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Wednesday, 15 December 2010

USED TO

I have come across this website in which you can see what people USED TO think







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Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Monday, 22 November 2010

Pronunciation of R

Who's on the (guest) list?




Sunday, 21 November 2010

Charles, Jason and children

Pay attention to how the words 'Jason' and 'children' are pronounced.

Saturday, 20 November 2010

Pictures of Emotions / feelings



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EMOTIONS

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Monday, 25 October 2010

SYMBOLS AND SOUNDS 2

You can see the symbols and listen to the sounds of the English consonants and vowels, and learn when they are voiced or voiceless.

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Tongue-twister

Betty / Botter / bought a / bit of / butter
But the / butter / was / bitter
So she / bought a / better / butter
And she / made the / butter / better




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Botter

"Betty Botter" has some variations, but most are very similar. A common one is:

Betty Botter bought a bit of butter,
"But," she said, "the butter's bitter;
If I put it in my batter,
It will make my batter bitter;
But a bit of better butter,
That would make my batter better."
So she bought a bit of better butter,
Better than her bitter butter,
And she put it in her bitter batter,
And the batter was not bitter;
So 'twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.









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Sunday, 17 October 2010

SALTAR


jump

Pronunciation:
/dʒʌmp/
verb

    1 [no object, usually with adverbial of direction] push oneself off a surface and into the air by using the muscles in one's legs and feet:
    the cat jumped off his lap
    he jumped twenty-five feet to the ground





hop

Pronunciation:
/hɒp/
verb (hops, hopping, hopped)

    1 [no object, with adverbial of direction] (of a person) move by jumping on one foot:
    he hopped along beside her

    (of a bird or other animal) move by jumping with two or all feet at once:
    a blackbird was hopping around in the sun

    spring or leap a short distance with one jump:
    he hopped down from the rock





skip


Pronunciation:
/skɪp/
verb (skips, skipping, skipped)

    1 [no object, with adverbial of direction] move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce:
    she began to skip down the path

    2 [no object] British jump over a rope which is held at both ends by oneself or two other people and turned repeatedly over the head and under the feet , as a game or for exercise

    [with object] North American jump over (a rope that is being turned)

    [with object] jump lightly over:
    the children used to skip the puddles



leap


Pronunciation:
/liːp/
verb (past or past participle leaped /liːpt, lɛpt/ or leapt /lɛpt/)

[no object, with adverbial]

    1 jump or spring a long way, to a great height, or with great force:
    he leapt on to the parapet
    figurative
    Fabia's heart leapt excitedly

    [with object] jump across:
    Peter leapt the last few stairs

    2 move quickly and suddenly:
    Polly leapt to her feet



spring


Pronunciation:
/sprɪŋ/
verb (past sprang /spraŋ/ or chiefly North American sprung /sprʌŋ/; past participle sprung)

    1 [no object, with adverbial of direction] move or jump suddenly or rapidly upwards or forwards:
    I sprang out of bed



bounce

Pronunciation:
/baʊns/




    2 [no object, usually with adverbial of direction] jump repeatedly up and down, typically on something springy:
    Emma was happily bouncing up and down on the mattress

    move up and down repeatedly:
    the gangplank bounced under his confident step









There is a mistake in the video lyrics, can you spot it?

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Why is the video below called 'LEAP'?





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Saturday, 16 October 2010

SYMBOLS AND SOUNDS


He creado este documento para de una forma simple, sin tecnicismos, saber a qué equivalen los símbolos fonéticos trasladados a sonidos y a la esccritura. Seguramente lo iré reformando cuando encuentre variaciones y mejores ejemplos.





También derberíais bajar este archivo con todos los sonidos con sonido incorporado










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¿Por qué, para qué, cómo estudiar inglés?



0:50 Why do we need to learn English?
--> 1:05 more and more people are using English as a common way to communicate with each other
--> 1:15 they will need to employ people who can speak more than their own native language
--> 1:25 It is officially considered as an international language



1:41 General rules for learning English
--> 2:07 At the begenning you need a good vocabulary
--> 2:27 View English as a part of your body...a part of your everyday life, DAILY PRACTICE is very important.
--> 3:04 Don't look at English as just another subject, YOUR ATTITTUDE will decide how well you progress --> 3:16 "NO PAIN...NO GAIN"
--> 3:23 Remember these two words: PRACTICE and CONFIDENCE ---> repeat: "I CAN DO IT"





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Friday, 15 October 2010

Pronunciation: 'ed' endings

Pronunciation: 'ed' endings
Regular verbs in the simple past all end in 'ed'. These two small letters can be pronounced in three different ways. In the programme we find out what these different pronunciations are and give our challenger Sebastian the chance to produce the correct sounds in our role-play.


Listen to the programme!
Pronunciation: '-ed' endings (you need Real Player to listen to this. You can download a portable version from HERE)

FIND OUT MORE







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Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Welcome all

Welcome to this blog for 4th year of ESO at I.E.S. Diego de Guzmán y Quesada. We'll use it to upload some activities and exercises that can be shared, being a good way to learn from each other.