Task 9: Powerpoint autoexecutable

This activity, as we can see, consists on an autoexecutable Powerpoint presentation, through which students will see several quotes related to freedom. The activity is aimed at students of first or second year of Bachillerato. Thus, the content we are dealing with is freedom, the concept of liberty defined by different celebrities and important figures in the history of the world. After seeing the Powerpoint, the students will  be asked to invent their own definitions of the concept of freedom, and if we have enough time, we will also carry out a debate on this topic.

Here is the link to the Powerpoint Autoexecutable on Freedom

Task 8: Paperball Pass Conditional

This activity, called Paperball Pass Conditional, is aimed at students of second year of Bachillerato. The language content we are dealing with is conditional tenses, and most specifically, to first and second conditional sentences. Through this activity they will have to invent the second half of conditional sentences if the music stops when they have the paperball in their hands. Let's play with conditional tenses!

Here is the link to the Paperball Pass Conditional Powerpoint!

Task 7: Listening Worksheet from ESL Short stories.

This lsitening worksheet is thought to be done by students of 2nd year of Bachillerato, so the level this exercise is aimed at is A2. The language contents we are dealing with are: past tenses (past simple, past continuous...), discourse makers and time expressions (when, the rest of the week, at the end of each day...), prepositions (inside, on, at), phrasal verbs (look for, put into, carry out, bring out..) and vocabulary related to shopping and sales (thrift shop, to browse, customer, sales, price, to work, bargains...). As it can be seen through these exercises, there are not only listening exercises but also other activities aimed at putting into practice the other language skills (speaking and writing). The first sheet contains the first activity, based on a pre-reading exercise to make students remember vocabulary related to shopping and also to make them learn new words and prepare them to the main activity. The main activity is the reading of the story (with the audio file). Once they have read the text, and listened to the audio, they will scan the text in order to extract from it the main ideas and also the most important words. Then, they will do the "fill-in-the-gap" exercise, in which they are supposed to remember specific information from the story. Finally, once they have put into practice writing, listening and reading skills, we will do a little bit of speaking with them. The last activity contained in this sheet consists of selecting a few questions and ask them to some of their partners. In this way, they will be putting into practice new words acquired in the lesson and they will also use previous knowledge related to shopping. So, the purpose of this exercises is that students learn new vocabulary while remembering previous words ("intrinsic knowledge") through a very current topic, and at the same time, that they put into practice all the skills regarding second language learning (reading, listening, writing and speaking).

Here is the link to the listening: "Shopping for bargains"

Task 6: Create a video with Animoto

This activity is thought to be done by students of 2nd year of Bachillerato, so the level this exercise is aimed at is A2. The language contents we are dealing with are: past tenses (past simple, present simple, past continuous, past perfect...), discourse makers (firstly, then, suddenly, finally...) and vocabulary related to the images they are going to see in the video (vocabulary related to love and relationships, to the city, actions, Saint Valentine's day, the countryside...). The purpose of this exercise is that they write a story by including the informartion (vocabulary related to the pictures) appearing in the video.