Month: July 2012

Back in the pool today and the Angry Family are trying to embody the Olympic motto – Faster Higher Stronger – and bicker a lot about who is fastest, thinnest and best!

Today’s grammar point? The comparative and superlative! (Good vocabulary list at the end!)

httpv://youtu.be/UMPmq7MJ21A

Today, we’re in the pool and waiting to start but someone is holding us up. Who MIGHT it be?

Grammar today? Podría – might, and a declaration about the universal right to wear a bikini!

httpv://youtu.be/jIi2irCJ7Ow

Competition begins and today, the Angry Family help with some directions – or they try to help her!

Grammar point? Positions and directions

httpv://youtu.be/dm1VnIBn0-w

Day three of Angry Olympics, and we reach the Opening Ceremony. What is GOING TO happen?

Today’s grammar point is the simple future using the present tense of IR A and the infinitive, as well as how to make the phrase negative.

httpv://youtu.be/5RvlA6vCrIw

What should the Angry family do today? DECISIONS! DECISIONS!

Grammar for today? how to say ‘should’ using DEBER and the conditional tense.

httpv://youtu.be/VO1I2gvQNLA

I’ve just rediscovered these wonderful videos and in the run up to the Olympics, I’ll be posting one every day.

Whilst they’re based on the Beijing Olympics, they look at specific language points each time and are funny!

Today’s episode, CAN CAN, looks at PODER – to be able to, as well as transport vocabulary.

httpv://youtu.be/zievaeBgBVo

Having been playing with Linguatrivia French ever since ILILC2 in February, I was pleased to see that a Spanish version has been released!

As with the French version, it features hundreds of questions at 3 levels with the difficulty and number of questions increasing with the level.

As the blurb says –

Put your Spanish knowledge to the test with this interactive quiz, based on Linguascope’s Linguatrivia competition. With a bank of hundreds of questions on Spanish language, culture, geography and more, this app will put you through your paces whether you are revising for a test at school or college, or just want to practise and improve your Spanish. As an added incentive, your correct answers will enable the little runner to jump the hurdles successfully – whereas incorrect answers leave him flat on his face!

I like playing the French version as I no longer teach French and I need to keep myself on my toes, especially as I never know when I’ll need to use it! And the Spanish one will also keep me on my toes – if I get less than 100% I’ll be back to heavy duty study ;o)
Linguatrivia Spanish costs £1.99 and works on iPod (3rd and 4th generation), iPhone 3GS and higher, and iPad – if you’ve got iOS4.3 or higher, you’re fine!

The blurb mentions a Linguatrivia Competition – this is in French and details of the next one, taking place next February, are on the Linguatrivia site. I wonder if there’ll be a Spanish version to come…?

They did it!  Having watched the quarter finals against France in France, the semis against Portugal in a restaurant in France and the final against Italy in an Italian restaurant in Switzerland, I am very very pleased to had survived all the excitement!!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz7MjY8GGdo