Renewable and Clean Energy

This January 26th, let's raise awareness about clean energy and sustainability while practicing English. Here's a specially designed resource for your class:

• Multiple-Choice Quiz: Test your students' knowledge of clean energy with fun, engaging questions.
• Crossword Puzzle: Reinforce vocabulary from the quiz in an interactive way.
• Oral Mediation Activity: For B1-B2 students, discuss Sustainable Development Goal #7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and explore the challenges of renewable energy.

Are you a sporty person?

 

Do you want to expand your students' vocabulary about sports? Do they know the differences between pitch, track, course, and court? This material will help them describe their favourite sports more accurately. Here is the link to the material:

ARE YOU A SPORTY PERSON?

Reading authentic material

Engaging students in reading can be challenging, especially if they don't enjoy reading in their native language. This challenge intensifies when introducing reading in a foreign language, as enjoyment and comprehension may be limited during the learning phase. However, as English teachers, it's essential to persist, as reading can be a  milestone in a student's language acquisition journey. Engaging with authentic materials, such as complete books, can significantly improve your English level.

"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins is a novel that many students have enjoyed both reading and watching. The characters resonate with them, and the themes—such as injustice, love, family, loyalty, social class disparities, and moral dilemmas—are universal.

Here is a free resource for the first chapter of this world-wide acclaimed novel. I hope you and your students find it engaging and beneficial.

 READING COMPREHENSION: CHAPTER 1. THE HUNGER GAMES

Calendar 2025. Celebrations and special awareness days.

This material will help you plan activities related to  global events throughout the school year.

It includes:

• A monthly calendar from January to June.
• Highlighted important dates, such as International Education Day and World Environment Day.
• Colorful illustrations for each event.
• A printable format to facilitate its use in the classroom

CALENDAR SCHOOL YEAR 2025

Present Perfect Simple Worksheet

Now that we are on holiday, it is a great time to plan ahead. In my case, I will be teaching the Present Perfect Simple to my 3º ESO students. Some of them learned it last year, while others did not. The textbook does not explain it from scratch, so I have designed material that is suitable for reviewing or teaching the Present Perfect Simple from the beginning. This way, we can later work with the material in the textbook, knowing that all my students understand what I consider to be the foundation for using the Present Perfect Simple.

Here you have the link to the material:  PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE

I hope you find it useful. 

My English Portfolio

 

We are almost finishing the first term and I have prepared an English portfolio for my students of Compulsory Second Education (E.S.O in the Spanish educational system)

I hope you find it useful. I let you the link to download it for free.

MY ENGLISH PORTFOLIO

WORLD FOOD DAY

 

 On the 16th October the World Food Day is celebrated. It is a great opportinuty to value our planet and realise that not everybody has access to a varied diet. 

Here, you have the announcement made to promote this day by the FAO. It will be interesting to dive into this topic in class. 

Are you interesting? Here you have the material I have just prepared for my students. You have a description of it on the link

MATERIAL TO CELEBRATE THE WORLD FOOD DAY

      

     

HOW DOES TECHNOLOGY BENEFIT THE EARTH?

This week I will be celebrating with my students the World Space Week (4th-10th October). I have found a video super interesting,really simple and accesible for young English learner about how the GPS system work. 

Here you have the link to the material. 

MATERIAL

You will find three activities: wordsearch, video with multiple choice questions and a reading to finally produce an infographic as final product for a mediation.

As always I hope you find it useful and appealing for your students.

 

How does space technology benefit the Earth?

This material has been designed to celebrate the importance of space research and its impact on our lives and the protection of our planet.

You can use it to raise student's awareness of World Space Week ( October 4th  -10th ). 

You will find three activities: a wordsearch, a video (explaining how the GPS system works in a simple way), and a reading-mediation activity ( creating an infographic)

As the activities are designed for mixed-ability classes, you may use them with students from 1st -4th ESO.

Free material "How does space technology benefit the Earth?"

I hope you and your students enjoy it!

HOW BAD IS FAST FOOD FOR OUR HEALTH?

 

Morgan Spurlock stared his documentary Supersize me

It feels like it was just yesterday, but I watched the documentary Super Size Me when I first started working as an English teacher. I used it in class, and my students were shocked. I believe the topic is still relevant today. Do we realize how bad fast food is for our health? Are we entirely responsible for our health, or can we blame others?

Here, I’m sharing the material I prepared for my 4th ESO students (15-16 years old) from the intensive course. We only worked with the trailer (around 5 minutes) for listening comprehension. I also prepared a list of arguments for them to classify into categories, and then into those in favor of or against the two questions I presented for writing an opinion essay.

How bad is fast food for our health?

13th SEPTEMBER : ROALD DAHL DAY

Today, we celebrate the birth of one of the most famous children's storytellers in the English language. He left behind timeless stories that we have read and that have been adapted for the big screen. Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Danny, the Champion of the World are just a few examples of how his tales help children teach adults to see the world with fresh eyes, often leading to unexpected endings. In addition to his stories, he also wrote poetry. In Revolting Rhymes, he retold six classic fairy tales: Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Three Little Pigs.

Here is a resource to celebrate his birthday.

Little Red Riding Hood

I have found this wonderful webpage with poems in English and the audios.

Poetry in English

I hope you like it

Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf

CELEBRATION AND AWARENESS DAYS TO WORK ON AT SCHOOL

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If you're a teacher, you’ve either just started the new school year or are about to begin. As an English teacher at a middle-high school in Spain, I enjoy planning special days to celebrate with my students. I believe that having a calendar with celebration and awareness days is a great way to keep those events in mind and integrate them meaningfully into the rest of your syllabus.

Here is a link to a free resource with the celebration and awareness days I plan to work on with my students during the first term.

Celebration awareness days

I hope you find it useful.