Happy Halloween!

[SHADOW]
Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

[SIAMESE SHADOW]
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

[PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

[GHOSTS]
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween

[CREATURE UNDER THE BED]
I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

[MAN UNDER THE STAIRS]
I am the one hiding under yours stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

[CORPSE CHORUS]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween

[VAMPIRES]
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

[MAYOR]
In this town, don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

[CORPSE CHORUS]
Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can
Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll...

[HARLEQUIN DEMON, WEREWOLF & MELTING MAN]
Scream! This is Halloween
Red 'n' black, slimy green

[WEREWOLF]
Aren't you scared?

[WITCHES]
Well, that's just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night

[HANGING TREE]
Everybody scream, everbody scream

[HANGED MEN]
In our town of Halloween!

[CLOWN]
I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace

[SECOND GHOUL]
I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing through your hair

[OOGIE BOOGIE SHADOW]
I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright

[CORPSE CHORUS]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween! 

[CHILD CORPSE TRIO]
Tender lumplings everywhere
Life's no fun without a good scare

[PARENT CORPSES]
That's our job, but we're not mean
In our town of Halloween

[CORPSE CHORUS]
In this town

[MAYOR]
Don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise 

[CORPSE CHORUS]
Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Halloween, everyone scream
Wont' ya please make way for a very special guy

Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now!

[EVERYONE]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

[CORPSE CHILD TRIO]
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

[EVERYONE]
La la la la-la la [Repeat]

[Thanks to Sarah Adam for corrections]

From The Nightmare Before Christmas

Halloween is coming!

Halloween is coming! Join Ashlie and Stephen as they prepare for a great Halloween part on Word on the Street! 

Watch part 1 and do the interactive exercises. Click here.

Watch part 2 and do the interactive exercises. Click here.

Source: British Council

Spelling is terrifying!!

Have you tried Spelloween, our spooky spelling game yet? If you can stop shaking 
long enough, choose the right answers and spell the words correctly...!

Click here to start playing.


Source: British Council

Other ways to say ...

Ways To Apologize

Ways To Say Goodbye

Prepositions

Click here and find some simple rules of using prepositions IN - AT - ON

Adverbs of frequency

face2face pre-intermediate

 

The Student's Book provides approximately 80 hours of core teaching material, which can be extended to 120 hours with the inclusion of the photocopiable resources and extra ideas in the Teacher's Book. Each self-contained double-page lesson is easily teachable off the page with minimal preparation. The Student's Book comes packaged with a free fully-interactive CD-ROM/Audio CD with over 200 exercises in all language areas, including video, games, recording capability, progress chart and customised tests. There is also a selection of material from the Real World lessons which can be listened to on normal CD players.

Packaged free with the Student's Book, the face2face CD-ROMs contain a wealth of activities to consolidate work done in class. As well as hundreds of practice exercises in all language areas, the My Portfolio and My Activities sections give students the freedom to practise what they want, when they want, with the full support of integrated grammar and vocabulary reference sections. Additional features include a host of listening activities and video sequences, a recording capability, hundreds of test questions and a progress portfolio for students to keep track of their achievements.
All the main dialogues from the Student's books are on the CD-ROMs, as well as an additional 20 minutes of listening material taken from the Real World sections which can be played on normal CD players.

You can also buy the student's book with the online workbook pack.

An interview with the authors

Chris Redston

Chris Redston has been in ELT for more than fifteen years, teaching in Turkey, Argentina and the UK for International House. He has also run teacher-training courses in Italy and the UK, and is an experienced author of adult course materials. He has travelled extensively, visiting over forty countries.

Gillie Cunningham

Gillie Cunningham has been in ELT since 1973, working mainly for International House and the Bell Educational Trust as a teacher and a teacher trainer. She is an experienced author of adult courses and has also been closely involved with the Cambridge ESOL DELTA examinations.


Click here and listen to the interview. You have to click on the questions to watch the videos.


Source: cambridge.org

6 Minute English

Road safety for cyclist


More and more people are using bikes to commute to work or university. Cycling is a cheap way to travel and a good way to get fit. But it can also be dangerous. Join Jen and Neil as they discuss ways to be safer on the roads.

Click here to read and listen to the conversation.

Source: 6 Minute English

Grammar challenge with Yung and Lee

Subject-verb agreement

This week, we are going to hear two programmes about subject-verb agreement. 

Programme 1: In the challenge, we ask Peng Jin from China to settle a dispute between two students who can't agree on their English homework. Click here.

Programme 2: In programme 1 we showed how plural and singular subjects need to 'agree' with their verbs. But some subjects look singular but are actually plural... and some look plural but are actually singular! Confused? Click here

Source: BBC Learning English

Keep your English up to date

The English language is permanently evolving and developing. New words and expressions are coined and existing words change their meaning as society, culture and technology progress. 

Gavin Dudeney has selected 13 words and expressions that have recently made it into the language, if not necessarily into dictionaries. 

Click here to read more and try a quiz.

Source: BBC Learning English

Canadian wins Nobel Prize for Literature

This year's Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to the Canadian writer Alice Munro. She is highly praised for her short stories which focus on life in the part of Canada where she has spent most of her time.

Click here to read and listen to the report.

Source: Words in the news

Wordmaster

Have you got what it takes to be the BBC Word Master?
Play the game to test your vocabulary skills. There are thousands of words to practise.

Click here to start the game.

Source: BBC learning English

Halloween is coming!

EOI ELDA                                          AULARIO VILLENA

HALLOWEEN

IS HERE AGAIN!!!

Do you dare to take part in a very spooky competition? Enter your ghost story in the form of a poster no later than next Monday 28th or Tuesday 29th.

Your originality and linguistic skills can make you win a creepy prize! (One for each level).

The story must be original. The chanllege is being able to write no more than 100 words .

Contestants: Intermediate Level 1 & 2 and Advanced 1

Enter your poster and SCARE YOUR CLASSMATES TO DEATH!

World Teachers' Day

The United Nations' (UN) World Teachers' Day celebrates the role teachers play in providing quality education at all levels. This enables children and adults of all ages to learn to take part in and contribute to their local community and global society.

Background

On October 5, 1966, the Special Intergovernmental Conference on the Status of Teachers in Paris, France, was closed and the "Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers" was signed by representatives of UNESCO and International Labour Organization. On October 12, 1997, the 29th session of UNESCO's General Conference was opened. During this conference, on November 11, 1997, the "Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher Education Teaching Personnel" was adopted.

On October 5, 1994, the first World Teachers' Day was held. This event has been organized on the same date each year since then. However, local events may be on some other date close to October 5, so that they do not fall during fall (northern hemisphere) or spring (southern hemisphere) school vacations. In 2002, Canada Post issued a postage stamp to commemorate World Teachers' Day.

Through all my life I have been learning a lot from my teachers. Thank you Mr Toni García, Mr Juan Meló, Mr Ximo Blasco and Ms Marisa Grau

6 Minute English

Business English: New colleagues

In this special business edition of 6 Minute English, Feifei and Neil talk about a very common office situation - dealing with visitors and new colleagues. What should you say when you're showing people round the office?

Click here to read and listen to the conversation.

Source: 6 Minute English (BBC)

Funky Phrasals

CAREERS 

Funky Phrasals brings you some useful ways of talking about careers. Click here.

Source: Funky Phrasals (BBC)

Grammar Challenge with Yasmina

Present perfect and past simple

There are many situations in English when we mix the verb forms which we use. In this programme we look at breaking news with the present perfect and describing the details with the past simple. 

Click here. 

Source: Grammar Challenge (BBC)

Keep your English up to date

Staycation



Mark Shea explains the origin, meaning and use of the expression 'staycation'. Click here.

Source: Keep your English up to date (BBC)

Halloween is coming!

Halloween: idioms of fear

Watch the video and read the text. Click here.

Source: The Teacher. (BBC)

Saudi women campaign for the right to drive

20 September 2013

Saudi women activists have launched a new campaign for the right to drive. Women aren't allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, although there's no formal law banning them.

Reporter:

Sebastian Usher

Listen and read the report. Click here.

Source: Words in the News (BBC)