School is out! Have a great summer!

See you in September kids!

* Goodbye and good luck my dear little bloggers. I'll miss you.
Keep in touch!

Your video clips

Here you are the Video blog . You can copy the html code for your personal blogs, kids!

And this is our Video Channel

Have a great fun!

* Don't worry if your video isn't here. More videos are coming soon.

Comparatives and superlatives

1.- Compatives and superlatives: Complete the sentence with the appropriate comparative or superlative.
2.- Interactive exercices . English/Spanish.

3.- Help Fernando get to school again, typing the correct comparative in the box and then press ENTER. You have to be very fast with the keyboard. There are 20 adjectives.

4.- Spanish and English comparative sentences.

5.- A video here.

6.-.. and another video here.

Create your Home page

Hi kids! Would you like to have your own Home page? Well, that's easy. Just fill out the form at ESL Blues. When you finish all the questions you have to press on "Yes, I want to create my own home page". and that's all !
I promise that the result is exciting. Enjoy it!

Animated characters

Hello kids! At Media Semantics you can create your own animated character on line.
1.- Choose the option "Hosted service" and sign up for a free account. You can add your animated person or cartoon in minutes. With this account you have only a few characters but it's enough today.
2.- Create your scene or chat and link to your blogs.
3.- You can use a talking Flash character to deliver your message, answer questions, and interact with web visitors.
4.- With the free account you can only choose two cartoon characters, two realistic characters or two illustrated characters.
5.- There are lots of other animated characters to play with.
6.- And you can play with the samples too.

Enjoy!

Word Clouds at Wordle

Click on the image to enlarge.
Hello kids! Wordle is a very useful site where you can create your word clouds.
It's very easy. Just enter your text or blog's address and the site genetates a word cloud with the most frequent words in the text or in your blog.
The sites provides you a code to paste into your blogs.


" Think in English" word cloud.


"Little Bloggers" word cloud


Visit http://www.wordle.net/ if you want to create yours.

Google Battle

Hi there!
At Google Battle You can compare two phrases or two words and the one that returns the most results is the winner.

In other words, Google Battle tells you which expression is the most popular with a popularity report.

And here you are my example.

Rule the Stars

Hi there! Do you want to rule the stars in the sky? Would you like to rearrange or change their shape? If the answer is YES, you have to visit Rule the Stars .
Rule the Stars is an awesome site where you can draw anything you like and where you can create your star constellation.
Come on! Draw or write in the sky and email the result to your family and friends or post a link in your blogs.
Click on the image if you want to see my sky.
And here you are another constellation.

Working with The Past Tense. (6th Grade)

Help Fernando get to school typing the past tense in the box and then press ENTER.

There are TWENTY verbs!
Highest possible Score = 100%!
Clik on the image to start and be fast!

...and much more:
* QUIA - English Irregular Verbs Game with score points by answering questions correctly.
* GAME zone: Click on the right lily and save the frog.
*Simple Past Tense Quiz : Choose the right one. Very easy.
*Complete the sentences:: Drag and drop the right word.
*Simple Past of Irregualr verbs: Type the right form of the verb in each blank.
*TEST: Fill in the blanks but don't use contractions.

*HELP: List of irregular verbs.

Jobs and professions

GAME 1: Click the workers to learn more about their jobs. (Right click and open a new tab, please)
GAME 2: Comunity jobs game and Emergency jobs game.

GAME 3: Concentrate yourself and make pairs.

GAME 4: What I want to be when I grow up.

GAME 5: Listen and click on the job.

GAME 6: Animated jobs dictionary with sound.

GAME 7: Listen and learn about everyone's job in the family. Move the items to the correct position.
GAMES 8: Much more about occupations

*The vocabulary of jobs and professions in English and Spanish.

A tanslator to understand your dog

Hello kids! Are you sure you understand your dog? What is your dog trying to tell you? Sometimes it's hard to understand dogs because they speak using body language. So type a word into the canine translator to see what the dog is trying to tell you.

You can try with moods and feelings like:
good, bad, happy, sad, unhappy, amazing, hot, cold, wet, hungry, thirsty, clever, tired, intelligent, beautiful, bored, miserable, stupid, silly, crazy, in love, romantic, ecstatic, dead, great, dirty, sweet, cool, lost, cute, angry, confused, disturbed, embarrassed, fierce, foolish, frightened, important, lonely, tense, worried...

*Click on the image to start.

Your personalized character with music and animation.

Dear kids, I have created a new funny animation at Oddcast. If you want to watch the result, click on the image or on this link.


The site allows users to upload their photos, dress up in their favorite style, and rock out to their personal theme song.

You have the text-to-Speech too. Register is not required.
Have a great fun!

Galician Literature Day 2009

The "Día das Letras Galegas" or The Galician Literature Day is a holiday in Galicia. This year, the Festival is dedicated to Ramón Piñeiro, one of the historic figures of Galician Nationalism in the 20th century.

Ramón Piñeiro described our "saudade" as a feeling with no object and no relation to thought or will.
He was one of the founders and first managers of the Galaxia Publishing House and Grial magazine.

*Have a look at Alba's blog, class 6E. She has created a movie about this day. Thank you Alba. You are a Super Star!

Let's talk about Art (once again).

*Painting: "St George and the Dragon".
*Painted about 1455 - 1460.
*Painter: Paolo Uccello from Florence(Italy).
*Museum: National Gallery, London.

* LOOK, THINK AND WRITE:
1.- What's happening in this painting?
2.- Who is the girl?
3.- Where does the dragon come from?
4.- Why isn't the princess frightened?
5.- Do you think the knight will win?
6.- How does the story end?
7.- Do you think the scene is very realistic or it's like a fairy-tale story?
8.- Each character represents an idea. Who is the good and who is the evil?
9.- Do you think the artist is interested in their feelings?
10.- Do you like this painting? Why? What's your favourite painting?

Write your script and watch it on TV

Go back a few decades in time, and send an old school message to your friends. You can also embed your movie and post it on your blog or send an email to your friends or family.
acapela.tv/good-old-times - No registration required

Click on the following link for more games http://www.acapela.tv/

Artificial Intelligence: Talking to robots

Hi pupils! Let me introduce this three bots to practice your English. They are the Shopping Robot, the Hotel Robot and the Apartment Robot.
1.- First of all, listen and read the dialogues.
2.- After listening and reading, start your "chat" with the robots.
* Click on the image or on the link to start. http://www.eslfast.com/
Enjoy your chat, kids!

The Shadows in the Art

Hi kids, I was in Madrid last week and I had the oportunity to enjoy the great exhibition "Shadows" at the Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza and La fundación Caixa Madrid. So I have created this slideshow with some of the masterpieces. I hope you like it.
Shadows on PhotoPeach


http://photopeach.com/



"The man without a shadow" was a fantastic animation I saw at the Thyssen Museum.



The shadows and the cinema:
Don't be afraid of "Nosferatu" (1921), the great film by Friederich W. Murnau.