verb to be online activities and games

The verb to be is the most irregular verb in the English language. It is normally a linking verb showing existence or the condition of the subject. It can also be used as an auxiliary verb when forming the passive voice. In this entry you will find some activities online for practising and games which help you consolidate this structure. HAVE SOME FUN!!ç

For activities online, visit the following sites: 

eclecticenglish

agendaweb
For question words: ESL Games+

For to be games: 

britishcouncil

Anglomaniac

STATIVE AND DYNAMIC VERBS

Verbs in English can be classified into two categories: stative verbs and dynamic verbs. Dynamic verbs (sometimes referred to as "action verbs") usually describe actions we can take, or things that happen; stative verbs usually refer to a state or condition which is not changing or likely to change. The difference is important, because stative verbs cannot normally be used in the continuous (BE + ING) forms. This will explain the differences between the two types of verb, and give lots of examples of each kind.

If you wnat to have some practice on this with some exercises and their key, download this document: Dynamic and stative verbs: rules, examples, exercises and answers

For some practice online, visit this website: My English pages.Or this other one: Perfect English grammar

For some online translation practice in Present Simple/Continuous: check this other site: Translation in English

To download your homework: Stative verbs homework

PRESENT SIMPLE VS. PRESENT CONTINUOUS

In this lesson we are going to compare the present simple and  present continuous tense. We are going to study the differences and do exercises together. It is a very common problem to confuse these to tenses.
Many students from Spain have problems in choosing the correct form of the verb when we talk about the “present”. Such problems arise because they translate from Spanish to English directly without paying attention to the communicative uses.
Here you can find exercises where you must work on the recognition between the two presents, both simple and continuous, and we'll check them out in class on Tuesday. GOOD LUCK!!

To download the activities: Present Simple vs. Present Continuous exercises

STATIVE VERBS LIST
Some verbs are only (or mostly) used in simple tens es, and are not used in continuous tenses. An example of a simple tense is the present simple, or the past simple. An example of a continuous tense is the present continuous or past continuous. These verbs are called stative, or state verbs. A verb which isn’t stative is called a dynamic verb, and is usually an action. Often stative verbs are about liking or disliking something, or about a mental state, not about an action.

To download the stative verbs list, go to the following link: Stative Verbs List

For online activities:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4