Isabel's English blog: GA1

INTERESTING WEBSITES

HELPFUL RESOURCES

Esta sección es para dar respuesta a algunos de vosotros que me habéis pedido que habilite recursos para aprender inglés desde un nivel básico:

https://www.grammarbank.com/beginners-esl-lessons.html En esta página que tiene muchos recursos, encontráreis de todo: lecturas, teoría, práctica gramatical .... exploradla.
https://oedb.org/ilibrarian/50_essential_resources_for_esl_students/ Great, great site that offers many resources for you to explore
https://www.grammar-quizzes.com/diagnosum.html Aquí podéis hacer test de diagnosis y os dan feedback

WEBS PARA APRENDER INGLÉS PARA LOS NEGOCIOS

http://www.curso-ingles.com/aprender/cursos/ingles-negocios

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/business-english

oxford resources for business student

WEBS PARA APRENDER INGLÉS DESDE UN NIVEL BÁSICO
https://www.grammarbank.com/beginners-esl-lessons.html En esta página que tiene muchos recursos, encontráreis de todo: lecturas, teoría, práctica gramatical .... exploradla.
https://oedb.org/ilibrarian/50_essential_resources_for_esl_students/ Great, great site that offers many resources for you to explore
https://www.grammar-quizzes.com/diagnosum.html Aquí podéis hacer test de diagnosis y os dan feedback

Introduction: About you

Interrogative Pronouns

Explanation: https://www.mosalingua.com/es/pronombres-interrogativos-en-ingles-gramatica-inglesa/

Practise:

- https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1898 (only about the wh- forms)

- https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/questions/form.htm (questions for these answers)

- Ejercicos de englishexercises.org para practicar

Spelling

Getting to know you: Personal information questions

A basic written exercise:

- http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6652

Basic games to practice introductions:

- http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/sentences/About%20you/About%20you.html
- http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/sentences/hello%20hi/hello%20hi.html

Youtube videos:

- people introducing themselves professionally: videos de "personal information"

- An example of an easy introduction of yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7QmHKgVn5s

Questions to interview your partner:

- http://iteslj.org/questions/getting.html

- https://eslgames.com/random-question-generator/

Unit 1: Who's who in the office

**Lesson plan: https://www.linguahouse.com/en-GB/esl-lesson-plans/business-english/introductions

First day at the office: information you must know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfunlllTF8Y
Conversations at work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWK64diTMpM

Introduce yourself at work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AmS9h8g3E4

GRAMMAR

Be / have got exercises
ejercicios con el verbo "to be"
Práctica verbo "to have got"
Práctiva Be / Have got

Unit 2: The office building

Here are some helpful videos to help you to consolidate what we learn in class about directions :

- https://www.easypacelearning.com/all-lessons/english-level-2/1289-asking-for-and-giving-directions-english-lesson
- **http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/elementary-a2-listening/giving-directions
- **https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/pre-intermediate-a2/an-invitation-to-a-party

**Video showing a new employee around the office: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItYDXk6_N58&t=90s

GRAMMAR

Present Simple

Power point con explicaciones y páginas con ejercicios
present simple explicado en castellano
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/simple_present1/index.php
http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/present_simple-exercises.html

Imperative

Theory in Spanish https://www.lewolang.com/gramatica-inglesa/48/imperatives

Theory and exercises https://www.english-4u.de/en/grammar/imperative.htm

short exercise https://elt.oup.com/student/businessfocus/elem/2grammar/bf_elem_grammar_u04?cc=global&selLanguage=en&mode=hub

Unit 3: Managing office supplies

Present Continuous

Breve power point
teoría del presente continuo.pdf
present continuous teoría más completa
ejercicios para practicar

Simple Present /Present Continuous (Present Progressive)
Resultado de imagen de present continuous present simple

Resultado de imagen de present continuous present simple

Power Point con explicaciones
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro
hthttp://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/simple_present_progressive2/index.phptp://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_present_progressive2.htm

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2332

Unit 4: Managing office supplies

video con el vocabulario básico en una oficina

There is / There are
Explicación: slideshare
Cómo se usan y ejercicios
http://www.agendaweb.org/ejercicios

How much / How many

A / An / Some / Any

Resultado de imagen de a / an / some / any

Resultado de imagen de a / an / some / any

ejercicios para practicar

Many / much / a lot of

ejercicios para practicar

Unit 5: Photocopying

Past Simple

- Aquí tenéis un tutorial explicando el past simple, es un video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htl9dwwvYas
- Ejercicios para practicar: http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/past-simple.html

Resultado de imagen de there was there were images

Resultado de imagen de there was there were images

Unit 6: Handling mail

To improve your writing here you have an activity to learn to give instructions

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/writing/beginner-a1/instructions-for-a-colleague

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/writing/pre-intermediate-a2/instructions-for-a-colleague (a bit more difficult

Procedures to handle mail https://www.preservearticles.com/business/various-steps-involved-in-handling-incoming-mail-in-an-office/1786

1st Term Grammar Review

Verb tenses :

* https://www.superprof.es/apuntes/idiomas/ingles/gramatica-inglesa/verb-tense/exercises-simple-present-and-simple-past-exercises-ii.html

**https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Verb_tenses/Present_simple_-_present_continuous_-_past_simple_kh34742ki

Unit 7 and 8: Receiving Calls

Happy 2021

New Year's Resolutions

On the phone

*Useful sentences on the phone https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-37260.php
**https://www.espressoenglish.net/telephone-english-phrases/ (very complete)
*Video teaching how to handle business conversations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Ph0Ct5HXc (after minute 7, it is more complex)
Telephone etiquette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka11BYoDA7s
**video teaching how to start phone conversations (easy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCBF659RMtg&t=24s 2nd part https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaf4-7KDkk&t=13s
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-W6dXfm7YE&t=168s (very basic)