How to make suggestions.

Making plans is a very usual activity in our real life. We make plans with friends, with our boyfriend or girlfriend, with our family... In order to do it, we need to be able to make, accept or refuse suggestions. Here you will find a presentation with some language expressions to help you out.

Language suggestions from Fuera d Tono

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 Verbling lets language learners instantly connect with native speakers around the world through live video.

If you sign up on this page you can follow online classes and speak with native people of the language your learning, any language.

They just ask you what languages do yo speak fluently and what languages are you learning. And that's it! Start speaking now!

Are you ready to try it?

Here you have the link of Verbling's webpage. Watch the promotional video and decide.
https://es.verbling.com/

Looking forward into ... the future.

Here you have a presentation where you can see the different forms and uses that we use to express the future.

Future 1 from Sergio Guzmán

Make or do... that is the question.

Here you have another video by Collo Tunes (remember the post on irregular verbs!) who uses hip hop to help you remember better.

This ones is about when to use make and do. Interesting!

Hope you enjoy it!

Irregular verbs... is it always boring?

Hi everyone,

Who said learning irregular verbs could be always boring? Here you have a video that can help you learn them at the same time you have some fun.

And the lyrics:

The microphone I 

TAKE (took, TAKen). You SHAKE (shook, SHAken). 
WAKE (woke, WOken) to the STYLE Im creAting. 
THINK (thought, THOUGHT). SEEK (sought, SOUGHT).
LISten to the LESson that I TEACH (taught, TAUGHT).

Dont SLEEP (slept, SLEPT). I CREEP (crept, CREPT). 
I SNEAK (snuck, SNUCK UP). You LEAP (leapt, LEAPT).
I KEEP (kept, KEPT) HAVing FUN. 
Im never BEAT (beat, BEAten); I WIN (won, WON).
DO (did, DONE). BeGIN (began, beGUN).
SHOOT (shot, SHOT)—no, I DONT own a GUN. 
I LEAD (led, LED) so I can FEED (fed, FED). 
the KNOWledge you NEED, STRAIGHT to your HEAD. 
When I BRING (brought, BROUGHT) it, you CATCH (caught, CAUGHT) it.
Sit BACKreLAX. Dont FIGHT (fought, FOUGHT) it.

Please don't

FREEZE (froze, FROzen) when I SPEAK (spoke, SPOken). 
Its REAL. You can FEEL I dont STEAL (stole, STOlen). 
I CHOOSE (chose, CHOsen) the VERy best RHYMES and
WRITE (wrote, WRITten) them INto my LINES and
INto your MIND. When we MEET (met, MET)
Ill BET (bet, BET) I wont LET you forGET 
(forGOTforGOTten). I GET (got, GOTten)
EVery head NODding. Dont THINK about STOPping
just COME (came, COME). 
THIS is hip hop. I dont SING (sang, SUNG).
I STING (stung, STUNG). I CLING (clung, CLUNG).
On EACH and every WORD, you HANG (hung, HUNG).

It's not enough to

DREAM (dreamt, DREAMT); youve got to SPEND (spent, SPENT)
TIME on your GOALS. Please LEND (lent, LENT) me your
EAR. Come NEAR and Ill LAY (laid, LAID)
DOWN this new SOUND that I MAKE (made, MADE). 
I HOPE you dont SAY that you THINK its JUNK.
I HOPE you dont THINK that I STINK (stank, STUNK).
If youre THIRSty for ENGlish, come DRINK (drank, DRUNK).
because I SINK (sank, SUNK) ALL compeTItion when they 
HEAR (heard, HEARD) that I GIVE (gave, GIVen)
encouragement when I SPIT (spat, SPAT).
Never QUIT (quit, QUIT); dont SIT (sat, SAT).
Yeah, I LIKE it like THAT. Ill even KNEEL (knelt, KNELT).
and BEG you to exPRESS what you FEEL (felt, FELT).

I RISE (rose, RISen) when I DRIVE (drove, DRIVen) through 
the BEAT; tap your FEET as you RIDE (rode, RIDden). 
Those that HIDE (hid, HIDden) I FIND (found, FOUND).
If you FLEE (fled, FLED) then Ill TRACK you DOWN.

Now you SEE (saw, SEEN) that I MEAN (meant, MEANT) 
every WORD of the MESsage that I SEND (sent, SENT). 
I SHOW (showed, SHOWN) I can FLY (flew, FLOWN).
Now you KNOW (knew, KNOWN) I SHINE (shone, SHONE).
Ill THROW (threw, THROWN) you the BALL. Its your TURN. 
GROW (grew, GROWN) with the VERBS that youve LEARNED. 
GRAMmar through LYRics I DRAW (drew, DRAWN). 
PEACE to elLS, now I GO (went, GONE)!

And now have some practise yourself:

And if you're a more traditional person, here you have another video with some images that can help you guess the meaning of each verb and listen to its pronunciation:

Here you have a list with irregular verbs in a pdf format. If you click on the verb you can hear the pronunciation. Click here.

And now, do you want to test your knowledge? Play the irregular verbs wheel game: click on the image to play.

Peace on Earth.

On January 30th, schools celebrate peace and non-violence day. The International Peace Day is on Septemeber 21st.

But it's always a good day to promote peace and non-violence. Here you have some videos that stand for this message. 

Human rights declaration

What a wonderful world - Louis Amstrong.

Man in the mirror - Michael Jackson

Imagine - John Lennon

We are the world - USA for Africa.

What other songs or videos about peace do you know? (In English, of course!)

Why should I learn English?

Here you have some good reasons why you should learn English.

And here you have the first lesson from a different teacher that shows you how to learn English in a funny way: Mr Duncan!