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miércoles, 12 de diciembre de 2018
REPASO PARA NAVIDADES
EJERCICIOS INTERACTIVOS
Recomiendo media hora diaria para las vacaciones. Eso os ayudará mucho a mejorar el vocabulario.
1.- Haz este Test de Nivel y comprueba desde dónde partes. Vuelve a hacerlo después de vacaciones para ver si has mejorado.
2.- Ejercicios de gramática y vocabulario.
READING AND WRITING EXERCISES PARA MEJORAR LA REDACCIÓN
- -Writing: easy
- -Writing: intermediate
- -Writing: sample essay
- -Writing: grammar and spellchecker
- -Reading activities: easy
- -Reading activities: intermediate (British and American)
- -Reading activities: advanced (topic based texts)
- -Reading activities: downloadable
GRAMMAR, VIDEOS AND MUCH MORE
READING EXERCISES
GRAMÁTICA PARA PRACTICAR
domingo, 18 de noviembre de 2018
domingo, 14 de octubre de 2018
B2-SPEAKING PRACTICE
Improve your speaking skills any time you feel like.
Follow the steps given and send us your audio or video file.
The speaking tests you will find here are part of previous FCE or CAE exams.
ONLY FOR B2-STUDENTS
CLICK HERE
Follow the steps given and send us your audio or video file.
The speaking tests you will find here are part of previous FCE or CAE exams.
ONLY FOR B2-STUDENTS
CLICK HERE
jueves, 11 de octubre de 2018
ARTÍCULO INNOVACIÓN EDUCATIVA CEPA PAULO FREIRE
¡Hola a tod@s!:
En el CEPA PAULO FREIRE somos muy activos y estamos de enhorabuena porque nos han publicado un artículo sobre nuestro proyecto de Innovación educativa a través de los blogs. Es un proyecto hecho por y para vosotros: Los alumn@s de distancia, inglés e informáticas. Os dejo el link en la imagen para que lo podáis leer, esperamos vuestros comentarios sobre el artículo en el blog.
¡Feliz puente!
Equipo Directivo
miércoles, 7 de marzo de 2018
Mobile app to learn English-Aplicaciones móviles para aprender inglés
Nowadays
the mobile electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, etc. are
ubiquitous and they are occupying a place important in our lives and they
concentrate in just one device several tools we used daily like alarm clocks,
diaries, photograph cameras, etc. Due to their portability and easy use we can
use them in different fields, the street, the means of transport, at work, in
bed, etc. Learning a language requires a lot of effort, time and dedication.
Fortunately there are numerous applications that are going to facilitate the
process, then we can learn English, German, French, etc. comfortably in the
bus, subway, couch, garden, swimming-pool, etc. You can find below a list of
the most widely used Android app for learning languages, most of them offer
free courses in return for receiving publicity and in case you are reluctant to
publicity and you can pay a tuition fee.
Hoy en día los dispositivos móviles como smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, etc. están ocupando un lugar cada vez más importante en nuestras vidas y condensando en un solo dispositivo varios instrumentos de uso diario como relojes, agendas, cámaras fotográficas, etc. Debido a su portabilidad y fácil uso los podemos usar en diferentes ámbitos, la calle, los medios de transporte, el trabajo, en la cama, etc. Aprender un idioma requiere de mucho esfuerzo, tiempo y dedicación, afortunadamente hay numerosas aplicaciones que van a facilitar este proceso, así podemos aprender inglés, alemán, etc. cómodamente en el bus, metro, sofá, jardín, piscina, etc. He aquí una selección de las más usadas para el aprendizaje de idiomas, la mayoría de ellas ofrecen cursos gratis a cambio de recibir publicidad y más servicios a cambio de pagar una cuota Premium.
- Duolingo: It has easy lessons, games, questionnaires,
etc. the exercises combine vocabulary, grammar, reading and listening. https://es.duolingo.com/
-Tinycards: they are based on
flashcards, so you can learn anything in relationship with meaningful fields,
there are more than 200.000 cards and many languages, it is created by team of Duolingo.
-Busuu: It has exercises about
vocabulary, conversations, pronunciation, grammar and the monthly fee is less
than three euros if you pay a year in advance. Besides there are many native
speakers and you can apply and get official certificates. https://www.busuu.com/es
-Babbel: This app starts with easy
exercises and modifies the lessons according to the learner´s mistakes and
skills. You can register and get one lesson free in any language but you have
to pay a fee to get to the complete course. Then you can download the course
offline and get official certificates too after passing each level.
-Elsa: It specializes in pronunciation
and it also gives you hints and advices after each assessment. You can try
freely Elsa for seven days, then you have to pay four euros each month if you
pay three months in advance. https://www.elsaspeak.com/home
-Memrise: This is a gamified app very
funny and easy to use, besides the adventures and minigames are completed with
chatbots that you can learn the lessons you have been taught, you can try it
freely though you need to pay seven euros monthly to get all the contents. https://www.memrise.com/app/
-Rosetta Stone: this famous app has a
personal and real tutor for learning any of the 24 languages, though there are
some free options mostly are paid. Available also for iOS and Kindle Fire
Amazon.
martes, 13 de febrero de 2018
British TV Historical series
Nowadays we
have got many resources to learn a little bit of English everyday and if we do
so while we enjoy our favourite or new TV series so much the better :)
It is a
good chance to improve your English and enjoy many famous and good TV series if
you use the Original Version, you can start with Netflix, HBO, Movistar,
Imagenio or just YouTube downloaded videos
-Britannia (2017-): a British historical
period drama coproduced by Sky and Amazon Prime Video, it is aired on Sky
Atlantic in the UK and Amazon in the US. Set in AD 43 the series follow the
conquest of Britain in which Celtin rivals Kerra and Antedia must work together
to fight off the Roman invasion led by the general and Roman politician Aulus
Platius.
-The Vikings (2013- ): A good account of
the Vikings deeds, plunders and daily life brought to life in the history of
the legendary king of Danes and Norsemen, Rathnar Lothbrok and his wife
Ladgerda.
-The Last kingdom (2015- ): Based on the
book by Bernard Cornwell´s “The Saxon Stories” and produced by Netflix and BBC
America. It is set in 872 in Northumbria, the protagonist Uhtred a descendant
of the Saxon nobility is caged and carried to Scandinavia by Danes after the
murder of king Aethelred and the fall of the legendary kingdoms the Anglo-Saxon
Heptarchy and the struggle of the surviving kingdom of Wessex.
-The Vikings: Athelstan´s Journal
(2015-): This a Canadian produced serie based on the life of the young
Anglo-Saxon Athelstan, once a monk in Lindisfarne but brought to live in Viking
society as a slave when he was kidnapped by Ragnar Lothbrok and his adventures
when he rejoins the Anglo-Saxons under king Egcbert.
-Robin Hood (2006-2009): the last of the TV series about
this legendary folk myth produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One and
BBC American cable Tv, the hero Robin returns to England after five years
fighting in the Crusades and leads a band of outlaws to halt the cruelties and
injustices of the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham.
-The White Queen (2013-14): a BBC1 tv
drama in ten parts based on Phillippa Gregory´s historical novels series “The
Cousins Wars: The White Queen, The Red Queen and The Kingmaker´s daughter”,
presenting three women such as Elizabeth Woodville later wife of Edward IV,
Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry Tudor and Anne Neville, wife of Richard III
and the supporter of York, as involved
in the long conflict of The War of the Roses from 1464.
-The White Princess (2016-17): it is a
British-American historical fiction television series of Starz as a sequel of
the White Queen and it focuses in the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Woodville
and her late husband King Edward IV, Elizabeth of York would end the longest
civil war in British history, the War of the Roses after her marriage to king
Henry VII Tudor.
-The Hollow Crowns (2012- ): a British
tv series adaptations of the historical plays by William Shakespeare starred by
famous actors such as Jeremy Irons,
Benedict Cumberbatch and Judi Dench. In the first cycle it were adapted Richard
III, Henry IV, Henry V, and the second cycle Henry VI and Richard III.
-The Tudors (2007-10): a TV serie by
BBC2 and American Premium cable TV channel Showtime as an historical fiction TV
serie set in 1500s England, based specifically on the reign of king Henry VIII
of England. Starred mainly by Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Henry Cavill and Natalie
Dormer.
-Will (2017- ) an American serie
broadcast in TNT dealing with the lost years of the young playwright William
Shakespeare after his arrival to London in 1589 mixed with rock songs.
-Wolf Hall (2015): this TV serial was
broadcast on BBC2 and it is an adaptation of two of Hilary Mantel´s novels
“Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” a fictionalized biographies of Thomas
Cromwell and Saint Thomas More in the court of Henry VIII till the death of the
famous saint.
-Poldark (2015- ): a British-American
drama television drama based on the first two Poldark novels by Winston Graham
and an earlier television series broadcast by BBC One between 1975 and 1977. It
deals with the story of Ross Poldark who returns from the American War of
Independence to his Cornish mineral mines, he finds his state ruined, his
father dead and his girlfriend Elizabeth engaged to his cousin but he still
helps a young woman from a beating and takes her as his kitchen maid as well as
the people of his village to gain control of the mines against the greedy and
arrogant George Warleggan.
-Banished (2015-): a BBC 2 drama television serial inspired by the lives of British in Australia during the eighteenth century when it was a penal colony. Conflicts and conviviality are mingled in New South Wales in the year 1788 alongside the British convicts and their Royal Navy Marine guards.
-Jamaica Inn (2014-): produced by BBC
One and now broadcast in HBO Spain. Based on Daphne du Maurier novel´s. Set in
Cornwall in 1821 a young woman, Mary Yellan moves in with her aunt and uncle to
their Inn and discovers the dark trade and personality of her uncle.
-Doctor Thorne (2016- ): a three-part
television drama by ITV channel adaptation of the novel by Anthony Trollope. Mary
Thorne a penniless orphan grows up under the guardianship of her uncle doctor
Thorne, she befriends the Gresham family though financial problems threaten
their friendship.
-The Mill (2013- ): a Channel 4 British TV series about the struggle of workers during the Industrial Revolution, it is very well documented serie about the hard labour of cotton mill workers and the abuse they endure, very tragic stories contrast with the children´s tenderness.
-Dickensians (2015- ): A serie by BBC One based on the characters
and Victorian setting of Charles Dickens novels, it brings together some of the
most iconic characters and their lives.
-Great Expectations (2012- ): the story
of orphan Pip who becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a
mysterious benefactor his late love quest for Estella.
-Desperate Romantics (2009- ): a BBC
six-part drama based on the lives of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, John
Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt and the
journalist and narrator offers them a muse, the young shopkeeper Elizabeth
Siddal.
-North and South (2004- ): A drama series broadcast by BBC One and Netflix
based on Elizabeth Gaskell´s novel about the story of Margaret Hale the
daughter of an Anglican clergyman when they move to an industrial mill town and
she adapts to her hard surroundings.
-Jericho (2016-2017): an ITV serie based
on the inhabitants of a city in Yorkshire Dalesun whose lives will be changed
after the building of the viaduct of Ribblehead.
-Death comes to Pemberley (2013- ): A tv
serie by BBC One adapted from P.D. James sequel to Jane Austen´s “Pride and
Prejudice” now Elizabeth and Darcy are six years married and preparing for
their annual party when festivities have to be stopped due to a murder.
-The Village (2013- ): it is a BBC Tv
series set in a Derbyshire village from 1914 to 1920s, the main character is
Bert Middleton as a boy and his life as a working-class adult.
-Upstairs Downstairs (2010- ): an award
winning British tv series by BBC One based on the lives of servants and family
of the diplomat Sir Hallam Holland and his wife Lady Agnes in their sumptuous
home at 165 Eaton Place, London.
-Ripper Street (2012- ): it’s a BBC tv
serie set in 1889, six months since the last Jack the Ripper killing, in the
streets of Whitechapel detective inspector Edmund Reid tries to establish
justice, order and law to East London.
-Victoria (2016- ): another biography of Queen Victoria detailing the early years at the throne and her engagement and marriage to Prince Albert.
-Indian Summers (2015-16): a Channel 4
serie set in 1932 in Simla a town in the foothills of the Himalaya, a little England
where power brokers (poderosos, corredores de bolsa) spend their summers in the
final years of British colonial rule in India and the birth of a new modern
nation.
-The Crimson Field (2014- ): A BBC One
serie previously named as “The Ark” set in a war hospital in northern France
during the Great War (1914-1918) as Kitty Treveyan as protagonist and other
nurses and doctors who volunteered into busy and grim war hospitals.
-Downton Abbey (2010-2015): an awarded
famous British serie (15 Emmy prizes, 3 Golden Globes and Bafta prizes) dealing
with the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and servants.
-The Passing Bells (2014- ): It is an
historic epic historical drama by the BBC One, based on the lives two young
ordinary soldiers during five years centered mainly in the First World War.
-Rebellion (2016-): It´s produced by the
state Irish tv (RTE) dealing with the events of the Easter Rising in 1916 and
three women take part in different sides and their families.
-Peaky Blinders ( 2013- ): a British
action crime drama by BBC Two set in the 1920s Birmingham a gang family who sew
razor blades in the peaks of their caps starring Cillian Murphy.
-Mr Selfridge (2013- ): a British period
drama set from 1908 to 1928 about the Harry Gordon Selfridge, owner of the glamorous
stores Selfridges´ in London.
-The Outcast (2015- ): based in a novel
by Sadie Jones, it deals with the life of Lewis Aldridge and his struggle to
adapt into the life of a post-war English village.
-My mother and other strangers (2016- ):
Produced by BBC Northern Ireland and it follows the life of the Coyne family
and their neighbours after the US Army Air Force sets up there a camp.
-Call the Midwife (2012- ): Produced by
BBC One and it deals with the lives of nurses and midwives living in East
London in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
-Our Zoo (2014- ): It´s a British drama
tv serie about the Mottershead family in the 1930s who founded Chester Zoo in
spite of huge opposition and personal sacrifice.
-The Crown (2016- ): the beginning of
Queen Elizabeth´s reign with the social and political trends of the twentieth
century.
-This is England ´86-´88-´90 (2006- ) it
follows the life of twelve year old Shaun and the lives of young skinheads Woody,
Michelle, Combo, Lol, Milky, Meggy, Pukey, etc. and different social and
musical trends in England during these years.
jueves, 28 de septiembre de 2017
Welcome! Test your English
Welcome to the English classes at Paulo Freire School of Adults!
We are your English teachers Juan, Cristina and Inma and we hope you will learn a lot this academic year. If you want to know your level of English try this test below, also you can have the chance in class but this online test is good too.
http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/es/test-your-english/
See you soon!
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