PAST SIMPLE & PAST CONTINUOUS

Activity for my  students of 4º ESO & Bachillerato:.
We have been dealing with the differences between Past Simple & Past Continuous in English:

• Past Simple is used to express actions finished at a concrete moment.
• Past Continuous is used to emphasize that an action has been happening for some time or has been repeated.

Here are some links you can have a look to practice the difference between both tenses:

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/pastpastcont.html

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs3.htm

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=734

PRESENT SIMPLE & PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Activity for my students OF 4º ESO and Bachillerato:
We have dealt with both present Simple and Continuous tenses. I have done a chart for you to download at this link:
https://app.box.com/s/pgwp63uk1w4b7z6shn9p

You can also do several interactive activities in these links:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_present_progressive2.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs1.htm
Here there is a text where you have to write the verbs in the correct tense:
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-12052.php
 And this is a fantastic blog I have found called My English Desk:
http://myenglishdesk.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/present-simple-vs-present-continuous.html

Enough, I think.

PRESENT SIMPLE

Activity for my students of 4º ESO & Bachillerato:
We have worked the Simple Present Tense
Remember that we use this tense to express HABITUAL ACTIONS.
The AFFIRMATIVE FORM is: I work.... he works....
The NEGATIVE FORM is: I don't work...he doesn't work....
The INTERROGATIVE FORM is: Do you work?...Does he work?...
The SHORT ANSWER is: Yes, I do/ No, I don't...Yes, he does/No, he doesn't
TIME EXPRESSIONS which go with this tense are: Every day, once a month, on Mondays, at the weekend and the FREQUENCY ADVERBS: always, usually, often, sometimes, never.
You can practice if you click these links:
http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/present_simple.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/simple-present-1
http://www.really-learn-english.com/simple-present-exercises.html
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=714
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2975

BREAST CANCER INTERNATIONAL DAY

Today is the 6th birthday of somebody I love very much but it is also the International Day against breast cancer. Two of my best friends have suffered from this illness before being 40 and are recovered now. They both are ADMIRABLE SURVIVORS. They have been so brave and so positive about it that all the people who love them feel VERY PROUD OF THEM. They are my HEROINES. They have given a lesson to everybody around them that  we will never ever forget. Girls, this song is for you. This is the only song in Spanish in this blog but Luz also deserves to be in this post. This song also brings me good memories. I used it to teach my students the subjunctive in Spanish when I was a T.A. in Williams College, Massachusetts.

LEARNING PRESENT CONTINUOUS THROUGH MOVIES

Activity for 4ºD  ESO
Francesca, our Teaching Assistant found this interesting seletion of movie scenes in Youtube where the Present Continuous Tense is used. Let's watch it again

A NEW STAGE

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players"
 William Shakespeare

I love this quote. It's so true. I know it has been long since the last time I wrote here. The end of the academic year is always hard but last year it was even harder. It was my last year at the CEPA Joaquín Sorolla, where I had been the Head Teacher for four years and where I left almost all my energy. Then I was obliged to be a member of the board in the competitive exams for English teachers and then I tried to enjoy my unforgettable  Summer in Ireland with my family and my Irish friends for more than twenty years.

My professional life has changed lately. The destiny has brought me back to the high school where I studied a long time. I am a teacher this time an I take part in the bilingual programme for Secondary education, which sound so exciting. I need aims to give some sense to my life, I need to follow a lighthouse. Teaching Literature and working in this project is an interesting goal that makes me feel alive.

This is a new stage in my life. I am ready for that but the memories of those four years there and in other schools since I started teaching in 1996 will be with me forever giving me strength and wisdom.

Hook lighthouse, Ireland