miércoles, 2 de abril de 2014

Some useful sentences and vocabulary to be used on your presentations:

1. Beginning - Short introduction 
welcome your audience
introduce your subject
explain the structure of your presentation

2. Middle - Body of presentation 
present the subject itself

3. End - Short conclusion 
summarise your presentation
thank your audience
invite questions

Introducing the subject
  • I'd like to start by...
  • I’d like to begin by…
  • Let's begin by...
  • First of all, I'll...
  • Starting with...
  • I'll begin by...
  • I’ve chosen this topic because…
Finishing one subject...
  • Well, I've told you about...
  • That's all I have to say about...
  • We've looked at...
  • So much for...
...and starting another
  • Moving on to…
  • Turning to…
  • Now we'll move on to...
  • Let me turn now to...
  • Next...
  • Turning to...
  • I'd like now to discuss...
  • Let's look now at...
Ordering
  • Firstly...secondly...thirdly...lastly...
  • First of all...then...next...after that...finally...
  • To start with...later...to finish up...
  • Last but not least…
Analysing a point and giving recommendations
  • What I mean is…
  • Where does that lead us?
  • Let's consider this in more detail...
  • What does this mean for ABC?
  • Translated into real terms...
Giving an example
  • For example,...
  • A good example of this is...
  • As an illustration,...
  • To give you an example,...
  • To illustrate this point...
Summarising and concluding
  • So to sum up…
  • In conclusion,...
  • Right, let's sum up, shall we?
  • I'd like now to recap...
  • Let's summarize briefly what we've looked at...
  • Finally, let me remind you of some of the issues we've covered...
  • If I can just sum up the main points...

viernes, 21 de marzo de 2014

WELCOME TO THE COURSE


INTRINSIC MOTIVATION


ACTIVE VS PASSIVE LEARNING


INTERLANGUAGE


THE ITSY BITSY SPIDER


FIRST SESSION PPT

LET'S START OUR ADVENTURE: At the Airport



Are you ready to fly to England? We will start our adventure "At the Airport".
We will simulate through Role Play activities all along the course a real journey to England, so that you can practice real life situations that will help you to face different situations when need it.

HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY JOURNEY

PRESENT SIMPLE VS PRESENT CONTINUOUS


FIRST SESSION FINAL TASK AND HOW TO USE GLOGSTER

FIRST SESSION FINAL TASK FINAL TASK : KNOWING EACH OTHER
 Make an interactive online poster to be presented  to the rest of your classmates. You will need to create an account with Glogster. It’s easy to do and free. Find out how here: http://edu.glogster.com/ 
To find out how it works: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/activities/using-glogster-creating-interactive-online-posters 
The poster must contain text (personal information) and images (optional) about yourself and upload it to our blog. For doing so, you will need to create an account with gmail and send your email address to your teacher to the following email address;epesevevo@gmail.com to give you permission to publish on it.

Spanish explanation on how to use glogster :

http://www.slideshare.net/pilaretxebarria/eduglogster-tutorial

FINAL TASK EXAMPLE

FINAL TASK : KNOWING EACH OTHER

Make an interactive online poster. You’ll need to create an account with Glogster. It’s easy to do and free. Find out how here: http://edu.glogster.com/ 
To find out how it works:
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/activities/using-glogster-creating-interactive-online-posters

The poster must contain text (personal information) and images (optional) about yourself and upload it to our blog. For doing so, you will need to create an account with gmail and send your email address to your teacher to the following email address;epesevevo@gmail.com to give you permission to publish on it.