Adele Someone like you

Hi my dear students,
today we are going to practice the simple past using a very popular song.
 You have to write the lyrics of this song first, and then complete the missing parts.
Let's get started!
Teacher Anna

Adele - Someone like you

Adele Someone like you lyrics

Pink Just give me a reason

Pink!!!!
Beautiful but sad song!
Can you find any of the verbs we studied?

Teacher Anna

Just give me a reason- Pink

WAKA WAKA

Hello my dear students,
we are going to listen and study this song.
Enjoy it!
Teacher Anna

Waka waka

WILL

Today we are going to watch a few lessons both on the use of WILL and on TO BE GOING TO.
 Pay attention, will you?
Teacher Anna



Will and going to for predictions


Other videos with explanations.....

 WILL and TO BE GOING TO

 will and to be going to

And now EXERCISES!!!!
  Exercises

Will or to be going to ?

Let's listen to a song: I will always love you

I will survive Gloria Gaynor

It's my life Bon Jovi

Helloooo!
Here's another song we are going to use to learn new vocabulary.
Please write down the following words.

ain't gonna= I'm not going
alive = vivo/ in vita
broken hearted = cuori infranti
faith departed = allontanati dalla fede/ che hanno perso la fede
highway = autostrada
shout = gridare
stand my ground = tenere duro
back down = cedere
stand tall = restare a testa alta/ essere orgoglioso
It's my life -Bon Jovi

I don't want to miss a thing! Aerosmith

Hello ! Here's a breathtaking love song  to revise and learn  new vocabulary.
Enjoy!
Teacher Anna

Please write down these words and expressions:
could= potrei/sapevo
don't wanna miss a thing = I don't want to miss a thing  = Non voglio perdere niente.
wonder = chiedermi /domandarmi
beat= battere
breath = respirare
miss= perdere/ sentire la mancanza/ anche perdere il treno.
hold close = tenero stretto
dream= sognare
just like this= proprio così
lie = stare sdraiato  verbo irregolare LIE LAY LAIN-
 DA NON CONFONDERE CON : LIE LIED LIED = Mentire / dire bugie
surrender =resa/abbandono/ come verbo significa = "abbandonarsi/ arrendersi"
awake= sveglio
treasure = tesoro e come verbo significa " fare tesoro"
'cus = because
do= bastare











I don't want to miss a thing! Aerosmith

Present continuous

Simpsons and the present continuous





Present progressive "Mr Bean"

Present continuous interrogative and negative
Lesson "What are you doing?"



What's your family doing now?
Present progressive in films

 And now let's sing:
I am sailing by Rod Stewart
I'm with you Avril Lavigne

Past progressive (Prezi)

Hi my dear students!
I'm on holiday but I've been working for you!
Here is another lesson on "Past progressive" I made with "prezi".
Enjoy.
Teacher Anna

Past progressive Prezi



Past progressive exercises

Simple past or progressive?

Past progressive negative

Past progressive exercises

The immigrant journey prezi

Here is a presentation of the long journey our Italian ancestors did many years ago.

Teacher Anna

The journey to America

Prezi personal pronouns

Hi! Here is another presentation I made  with Prezi.
This time is on Personal pronouns.
Let's watch it together.
Teacher Anna


Prezi personal pronouns

Adesso per esercitarci sui pronomi personali dovete andare su

 kubbu.com

Si apre la pagina, cliccate in alto a destra su "student login"

Vi chiede di mettere your teacher, inserite i dati che vi ho fatto scrivere  a scuola.

Good luck.

Teacher Anna

Prezi the verb "to have"

Hello my dear students!
I prepared a new lesson on the auxiliary "to have" using Prezi.
Have a look.
Teacher Anna

To have simple present

Videos on past progressive

video on past progressive

Hi there!
Here are a few videos on past continuous.
Soooooooooooooooooooo   let's revise!

Teacher Anna

Side by side tv news

Past progressive

Video con i phones

Canzoni con il past simple e progressive
Past continuous examples

Scent of a woman Final speech

Hi My dear students,
Here's the final speech by Colonel Slade.
Enjoy
Teacher Anna

Here are some words and verbs in the video, take note, please:
snitch spia, 
liar bugiardo, 
barracks caserma,
I'm just getting  warmed up mi sto appena scaldando,
  labelled etichettato, 
burn at the stake mandare al rogo, 
crock of shit (slang volgare) fesseria/ str.........ata, 
prosthetic rimedio/protesi,
 bum che non vale niente/scansafatiche, flamethrower lanciafiamme
minnows piccoli, 
manhood virilità/ mascolinità,
 rat ship nave di spie,
 tail between his legs la coda tra le gambe,
 path sentiero/via/ strada.
Now have a look at these verbs used in the video:
I've been, I've seen, it has fallen, I've come, he has chosen, WHAT TENSE  IS IT ?
Final speech by Colonel Slade



Discorso finale in italiano

Scent of a woman

Scent of woman 1992  by Martin Brest

Starring Al Pacino Chris O’ Donnel

Frank is a retired Lt Col in the US army. He's blind and impossible to get along with.   Charlie Simms is a boy from Oregon who attends Baird School, a Boys’ boarding school (In New Hampshire)

 Unlike most of the other boys who come from rich and affluent backgrounds Simms is there on a scholarship. One evening  while Charlie and a very well-off boy are walking , they see that some friends of George's  are preparing a  prank on Mr Trask, the Dean (the headmaster) of the school.

 The headmaster learns that Charlie and George know who pulled the prank and invite them to tell him their names, but they refuse to.

 He gives the Thanksgiving Holiday to think about it. He also tells Charlie that he's recommending him to an Ivy League College.

 Charlie then goes off to a Thanksgiving job--taking care of Colonel Frank Slade.

 To Charlie’s surprise  Slade has a plan: to go to New York where he has several agendas of his own.

Here are few words to look it up: big hug, fearless, voracious reader, rippling creek, endowed with wisdom, of judgement sound, abound,deal, conniving, crass, puckered his lips, stunt, lamppost, pulled focus.

Scent of a woman "the prank" 

1 Vowels

Hello my dear students,
Here's a very cool way of practicing pronunciation!
Let's do it at school tomorrow.
Teacher Anna

1 Vowels Pronunciation

Animal farm second part

Even the seven commandments were changed into one:

The theme of betrayal of democracy is summed up in this slogan.
 So their communist rebellion ended in fierce dictatorship by the pigs. The initial protest revealed to be a complete failure because their former comrades were now their dictators and enemies.

With "Animal farm" Orwell wanted to describe and denounce the degeneration of the Russian Revolution and the horrors of Stalinism. The story can be considered also as a satire on dictatorship in general, not only in Russia; Orwell was convinced that his duty was to show people the deceptions of a Communist State. He believed that power corrupts all men.

Animal farm story First part

 Animal farm is a fairy story which tells the animals' revolution against their enemy: MAN!!!!
The leaders of the revolt were two pigs : Napoleon and Snowball. They formulated the Seven commandments which were the principles of Animalism:







Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs or has wings is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.


Years passed but the pigs started to behave like men: they walked on two legs, they wore clothes,  and they sat at tables drinking wine and alcoholic drinks; it was now impossible to distinguish pigs from men.......

To be continued...............................

Characters in Animal farm

In the story the main characters represent a historical character.

The old major  represents Lenin the charismatic leader.

Napoleon represents Stalin, who,like Napoleon, turned revolution into dictatorship.
.He is the ambitious pig, who does not hesitate to betray (tradire) the
revolution to become a dictator

Snowball represents Trotsky
for his white beard and hair,and the fact that he was eliminated by Stalin.





Boxer the simple and honest horse,whose strength is exploited by the pigs (the intellectuals) represents the workers ; they are  destined to work incessantly to make others (the pigs) comfortable and gaining nothing from their work.

Animal farm Movie

Hi dear students,
Here is "Animal farm" in cartoons. We are going to watch just a few scenes.
Have fun!
Teacher Anna

Movie Animal farm

The Hall of Fame

Hello everybody,
Here's a very good song to revise superlatives having fun!
What do you think?
We are going to do this at school.
Meanwhile enjoy...it!
My best wishes to you all
Teacher Anna 


The Hall of Fame with lyrics


The Hall of Fame in Italian