Related to this time of the year

These are some Instagram publications related to Xmas, click on them to find out more.

Rockefeller Center Christmas tree

Window displays

Improving pronunciation

This is a video from youtube by mmmEnglish, I think it could be useful.

Macy's Thanksgiving day Parade

Check this link to learn more about it.

November 11th

If you have read newspapers or have watched the news in the last few weeks, you will have noticed many people are wearing a poppy. November 11th is a relevant day for the veterans in the Anglosaxon world and has something to do with this little flower. In these videos you get to know a bit more about what it is celebrated on that day. Did you know about it?

Check this piece of news from the BBC

A mother's love

This is an endearing advertisement to value the job mums do with their children.

Let it be an excuse for you to practise your writing skills. Invent the story of one of the characters that appear in the video or,  if you prefer, tell us how your parents (or just one of them) have been the wind beneath your wings.

You can hand them in  before the end of November.

Happy Halloween!!!

These are some curious images related to Halloween. Enjoy them.

Washington Post

Halloween at the zoo

World biggest Halloween pumpkin

What do you think  of the big impact this festivity has in our society? Leave your comments in the box.

The experts' opinions

Some TED translators want to share some of their secrets on how to learn a new language.

Enjoy it!!

When you read it, write a report about it giving your personal opinion and preferences.

Learning with songs

10 mistakes made by learners of English

This is an entry you can read at the Oxford Dictionaries blog

Different tittles in different countries.

You know how  the way the tittle of a film is translated quite often has nothing  or little to do with the original one. Check this article from EL PAÍS in English and find out about it.

What kind of traveller are you?

This is a quiz you can do to find out your travel personality. Where? / How? The Guardian Newspaper

What about letting the rest know? Leave your comments in the box.

Christmas time.

Here you have a video from Anglophenia with the differences between British and American Christmas.

Similes

This is from Oxford Word Skills Advanced. Enjoy it!

time to play

Here you have a link to a page to practise similes.  It has been taken from the webpage English Club.
Have fun!!

Where there is a will there is a way II

... and motivation does help. Merry Christmas!!

My treasure possession.

This is a little treasure written by Begoña G. Q.

MY TREASURED POSSESSION

I own an antique full-length mirror with a simple light wood frame that belonged to my grandmother and then my aunt Carmen. It was made in a small village near Santiago de Compostela in the 1940s by my grandfather Manuel. My grandfather made this mirror for his wife´s job, my grandmother Carmen, who was a seamstress. My aunt Carmen, being three years old, inherited this mirror because her mother died very young. And the relatives who took care of my aunt gave her the mirror when she decided to be a seamstress.

The mirror reminds me of my childhood because when I went to my aunt Carmen´s house in Bilbao, she would be sewing in the sewing room and I would play at being a client with the pieces of cloth in front of the mirror. Sometimes the real clients came to try their made-to-measure dresses or suits on and I used to help my aunt with more enthusiasm than skill. I loved the way women looked at themselves in the mirror wearing my aunt´s creations.

When my aunt died, the mirror was handed down to my father. He offered it to my sister and me and, although I looked forward to having the mirror, I did say nothing because my sister is my aunt´s goddaughter and I thought that she would like to have it. However, my sister remembered our childhood days at my aunt´s house and the famous question that I asked my aunt one day: "How many people will have looked at themselves in this mirror along the time?" Due to this, my sister considered that the mirror had to be bequeathed to me. And in this way my treasured possession came to me in Badajoz. Needless to say that it has great sentimental value and I still wonder about the number of people who looked at themselves in it in different periods and places...

Where there is a will there is a way.

Quite often, when we are in class, I encourage you to believe in yourselves. I know you can reach as far as you aim to. There is work to do -remember our three times a day rule- but if you believe you can do it, you sure are on the right track.

This is part of a programme in which BBC interviewed 100 women. Simone Biles is just an example of someone  who believes in herself. Pay particular attention to minutes 2'42 & 3'42

Grouping rhyming words 1

These are some exercises from Test your Pronunciation Penguin English Guides by Michael Vaughan-Rees.  Rearrange the words according to their correct pronunciation.

What do the British do better than the Americans?

This is an article published on The Independent.

23 things British people do better than Americans

BBC learning gives us a hand ....

... with some common mistakes. In this case, as seen in class, with the word order in Indirect questions and something else.

I hope you enjoy it!!!