MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!!

3B: Extra practice on Adverbials and adverb phrases

Adverbials ( theory and practice) 

Detailed explanation with example sentences and extra practice on all types of adverbs.

Extra practice on adverbials and adverb phrases

TTS – TEXT TO SPEECH – PRONUNCIATION HELP

Many of you have difficulty with English pronunciation. It isn’t just the individual words, but the rhythm and intonation of the English language, which is so different from Spanish.

The following website is a Text To Speech tool. Just type a short text, like this paragraph, choose a voice and listen.  I recommend Rachel’s or Graham’s voice.  But you can try all the British English voices.

The speech you hear is not perfect, but it will help you. Maximum text length is 300 characters.

Añadir leyenda

http://www.acapela-group.com/

BOOK REVIEW

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Hi everyone

 Here  you have a template you can use to prepare your  BOOK REVIEW. Also, I have posted a couple of links with  examples of book reviews you can look at for reference.

Tips for a book review

Examples of Book reviews

As I told you, the writing will be done in class  on January 13th and 14th respectively, and it might take us about 40' to do it.

If you have any questions on that, feel free to get back to me.

bye for now

JL

3B: Example of mini-saga story

Stupid MISTAKE!

It had been a hard exam. It had taken me more tan 4 hours  and I had  all the questions that my classmate next to me had told me.

The exam was over and outside the classroom everybody talked about it. I couldn't believe it! There were different exams, they weren't the same!!!

 I do recommend this video by Mr BEAN to sort of illustrate this mini-saga story. Just to have a laugh!!

Some more GRAMMAR: ADJECTIVES & NARRATIVE TENSES

Hi everybody,

Here are a couple of hand-outs to work adjective position and narrative tenses. The key to both activities will be posted within this week

Adjectives

NARRATIVE TENSES

PHONETICS: disappearing sounds "t" "d"

Sounds disappear
When the sounds /t/ or /d/ occur between two consonant sounds, they will often disappear completely from the pronunciation:

I’m going nex(t) week
That was the wors(t) job I ever had!
Jus(t) one person came to the party!
I can’(t) swim

Listen here

WORD HIPPO: Great ONLINE DICTIONARY

Hi guys,

 

 A GREAT ONLINE DICTIONARY. YOU CAN FIND SYNONYMS, ANTONYMS, TRANSLATIONS, EXAMPLE SENTENCES, RHYMING WORDS AND MUCH MORE – ALL ON THE SAME WEBSITE.

 Click on the link above to open the website.

  WORDHIPPO

3B:More on NARRATIVE TENSES

 Hi guys,
Here's some more extra practice on narrative tenses.

Gap-fill exercise 1
Gap-fill exercise 2

3B:MORE ON PLANES

From  the web www.newsinlevels.com , here's a piece of news on problems planes can have when landing or taking off.

Plane accident in England

For those of you who want to boost up your adrenaline levels , here's a video on the scariest landings you've ever seen in your life.

Terrifying landings

3A:Some more grammar practice: SO/SUCH quiz

Hey there,

 Just a bit more on how to use these emphasizers and a QUIZ to check their usage.


SO/ SUCH quiz

Unit 2:Vocabulary on CLOTHES & FASHION!!

more clothes (answers here)

accesories (answers here)

women’s clothes men’s clothes

What’s your style quiz (no need to log in – just answer the quiz questions!)

Warm weather clothes ..more and more…

fabric vocab quiz

all sorts of garment quizzes (good for very specific vocab – try the Bra Quiz girls… and boys!!!)

COSMOGIRL (!!!!) quiz – Which designer fits your style?

JUST FOR THE GUYS… style quiz fashion quiz Are you well groomed?

Unit 2: GRAMMAR: PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE & CONTINUOUS

PRESENT PERFECT (SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS):

WANADOO EGO4U (see links at foot of page)

ENGLISH PAGE

USING ENGLISH

TO LEARN ENGLISH

E-GRAMMAR (many exercises here!)

SPEECHYARD!!

Speechyard is a platform that allows English students, specially those at an intermediate and advanced level, learn English through films, series and books.

You have to sign up with your Facebook account or email address and then select your language, which will be used for translations.

Go to the content tab to choose either films or series or books. In the learning page you can learn the words and expressions that you have previously selected while watching a film or reading a book. And you can use the community page to practise your English with other learners.

There are thousands of full movies, series and books to choose from.

This video explains how Speechyard works.

Unit 2A: FLU or COLD?

Do you know the difference between the flu and the cold?

Watch the video to find out!

Lots of interesting vocabulary from unit 2A and good listening practice.


















He recommended to have a "flu jab" (to be vaccinated) to certain groups of people.

Have a look at the NHS flu jab campaign from last year. It's quite funny.

Unit 2A: ILLNESSES AND SYMPTOMPS

In unit 2A there are tons of new vocabulary, here I made a selection by including some of the illnesses. 

Click on the following link where you will find a "quick test" to revise on the vocabulary looked at  in Unit 2A( Illnesses & symptoms). Also, once on this website, you'll see different tabs ( Race, speller, scatter....) where you can revise the same vocabulary in different ways. 

Unit 1:PERSONALITY ADEJCTIVES

Hi guys!

Here are some more links on personality adjectives so that you can build up your vocabulary on this topic.
Hope it can be useful to all of you!

PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES… listening esl-lab    quibblo    eslcourses    englishexercises.org    proprofs    esltower    esltower2     eslabout


http://www.lingolex.com/personalidad.htm

/http://quizlet.com/43121/personality-adjectives-flash-cards/

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?

http://esl.fis.edu/vocab/q1/char1.htm

HALLOWEEN IS DRAWING NEAR, GUYS!!

HALLOWEEN  is just round the corner, right?

Any plans for HALLOWEEN?

Have a look at the intro of Tim Burton's "A Nightmare before Christmas" to get into the mood.

Recommended list of READING BOOKS!

At last! Here it comes the reading list of books I do recommend  to you for this academic year.

 If any of you have any queries on any of the books, please do let me know , right? 

In any case, other suggestions are welcome. That is, any other books ,which aren't on the list, and you fancy reading them, ok? 

Hope this  long list  of books doesn't put you off!!

Recommeded Books( full ,unabridged books, not simplified ones)

• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kate Summerscale, Bloomsbury, 2009.

• The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruíz Zafón, Phoenix, 2004.
• Dead Famous, Ben Elton, Black Swan, 2001.
• Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi, Faber and Faber, 1999.
• The Constant Gardener, John Le Carré, Hodder & Stoughton, 2005.
• The Cathedral of the Sea, Idelfonso Falconés, Dutton, 2008.
• The Girl of his Dreams, Donna Leon, William Heinemann, 2008.
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne, Black Swan, 2006.
• Winter in Madrid, C.J. Sansom, Pan Books, 2006.
• .A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon, Vintage Books,2007
• The Kite Runner(Khaled Hosseini)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini, Bloomsbury, 2007.
• About a Boy, Nick Hornby, Penguin Books, 1998.

•  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

• The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
• The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
• Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)
• Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
• Sex and the City (Candance Bushnell)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
• Any book from the Twilight saga (Stephenie Meyer)
• Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years(Sue Townsend)
• The Ice Princess( Camila Läckberg) or any other book by her.
• Any of the three books from  the Millenium saga( Stieg Larsson)
• Firewall (Henning Mankell)
• Norwegian Wood(Haruki Murakami)
• 1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
• Sarah's key( Tatiana de Rosnay)

          At the link below you'll find some more bestsellers which are worth a try!!!

               New York Times Bestsellers

PRONUNCIATION – /ə/ Schwa

Hi guys!

  Last week or so, I explained to you about one of the most common sounds in English
  /ə/ Schwa.
 Hope it is  of great help to you.

To HALLOWEEN or not HALLOWEEN, That`s the question!!!

HALLOWEEN: COMPETITION FOR THE SPOOKIEST STORY AT EOI XATIVA

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Hi guys,
As promised, here's the new entry for the  scariest story ever written for HALLOWEEN  at school.

GUIDELINES:

1)Write your scary story to post on this blog so that everybody can read it.

2) It should be about 150-200 words long.

3)Deadline: Friday 9th, Nov.

4)Click on the link below for vocabulary that will set the mood for your story.

5) And... just have fun!!!!

Vocabulary words for writing scary stories

ORORO TV! Great website to improve your English!!

Have you tried ORORO TV?

A fabulous website with dozens of online series and films with subtitles. FREE!!! NO WAITING!!!

And a great feature is that if you hold the mouse over any word you don’t understand, you’ll see the translation.

1B:more extra practice on AUXILIARIES

Hi everyone,

Here you have some more activities to give you  extra practice ,especially, in the use of echo questions  and question tags.

Hope they can be of help to you all.


1. Read the conversation.

A: You've never been to England, (1) have you?

B: No, (2) I haven't.

A: (3) Haven't you? . (4) I have. And I'm sure you'd love it!

B: (5) Would I? I'm not that sure...

A: (6) I am. You would love it and (7) so would your husband. 

B: In that case, I have to start planning my next trip.

A: (8) So have I!



2. Can you find the following...

A. An echo question
B. A question tag
C. A short answer.

3. Which auxiliary is used to...

a. to show surprise
b. to disagree
c. to check information
d. to avoid repetition.
e. to agree.


4. Now read the sentences and write correct echo questions for them.

1. I don’t like chocolate.
2. I’ve never been abroad.
3. I always go swimming in the morning.
4. I went shopping last night.
5. I’ll never come back.
6. I’d like to see her again.
7. I was sick yesterday.
8. I’m staying at home tonight.
9. She hasn’t come to class.
10. They are visiting us next weekend.

5. This time write questions tags for these sentences.

1. You don’t like getting up early.
2. She never exercises.
3. He usually does his homework at night.
4. They didn’t go to work yesterday.
5. She will tell us next week.
6. He’d like to meet us again.
7. She wasn’t at home last week.
8. You are going to buy a new car.
9. You have never seen her.
10. They are staying at home this weekend.

 TRICKY QUESTION:

 You know  that the question tag  for (I'M RIGHT,...........?), don't you?

1A: QUESTION FORMATION LINKS

Hi guys!

Here are some  links you can have a look at to get some extra practice

correct the questions

write questions for these answers …and these, too …and these ones!

complex questions (with audio)

subject/object questions

right or wrong?

Just a funny note, to get started on the course!!

Hi everyone!

To begin with, let me share with you a funny videoclip about  a Thai teacher trying to teach his students English in the Thai way. Suppose I can do a lot better than this teacher, right?. (hahaha)  have a look and see what happens. It's a good laugh!!

WELCOME TO MY NEW BLOG!

Hello everyone! 

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This is the blog for the class! I'll be posting some activities / handouts / homework / pieces of writing and many other interesting resources. You'll be able to find some websites and other useful material. Visit it regularly, please!