Week 3: 19th-25th October

• Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes. Send Nora an email/WhatsApp with your English homework, deadlines and next exams.

• Questions: theory and practice.
• Personality adjectives.
• Family, relatives and types of relationships.

• Idiom of the week (introduction of the section): pop the question.

• Speaking questions: Jobs/Studies (write>check>learn>practice).

• List of films/TV series. Choose a film or episode of a TV series you want to watch in original version with Spanish subtitles and write a summary about it for next week.

Week 2: 12th-18th October

• Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes. Send Nora an email/WhatsApp with your English homework, deadlines and next exams.

• Family, relatives and types of relationships.

• Idiom of the week (introduction of the section): the black sheep of the family.

• Speaking questions: Home and family (write>check>learn>practice).

• List of films/TV series. Choose a film or episode of a TV series you want to watch in original version with Spanish subtitles and write a summary about it for next week.

Week 1: 5th - 11th October

Week 1: 5th - 11th October

• Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes. Send Nora an email/WhatsApp with your English homework, deadlines and next exams.

• Family, relatives and types of relationships.

• Idiom of the week (introduction of the section): run in the family.

• Speaking questions: Home and family (write>check>learn>practice).

• List of films/TV series. Choose a film or episode of a TV series you want to watch in original version with Spanish subtitles and write a summary about it for next week.

Welcome greeting 18-19

Welcome back to Bites of English blog ☺☺

This year we will continue to use our blog for English lessons!

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. 

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: +44 7517 902058
• 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!

WEEK 14: 17th-23rd May 2018

WEEK 14: 17th – 23rd May 2018

·         Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes: Send Nora an email with your English school homework, deadlines and next exams. ·         Word of the week: This is a new section. Every week I will give you one of my favourite English words. Then you will look up the work in the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary, copy down the definition and write an example (please, don’t copy the example in the dictionary!!). ·         Translation of sentences about food. ·         Food countable and uncountable nouns. ·         Extr@ Episode 10: Watch the episode 10 in Extr@ and write a summary about it on the document “Extr@ summaries” on the Drive shared folder.

Week 13: 10th-16th May 2018

WEEK 13: 10th – 16th May 2018

·         Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes: Send Nora an email with your English school homework, deadlines and next exams. ·         Word of the week: This is a new section. Every week I will give you one of my favourite English words. Then you will look up the work in the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary, copy down the definition and write an example (please, don’t copy the example in the dictionary!!). ·         The most disgusting menu. ·         Dictation “Meals and cooking” with LearnEnglish Teens vocabulary. ·         Writing a recipe by LearnEnglish Teens ·         Write your own recipe and do the self-assessment. ·         Extr@ Episode 10: Watch the episode 6 in Extr@ and write a summary about it on the document “Extr@ summaries” on the Drive shared folder.

WEEK 12: 22nd April - 2nd May 2018

WEEK 12: 22nd April – 2nd May 2018

·         Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes: Send Nora an email with your English school homework, deadlines and next exams. ·         Word of the week: This week you choose the word!! :) Then you will look up the word in Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary, copy down the definition and write an example (please, don’t copy the example in the dictionary!!). ·        Listening Eating out by LearnEnglish Teens: Do the getting-started activity and complete the main listening. ·         Extr@ Episode 10: Watch the episode 10 in Extr@ and write a summary about it on the document “Extr@ summaries” on the Drive shared folder.

WEEK 11: 18th - 24th March 2018

WEEK 11: 18th – 24th March 2018

·         Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes: Send Nora an email with your English school homework, deadlines and next exams. ·         Word of the week: This is a new section. Every week I will give you one of my favourite English words. Then you will look up the work in the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary, copy down the definition and write an example (please, don’t copy the example in the dictionary!!). ·         Activities about Saint Patrick’s. ·         Extr@ Episode 10: Watch the episode 10 in Extr@ and write a summary about it on the document “Extr@ summaries” on the Drive shared folder.

Week 10: 1st - 7th March 2018

WEEK 10: 1st – 7th March 2018

·         Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes: Send Nora an email with your English school homework, deadlines and next exams. ·         Word of the week: This is a new section. Every week I will give you one of my favourite English words. Then you will look up the work in the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary, copy down the definition and write an example (please, don’t copy the example in the dictionary!!). ·         Reading LearnEnglish Teens: Wales. ·         Listening LearnEnglish Teens: Weather forecast. ·         Dictation. ·         Extr@ Episode 9: Watch the episode 9 in Extr@ and write a summary about it on the document “Extr@ summaries” on the Drive shared folder.

WEEK 8: 25th - 31th January 2018

WEEK 8: 25th – 31th January 2018

·         Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes: Send Nora an email with your English school homework, deadlines and next exams. ·         Word of the week: This is a new section. Every week I will give you one of my favourite English words. Then you will look up the work in the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary, copy down the definition and write an example (please, don’t copy the example in the dictionary!!). ·         Review of the ABC and its pronunciation. ·         Mr Morton (Past Simple song). ·         Study worksheet: IRREGULAR VERBS. ·         Correct summary Extr@ Episode 6: Rewrite your summary using the “Correction code”. Write the new corrected version under the previous one. ·         Extr@ Episode 7: Watch the episode 6 in Extr@ and write a summary about it on the document “Extr@ summaries” on the Drive shared folder.

Week 7: 18th - 24th January 2018

WEEK 7: 18th – 24th January 2018

·         Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes: Send Nora an email with your English school homework, deadlines and next exams. ·         Word of the week: This is a new section. Every week I will give you one of my favourite English words. Then you will look up the work in the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary, copy down the definition and write an example (please, don’t copy the example in the dictionary!!). ·         Review of the ABC and its pronunciation. ·   Speaking activity 'Making plans' from LearnEnglish Teens. ·         Extr@ Episode 6: Watch the episode 6 in Extr@ and write a summary about it on the document “Extr@ summaries” on the Drive shared folder.

WEEK 6: 11th – 17th January 2018

WEEK 6: 11th – 17th January 2018

·         Description of school homework and final copies of draft notes: Send Nora an email with your English school homework, deadlines and next exams. ·         Word of the week: This is a new section. Every week I will give you one of my favourite English words. Then you will look up the work in the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary, copy down the definition in English and write an example (please, don’t copy the example in the dictionary!!). Also, you can find a picture of it :)  ·         Dictation. ·         Correct summary Extr@ Episode 5: Rewrite your summary using the “Correction code”. Write the new corrected version under the previous one. ·         Extr@ Episode 6: Watch the episode 6 in Extr@ and write a summary about it on the document “Extr@ summaries” on the Drive shared folder.