EHU summer summer school is finishing...

My amazing summer school students,

This week has been a real challenge for me! :) I did not know what to expect and what kind of students I would meet....But the week has hust flown away like one hour and I am so lucky that I have met the greatest young people ever, all of YOU! :)

It was really interesting for me to work with you, to know you, to see how innitiative and creative you are! I do want to praise you for the work you have done and I do hope that the week you have spent here, learning English has helped you in one way or another. I hope you will all have only good memories over this week in Vilnius?! :)

I will save your great projects and posters as the best example of the most wonderful students! :)

THANK YOU! :)

Have a lovely summer, great and adventurous holidays and hope that I will meet you again one day in future, maybe even as EHU students!? :)

Best wishes,

Jurga.

Drilling exercises with Future tenses!

 Dear students,

Like I always say, nothing can be achieved without practice. It will never be enough just to know the rule (although it is highly essential), we need to do exercises, we need to speak and write, and all these actions will lead to a very good result!

Hence, let's start with some additional practice here on the blog and we will continue our work on these tenses in the class!

Here are the links to some useful sites, where you will have plenty of opportunities to make your grammar better! :)

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/future.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs24.htm

http://usefulenglish.ru/grammar/tenses-exercise-six

http://www.english-4u.de/future_ex3.htm

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/mixed-future-tenses2.html

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=7229

http://www.englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/future-tenses-exercise/

Best wishes,

Jurga :)

                                                   

Future Tenses...as important as all the other tenses in English!

 My great group,

Our grammar part for today is related to Future Tenses, i.e. Present Simple for Future, Present Continuous for Future, BE GOING TO form, Future Simple, Future Continuous and Future Perfect.

I am sure you know a lot about these tenses, yet it is never too late to revise them, which is actually the aim of our class!

Like always, in addition to what we have done in the class, I will share with you some useful links on theory connected with the above mentioned English Grammar tenses:

Future Simple

Future Continuous

Future Perfect

Future Perfect Continuous

Have a productive and enjoyable time! :)

Jurga.

Narrative tenses in practice!

 Dear students,

You have worked hard today and created wonderful stories with our active vocanulary and active grammar: Present Tenses and Narrative Tenses! Thank you very much for all the work you have done! :) 

Yet, I would like you to practice more and to give you more opportunities to master today's topic, i.e. Narrative tenses. You will find below very useful links with more exercises:

https://elt.oup.com/student/naturalenglish/upp/a_grammar/unit05/neup_grammar05?cc=us&selLanguage=en

http://www.ice.urv.es/eoiact/level3/narrativetenses1.htm

http://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_02.htm

http://english.lingolia.com/en/grammar/tenses-comparison/past-tenses/exercises/articles/past-tenses-mixed-exercise

http://www.learnclick.com/cloze/show/876

http://www.vivquarry.com/wkshts/narrex1.html

http://www.vivquarry.com/wkshts/narrex2.html

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=7150

http://www.englishtenses.com/test/romance_novel_past_tenses

http://www.learnclick.com/mchoice/show/870

Enjoy the work!

You are the best! :)

Jurga.

Narrative tenses...it's time to practice past tenses in English!

   










My amazing students,

I would like to share some additional information on Narrative tenses, which will help you to revise the material and also to understand it better! This is again the theoretical part, which is always useful to refer to in case you have any problems when having practice!

Here are the links:

Past Simple
Past Continuous
Past Perfect
Past Perfect Continuous
Used to

Best wishes,

Jurga :)

Practice makes perfect...

If we want to understand theory better, we all need some practice, and the more we practice, the better we become at certain subjects. Hence, I would like to share with you some links where you will be able to have some additional practice on English Verb Tenses:

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blperfectorperfectcont1.htm

http://mbonillo.xavierre.com/exercises/bch2/2bchver09/tenmix2bch.htm

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/london-dungeon

http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/mexicof.htm

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4398

http://www.gymmuenchenstein.ch/vonDach/Klassen/MW/English/Grammar%20Project/Simple%20or%20continuous%20exercise%202.pdf

I hope these links will help you and you will improve your knowledge of these particular tenses!? :)

Enjoy the work! :)

Jurga.

Present and Present Perfect Tenses

  

We are starting with the revision of English present and perfect tenses! What are they?

• Present Simple
• Present Continuous
• Present Perfect
• Present Perfect Continuous
• ... any others? :)

I would like you to go and look through the following links where you will find excellent information on the rules, formulae, examples and exceptions of the above mentioned tenses...Practice becomes efficient when we work with theory, analyse it and apply it later while speaking, writing or doing usual exercises! Let's do this, let's analyse the theory! :)

Present Simple 

Present Continuous

Present Perfect

Present Perfect Continuous

Jurga.

Self-evaluate your language skills

http://www.businessihub.com/know-the-art-of-self-evaluation/

Dear all,

Let's try and self-assess our language skills based on the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). 

I have briefly introduced this document in the class today and would like each of you to take a look at this link, where you can nicely play a kind of game, answer the questions and you will find your present level of language. We will also try to do this on Friday and we will see what we together have achieved this week! :) 

The link to the test-game to measure your level is here:

http://edl.ecml.at/LanguageFun/Selfevaluateyourlanguageskills/tabid/2194/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

I would like you to send me your results by email! :)

Thank you! :)

Jurga.

             Cultural diversity

Dear Students,

We have had a great day and wonderful discussions on the topic of Culture and Cultural diversity. Hence, I would like us to share some more ideas and to expand our knowledge of this particular issue. Therefore, I do want to share with you a really interesting presentation:

What's so different about cultures anyway?

Please, watch this video and post your viewpoints towards the topic itself, and the ideas expressed by the presenter. In addition to this, please post your comments to at least 2 different viewpoints shared by your colleagues. Feel free to ask questions, give examples, share pictures and videos. Let's make our virtual discussion exciting and appealing! :)

Please refer to the following questions while having a discussion here:

What’s so different about cultures anyway?

by Dato Gogichaishvili

1.   TED… what do the letters stand for? Why do you think the speaker mentions it?

2.   Different? / Same? / Both? – what is the meaning of these questions and what is the answer provided by the presenter?

3.   “All people are the same; it’s only their habits that are different.” (Confucius) – Share your ideas on this quote, please and its connection with the presentation.

4.   Are people different? If yes, what shows that we are different?

5.   What was said about Georgia and the issue of “being late”? How is this example related to “cultural differences”? If you thought about Belarusian context, what would be the excuse of a Belarusian person? J

6.   Human values – are they really universal? Could you give your examples based on the one given by the presenter?

7.   America – Canada – Mexico example. How do you like it? What was the Georgian context? What would a Belarusian say in this situation? J

8.   Allowed / Prohibited – how is this related to cultural diversity? What is the situation like in Belarus when thinking over this issue?

9.   Differences are related to hatred. How can this be?

10.             Hate, Forgive, Thank You for … - what is the main idea of this presentation?

We will check the following vovabulary task tomorrow in the class:

VOCABULARY

Match the words with their definitions:

a)    Hostility; a strong feeling of opposition, anger or hatred

b)   Very excited and pleased

c)    An idea, a belief or an understanding of sth.

d)   To remember sth.

e)    To take part in an activity

f)     To find or produce an answer to sth.

g)    To be grateful for something that somebody has done; to welcome something

h)   To disagree strongly

i)     To support somebody/something

1.   Thrilled

2.   To partake

3.   Animosity

4.   To recall

5.   To come up with

6.   Notion

7.   To appreciate

8.   To back sb up

9.   To collide

Best wishes,

Jurga.

Welcome to our English summer school blog!

My dear students,

Welcome to our English summer school blog. We will spend time here to practice different language skills, and to enjoy the spirit of creativity and collaboration. You will find here a bunch of different activities, which will make you grow as writers, researchers, artists and language users. :) 

The purpose of this blog is to give you opportunities to learn the language in a different way, i.e. discuss, share ideas and final results, express your viewpoints and give feedback on various assignments. You will have more time here to practice grammar, therefore feel free not only use all the material here but also ask questions or start the discussion! :) Please, be part of our active and curious learning community! Please, be part of this inspiring team! :) Please, enjoy the atmosphere of combined autonomous and collaborative working contexts! Please, look for the exciting stages of this absorbing learning English journey. Follow instructions carefully, feel free to give questions to me or your groupmates, keep track of your progress via peer or teacher feedback, or reflective posts.

I do want to invite all of you to enjoy studying English online together! :)

Best wishes,

Jurga.