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Shadowing is a learning technique where you listen to a text in your target language, and then speak it aloud at the same time as the native speaker, so that you become his/her shadow.

The basic concept is as follows: listen to the audio once or twice, to make sure you understand what it is about. Then you listen to it again and pause it to repeat the words, then you write down the words the speaker says until you have the whole audioscript. After that, you play the audio again until you can read it confidently at the same time as the native speaker. Finally, you get up from your seat to walk around the house repeating the exacts words as if you were the native person yourself.

So, here's my proposal to get started in this new technique: Become the shadow of Patch Adams. Patch Adams is an American physician, social activist, clown, and author who has some really interesting ideas to share with us about living in a healthy world.

Please, don't do this for more than 2 minutes at a time, we should start doing this little by little to avoid frustration, ok?

Patch Adam's Love Revolution

"I want a world where no one alive can remember what the word war means..."

tricky vocabulary

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School Calendar

School Calendar Year 2017-18

Info to Get Started in NI1

Dear all,

Find below all that you need to know about being a student in NI1!

Info to get started in NI1

Remember now it's the time to start off with the self-improvement sheet. Go for it!

Self-improvement sheet

Theater is here! So much fun!

The  crew of excellent students from NI2 put on this series of sketches adapted from Roald Dahl's short stories. Have a laugh!

Good Old Memories Just For the Sake of a Smile

A year ago... some humans of Pinto filled the school patio with their visual poetry. 



Intermediate Students...
Back in May 2016

     

Alberto Manso

Alicia Santos
Ana Muñoz
Andrea Loarte
Antonio Cansino
Candelario López
David González
Dolores Tomás
Eduardo Morcillo
Elena Miguel
Javier Real
Jose Miguel Martín
Jose Luis Camino
Joyce Zegarra
Julia López
Julia Oyo
Karen Zea
Laura del Moral
Laura Pedraza
Lourdes Céspedes
Lourdes Moruno
Luis Manchado
Luis Miguel Navarro
María Burgos
Marta Navarrón
Montse
Olga Barragán
Óscar Tocino
Paloma de Castro
Raquel García
Rubén Muñoz
Ruth Gutiérrez
Silvia Pérez
Teodora Vas
Teresa Díaz

I would like to thank each and every one of you for the love you shared with me and everybody else in class. 

KEEP UP THE HUMAN SPIRIT!!

                                                                  All my love,

                                                               
                                                                María

Passive Woksheet Key

Here follows the key to the practice sheet I handed out in class the other day:

42.1.
2. is made   3. was damaged   4. were invited   5. ares hown   6. are held   7. was written... was translated   8. were overtaken   9. is surrounded

42.2.
2. When was television invented?
3. How are mountains formed?
4. When was Pluto discovered?
5. What is silver used for?

42.3.
3.covers   4. is covered   5. are locked   6. was posted... arrived   7. sank... was rescued   8. died... were brought up   9. grew up   10. was stolen   11. disappeared   12. did Sue resign   13. was Bill sacked   14. is owned   15. called...was injured... wasn't needed   16. were these photographs taken... Did you take   17. 'm not bothered / am not bothered

42.4.
2. All flights were cancelled because of fog.
3. This road isn't used much
4. I was accused of stealing money
5. How are languages learned/learnt?
6. We were warned not to go out alone

Gerunds and Infinitives Worksheet Key

a.
2. going to see  3. go out   4. to have   5. not stay   6.working   7. to wear   8. livr   9.laughing   10.to finish   11. seeing   12. not to well   13. work   14. seeing   15. to help   16. waiting   17. to park   18. speaking   19. getting up   20. not come   21. spending   22. to give

b.
2. not to be   3. changing   4. meeting   5. arriving   6. to revise   7. to tell   8. turning

And Nothing Else Matters...

This is a song for you to notice the different ways British and Americans pronounce the letter R. Pay attention to how the Metallica vocalist, James Hetfield, rolls the R when he sings .."and nothing else matters...", pronouncing the <tt> segment as an /r/. Ready to imitate him as you sing along? Please...

So close, no matter how far

Couldn't be much more from the heart

Forever trusting who we are

And nothing else matters

Never opened myself this way

Life is ours, we live it our way

All these words I don't just say

And nothing else matters

Trust I seek and I find in you

Every day for us something new

Open mind for a different view

And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do

Never cared for what they know

But I know

So close, no matter how far

Couldn't be much more from the heart

Forever trusting who we are

And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do

Never cared for what they know

But I know

I never opened myself this way

Life is ours, we live it our way

All these words I don't just say

Nothing else matters

Especially dedicated to David R.

More Speaking Cards!

TEST 3 CANDIDATE A

TEST 3 CANDIDATE B

Friday March 24th: Celebrating our 10 years together!

Dear all,

As you all know, we are celebrating our 10 years together at the EOI Pinto in La Tenería. For this reason, you are all invited to celebrate this 10th anniversary on March 24th at the school. Tere will be plenty of surprises! I'll see you all there!

Emma Watson On the Importance of Feminism

A great Emma Watson explains the concept of Feminism before the United Nations assembly. Don't miss this opportunity to listen to her beautiful Oxford accent. 

March is the Month for the Flowers to Blossom...

And for Our Oral English to Flourish too!

Check out your oral schedule below!

Oral March

Assigned Times to Revise Your Oral Exam - NI2B
Assigned Times to Revise Your Oral Exam - NI2C

Speaking Practice

As you already know, we're going to devote the month of March to practicing the next speaking exam in June. Every week I will have one pair of students do the exam in front of the class as if they were in the real situation in June. I hope not to run out of volunteers! Anyway, here are the cards, so please everybody take a look at the speaking cards for this week.

So, who'd like to be candidate A and candidate B? :-)

TEST 1 CANDIDATE A

TEST 1 CANDIDATE B

TEST 2 CANDIDATE A

TEST 2 CANDIDATE B

Linkers and Speaking Expressions

Linkers Sheet for NI2*

Useful Expressions in a Dialogue

Speaking Expressions in a Roleplay

* This linkers sheet is based on a paper your classmate Elena Miguel shared with me. Thanks, Elena, for sharing your tools and ideas with us!

Shadowing for a Better, Cleaner World...

And to follow up on the same subject, here you have the video on How to Care for the Environment which Esperanza proposed to practice some shadowing with. I actually think it is a great choice to improve your shadowing mastery. Thanks Esperanza!

How Environmentally Friendly Are You?

Find below the video Esperanza used to introduce the topic of Environment in class last week. It is a very useful piece of material to revise all the new vocabulary and expressions we learned with her. And why not revising our three R's too? it's all about saving our planet!

This is the Life, by Amy MacDonald

Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight.... Still playing this tune in your head?

Key to the Exam Practice, Christmas 2016

Key to the Exam Practice you did over Christmas

Mayday!

This is a very short video to cheer you up: A hilarious way to remind us of the importance of pronouncing English correctly when you work as an air traffic controller... or as a coastguard!

Sink (v): hundir, hundirse

German Coastguard Sinking

And remember: the only way to make progress is actually putting the foot in it, hopefully not under such dire circumstances as the poor German coastguard above!