And welcome back to English and French with Manolo and Lindley!
We want to give a special welcome to our Year 3 students who will be working with us as a language teaching team for the first time! We look forward to establishing new routines, working hard and having lots of fun together.
We are so excited for all the learning and growing we’ll do together this year! This English blog is for you to reference, watch videos, and play on as cover new subjects in English! We are going to share many useful resources with you!
We are FINISHED!!!! What a long, strange academic year it has been compared to most! We are so proud of all of you for continuing on your learning journeys with the ongoing challenges of bubble groups, social distancing, open windows and the noise that can entail, all while wearing masks!
Your only homeworkthis summer to use English in FUN WAYS, like reading books, watching favorite shows or films in English, playing online games in English and using English with every tourist you meet!
To help you with that here are some resources(there is a little something for everyone!) to help you:
reading books:
Try these links for free English reading online, or pdf documents that you can download with books.
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watching favorite shows or films in English:
There are so many ways to watch films and show in English including Nextflix and Amazon, but here are some Youtube channels that you might enjoy watching to brush up on your English.
Or try full movies here: (You can watch in English with or without subtitles.)
(There are other films on this same Youtube channel.)
playing online games in English:
If playing games is your thing, just click the links here for lots of games to enjoy.
We wanted to offer all of you some more fun ways to practice what you are learning in class. Click on the photos below to access different ways to test your knowledge between present simple and present continuous.
We are learning the present continuous verb tense, or how to use
to be + verb + ing
to say what is happening right now or at the moment!
Watch this video to see lots of examples of daily activities in the present continuous verb tense. You can also see negative sentences and questions.
Are you interested in seeing some more real examples of how often English speakers use the present continuous? Have fun watching this video clip of TV shows using -ing!
Now, see how quickly you can identify verbs with -ing.
Click here.
Now play this game to see if you understand the verbs you hear!
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