Boxing Day

When is Boxing Day?

In Britain, Boxing Day is usually celebrated on the following day after Christmas Day, that's 26th December. However, strictly speaking, Boxing Day is the first weekday after Christmas. 

Boxing Day is a public holiday.  When Boxing Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday the following Monday is the public holiday. 

Why is 26 December called Boxing Day?

Traditionally, 26 December was the day to open the Christmas Box to share the contents with the poor. The Christmas box was a wooden or clay container where people placed gifts.

If you want to find out more about Boxing Day, click here.

Source: Project Britain

A very special gift to my students

I have put a special touch in every task designed. When I look at those smiling faces, immediately I find every effort made rewarding and worthwhile, which renews my commitment for future times to come.

May the Spirit of Christmas make your wishes come true so that you may live in
Freedom,
Peace,
Love and
Respect.

Núria

How much have the British changed?

You are going to

• watch a video and read about recent changes in British social attitudes on marriage, relationships, religion and welfare
• practise numbers, percentages, fractions, the language of graphs and statistics
• listen to people giving opinions

Click here.

Prepositions of time

Synonyms for HAPPY

Verb Look

Singular or Plural??

Informal vs Formal ways of speaking

Nelson Mandela

A great example to follow

Phrasal verbs Apps

Do you find PHRASAL VERBS difficult? Check this out:

Phrasalstein. 

The phrasal verbs machine.

FREE Mobile Apps to learn them while having fun!!!

Silent letters

Sports

What do you do?

Math Symbols

Typhoon Haiyan: Destruction in the Philippines

11 November 2013
Officials estimate up to 10,000 people have died in Tacloban city and elsewhere in the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. Many other people are now struggling to survive without food, shelter or clean drinking water.

Click here to read and listen to the report.

Source: BBC Learning English.

Finnish Educational System

The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World's Most Surprising School System

A documentary describing why Finland has one of the best school systems in the world. 

It all starts with a good teacher

English version of the beautiful video 'it all starts with a good teacher'. Initial idea and spreading by Lärarförbundet (Sweden).

Made for the EI 'Unite for quality education' campaign.

www.unite4education.org

Teaching the alphabet to digital natives

Ways to say goodbye

Giving advice

Saying "You're welcome"

20 educational resources

Find 20 educational resources to learn English in tiching blog. You'll find resources for the following levels:

Preschool education
Primary education
Secondary education

Click here.

Conversation Exchange

Through Conversation Exchange you can have three types of language exchange: face to face conversation by meeting up with native speakers, correspondence by corresponding with a penpal and text and voice chat  by chatting with a native speaker and using your chat software of choice: Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, etc

Why learn a language via conversation exchange? Here are some great reasons:

1. It's fun and you can make new friends from different cultures
2. You learn slang and colloquial expressions you don't usually learn in a language class
3. It's free
4. There is no homework or boring grammar books to study
5. You practice both listening and speaking at the same time. If you also want to practice writing and reading, you can do so by exchanging emails with your language exchange partner
6. It's a very fast and effective language learning method

Click on the image to start a conversation exchange.

Welcome on board!

Hi everybody!

Enjoy the adventure of learning English and have fun.
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