Starting with prepositions

I've just found this page to learn the most important prepositions of place. It is for children but I think it's quite funny and interesting, especially if you use it with your own children. Enjoy it!
When you are sure about the use of these prepositions you can work with them using these examples:

• Where's my laptop?  It's on the table, near the lamp, between the books and the printer, etc.
• Where are my pencils?  They're in the box and on the table, behind the laptop, etc.

If you still have problems go to this link to see a diagram of prepositions and the translation into Spanish:

http://www.lingolex.com/prepositions/prepositionsen.htm 

Lesson 1C: Possessive forms

I usually explain the possessive forms as a whole (como un todo completo) and I show the relationship with the rest of pronouns. Here you have a diagram with examples to help you:

My students look at the board / the windows  --- They look at it / them
Susan has a book / pencils  ---  Her book / her pencils (no matter singular or plural)

CHART OF PRONOUNS

	Subject  Pronouns SUBJ+VERB	Object  Pronouns OBJ+VERB	Possessive Adjectives ADJ+NOUN	Possessive Pronouns
1st person	I	me	my	mine
2nd person	you	you	your	yours
3rd person (masc.)	he	him	his	his
3rd person (fem.)	she	her	her	hers
3rd person (neutral)	it	it	its	(not used)
1st person (plural)	we	us	our	ours
2nd person (plural)	you	you	your	yours
3rd person (plural)	they	them	their	theirs

To work with the pronouns and possessive go to these exercises but I'm afraid they're not for beginners or starter level:

• exercise 1: a short explanation and exercises
• exercise 2: a page with a lot of exercises

See you in class!

Working with phonetics

Last week I gave you a web page to practise with pair words (words with a very similar pronunciation). If you want to visit it, go to: http://www.shiporsheep.com/
If you need the pronunciation of a word, you can use this link, but it's not a real dictionary as it hasn't got the meaning of the words, just the pronunciation: http://www.howjsay.com/
If you need the pronunciation of a chart (tabla) of phonetics go to http://www.oupchina.com.hk/dict/phonetic/home.html
To finish with and as a peculiar page, you can visit this link with different pronunciations of English in the UK, Ireland, America, Australia, etc. Just a curious thing: http://www.fonetiks.org/
But if you want to practise and go further (mas allá) you can go to this link with examples and exercises http://www.agendaweb.org/phonetic.html
Have a nice practice!

Lesson 1B: Nationalities

There is a rule (regla) which says that nationalities and languages are in capital letter. Let's have a look: