WEEK 5: 30th October - 5th November 2017

WEEK 5: 30th October – 5th November 2017

·         Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes: Send Nora an email with your English school homework, deadlines and next exams. ·         Explain what you did on Halloween (if you did something special) ·         HOW + adjective/adverb: Read and translate the theory and examples in the Drive document “Adjectives and adverbs”. Also answer the questions in the examples ·         Dictation about adverbs. ·         Astonishing adverbs: Read the introduction and do the exercises. ·         Extr@ Episode 5: Watch the episode 5 in Extr@ and write a summary about it on the document “Extr@ summaries” on the Drive shared folder.

WEEK 4: 23rd - 29th October 2017

WEEK 4: 23rd – 29th October 2017

·         Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes: Send Nora an email with your English school homework, deadlines and next exams. ·         Feedback test about Present Simple and Present Continuous (Google Form) ·         HOW + adjective/adverb: Read and translate the theory and examples in the Drive document “Adjectives and adverbs”. ·         Listening about London: Listen to “Tour of London” in LearnEnglish Teens website for A2 level (see the Listening page in my blog to get the link). Do the preparation activity and the two comprehension activities, ·         Extr@ Episode 5: Watch the episode 5 in Extr@ and write a summary about it on the document “Extr@ summaries” on the Drive shared folder.

WEEK 3: 9th – 15th October 2017

WEEK 3: 9th – 15th October 2017

·         Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes: -   Send Nora an email with your English school homework, deadlines and next exams. · Test about Present Simple and Present Continuous: Complete the Google Form “Present simple and Present continuous”. After that, Nora will give you the result. fd · Activity about Present Simple and Present Continuous: Describe what you see in two pictures. Which one needs Present Simple? Which one needs Present Continuous? ·    Correct summary Extr@ Episode 3: Rewrite your summary using the “Correction code”. Write the new corrected version under the previous one. ·    Extr@ Episode 4: Watch the episode 4 in Extr@ and write a summary about it on the document “Extr@ summaries” on the Drive shared folder.

Week 2: 2nd-9th October

WEEK 2: 2nd-9th October 2017

·         Description of school homework: -   Send Nora an email with your English school homework, deadlines and next exams. ·     Activity about Present Simple and Present Continuous. - Do the exercise on the Drive shared folder. ·         Lyrics Lemon Tree by Fool’s Garden: -  Listen to the song and do the exercises on the Drive and the blog. ·         Extr@ Episode 3: -          Watch the episode 3 in Extr@ and write a summary about it on the document “Extr@ summaries” on the Drive shared folder.

WEEK 1: 13th-20th September 2017

WEEK 1: 13th-20th September 2017

·         Definitive school timetable: -          Do your definitive timetable creatively and post it on your corkboard. ·         Extr@ Episode 2: -          Watch the episode 2 in Extr@ and write a summary about it. Then send it to me on an email. ·         Wordsearch Spain p. 268: -          Do the wordsearch. Look the words you don’t know in a dictionary. -          Think about the stereotypes the world has about Spanish people. Is this true? Do all Spanish people do the same and like the same? How would you define the Spanish culture in a more correct way?

Welcome greeting

Welcome to Bites of English blog ☺☺

This will be the place where we will continue our English lessons during this year I am abroad. A new experience for both of us!

This blog has been created especially for you. It is made of different sections: Home, Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking, Watching English, English in lyrics, and More than Dictionaries.

In this section (Home) I will post a weekly planning with some homework to do from your school, extra activities to improve your English skills and a schedule for our 2 Skype lessons (1 hour each).

Also, we are using a shared folder in Google Drive (if you have a Gmail account, it is easier to acces). In this folder I will upload theoretical and practical material about what you study at school. Here you can find a Given lessons record in on-line and face-to-face modalities. Together we will establish a payment method. There are two alternatives: bank transfer (for exemple, once per moth or once every two months) or a face-to-face payment when I will be back in Alicante (Christmas, Easter, June). The Given lessons record is useful for us to follow this process.

Here it is the link to the shared folder:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uHzNLtMI5vjsW0z_5AwNUkFx1sr4iJ4wrqtFjKfC_3A/edit?usp=sharing

We will try and start following this procedure, but any change will be made if needed.

Also, I will need some help from you:

• Every week, you will send me an email with a description of your school homework, always indicating deadlines.
• I need to know what contents you are learning at school, so you will take pictures of your English coursebook and send them to me via WhatsApp. If you have your coursebook in a PDF file, you can just send this to me.

These are my contact details:

• Email adress: nora_fernandezparedes@hotmail.com
• WhatsApp number: 626 44 93 24
• Skype user name: Nora fpr

Any doubt you may have or suggestion you may want to make, please let me know. I will do my best to help you. Your ideas are as warmly welcomed as you are :) 

NOW IT'S TIME TO GIVE IT A (FUN) TRY!