beginners

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topicsmenu/beginners.html

describing people

http://www.eslflow.com/describingpeoplelessonplans.html
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/project3rdedition/level1/unit6/vocabulary/exercise1
http://www.englishexercises.org/buscador/buscar.asp?nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=describing+people
http://www.esltower.com/VOCABSHEETS/describing%20people/personality.html
http://www.eslprintables.com/buscador/buscar.asp?nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=describing+people
http://www.english-at-home.com/vocabulary/talking-about-people-and-emotions/describing-people-in-english/

song takes over

Lesson: 22nd September 2010

Thank you for the interesting suggestions during the lesson!
Here are the links we looked at and I would appreciate your comments, of course!

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV0YbYECU7A (Julia Roberts-Oscar)
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8867000/8867923.stm (This is about another phone box, but when I tried to search for exactly the same article as we viewed in class, the BBC search engine produced lots of other related news about the rescuing of old red BT phone boxes which have been turned into village library all over the UK!) I hope you find it interesting. There's an interesting word for it too: bookcrossing.
3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ This is the main site and I strongly recommend you to browse through it. 
4. We looked at the 6minutesEnglish about OAPs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/2010/09/100916_6min_ageing_population_page.shtml
5. a chapter of The Flatmates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDBa9prgxxE
6. and the explanation of the word "manky" in the section on vocabulary about keeping your English up to date: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1453_uptodate3/page12.shtml. This audio belongs to the series 3, but feel free to listen to any other word in the other of the 6 series created so far. Perhaps you could select one that you found particularly interesting and tell us about it in our next class!

Just a reminder about the homework(HW) set for Monday's lesson: Workbook (WB) p.25.
See you on Monday and have a nice weekend!
Mary

First steps

Dear students,
I am very pleased to meet you and wish you all the success in this new year of your English studies.
Please, feel free to ask me any questions about the language or the classes you attended or missed out. I am happy to help you asap!