SPEAKING PRACTICE

How To Improve your English Speaking Skills and receive feedback (B2 Students)




1.- Pick a topic-diagram. CLICK HERE
2.- Prepare your speech for at least 2 minutes (take some notes if necessary)
3.- Memorize your speech (use connectors, nice vocab and high-level English expressions)
4.- Record yourself and send us your video/audio file : 
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6.- Situations


Animated shorts



Teaching English Through Short Films and Documentaries

Even with movies in your native tongue, the ups and downs of a well-crafted story can teach you unexpected lessons about life and language.
The importance of enhancing language skills through films, documentaries or short films.
Why Use Documentaries and Short Films in Your ESL Class?

Give students strong motivation to learn. 

Provide a visual context.

Introduce students to a real-life conversation.

Choose from a wide variety of activities.

Enhance all language skills.

Fit them conveniently into any lesson plan.

How to Teach English through Short Films and Documentaries

1. Always pay attention to students’ ages and language levels.

2. Decide if you’re going to use subtitles.

3. Always think of the thematic route.

4. Always prepare language and comprehension activities beforehand.

Sample activities
  • You can play the short film for the first time but with no picture—only music or sound! Then ask students to imagine what these sounds or pieces of music are linked to and think of a story (setting, atmosphere, characters and so on). Have them jot these details down. When students finally watch the actual short film, they can compare it with their own stories and more assignments can follow.
  • Similarly, students could start a project or a school survey based on the topics the documentary or short film deals with.
  • Discussions and debates can take place in upper-intermediate or advanced classes just after watching a challenging documentary or short film.
  • Last but not least, students could write imaginary emails to the director or publish school newspaper articles or blog posts.

MORE SPEAKING PRACTICE

The Catholic community of Our Lady of Mercy

Welcome to the community of Our Lady of Mercy, the official and only English-speaking Catholic parish of Madrid. Our mission is to provide the English-speaking Christians of Madrid with the ability to worship God in their mother tongue. We have people from all over the world and our parish is a family.
We are in the San Dámaso church, Jose Vasconcelos, 5. 
This is our site:    www.ourladyofmercy.info
If you come to Madrid, we hope you will join our community for Sunday liturgy, at 11:00. We invite you to "Come and see." (John 1:39)
We gather after every Sunday liturgy in order to share conversation, friendship, and something light to eat and drink. We serve coffee, tea, soft drinks and pastries.
There is a Registration Form for our new Parishioners, you can join to our choir, help in Caritas, etc. Ask F. Ron or our greeters.
May God bless you.
 

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