Useful Classroom Language for Pre-school

gathered by Cristina Fernández (C1, 2015-16) with the collaboration of Nicky Jane Chapman and Antonio Calvo Ortega.

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Elementary. Present. Nationalities, countries and languages 2

Elementary

I made some mistakes: People FROM, not IN. “In” is OK, but “from” is more accurate (“in” vale, pero “from” es más preciso). The list of countries is not complete. The world is full of countries and peoples (pueblos)!

People = personas, gente; Peoples = pueblos

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Stories. Traveling, the Forging of a Teacher, by michelle

portada2015ebookFrom our first ebook, “Stories from My Teacher. On the English Language, Lifelong Learning and Our r-evoLution“!

Free ebook download here (also pdf version).

 

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Elementary. Functional Translation 1 (of 3)

Elementary

Part 1. The first 27/94  sentences of the Spring Test I give my students.

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Books. Ch 1. Orange Is the New Black (Memoir)

orange

Check out the Talking People webpage for OITNB

Check out the TP webpage for Angela Davis on Prisons

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Books. Language Myths (8, Children Can’t Speak…)

langmyth

More audios from books

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Elementary. Irregular verbs and some tips for the Past simple!

Elementary

This recording has no transcript because textbooks include a list of irregular verbs at the end of the textbook, so check yours!

More audios for Elementary at Useful Language for Elementary students and at My webpage for 2014-15 Elementary students.

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Books. Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (ch. 4)

How Gender Structures the Prison System (it’s 56 minutes! It took me a whole Sunday from start to finish, so I hope you can use it to learn lots! To expand and compare what you learned from Piper Kerman’s memoir, to go beyond, further, deeper in! <3

Check out Angela Davis’s page at talking people.net

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Stories. Si fuera… / If I were or was… by michelle

For the time being, you can read the post with the original story here.

The original thing Pablo said was: “A window that cannot close (well)” “Una ventana que no cierra” — I just remembered. Can you draw it?

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