The 2 Minute Rule Will Quickly Change Your Life

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ESO Lessons on TV

ESO Students,

Starting today, Monday 23rd March, you can attend virtual classes on TVE La 2 and Clan TV channels. Check the timetable in the image above.

On Let's Clan you can also enjoy some resources (cartoons, series, etc.) in English.

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DESCRIBING YOUR PERSONALITY AND APPEARANCE

In this section you will find very useful vocabulary to help you speak about your personality and appearance.

The video below gives you some useful tips on how to describe people's appearance.

And this other video below will help you have a conversation about other people's personality, appearance and the clothes they are wearing.

Nelson Mandela Quote

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Curiosipics Photograph Competition

Curiosipics is a photography competition for Secondary Education students and teachers. You do not have to be a great photographer. You just need to be curious! And you need to submit a short description of your photographs... In English!

The 1st prize is a trip to New York with two friends!! Ann the 2nd prize is a trip to London!! 

Find out more at Curiosipics (and here's some advice)

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Big History Project

A Story for Everyone

The Big History Project is a free, online course that tells the story of our Universe and humanity.

Explore 13.7 billion years of shared history and consider the big questions about our Universe, our planet, life, and humanity. From the big bang to modern day to where we are going in the future, big history covers it all.

Khan Academy

(Reblogged from Khan Academy)

A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal

of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.

How to Become an Early Riser?

(Reblogged from 99u.com)

ESO Students,

The beginning of a new schoolyear is approaching and we bet your work routines have faded during the summer... or at least they should have, because that is, after all, what holidays is about: forget school, forget work, have the nicest of times out with friends, enjoy the sun and the beach...

The bad news is now we need to get back to regular life and its routines.... and you need to get up early again! We hope these pieces of advice can help you achieve it. Yes, we know it will be hard, but it will be worth it.

Getting up early is like most any habit that makes you a more productive creative: It’s hard at first. Here are a few tips to get you started:

1. Set an exact time to get out of bed. If you normally get up at 11am, it’s unrealistic to start abruptly getting up at 6am. Think about what time you’d like to be getting up in the morning, and work up to it. Try to wake up 30 minutes earlier every week, until you get to the desired time.

2. Move up your bedtime in sync with the time you plan to get up. Seven to eight hours of sleep is the recommended dosage for maximal productivity (with a few super-human exceptions). So if you’re getting up at 6am, you’ll want to go to bed by 11pm at the latest. If you try to go to bed at midnight and get up at 5am, you’re eventually going to run into some problems.

3. Get out of bed immediately. The moment that you start procrastinating – read: hit the snooze button – it’s very easy to convince yourself of a multiplicity of reasons why you wouldn’t want to get out of bed yet. Don’t even allow those thoughts to kick in – just get up!

4. Expose yourself to sunlight. Sunlight is key to adapting yourcircadian rhythms. If you’re having trouble getting up, don’t close your blinds all the way, so you have some natural light as your wake-up call. Once you’re up, a short walk (or run) outside helps reinforce the message with your body.

5. Develop a routine for your morning. Whether it’s taking in the sunrise, brewing a cup of tea and reading the paper, or walking to the café down the street for a cup of joe, you’re more likely to continue to get up early if you develop a brief routine that is, in itself, a reward.

6. Stick with it. Know going in that it’s going to take some time to adapt to waking up early – probably about 30 days. Don’t expect to feel bright-eyed and bushy-tailed from Day 1. But if you stick with it, getting up early is likely to become one of your favorite rituals.

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Revision tips: why sleep and repetition will boost your brain power, by Abby Young-Powell

(Reblogged from The Guardian, thanks to a tip from our colleague Rodrigo Gómez)

When it comes to revising, how do you know which techniques work? We chat to students and experts to find out what methods really help you remember

With so many different revision guides, it can be hard to know what's good practice and what's not. We talked to a brain expert, as well as students and lecturers from universities across Britain, to get the best advice on how to revise effectively and remember what you've learned.

Getting a good night's sleep can help your brain recall and make revision easier
Photograph: Matteo Colombo/Getty Images

Plan your time

Start early: "The best revision is continuous revision, started as early as possible," says Sergio Della Sala, professor of human cognitive neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh. Revision should be "spread into several sessions, rather than lumped in at the last minute".

Revise on the go: By not confining your revision to one place, you can revise regularly, even if it's for short periods of time, says George Brooke-Smith, PPE student at York University: "Flashcards are great because you can carry them in your bag. Having them on the go can help you to take in information."

TED

Perhaps you were thinking of the American comedy film about an annoying and rude teddy bear while reading the title of this post...

ESO English Syllabus 2012-13

ESO Students,

If you click on the following links you can download your English syllabus, terms and conditions for 2012-13:

• ESO 1 Syllabus
• ESO 2 Syllabus
• ESO 3 Syllabus
• ESO 4 Syllabus

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20 Ways to Improve your English

1. Download and listen to English podcasts or to radio programmes in English (BBC, ITN, etc.)
2. Listen to English music.
3. Read the lyrics to a song with a dictionary.

2012-13 English Class Materials

ESO Students,

These are the materials you will need for this schoolyear:

COMPULSORY

• Student's Book and Workbook (NB: EDITIONS IN SPANISH WILL NOT BE VALID).
• DIN-A4 sized notebook
• Blue ballpoint pen
• Pencil
• Rubber

ENGLISH IN MOTION 1 ESO Student's Book
by Campbell, Robert; Holley, Gill; and Metcalf, Robert
Richmond Publishing (Santillana)
2009 1 ed.
ISBN: 978-84-668-0934-4
(Workbook ISBN: 978-84-668-1140-8)

ENGLISH IN MOTION 2 ESO Student's Book

by Campbell, Robert; Holley, Gill; and Metcalf, Robert

Richmond Publishing (Santillana)

2009 1 ed.

ISBN: 978-84-668-0935-1

(Workbook ISBN: 978-84-668-1141-5)

ENGLISH IN MOTION 3 ESO Student's Book
by Campbell, Robert; Holley, Gill; and Metcalf, Robert
Richmond Publishing (Santillana)
2009 1 ed.
ISBN: 978-84-668-0936-8
(Workbook ISBN: 978-84-668-1146-0)

ENGLISH IN MOTION 4 ESO Student's Book

by Campbell, Robert; Holley, Gill; and Metcalf, Robert

Richmond Publishing (Santillana)

2009 1 ed.

ISBN: 978-84-668-0931-3 

(Workbook ISBN: 978-84-668-1149-1)

SUGGESTED

• Bilingual ENG-SPA dictionary
• USB memory stick
• PC, mobile phone or tablet (to use at home and visit www.laborenglishzone.blogspot.com.es ... of course)

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Nobuna - Free English Listening Exercises

Nobuna is a listening game designed to help anyone enjoy learning the English language. You play and learn as you listen: You simply watch and listen to cool videos and then you fill in the blanks in the provided script. You have the opportunity to watch the videos as many times as you need.

Superb Job

Labor Students,

We would like to post ESO 1 unit 3 outline by ESO 1 B student, Andrea Aguado. Andrea has done it voluntarily as a preparation for her unit 3 test. We thought it was not only a brilliant idea, but a superb job, and that is why we would like to share it with you all. We would also like to suggest to you to do similar lesson outlines and summaries for your exams. If you do this we are sure your test results will improve dramatically.

Congratulations, Andrea!!

Labor English Zone 2nd Anniversary

Labor English Zone started on 6th December 2009. Since then we have published 500+ posts and have received over 17,500 visitors who have viewed more than 26,000 pages. Our busiest day was 11th May 2010, when our hits peaked at 122 visitors (we guess the following day there was a pbl deadline or some kind of exam!!).  And if you google us you will obtain 2,700,000+ results. Posted on February 27th 2010, this entry about school jokes, with over 580 visitors, has been the most popular one during first two years.

We want to thank you all for being there and for your visits. We would like to encourage you to send us comments and messages with your ideas and suggestions for new posts. We are interested in hearing what interests you.

To celebrate we are 2 years old, we publish again our first post, "The Italian Man Who Went to Malta":

6th December 2009

Let's begin with some humour. Italian and Spanish are arguably the hardest accents to get rid of. Practise pronunciation drills and try to polish your accent in case you go to Malta too!!

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ESO English Syllabus 2011-12

ESO Students,

If you click on the following links you can download your English syllabus, terms and conditions for 2011-12:

• ESO 1 Syllabus
• ESO 2 Syllabus
• ESO 3 Syllabus
• ESO 4 Syllabus

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Blogs & Sites at Labor School

ESO Students,

As of today, your teachers at Labor School offer you up to 17 blogs and sites, 10 of them targeting ESO contents. 1 more blog (French Language) is soon to be published. Please visit them regularly and take advantage of all the hard, good work your teachers are carrying out for your benefit.

ESO English Textbooks for 2011-12

ESO Students,

These are your textbooks for 2011-12. No changes in ESO 2 and ESO 4 books: Pearson Longman 'What's Up? 2' (green book) and 'What's Up? 4' (blue book). Labor School will provide you with student's books for free, but you must purchase your workbooks.

Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary Online

ESO Students,

We would like to recommend a very useful resource, the online visual dictionary by Merriam Webster. It is structured in 15 major themes to access over 6,000 images. In our opinion it is one of the few linguistic online tools which rivals Google Images.

The Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find the right word at a glance. Filled with stunning illustrations labelled with accurate terminology in up to six languages, it is the ideal language-learning and vocabulary dictionary for use at school, at home or at work.

Detail

When you know what something looks like but not what it’s called, or when you know the word but can’t picture the object, The Visual Dictionary has the answer. In a quick look, you can match the word to the image.

The Visual Dictionary is more than a reliable resource of meticulously labelled images—it innovates by combining dictionary-scale definitions with exceptional illustrations, making it the most complete dictionary.

 
Detail

The Visual Dictionary is an indispensable visual reference that goes beyond object identification to answer questions about function, significance and purpose. Ideal for teachers, parents, writers, translators and students of all skill levels, it helps the user understand a phenomenon and quickly grasp the meaning of a term, the characteristics of an object or simply learn something new.

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