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Health and Body Parts

These days many people are talking about bad healthy symptoms and it seems like everyone is feeling under the weather. Do you know why? 

Well, let's cheer everybody up with some doctor, doctor jokes. Are you familiar with them?

Here's a good one:

Doctor, Doctor my son has swallowed my pen, what should I do?
Use a pencil ‘till I get there.

And would you be able to talk to a doctor in English? If not, here are some basic words and expressions, which are mainly based on Health and body parts:




Do you know any other doctor, doctor jokes?

If so, please leave us a comment below. LOL

International Foods and Drinks

What's your city or town like?

 

What's your favourite city or town to live? 

 Is it where you were born or anywhere else? 

 If you feel like writing something in English, you could describe your ideal city for us, leaving a comment below. 

 Maybe you need some ideas and typical expressions all around the topic of places. Here you have two google presentations for that. Enjoy your writing!

Hobbies, pastimes and sports

With this post, we will learn how to talk, listen, read and write about different free time activities, sports and hobbies.
We're also going to ask about likes and dislikes. At the same time, we'll spend some time expressing our own likes and preferences.



 

English through sketches

In this section you'll find all the sketches used in class, together with some other resources to get the most of all your theatre talents on stage. So, off we go and let's act those sketches out all day long. 

• The ticket inspector

• The Passport Office
• Fire Practice (audio 2)
• Fire Practice on YouTube
• The Bus Stop 

• Tea Break
• The King of Boonland
• The Restaurant
   

• Sketches
• English Sketches
• Theatre and drama at YouTube
• Drama resources and links.
• Theatre and drama for ESL.

And now it's time for the students:

• Congratulations, 2º PCPI. What a great job! 


One more time, please!

Tests and exams

The Learners of English are very likely to do any kind of TEST or EXAMINATION at least once in their learning life, and thus, if you are one of those who are desperately looking for some more tests to do, this the right Blog to start with.

Basic considerations before starting any English course or test.

First of all, let's find out your exact level of English.



Test your English by the

Vocabulary, Grammar, Reading, Listening, Writing TEST 1. Answer key  Audio



 

However, this is very best Test or exam ever!:

Where shall we go? Let's go on a trip! USA, UK, Ireland, India. Where?

Handshakes

To learn a new language, you need someone to talk to, and often you'll meet someone new. More than anything else, you've got to be relaxed in the classroom. So, let's break the ice and have a look at the different ways of greeting.

When saying hello & good-bye for the first time, what do you normally do?

When people meet, they should shake hands, smile and say: I'm ... (name). Nice to meet you.

or

Hello (name of the person)

Nice to meet you again. How are things?

Hello

Hi

Pleased to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

How do you do?

A handshake

A hug

Tap on one's back

Make eye contact with the other person

Hold the handshake for a few seconds

Smile

- Hello
How are you?

- I'm fine thank you. And you?
- Not bad, thanks.

- Goodbye!. Have a nice day.
- See you this morning!

- I'm sorry I'm late.
- I'm sorry.
- Excuse me!
- Don't worry.
- That's ok.
- Really?
- It doesn't matter.

As you can see above, you've got plenty of examples to practise all through this post. So, now it's your turn to grab a classmate and put your greetings into practice. Let's get it started!

Getting to know you

We've just started the lessons in Rodeiro and we were getting to know each other in class. I asked my students to write their full names and a very short description of themselves. Only one sentence. They could write it physically or personally, as the example provided. However, I think we could spend some time on more vocabulary practice, describing people and perhaps and a listening [audio] about the same topic too. I hope you find this helpful and so, let's practise descriptions.

Speaking Time

Oops! Time for speaking in English. Oh, dear! What a hard task! Our teacher talks too fast in class. However, how long do we speak in English every week? For 2 or 3 hours per week, perhaps less. Come on! Let's put our English into practice by doing this role-play about A day out in London.