PICK ENGLISH WITH TICs

Hi everyone,
Did you enjoy Christmas Day? Did Santa bring you a lot of presents or just a lump of coal?
Do you usually make resolutions for New Year?
What are your new resolutions for year 2016?  What things do you want to improve?
Are you ready to push the reset button? Some ideas:

- Help other people.
- Study more.
- Tidy your bedroom.
- Recycle.
- Save money.
- Wake up earlier.
- Learn or improve your English level.

If you want to improve your English or learn a new language, then you must know this:

Do you know what the CEFR is?

It is the Common European Framewok of Reference for Languages which is an international standard for describing language ability.




These Elementary Podcasts can help you.

If you want to find more content for this level click here.

Hello everyone,
How many days left until Christmas Eve? And Christmas Day?
Santa is visiting us next week and he's checking his list.
Have you been naughty or good?

Santa is an old man who has got a long beard and a big moustache. He has got a red and white suit and brown boots. He has got a lot of presents for children in his sack.
He has got helpers called elves and a famous reindeer which guides him called Rudolph.

Year 6 student, Amanda, has drawn this pic of Santa for a friend in England and Year 4 students, Lucía and Nebdret have coloured it. Do you like this pic of Father Christmas?

Hi everyone,
Do you like the famous Christmas carol "Rudolph the red nose reindeer". Let's practise it.



We wish you Merry Christmas.
Last Christmas by Wham

Hi everyone,

UEFA European Championship 2016 will be played in France next summer. Yesterday it was the drawing and Spain is in Group D with Turkey, Czech Republic and Croatia.

Image taken from UEFA

How far is Croatia from Spain? And Turkey? And Czech Republic? Look at the map and think the furthest and the nearest country?

Hello everyone,
Last Black Friday we bought twenty-one new books for our English library. The new books are different as they are digital books and they offer different options.
Here you are the list of  of the books.   Click here to access to the new collection of books.























- Girl on a motorcycle       Sally's phone     The little match girl      London         


- The shoemaker and the elves           The magic cooking pot      England 


- The Canterville Ghost     Robinson Crusoe    Henry VIII and his six wives  


- Hollywood          The Cat        Journey to the west      The skateboarder      
     

- Moby   Dick         The girl with green eyes       The phantom of the Opera


- Les miserables      Lownu  Mends the Sky        Zombie attack


If you want to check the list of paper books and magazines, then click here.

Some of the students are interested in reading then they want to create an English Reading Club and share opinions and experiences online about the books they read. Would you like to join us?
Our English club works from Tuesdays to Thursdays at 12.30 pm.

Hi everyone,
Last week our students made their beautiful Christmas cards for their pen pals for Epsom, Surrey, England. They wrote some greeting messages and drew some Christmas and winter pictures on the front.
Last Saturday I woke up early, then I had breakfast a cup of coffee and some toast and took some pics of most of the cards.

After that I put them in different envelopes and I went to the post office. It cost me six euros each envelope and I paid by credit card. It was a busy morning for me.

Can you find all the irregular verbs in the past form in the text above?

Now look at the pictures and revise the vocabulary students have added to the pictures.

How do you say that in English?

Hi everyone,
We celebrate Constitution Day in Spain today and Immaculate Conception on Thursday what means we have two official days off to chill out and rest this week.
Constitution Day is a national public holiday and also Immaculate Conception.

It went into effect on the 29th of the same month.

The referendum was approved and it was the first step to reestablish democracy under the political form of parliamentary monarchy, after a long  dictatorship period which started in 1939 and ended in 1978. Before that ,"The fathers of the Constitution", politicians who had different political ideas, worked on a draft which was also approved by the Spanish Parliament on 31st October 1978. These political leaders represented a wide spectrum within the Parliament.

If you want to get more information, watch this video.


Information taken from:
Constituion Day in Spain

Hello everyone,
Yesterday most of you received an Advent Calendar. It was a beautiful present for the starting of December. They are a way of counting down to Christmas and they have a window to open for every day from 1st December to 24th, Crhistmas Eve.
It's time to make your list of presents for Santa and The Three Wise Men.