Olga's BLOG: English classes

Do you know a quote about nature 🏞️🌲 and its protection? Do you agree 👍 with this one: "Going to the mountains 🗻⛰️ is going home 🏠 " ?  John Muir 👴 was a naturalist 👴🌲. He was born in Scotland 🔵⚪ UK (1838) and he died in California 🏖️ USA (1914).

Do you know 🤔 the name of these animals? 🐹 I have classified 📂📂📂 them this 👇 way, but there are many 🌀others. How would you classify 📂📂📂 them? 🌊 Sea animals:🦈🐟 🦎 Reptiles :🐍🐊🐢 👓 Clever animals:🐒🐺 🚜 Farm animals: 🐷🐴🐄 ⬛ Big animals: 🐘🦁🐯🐼 ▪️  Small animals:🐜🐌🦋🐀 What 🤔 is the name of their body 🤸 parts? 🐚 I have created 🗯️🎨 two ✌️ Quizlets to learn 🙇🙇‍♀️ or revise ✔️ animals 🐹 and their body parts 🐚: 1️⃣ -  Animals 🐹 2️⃣ -  Parts of the body (animals) 🐚 First ☝️, you can revise the concepts and then, play 🎲🎮 to the games on the left ⬅️ part to learn 🙇‍♀️ the words. Go on! 💪 A little bird 🐦 told 💬 me you are doing great! 😊

Elephants... 🐘 marvelous land animals. Do you know 🤔 these curious facts about them? 11 things you didn't know about elephants 🐘🐘 1️⃣ There are only two ✌️ types of elephants 🐘, African 🇿🇦 and Asian 🇯🇵. 2️⃣ Female ♀️ Asian 🇯🇵 elephants 🐘 don't have tusks. 3️⃣ Elephants 🐘 can be left-tusked ⬅️ or right-tusked ➡️, like being left- ⬅️ or right-handed ➡️✋. 4️⃣ A newborn 🚼 elephant 🐘 weighs ⚖️ more than 200 pounds (90 kg). That's about 30 human babies 👶. 5️⃣ Elephants have eyelashes 👁️👁️. 6️⃣ The African 🇿🇦 elephant 🐘 is the world's 🌍 largest land 🌲🌳 animal. 7️⃣ Adult elephants cannot jump.🚫🤾 8️⃣ They don't like bees.🐝🐝 9️⃣ An elephant's 🐘 trunk has more muscles 💪 than the whole human body 🏃 put together. 1️⃣0️⃣ Elephants 🐘 can get sunburnt ☀️🔥. They use sand or mud to protect themselves. 1️⃣1️⃣ Elephants 🐘 are pregnant🤰 for 22 months 🗓️. That's almost two years 📅📅. When you have read 👓 these fun facts,...

Read 👓 this news 📰 report about goats 🐐🐐 in the city 🌁: "In Wales 💚⚪❤️ (UK), people must stay at home 🏡. This is because of coronavirus 👑🔬. The streets 🛣️ are empty. Around 100 wild goats 🐐🐐 come to a town🌇 center. Wild goats 🐐🐐 are afraid 😨 of people 🙋🧒. They do not 🚫 usually come 🚶 to towns 🌇🌇. They come closer to people only when the weather ⛈️🌧️🌨️ is bad 👎. Now, there are no people 🚫🙋🧒 and cars🚗🚗 in the streets 🛣️. The goats 🐐🐐 come. They eat garden hedges 🌳 and flowers 🌷🌸🌹🌺. Local people are not happy ☹️. They call 📞 the police 👮👮‍♀️🚔. The police 👮 try to get the goats 🐐🐐 together. The police do it. The goats 🐐🐐 go away ➡️. However, the next morning 🌄, the goats 🐐🐐 come back 🔙. They lay on lawns 🌱🌱🌱. They enjoy😄 the sunny weather ☀️🌄🌅. People 🧒🙋 see 👁️👁️ that the goats 🐐🐐are not dangerous🚫⚠️. They let the goats 🐐🐐 stay." Difficult words: hedge (thick low trees 🌳), l...

A group of three 3️⃣ young people 🧒🧒🧒 sings 🎤 songs 🎶 every day 📆 during the confination ⏹️: And here 👇👇👇 you have Michael Bublé's 👱 version 🎵: 📃 LYRICS: 📃 I just wanna (want to) see 👁️👁️ my friends 👯‍♀️ I wanna  (want to) walk 🚶‍♀️ the streets 🛣️ again 🔁 But I gotta  (have got to) be patient ⏱️ Let's enjoy 😊 this confination! ⏹️ I just wanna (want to) feel your love💘 'Cause (because) Instagram 📱 is not enough for me So I gotta (have got to) be patient ⏱️ Let's enjoy 😊 this confination! ⏹️ But everyday we'll sing 🎤 this song 🎶 To make you dance 💃🕺 Until this ends... 🔚 I just  wanna  (want to) see 👁️👁️ my friends 👯‍♀️ I  wanna  (want to) walk 🚶‍♀️ the streets 🛣️ again 🔁, again 🔁, again 🔁 But I  gotta  (have got to) be patient ⏱️ Let's enjoy 😊 this confination! ⏹️ 👉 Which version is your favourite 😍 one? 👉 Do you remember the short forms wanna...

Today, I bring 🛒 to you a beautiful quote 📝. What does it mean? 🤔 Thanks ❣️ to all my pupils . You teach 👨‍🏫👩‍🏫 me a lot. More than books! 📚

When ⌚ do we use "a" before ⬅️ a noun? When ⌚ do we use "an" before ⬅️ a noun? Try to remember 🤔 these words: 1️⃣: 🐕 - ✉️ - 📓 - ✏️ 2️⃣: 📔 - 👂💍 - 🍊 - ☂️ - 🍎 3️⃣: 💶 - 🦄 - 🛸 - 🥋 - 👨‍✈️ - 🎓 4️⃣: 🏠 - 🐔 - ❤️ - 🏨 - 🐹 - 🚁 Do they go with "a" or with "an" ? 1️⃣: dog🐕 - letter✉️ - notebook📓 - pencil✏️ 2️⃣: agenda📔 - earring👂💍 - orange🍊 - umbrella☂️ - apple🍎 3️⃣: euro💶 - unicorn🦄 - UFO🛸 - uniform👨‍✈️ - university🎓 4️⃣: house🏠 - hen🐔 - heart💚 - hotel🏨 - hamster🐹 - helicopter🚁 Watch 👁️👁️ the video 🎥 to learn 🙇 when ⌚ we use "an" and "an" : IMAGE by amigosingleses Practise what you have learned 🙇 with  this exercise: A or an?" Don't stop learning! 🚫🛑🙇

Hello everybody! 👋 Here 👇👇👇 you have an easy 👍 song 🎶 by The Beatles👬👬 ("the fab four" = the fabulous 😄 four 4️⃣):  Hello, goodbye 👋👋 Do you know 🤔 the meaning of "fabulous" 😄? It's similar to the Spanish ❤️💛 word. The first ☝️ video is the original music video 🎥. The second ✌️ one is the same song 🎶 with lyrics 📃. Once you listen 🎧 to the song 🎵, you can practise 💻🖱️ it with 👉  lyricstraining  📃🎶. Many thanks ❣️ to my cousin Paula 👩‍🏫 for the ideas 💡 she has given to me. Goodbye! 👋

Listen 👂 to the name of the numbers 🔢 from 1️⃣ to 2️⃣0️⃣. Then, match 🔗their pronunciation 😜 to their written ✏️ form. Thanks ❣️ to my friend Laura 👱‍♀️ for teaching 👩‍🏫 me how to use LiveWorksheets 🖥️📄

As we have seen 👁️👁️ in class 👩‍🏫, compound ⚗️👨‍🔬 words 🗣️ are really common in English 🔴🔵⚪. Find 🕵️🕵️‍♀️ which English words 🗣️ are hidden🙈 behind these symbols 🔣. Then, try to make 🔊📝 sentences with some of them. 1.☀️🌼  2.🌙💡  3.🐦🏠  4.👣⚾  5.🍯🌙  6.🌧️🧥  7.🕷️👨  8.🍳🎂  9.💡🏠  10.🔥👨  11.🌊🐎 12. ❄️👨  13.⭐🐟  14.☕🎂  15.🐕🏠  16.🌧️🏹  17.❄️⚾ 🤔 REMEMBER: 🚨You can send 📩 the sentences by audio 🔊 or written 📝. 🚨 You can use  our online dictionary  💻📔 or ask ❓ your teacher 👩‍🏫 for a clue 🔎🐾. 🚨 Discover 🕵️‍♀️ how they are pronounced 😜.

Today, I bring 🛒 to you a fantastic 🤩 game 🎲! Why? 🤔 Because you can check ✔️ words you know and learn 👩‍🏫 new ones with 👉  Ba Ba Dum game . There are different options 🔠 to play 🎮: you can change 🔀 them on the left ⬅️ side (click 🖱️ on "change game" ).  Let's learn 👩‍🏫 English 💂 with funny 😹 games! 🃏🎮🎱🎲

Take a look 👀 at these amazing 😮  National Geographic pictures  📸🖼️. 👉 ENGLISH 1: Where can you see... a bird? 🐦 the sky? 🌌 the sea? 🌊 the sun? ☀️ a person? 🚶 leaves? 🍃🍃 bottles? 🍾🍾 a butterfly? 🦋 a mountain? 🏔️ some fish? 🐟🐠 a green insect? 🦗 some trees? 🌳🌲🌴 💡EXAMPLE: I can see 👀 a bird 🐦 in picture number 2. 👉 What vowel sounds 🔊 can you hear 👂🎧? 👁️‍🗨️ Reminder: use our  online dictionary ! 💻📑 👉 Where have the pictures 📸 been taken?  (name of the country 🗾 and the city 🌁) 👉 What words do you use to describe the pictures? 📸🖼️ 💰BONUS: Write ✏️ a new title for some of the pictures. 💡Example for picture number 1: "Deep blue" 🌊🐟🐠🏊‍♂️. Look after our planet! 🌍💙🌎💚🌏

Here 👇👇👇 you have some famous 😎 quotes 📋 to celebrate 🎉 World 🌍 book 📗 day 📆 (April 2️⃣3️⃣rd): 1️⃣ “Wear the old coat 🧥 and buy 💶 the new book 📗.” – Austin Phelps 2️⃣ “A book 📙 is a gift 🎁 you can open 🔓again and again 🔄.” – Garrison Keillor 3️⃣ “I find television 📺 very educating. Every time somebody 👤 turns it on 🔛🔌, I go into the other room 🛋️ and read 🤓 a book 📗.” – Groucho Marx 4️⃣ “You don’t ❌ have to burn 🔥 books 📚 to destroy 💔 a culture. Just get people 👥 to stop 🛑🤚 reading 🤓📚 them.” – Ray Bradbury 5️⃣ “Reading 🤓 one book 📙 is like eating 😋 one potato chip 🍟.” – Diane Duane 6️⃣ “Today a reader 🤓, tomorrow a leader🤴👸.” – Margaret Fuller 7️⃣ “I always imagine 🤔💭 that paradise 😇☀️🌈🍎🏞️ will be a library 📚📚📚.” – Jorge Luis Borges 8️⃣ “Spend rainy 🌧️ days at home 🏠 with a cup of tea 🍵 and a good book 👍📗.” – Bill Watterson 9️⃣ “The books 📚 give Matilda 👧 a powerful 💪message💌: You are not ❌ alone 😔.” – Roald Dahl 1️⃣0️⃣ ...

Do you remember 🤔💭 our phrasal verb of the week 📆? English 3 students are experts 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 on them. Today, we are going to learn 👩‍🏫 4 phrasal verbs with the word "out". 😊🥤 Hang out 👋🏨 Check out 😡😡 Fall out 😲🕷️ Freak out You can write ✏️ an example with each of them. Don't forget you can write ✏️ them in the affirmative ➕, negative ❌ or question❔ form.  Learning English 💂‍♀️ is a really good👍 way of hanging out 😊🥤at home! 😉

Minimal pairs 👯 are words pronounced 😜 the same ⚖️ but 1 of their sounds 🔉 is different 🔣. Here you have some examples 👇👇👇: Cat 🐱 - cut ✂️ / worm 🐛 - warm ☕ / ship ⛵ - sheep 🐑 / wet 💦 - vet 👩‍⚕️ / fan 🌬️❎ - van 🚐 / bad 😈 - ban ⛔🚫 / mouse 🐀- mouth 👄 / beat 🥁🎶- meat 🥩 / bean 🍛- bin🗑️. 👉 You can use our online dictionary  💻📘 to listen 👂 to them and check ✅ how they are pronounced 😜 in the UK ❤️💙⚪. 👉 Which vowel sounds are short 🔈? Which vowel sounds are long 🔊? 👉 Can you write ✍️ one sentence with each of them?

Imagine 💭 you are a journalist 🎤🎥📸 and you need to ask 🗣️ these questions ❓ to 2 very famous 😎😎 British people. Complete✍️ the questions ❓ (with WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, HOW x2) and look 🕵️‍♂️ for the information to answer 💬 them.                                                                                👱 ... is your name? 😀😕 ... are you? 📆 ... old are you? 🎂 ... is your birthday? 👫 ... is your sister? 🏡 ... do you live?    ⚽ ... do you play football?   👱‍♀️ ... is your name? 😀😍 ... are you? 📆 ... old are you? 🎂 ... is your birthday? 👫 ... is your brother? 🏡 ... do you live?                            ...

Funny video! 😂 Jimmy Kimmel plays with his children 👪 to the famous game show Who wants to be a millionaire 💲.  🚨 Pay attention to the questions and how they are formed.  🚨 You can play it with subtitles and 0.75 speed.

Run 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️, dance 👯, cook 👨‍🍳👩‍🍳... Can you find 🔎 our basic verbs in this 👉  game ? 😄

What do you usually have for breakfast 🌞? Milk 🐄? Hot chocolate 🍫? Fruit🍎? Black coffee ☕? I bet it is quite different from the traditional English 💂‍♀️ breakfast. In this video 📹, you can check ☑️ how it is made  👉 Full English breakfast  and learn 👩‍🏫 some vocabulary linked with food like: 🍳 Eggs 🍅 Tomato 🍛 Beans 🍞 Bread 🍄 Mushrooms 🥓 Bacon 🌭 Sausages You can try to cook 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳 your own British breakfast. There are diferent recipes. English❤️, Scottish💙, Welsh💚 and Irish🧡. Which one is your favourite 💘? 💰 BONUS: For our level 3 students, you can investigate 🔎 a little bit more ➕ on British food 💂🍜 in this 👉 article by the Telegraph 🗞️:  The 15 most British foods ever Keep calm and study English! ❤️💙💚🧡

As most of us love 💕cooking and baking 🍳🎂🍮🍩, here you have an image 📷 with baking vocabulary 👇👇👇: When you have read 👓 it and organised it in your notebook 📖, you can play 💻 to these 👉 games . Mmmm, yummy! 😋😋😋

Watch 👀 the short video 📹 by Cambridge to learn about prepositions of time 🕒.  Later, you can practise them with this 👉 exercise ! 👩👍

Do you know 🤔 how your life is going to be in 5 years? 💭 And in 10 years? Nobody 🚫 knows that! But you can use our great resource  FutureMe . You write 📝 a letter ✉️ talking about your thoughts, your experiences... and send 📤 it to your future self. The FutureMe💻programme will send 📪 it to you in 2022, 2027... when you prefer! 💟 Would you rather receive it in 2 years or in 10 years? (level 3 students 😉) You can also read 👓  public letters from people 👪👫👭👯 all over the world 🌍🌎🌏. But... don't panic! 😨 You can choose 👆 if you want your letter to be public 🔓 or private 🔒. 👉 Level 1 students: you can write 📝words or short sentences we have learnt 👩‍🏫 this year 🗓️ Go for it! 💪

My friend Elena 👩 is all day 🌞 and night 🌛 studying how to pronounce the English sounds😜. She told 💬 me that she loves 💘 tongue twisters 👅🌀 to improve her pronunciation skills. Here you have some of her favourite 😍 ones 👇👇👇 You can look for 👓 more in this web page:  British Council tongue twisters  (📣audio included). You also know you should use our  online dictionary  📚, in case we have doubts 😵 about some sounds 🔔. 💰BONUS: a harder tongue twister 👅🌀 for our advanced students.  Never give up! 💪

Games and game shows🎯... a really entertaining 😁 way of practising English 💂. If you click on 👉  this link , you can discover 🔍a very funny game 🎲 based on a famous TV 📺  game show. Do you know 🙇 which one is it? 📢 This game is just available for computers 💻📵

Have you already baked 👩‍🍳 hot-cross buns? mmmm, yummy! 😋 We learnt👩🏻‍🏫 they are really typical during Easter . But... do you know Easter words? I'll give you some clues 🐾🔍:   - A hen's baby 🐣   - A baby animal with long ears that hops a lot  🐰    - Something that grows from birds' skin  🐓🐔🐤🐥   - Oval white and orange food we look for in Easter hunts 🍳   - A pinkish food most of people love that comes from the pig 🐷   - An object we use to carry things, for instance: mushrooms 👜🍄   - A rounded sweet that children love. It's made up of chocolate  🍫🐣 We have many more ➕ words in these games: tiny cards 1  and tiny cards 2 ! They are related to Duolingo 📲, an app most of you know. 💰BONUS: For higher level students 😎, you can check these  facts about Easter . You can also investigate 🔍 about the relationship between countries such as Italy 💚⚪❤️ and Germany 🖤🔴💛 with Easter.  ...

I am sure you have seen 👀 indefinite pronouns lots of times!   🎵  Somewhere over the rainbowwww... 🌈 🎵 I see something blue, blue, blue... 💧 📄 "Somebody is sleeping in my bed" - said Goldilocks 💤 🎵  Everybody needs somebody to love 💑 ...and many more examples!  I have created this chart to easen their comprehension 😎: Moreover, here you have an online💻exercise to practise them:  Indefinite pronouns exercise And lovely💕cover song 🎶 by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole:  Somewhere over the rainbow  🌈 Remember💭that you can practise it with  lyricstraining  🎵📄 📢 Never stop 📛 learning! 💪