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Arthur the Rat

anabeli — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:25:32 +0000

Once there was a young rat named Arthur, who could never make up his mind. Whenever his friends asked him if he would like to go out with them, he would only answer, “I don’t know.” He wouldn’t say “yes” or “no” either. He would always shirk making a choice. His aunt Helen said to him, “Now look here. No one is going to care for you if you carry on like this. You have no more mind than a blade of grass.” One rainy day, the rats heard a great noise in the loft. The pine rafters were all rotten, so that the barn was rather unsafe. At last the joists gave way and fell to the ground. The walls shook and all the rats’ hair stood on end with fear and horror. “This won’t do,” said the captain. “I’ll send out scouts to search for a new home.” Within five hours the ten scouts came back and said, “We found a stone house where there is room and board for us all. There is a kindly horse named Nelly, a cow, a calf, and a garden with an elm tree.” The rats crawled out of their little houses and stood on the floor in a long line. Just then the old one saw Arthur. “Stop,” he ordered coarsely. “You are coming, of course?” “I’m not certain,” said Arthur, undaunted. “The roof may not come down yet.” “Well,” said the angry old rat, “we can’t wait for you to join us. Right about face. March!” Arthur stood and watched them hurry away. “I think I’ll go tomorrow,” he calmly said to himself, but then again “I don’t know; it’s so nice and snug here.” That night there was a big crash. In the morning some men—with some boys and girls—rode up and looked at the barn. One of them moved a board and he saw a young rat, quite dead, half in and half out of his hole. Thus the shirker got his due.

VAMOS A ESCUCHAR ESTE TEXTO CON DIFERENTES ACENTOS:

01un01d New york accent

arth_rp English accent

arth_ire8 Irish accent

Directions through town

anabeli — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:59:50 +0000

Here you have a wonderful page to learn about directions:

Directions through town

Directions through town2

Directions through town3

Examen de certificación de Junio

anabeli — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:12:47 +0000

Supongo que ya sabreis que los exámenes de certificación de básico (pruebas escritas) son el 15 de junio a las 4:00 de la tarde. Los orales pueden ser antes o después dependiendo de la EOI.

¡Suerte a todos!

Festival intercultural na EOI de Vigo

anabeli — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:44:21 +0000

I enclose the program for the festival :festival-intercultural-programa-profesorado, which will take place today in Vigo. Maybe it is a little bit late to tell you.

How come by Babyface

anabeli — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:17:46 +0000

The song of the last workshop (taller). Thank you, everyone.

how come by Babyface

And also the solutions, that is, the lyrics of the other two songs we didn´t do on Friday:
i-wonder

Thank you

anabeli — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:44:43 +0000

I just have to say thank you to all my students at EOI, you have been wonderful students and I have had a really good time teaching you. I wish you the best in this English course and also in your lives.

This song is for you all, I hope you like it, and remember that you can comment in my blog or write me an e-mail everytime you need it.

Writing mistakes

anabeli — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:38:07 +0000

I am still looking at the same typical mistakes again and again, so I guess you need to practise more. Here I am going to insert some grammar activities for you to do. The activities need to be printed because you cannot do them online:

Verb-subject agreement

Solutions

Object pronouns: me, you, him, her, it, us , you , them. Remember they go after the verb and after prepositions.

Possessive adjectives, subject pronouns and object pronouns

Past simple tense

Adjectives with -Ing or -ed

Countable and uncountable nouns

Countable and uncountable nouns 2

Word order

And how about some activities to improve vocabulary:

Adjectives to describe people (you can do this one online)

Listenings for those of you who couldn´t come to class this week

anabeli — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:20:08 +0000

This last week we were doing mainly listenings about movies,TV shows and also news. We also learn some vocabulary related to media, you can find review of this vocabulary in the following posts:

-improving your vocabulary about movies

-TV and the media quiz

-solutions

I´m also going to try to insert the listenings we did in class:

What´s on?

Good news

Fridays PLC

anabeli — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:37:39 +0000

Here you have the two songs we didn´t have time to listen in our last PLC.
I hope you like them:

Lemon tree by Fool´s garden

I wonder by Kelly Pickler

Click in the link above to go to the second song.

I am also going to include the handouts , so even if you do not usually come to the workshop, you can still do it:

songs

The last lecture

anabeli — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:42:28 +0000

This is something a student sent me, I had already watched it before, and although it is a bit sad, it is also very good to reflect about life.

I wanted to show you the video with subtitles in English, but I couldn´t find it, so I will insert the video with subtitles in Spanish: