Learning ENGLISH today...

O QUE EU FARIA SE ESTIVESSE 

COMEÇANDO A APRENDER INGLÊS 

HOJE...

ENGLISH IN BRAZIL

Carina Fragozo

Maio de 2023

1. Primeiro, organizaria a minha semana e estipularia os dias e horários em que eu pretendo estudar. Faria disso um compromisso de verdade, algo que eu não poderia faltar. Usaria um planner para marcar cada dia/tarefa como concluído, para ter a sensação de dever cumprido.

2. Escutaria muito material em Inglês, mas procuraria áudios simplificados e com textos para acompanhar. Também praticaria o listening com músicas que eu realmente gosto e escolheria as de ritmo mais lento para facilitar.

3. Praticaria a fala e a pronúncia desde o início, escutando atentamente e em seguida repetindo palavras e frases em voz alta. Criaria um grupo no WhatsApp comigo mesma e gravaria áudios com as minhas leituras e repetições para comparar com o áudio original e manter um registro do meu progresso.

4. Criaria o hábito de anotar palavras e frases novas em um caderno ou bloco de notas do celular. Escolheria o conteúdo que eu realmente considero relevante e buscaria sempre anotar com algum exemplo, nunca uma lista de palavras descontextualizadas. Anotaria também a pronúncia para não esquecer.

5. Revisaria este caderno / bloco de notas todos os dias antes de iniciar os estudos. Aos poucos, essas informações vão sendo internalizadas e já não será mais necessário revisar as palavras / frases desde o início.

6. Seguiria perfis de professores com os quais me identifico e aproveitaria todo o conteúdo gratuito oferecido no Instagram e principalmente no YouTube, com aulas mais longas. Aliás, eu faria minha inscrição no canal English in Brazil porque tem mais de 300 vídeos organizados em playlists!

7. Além dos dias em que me comprometi a estudar, manteria o contato com o idioma todos os dias de outras formas: colocaria as configurações do celular e de apps em Inglês, seguiria perfis de notícias em Língua Inglesa no Twitter e Instagram, escutaria podcasts nessa língua enquanto cozinho, dirijo ou ando de ônibus, sempre prestando atenção no que é dito e tentando entender o máximo possível pelo contexto.

8. Não desistiria no primeiro obstáculo. Todos têm vergonha de falar, medo de errar e dificuldade para escutar no início do aprendizado. Não focaria em ser “perfeita”, mas em ser CONSISTENTE. O aprendizado de um novo idioma exige tempo e esforço contínuos, então celebraria cada pequena conquista ao longo do caminho.

Adaptado de: https://englishinbrazil.com.br/2023/05/aprendendo-ingles-dicas-praticas.html. Acesso em: 31 mai. 2023. Copyright © 2023 English in Brazil Produtos Digitais Ltda. Todos os direitos reservados.

ESL WORKSHEET - Summer

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

SUMMER FUN

LinguaHouse

May 26, 2023

Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2-B1)
Type of English: English for Teenagers
Tags: Celebrations and Special Events; Routines and Activities; Past Tenses; 10-12 Years Old; 13-15 Years Old; Vocabulary and Grammar; Speaking
Publication date: 05/26/2023

This lesson focuses on the theme of summer. To engage with the topic, students use the prompts to generate ideas about summer. They then identify collocations about summer activities before playing a sentence transformation game which involves changing the phrases to the past. They then practice the use of the language in a picture gap-fill activity. To develop the topic further, students then watch a short, animated movie about a group of friends enjoying the summer. After discussing the main idea of the film, the students work together to describe what the friends did using the past simple. The students finish the lesson with a communicative task which gives them an opportunity to personalize the topic, review the language, and practice past simple questions. There is an additional writing task on the same topic (by Victoria Aitken).

• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in American English.
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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Singer: Summer feels like forever,
the sun on my forehead like a fever,
play the soundtrack to my memories,
all the perfect times are stuck on repeat
but the sun is already low.
and I’m afraid it’s time to go
The sun is already low.
Summer is already gone.
The sky is clear as I move on.
Summer is already gone.
Yeah, yeah!

Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/english-for-teenagers/summer-fun. Accessed on May 30, 2023. © 2008–2023 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.

ESL WORKSHEET - Kindness and Empathy

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

WHY IT’S COOL TO BE KIND

LinguaHouse

May 29, 2023

Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)
Type of English: English for Teenagers
Tags: Behavior, Feelings and Emotions; Memory, Brain and Mind; Psychology; Health and Well-being; 13-15 Years Old; 16-18 Years Old; Article Based; Vocabulary Lesson
Publication date: 05/29/2023

The topic of this lesson is kindness and empathy. Students will do a reading on kindness which they will learn vocabulary from. Then they will watch a video from a ‘kindness guru’. There are discussion questions on the topic. The language point is on adjectives with –ed and -ing. There is a short dialogue which students can roleplay using different emotions. There is an optional extension or homework task to come up with ideas for acts of kindness and then to do one of them (by J. S. Fox).

• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in American English.
• CLICK HERE to download the teacher’s lesson plan in American English.
• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in British English.
• CLICK HERE to download the teacher’s lesson plan in British English.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Speaker: Think about all the feelings you feel on any given day. Maybe it’s mad, sad, glad, afraid, afraid. Maybe it’s exhausted, frustrated, inspired, resentful.
I would suggest that over the course of any given day, most of the feelings I feel are about myself, my survival, my productivity, my fears, my celebrations.
Most of my primitive programming is designed to keep me safe. Most of my cultural programming is designed to keep me busy, productive. I would suggest then, that most of these feelings don’t actually lend themselves to something like kindness.
How is it then that we can escape this selfish storyline and contribute to something meaningful in the world?
How do we make time for something like kindness or generosity when most of the time, unconsciously or consciously, we don’t really feel like doing it.
It’s an ongoing battle for most thoughtful individuals, a constant wrestling match between what we know is right or worthwhile or good and what we actually feel like doing.
So, the question then becomes this: is what we’re fighting for in this world bigger than our feelings?
Most people unconsciously make decisions based on what they feel like in the moment. Our emotions drive everything, and if all of my actions are driven purely based on how I feel, then my life is roughly the size of myself.
When we get really clear on what we’re fighting for and we decide that that fight is so much bigger than ourselves, we can more often align our actions to our altruistic aspirations rather than just our fleeting emotions. We can choose our purpose, even though it is challenging or awkward or terrifying, and to adapt a quote from GK Chesterton, how much bigger your life gets when you make yourself smaller in it.
When we dedicate our lives towards something massive and purposeful, when we make decisions not just based on our personal feelings, but a worthy cause, a worthy fight that is so much bigger than us, for the common good, the greater good, our life becomes that much larger.
So choose a fight and make your life so big that you can’t help but live it beautifully.

Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/english-for-teenagers/why-its-cool-to-be-kind. Accessed on May 30, 2023. © 2008–2023 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.

ESL WORKSHEET - Special Dates

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

IMPORTANT DATES

LinguaHouse

May 30, 2023

Level: Elementary (A1-A2)
Type of English: General English
Tags: Celebrations and Special Events; Numbers; Getting to Know People; Playing Games; 16-18 Years Old; 18+ Years Old; 13-15 Years Old; Speaking; Vocabulary Lesson; Pronunciation
Publication date: 05/30/2023

In this lesson, students develop their conversational skills by talking about important dates. They start by completing a quiz to review the months of the year and then they identify ordinal numbers. They complete a variety of listening and speaking tasks to practice the use of dates and then focus on the individual phonemes /θ/ and /ð/ to develop pronunciation. The students finish the lesson by personalizing and consolidating all the language in two student-centered, communicative tasks, an information gap activity and a class survey about birthdays (by Victoria Aitken).

• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in American English.
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• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in British English.
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AUDIO TRANSCRIPT

Speaker A: What is happening in July?
Speaker B: Well, we have a wedding on the seventh and birthday parties on the eighteenth and the twenty-first.
Speaker A: We are going to be busy.
Speaker B: Oh, and a graduation party on the thirtieth.

Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/general-english/important-dates. Accessed on May 30, 2023. © 2008–2023 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.

ESL WORKSHEET - Emojis, Gadgets and Inventions

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

EMOJIS

LinguaHouse
May 15, 2023

Level: Advanced (C1-C2)
Type of English: General English
Tags: Society and Change; Entertainment; Gadgets and Inventions; 13-15 Years Old; 16-18 Years Old; 18+ Years Old; Article Based; Vocabulary Lesson
Publication date: 05/15/2023

Students consider various aspects of emojis which are presented in an article. They will practice reading skills and define vocabulary as well as noticing and explaining language in context, including humor and wordplay. The lesson concludes with discussion questions and an emoji dialogue activity, and there is also an optional extension activity related to an infographic (by Stephanie Hirschman).

• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in American English.
• CLICK HERE to download the teacher’s lesson plan in American English.
• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in British English.
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Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/general-english/emojis. Accessed on May 29, 2023. © 2008–2023 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.

ESL WORKSHEET - Ethics and Conduct

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

LIAR LIAR*

LinguaHouse
May 14, 2023

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)
Type of English: Business English
Tags: Human Resources (HR); Ethics and Conduct; Sales and Negotiation; Business People; Describing a Job; Recruitment; Business Ethics; 16-18 Years Old; 18+ Years Old; Article Based
Publication date: 05/14/2023

* This lesson has been updated.

This lesson looks at a long reading article in two parts looking at the relationship between salespeople and lying. Exercises focus on reading skills, related vocabulary and offer students an opportunity to discuss questions on the topic (by Joe Wilson).

• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in American English.
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• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in British English.
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AUDIO TRANSCRIPT

Everybody is selling something. Whether you’re a business selling a product or a service; a consultant selling their knowledge; a storage company selling space; or a teenage babysitter selling their time a sale is at the heart of all financial transactions. Selling products and services is certainly a skill that not everyone has. To convince someone to part with their money to buy something from you is firstly, not something that everyone is comfortable doing and secondly, a task that isn’t easy.
This is, in part, down to the suspicion with which salespeople are treated. You need only see films such as The Wolf Of Wall Street with Leonardo DiCaprio playing the criminal salesman, Jordan Belfort, or look through the customer reviews on websites such as Trustpilot to find examples of sales people who, according to the reviewer, have lied in some form. Of course, lies can range in levels of severity, from a salesman embellishing the benefits of a health product he’s selling, to the serous corruption seen by Mr. Belfort resulting in lives ruined and serious losses for his thousands of victims.

Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/business-english/liar-liar. Accessed on May 26, 2023. © 2008–2023 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.

ESL WORKSHEET - Literature and Books

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

EASY AS ABC

LinguaHouse
May 22, 2023

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)
Type of English: General English
Tags: Literature and Books; Problems and Solutions; 16-18 Years Old; 18+ Years Old; 13-15 Years Old; Video Talk; Vocabulary Lesson
Publication date: 05/22/2023

This lesson will look at different ways you can organize your bookshelf and the systems behind each strategy. The students will watch a video about different sorting techniques and then be given a chance to try out each technique. Throughout the lesson, learners will be introduced to new and interesting vocabulary and will be given opportunities to share their opinions with their classmates (by Peter Clarkin).

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• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in American English.
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• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in British English.
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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Speaker: You work at the college library. You’re in the middle of a quiet afternoon when suddenly a shipment of 1,280 different books arrives. The books have been dropped off in one long straight line, but they’re all out of order, and the automatic sorting system is broken. To make matters worse, classes start tomorrow, which means that first thing in the morning, students will show up in droves looking for these books. How can you get them all sorted in time?
One way would be to start at one end of the line with the first pair of books. If the first two books are in order, then leave them as they are. Otherwise, swap them. Then, look at the second and third books, repeat the process, and continue until you reach the end of the line. At some point, you’ll come across the book that should be last, and keep swapping it with every subsequent book, moving it down the line until it reaches the end where it belongs. Then, start from the beginning and repeat the process to get the second to last book in its proper place, and keep going until all books are sorted.
This approach is called Bubble Sort. It’s simple but slow. You’d make 1,279 comparisons in the first round, then 1,278, and so on, adding up to 818,560 comparisons. If each took just one second, the process would take over nine days.
A second strategy would be to start by sorting just the first two books. Then, take the third book and compare it with the book in the second spot. If it belongs before the second book, swap them, then compare it with the book in the first spot, and swap again if needed. Now you’ve sorted the first three books. Keep adding one book at a time to the sorted sub-line, comparing and swapping the new book with the one before it until it’s correctly placed among the books sorted so far.
This is called Insertion Sort. Unlike Bubble Sort, it usually doesn’t require comparing every pair of books. On average, we’d expect to only need to compare each book to half of the books that came before it. In that case, the total number of comparisons would be 409,280, taking almost five days. You’re still doing way too many comparisons.
Here’s a better idea. First, pick a random book. Call it the partition and compare it to every other book. Then, divide the line by placing all the books that come before the partition on its left and all the ones that come after it on its right. You’ve just saved loads of time by not having to compare any of the books on the left to any of the ones on the right ever again. Now, looking only at the books on the left, you can again pick a random partition book and separate those books that come before it from those that come after it. You can keep
creating sub-partitions like this until you have a bunch of small sub-lines, each of which you’d sort quickly using another strategy, like Insertion Sort. Each round of partitioning requires about 1,280 comparisons. If your partitions are pretty balanced, dividing the books into 128 sub-lines of ten would take about seven rounds or 8,960 seconds. Sorting these sub-lines would add about 22 seconds each.
All in all, this method known as QuickSort could sort the books in under three and a half hours. But there’s a catch. Your partitions could end up lopsided, saving no time at all. Luckily, this rarely happens. That’s why QuickSort is one of the most efficient strategies used by programmers today. They use it for things like sorting items in an online store by price, or creating a list of all the gas stations close to a given location sorted by distance. In your case, you’re done quick sorting with time to spare. Just another high-stakes day in the library.

Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/general-english/easy-as-abc. Accessed on May 26, 2023. © 2008–2023 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.

ESL WORKSHEET - Tina Turner

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

MUSIC ICON TINA TURNER

PASSES AWAY AT 83

LinguaHouse
May 26, 2023

Level: Mixed Levels (B1-B2; B2-C1)
Type of English: General English
Tags: Sound and Music; Entertainment; Breaking News; Celebrities and Historical Figures; 16-18 Years Old; 13-15 Years Old; 18+ Years Old; Video Talk
Publication date: 05/26/2023

Sadly, the queen of rock and roll passed away. To pay tribute to Tina Turner, this breaking news worksheet features a video and an article about the popstar. The lesson starts with a fun quiz about the icon and, after doing some vocabulary and comprehension tasks, students will see some of her most famous lyrics, practicing rhyme and pronunciation. They then role play an interview with the singer, and discuss some questions about their favorite act and tunes (by Edward Alden).

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CLICK HERE to download/watch the video 1.

VIDEO 1

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

News Reporter: Tina Turner, sometimes nicknamed the queen of rock ‘n’ roll, died on Wednesday at the age of 83.
A representative said the legendary singer died peacefully after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht, near Zurich, Switzerland. Known for her chart-topping song “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”, in which she called love ‘a second-hand emotion’, Turner epitomized 1980’s style and often strutted red carpets with her spiky blonde hair, a short skirt and stiletto heels.
In an interview from 1996, Turner was asked how she kept fit:
Tina Turner: “Just to get it out of the way, I’ll just tell you that everyone is now going to the gyms and exercising and carrying on and it is said that it’s good for your health. All of us yelling and, and I’ve been singing and traveling and dancing for 35 years. So, I think that my work has taken care of all of my aerobic classics. So that’s the answer to that one, alright?”
News Reporter: Turner won six of her eight Grammy Awards in the 1980s. Years later in 2008, Turner and Beyoncé performed together at the Grammys.
Beyoncé: “Tina rocks! She is absolute best, it’s something that I’ve been wanting to do for years and it actually happened. It’s amazing when those moments come to life.”
News Reporter: Ike Turner was the person to discover Tina at the age of 17 when she grabbed the mic at a St. Louis club in 1957. He gave her the stage name Tina Turner before the two married in Mexico. The superstar left Ike Turner in 1976 and was forthcoming about the abuse she suffered from her former husband during their marital and musical partnership in the 1960s and 1970s. Their divorce was finalized in 1978. Private Dancer, from 1984, went on to become Turner’s biggest album, the capstone of her career that saw her sell more than 200 million records in total. In 1985 Turner met German music executive, Irwin Bach. Years later, she married him, relinquishing her US citizenship and becoming a citizen of Switzerland.
She battled a number of health problems after retiring and then faced family tragedies with the death of two sons. Tina Turner is survived by Bach and two sons of Ike’s that she adopted.

VIDEO 2

Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/general-english/music-icon-tina-turner-passes-away-at-83. Accessed on May 26, 2023. © 2008–2023 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.

TINA (1939-2023) - A Farewell to an Icon

TINA TURNER DIES AT 83

Tina Turner morre aos 83 anos

Adir Ferreira
YouTube Channel
May 24, 2023

Na última quarta-feira, 24 de maio de 2023, Anna Mae Bullock, conhecida mundialmente como TINA TURNER, ícone do rock'n'roll, nos deixou. Em homenagem a essa magnífica cantora, o professor Adir Ferreira gravou uma videoaula na qual ele fez a leitura de um trecho da reportagem do site da CNN (confira AQUI o texto na íntegra), com comentários em português. Assista à aula abaixo e, em seguida, aprecie a versão da cantora de um clássico de Al Green.

TINA TURNER

“LET’S STAY TOGETHER”

Written by Al Green
Performed by Tina Turner
Produced by Martyn Ware and Greg Walsh
Released on November 7, 1983 in the UK, and in January 1984 in the US
From the 1984 Capitol Records album Private Dancer

Let me say that since, baby

Since we've been together

Ooh, loving you forever is all I need

Let me be the one you come running to

I'll never be untrue

Oh, baby let's

Let's stay together

Loving you whether, whether

Times are good or bad, happy or sad

I'm so in love with you

Whatever you want to do

Is alright with me

You make me feel so brand new

I want to spend my whole life with you

Let me say that since, baby

Since we've been together

Ooh, loving you forever is all I need

Let me be the one you come running to

I'll never be untrue

Oh baby, let's

Let's stay together

Loving you whether, whether

Times are good or bad, happy or sad

Good or bad, happy or sad

Why, oh tell me

Why do people break up?

Ooh then turn around and make up

I just can't deceive

You'd never do that to me

Would you baby?

'Cause being around you

Is all I see

So baby

Let's, we oughta stay together

Loving you whether, whether

Times are good or bad, happy or sad

Let's, whoo (let's stay together) stay together

Loving you whether, whether

Times are good or bad, happy or sad

Never need to chase off with me, oh baby

Let's (let's stay together) stay together

Loving you whether, whether

Good or bad, happy or sad

Good or bad, happy or sad

Let's try to stay together

Loving you whether, whether

Good or bad, happy or sad

PERSONNEL

• Tina Turner – lead vocals
• Gary Barnacle – saxophone
• Glenn Gregory – background vocals
• Rupert Hine – percussion
• Frank Ricotti – percussion
• Ray Russell – guitar
• Martyn Ware – programming, electronic drums, arrangements, background vocals
• Greg Walsh – programming, arrangements
• Nick Plytas – piano, synthesizer

PRODUCTION

• Greg Walsh – producer & engineer
• Martyn Ware – producer
• Walter Samuel – engineer
• Alan Yoshida – mastering
• Akira Taguchi – compilation producer
• Sam Gay – creative director
• Roy Kohara – art direction
• John O'Brien – design
• Peter Ashworth – photography
• Roger Davies – management
• Chip Lightman – management

℗ 1983, 1984 Capitol Records, Inc. All rights reserved.
℗ 2015 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company (remastered). All rights reserved.

BOB THE CANADIAN - Sign In X Sign Up

LEARN THE ENGLISH PHRASES

“SIGN UP” AND “SIGN IN”

BOB THE CANADIAN
YouTube Channel
May 26, 2023

Read along Bob’s notes to practice your English and to learn the phrases SIGN UP and SIGN IN. 😎

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the phrase sign up. When you sign up for something, it means that you want to do it and the person organizing it is asking for people to write their names down on a piece of paper, or maybe to send their name in via the computer, maybe an email or an online form. At school, sometimes there are sports at lunchtime and students and teachers can play if they want to, but you need to sign up. The day before or the week before they start playing basketball or volleyball or whatever the sport is they usually have a sign up sheet and you can sign up to play that sport. I don't normally do this, although last year I did play a little bit of baseball. I signed up (past tense) to play baseball. It was quite enjoyable. I hadn't played baseball for a very long time.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase sign in. Now, this is similar to log in if you're talking about a computer or something like your email. I have to sign in to check my email. When I turn my computer on, I need to sign in. I can also say log in. I need to log in to check my email. I need to log in once I turn my computer on. And it simply means to enter your username and your password. But we also use this for paper and pen things as well. My mom now lives in a retirement home. When I go to visit my mom, I need to sign in when I get there. They actually have a book at the entrance and I need to write my name and the time that I arrive and here's a bonus I need to sign out as well when I leave. I need to kind of write down what time I leave.

So, to review, when you sign up for something, it means you put your name on a piece of paper or you give your name to someone who's organizing something. You sign up because you want to do that thing, and when you sign in, you can either sign in to a computer or a piece of software or a website or your email, or you can sign in like I described at an old age home or another place like that where they need to see your name when you get there.

Enjoy the video! 😉

⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! 👍

BOB THE CANADIAN - Being Busy

AN ENGLISH LESSON

ABOUT BEING BUSY

BOB THE CANADIAN
YouTube Channel
Apr. 18, 2023

In this English lesson, Bob will help you learn some common English phrases that we use when talking about being busy. These aren't just different ways to say you are busy. They are the phrases you would use to talk about getting things done when you're busy. They are phrases that will help you have great English conversations while explaining to someone how busy you are.

In this free English lesson, you'll learn phrases like: baby steps, every little bit counts, one step at a time, one day at a time, and many more!

Enjoy the video! 😉

⌛ BOB'S TIP: Always watch the video three times. Twice today with English subtitles on, and once tomorrow with the English subtitles off. This will reinforce the English you have learned!

ENGLISH ATPC - Early Years - 22mai2023

ATPC - ANOS INICIAIS - CMSP

ENGLISH - LÍNGUA INGLESA

ENGLISH IN THE WORLD

A Língua Inglesa no mundo

22 de maio de 2023

ATPC de Língua Inglesa, anos iniciais, realizada em 22 de maio de 2023 e transmitida pelo Centro de Mídias da Educação de São Paulo. Os slides dessa ATPC encontram-se AQUI.

ESL WORKSHEET - Animals and Nature

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

ANIMALS AND THEIR BODIES

LinguaHouse
May 25, 2023

Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2-B1)
Type of English: English for Teenagers
Tags: Animals; Nature; Parts of the Body; Forming Questions; 10-12 Years Old; 13-15 Years Old; 16-18 Years Old; Video Talk; Vocabulary and Grammar
Publication date: 05/25/2023

In this lesson, the students learn and practice vocabulary used to name and describe animal body parts. The new vocabulary is used in descriptions of animal movement, feeding habits, and behavior. Additionally, the lesson analyzes and encourages students to practice various types of subject questions (by I. Rybak).

• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in American English.
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• CLICK HERE to download the teacher’s lesson plan in British English.
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AUDIO TRANSCRIPT

1. Reindeer have hooves with two toes.
2. Dogs have paws with claws at the end.
3. Birds that swim have feet with a web between their toes, they are called webbed feet.
4. Monkeys have hands which they can use to do a lot of things. They are very similar to human hands.
5. This is a bear’s paw with sharp and strong claws at the end.
6. Many animals have tails at the end of their bodies. Tails can look very different. This is a horse’s tail.
7. Fish use fins to swim in water. Some of the fins are on the top part of their body. This is a shark’s fin.
8. Fish also have tails at the end of their bodies. This is a shark’s tail.
9. Seals use flippers to swim, and sometimes to walk on land too. A flipper has bones inside and is much harder and stronger than a fin.
10. This Scottish cow has huge horns.
11. All birds have beaks, but toucans’ beaks are really big and also very colorful.
12. The albatross have the largest wings of all birds. They can measure up to 12 feet.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Narrator: And now it’s time for some more “amazing animals”! Number 8,999: the amazing eastern grey kangaroo! Or macropus giganteus...
Kangaroo: Yeah, you got that right!
Narrator: Um, actually it means “gigantic large foot”.
Kangaroo: Oi mate!
Narrator: In fact, they have two gigantic feet.
Kangaroo: Two... I thought I had three!
Narrator: No, that’s your tail!
Kangaroo: Ohhh! Narrator: They’re found down under! On the eastern side of Australia.
Kangaroo: Too right mate, we’re everywhere! Mobs of us!
Narrator: They’re extremely adaptable and enjoy nibbling on grass, which is why they love this golf course...
Kangaroo: Don’t you mean this “hop-stacle” course?
Narrator: Some say there are too many of them!
Kangaroo: Keep your “hop-pinion” to yourself, mate!
Narrator: The male kangaroos can be taller than most adult humans.
Kangaroo: Yeah. I’m bigger than you, let’s fight!
Narrator: In fact, when the girls...
Kangaroo: Sheilas!
Narrator: Sorry, sheilas are around, they’re ready to fight for their attention.
Female kangaroo: Oh, crikey Debbie, check him out.
Narrator: The males use their strong...
Kangaroo: Feet?
Narrator: No, tails to balance and their big...
Kangaroo: Tails?
Narrator: No, feet!
Kangaroo 2: Aww, I think I’m just gonna sit this one out!
Narrator: Meanwhile the females are very busy looking After their babies or “joeys”. Sometimes they can be looking after three all at once! And because they are marsupials, they have a convenient pouch to carry their young.
Joey: Mommy, there’s lots of crumbs in here!
Mom kangaroo: Oh Joey, stop being such a pouch potato!
Narrator: There might be millions of these bouncing beasts, but the eastern grey kangaroo is a...
Kangaroo: True blue Aussie!

Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/english-for-teenagers/animals-and-their-bodies. Accessed on May 25, 2023. © 2008–2023 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.

ESL WORKSHEET - Homes, Rhymes and Songs

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

OUR HOME

LinguaHouse
May 25, 2023

Level: Elementary (A1-A2)
Type of English: English for Kids
Tags: Rhymes and Songs; Homes and Buildings; In the Home; Playing Games; Singing Songs; 7-9 Years Old
Publication date: 05/25/2023

The focus of this lesson is vocabulary related to homes and in particular bedrooms. Learners listen or watch a song about home(s), develop their understanding of the vocabulary using different practice activities in spoken and written form. The lesson concludes with a vocabulary game to consolidate their understanding (by Jeannette Corbett).

CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in American English.
CLICK HERE to download the teacher’s lesson plan in American English.
CLICK HERE to download/listen to the audio of “My Home Song” in AmE.
CLICK HERE to download/listen to the audio of “Home” in AmE.
CLICK HERE to download/listen to the audio of “Game Time” in AmE.
CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in British English.
CLICK HERE to download the teacher’s lesson plan in British English.
CLICK HERE to download/listen to the audio of “My Home Song” in BrE.
CLICK HERE to download/listen to the audio of “Home” in BrE.
CLICK HERE to download/listen to the audio of “Game Time” in BrE.

AUDIO TRANSCRIPTS

My home song

My apartment is ace,
And this is my room,
It's my cool space,
And my bedroom,
Come on! Come on!
Learn about my room!

Which words do you know?
Now look around slow.
There is my big bed,
Where I rest my head
My room is tidy... 'coz I care,
My white closet is spare,
And my bedside table is there.

Come into my house,
To see my cool bedroom,
It's my chill space,
And my blue room,
Come on! Come on!
Learn about my room!

Which words can you guess?
Look around to guess,
There's my chair and desk,
Where I study for tests,
There are some long drawers,
Yeah! And for my dinosaurs,
In my toy box on the floor!
Come into my house,
Come into my house...

Home

1) toy box;
2) drawers;
3) bed;
4) house;
5) bedside table;
6) apartment;
7) c (closet);
8) desk and chair;
9) bedroom

Game Time

Listen to the example.
House… It’s number 4.
Now, you try! (pause)
Chair (pause)
Desk (pause)
Drawers (pause)
Bed (pause)
Apartment (pause)
Closet (pause)
Bedroom (pause)
Toy box (pause)
Bedside table (pause)

Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/english-for-kids/our-home. Accessed on May 25, 2023. © 2008–2023 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.