Power Point Tutorial

To create your final project for your English class, you should know how to do a Power Point presentation.


GFC LearnFree Organization provides you with a clear, wide tutorial to learn how to do a good slide show.


But if you haven't got time enough, have an eye to this video tutorial:

Past Perfect Simple

The past perfect simple expresses an action taking place before a certain time in the past.

Form of Past Perfect Simple

	Positive	Negative	Question
no differences	I had spoken.	I had not spoken.	Had I spoken?

For irregular verbs, use the past participle form . For regular verbs, just add ed.

Exceptions in Spelling when Adding ed

Exceptions in Spelling when Adding ed	Example
after final e, only add d	love – loved
final consonant after a short, stressed vowel or l as final consonant after a vowel is doubled	admit – admitted travel – travelled
final y after a consonant becomes i	hurry – hurried

Use of Past Perfect

• action taking place before a certain time in the past (putting emphasis only on the fact, not the duration)

Example: Before I came here, I had spoken to Jack.

• Conditional Sentences Type III (condition that was not given in the past)

Example: If I had seen him, I would have talked to him.

Signal Words

already, just, never, not yet, once, until that day (with reference to the past, not the present)

The Imperative Form

You can use the imperative form to give an order, a warning, or some advice.

To form the imperative, use the infinitive form of the verb without "to". To make a negative imperative, put "do not" or "don't" in front of the verb, as in, "Don't speak!"

Affirmative	Negative
Come here	Don't cross the street
Go there	Don't say that
Open the door	Don't be late
Turn on the TV	Don't fight
Sit down	Don’t go

The imperative is formed the same for all subjects (you, he, we, they), but you can include yourself in the imperative by adding "Let's," as in, "Let's go for a swim".

Affirmative	Negative
Let's work!	Let’s not work!
Let's make a party!	Let's not make a party!
Let's go!	Let's not go!
Let's play!	Let's not play!
Let's go home!	Let's not go home!

Activities:

• Englisch-Hilfen exercise 1.
• Englisch-Hilfen exercise 2.
• To Learn English.
• Learnenglish.
• Teacher Schule.

Shakira

Hugely successfully Colombian pop singer and dancer, Shakira (Barranquilla, Colombia, February 2, 1977) has won two Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammy Awards, twelve Billboard Latin Music Awards, and has been Golden Globe-nominated. She is the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time, and one of the most successful female Latin singer.

Apart from her singing career, Shakira has created Pies Descalzos Foundation, an organization that fights to find opportunities for vulnerable and displaced children in Colombia.

She also studied in a Lestonnac school in Barranquilla, so she can be considered as your schoolmate!

More information:

• Biography: Wikipedia
• Official Shakira's Web Page
• Pies Descalzos Foundation
• Lyrics: LyricsMania

Must & Mustn't

Must is a modal auxiliary verb. In one of its meanings, it is used to give strong advice or orders (to oneself or to other people).

Affirmative
I You He She It We You They	must	go come work live speak

Mustn't means that it is neccesary that you do not do something.In other words, it is used to tell people not to do things.

Negative
I You He She It We You They	must not mustn't	go come work live speak

We use the questions with must to ask about the intentions of wishes of the person one is speaking to.

Interrogative
Must	I you he she it we you they	go? come? work? live? speak?

Affirmative answers				Negative answers
Yes,	I you he she it we you they	must.		No,	I you he she it we you they	mustn't.

English Speaking Countries Project (Outlines)

This project is devoted to extend the knowledge of the English speaking countries to the students of 4^th ESO, in all the possible aspects: culture, geography, history, art, etc.

Outline:

ð  Geographic description: Situation, regions, rivers, mountains, land area, etc.

ð  History

ð  Fast facts: official name, government, population, monetary unit, official languages.

ð  Capital city and other important cities

ð  The flag and Emblem: description and symbolism

ð  Art and culture: Painters, writers, Architecture, music and dance, etc.

ð  Sports

ð  Sightseeing (Main monuments, views, landscapes...)

Useful links with information about countries:

ð  Yahoo! Kids: http://kids.yahoo.com/reference/world-factbook/flags

ð  National Geographics: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/places/find/

ð  Fact Monster: http://www.factmonster.com/countries.html

ð  Infoplease: http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html

ð  CIA: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

ð  Atlapedia: http://www.atlapedia.com/index.html

Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial

Here you have three tutorials on how to use the Windows Live Movie maker program.

Can & Can't

Learn how to use can and can't with these funny pumpkins:

Can is an auxiliary verb that we use to:

• Talk about possibility and ability.
• Make requests.
• Ask for or give permission.

The structure of can:

• subject + can + main verb

The main verb is always the infinitive without "to".

	subject	auxiliary verb	main verb
+	I	can	read	a book.
-	He	can't /cannot	read	a book.
?	Can	you	read	a book?

• Can is invariable. There is only one form of can.
• The main verb is the infinitive without "to".

Activities:

• From The Yellow Pencil, a page with listenings, rules and exercises.
• English Exercises offers you three different activities: 1, 2 & 3.
• Some exercises from Better English:   1, 2 & 3.

Ancient Olympic Games

Here you have two videos to know the history of Ancient Olympic Games while working on the simple past:

History of Ancient Olympic Games

The Olympic Games begun at Olympia in Greece in 776 BC. The Greek calendar was based on the Olympiad, the four-year period between games. The games were staged in the wooded valley of Olympia in Elis. Here the Greeks erected statues and built temples in a grove dedicated to Zeus, supreme among the gods. The greatest shrine was an ivory and gold statue of Zeus. Created by the sculptor Phidias, it was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Scholars have speculated that the games in 776 BC were not the first games, but rather the first games held after they were organized into festivals held every four years as a result of a peace agreement between the city-states of Elis and Pisa. The Eleans traced the founding of the Olympic games to their King Iphitos, who was told by the Delphi Oracle to plant the olive tree from which the victors' wreaths were made.

According to Hippias of Elis, who compiled a list of Olympic victors c.400 BC, at first the only Olympic event was a 200-yard dash, called a stadium. This was the only event until 724 BC, when a two-stadia race was added. Two years later the 24-stadia event began, and in 708 the pentathlon was added and wrestling became part of the games. This pentathlon, a five-event match consisted of running, wrestling, leaping, throwing the discus, and hurling the javelin. In time boxing, a chariot race, and other events were included.

The victors of these early games were crowned with wreaths from a sacred olive tree that grew behind the temple of Zeus. According to tradition this tree was planted by Hercules (Heracles), founder of the games. The winners marched around the grove to the accompaniment of a flute while admirers chanted songs written by a prominent poet.

The Olympic Games were held without interruptions in ancient Greece. The games were even held in 480 BC during the Persian Wars, and coincided with the Battle of Thermopylae. Although the Olympic games were never suspended, the games of 364 BC were not considered Olympic since the Arkadians had captured the sanctuary and reorganized the games.

After the Battle of Chaironeia in 338 BC, Philip of Makedon and his son Alexander gained control over the Greek city-states. They erected the Philippeion (a family memorial) in the sanctuary, and held political meetings at Olympia during each Olympiad. In 146 BC, the Romans gained control of Greece and, therefore, of the Olympic games. In 85 BC, the Roman general Sulla plundered the sanctuary to finance his campaign against Mithridates. Sulla also moved the 175th Olympiad (80 BC) to Rome.

The games were held every four years from 776 BC to 393 AD, when they were abolished by the Christian Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I. The ancient Olympic Games lasted for 1170 years.

The successful campaign to revive the Olympics was started in France by Baron Pierre de Coubertin late in the 19th century. The first of the modern Summer Games opened on Sunday, March 24, 1896, in Athens, Greece. The first race was won by an American college student named James Connolly.

Must & Mustn't: Activities

To practise must and mustn't, take a look at this presentation, and after, do the activities below.

Activities:

• From The Yellow Pencil, a page with listenings, rules and exercises.
• 3 Exercises from Guadiana Inglés.
• From English Grammar Lessons.
• A gapfill exercise from Pedagogie Ac.
• From To Learn English.
• An exercise from Better English.
• English Exercises offers you more activities.

Sports Vocabulary

This lesson is all about sports. Here you will learn the words basketball, baseball, volleyball, ski, swimming, marathon, tennis, golf, cycling, and badminton in English, so you can meet up with your English friends for a game in their language.:

Extreme Sports

Originally, adult sports involving a high level of danger and adrenaline that would not appeal to most people but attract a daring few: things like skydiving, bungee jumping, rock climbing, ice climbing, technical mountaineering, hang gliding. It generally did not include sports which were "extreme" in their early years but since became mainstream (e.g., downhill skiing or scuba diving), nor did it include children's and teenager's activities like BMX or skateboarding. Extreme sports originally meant adult and non-mainstream. Later (from the late 1990s on) the meaning changed to become synonymous with non-dangerous kiddie sports and the definition has more to do with age (and with marketing energy drinks, Mountain Dew, baggy pants, and punk and thrash music), much to the chagrin of older folks involved in dangerous sports who now would rather the term would go away.

Here you have links to different extreme sports:

extreme skateboarding fun skateboard tube inline rollerblading dude bmx snowboarding paintball extreme sports crazy sportchair riding skating skate water sking muskoka water sports brutal radicaltubing
surfing wake motocross skiing water-skiing water danger inner tube pringles boat sea biscuit sking ultimate pringles
up water playadrenaline water skiing

For more information see the Wikipedia.