3B: WEATHER VOCABULARY

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WEATHER DOG GAMES( start with "easy")

Unit 3: 3A- PASSIVE

Hi guys,

here's some more grammar on PASSIVE VOICE.

Passive 1     Passive 2   Passive 3   Passive 4  and getting harder each time!!

3A: Extra activities on vocabulary about CRIME

What's their crime?  

                                                                                           

BBC quiz on vocabulary about crime

Example of mini-saga story

Stupid MISTAKE!

It had been a hard exam. It had taken me more tan 4 hours  and I had answered 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!!

Time for ADVERBS!!

Today we have dealt with adverbs in class.

Take a look at this Powerpoint presentation on how adverbs are used. Also, do the activity you have at the end of it.

For further practice, here's  a website where you can have a more detailed explanation and some extra practice on it. Click here to go to the website.

MORE ON PLANES

 From  the web newsinlevels, 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

2B: NARRATIVE TENSES

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

Gap-fill exercise 1
Gap-fill exercise 2

2C: Mini grammar: 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

2C: PAST TENSE PRONUNCIATION

 Hi,

Some websites to work  on pronunciation


Regular verbs
Pronunciation tutorial – with audio
 Irregular verbs with audio

SONG:" I'm an Englishman in New York" by Sting

         Hi guys,

In relation to the  topic we have dealt with in class this week, here's                                               an all-time song by Sting in a  gig live in Berlin in 2010.

                                                       "Englishman In New York"

I don't drink  much coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done only on one side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
I'm an Englishman in New York

See me walking down  the Fifth Avenue
A walking cane here at my side
I take it everywhere that I walk
I'm an Englishman in New York

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

If, "Manners maketh  the man" as someone said
 he's our hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and still smile
Be yourself no matter what they may say

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

Modesty and propriety can lead to notoriety
You could end up as the only one
Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society
At night a candle's brighter than the sun is

Takes more than combat gear to make a man
Takes more than a license for a gun
Confront your enemies but avoid them when you can
A gentleman will walk but  will never run

If, "Manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and still smile
Be yourself no matter what they  may say

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

ACTIVITIES

a)Listen to each line of the song carefully. If you hear an extra word, cross it out. If the line is correct, put a tick next to each line.

b)Find words or phrases in the song that means...

      1. the way you pronounce the words of a language.

      2.a wooden stick to help you walk

      3. a person who is not a citizen of the country in which they live/ a being from another planet.

      4. Rules of good, polite behaviour.

       5.not knowing anything(noun)

       6.It doesn't matter what.(phrase)

       7.the opposite of vanity.

         8. something which burns to give you light.

        9. clothes a soldier wears.

        10. to face something- not run away from it.

c)Why do you think the singer describes himself as a legal alien?

                                              

Funny video: "Toilets in a cafe"

 A very interesting website worth taking a look at . News in levels is a website where you can read and listen to a wide range of news in three different levels.  For a start, here's a  funny piece of news in the top level(level 3).
Toilets in a cafe

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2A: CLOTHES vocab

Here's some more activities on clothes vocab:

more clothes( answers here)
accessories( answers here)
women's clothes
men's clothes
what's your style quiz? ( just for women)
Men's fashion quiz( just for the guys)    Are you well groomed? ( just for the guys too)
fabric vocab quiz
all sorts of garment quizzes(good for specific vocab) Try the bra quiz, girls and.... boys! it's good fun!

Stereotype quiz!!

Stereotype quiz                                                                

Funny quiz on stereotypes!!

You have just 4 minutes to fill in the spaces with the suitable countries!!
Good luck!!

ANSWER KEY to 1C present perfect simple & present perfect continuous hand-out.

Hi guys,

here you have the answer key for the activity:

A) 2) Have you been eating; 3) haven't had; 4) haven't wanted; 5) have you had/ have you been having;
     6)'ve taken; 7) Have you been working; 8) have been; 9) 've been getting; 10) haven't been sleeping/haven't slept; 11)'ve been overworking; 12)'ve just been promoted.

B) 2) have you been waiting; 3) have you known; 4) have you had; 5) have you been learning; 6) have you been coming.

WORDHIPPO: Excellent 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

 

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 15th, 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

1C: Extra practice on Present perfect simple/ Present perfect continuous

Hi,

here you have a hand-out  to get extra practice on  these two verb tenses looked at in class.
Click here to  see the hand-out

Can Stress be your best friend?

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 Hi guys,

Here you have a different approach to STRESS by  Kelly McGonigal,  a famous health psychologist, who has recently made a scientific research on   the benefits of stress. See if you can  tell me about them. Click on the link below to watch the video.

How to turn stress into your best friend.

Why not having a look at TED!!

Get loads of listening practice on this website!!

Hi everyone,


In this site you can select from a number of videos dealing with varied and interesting topics. Many of them may be helped with subtitles, though it is unnecessary. Enjoy it! Excellent idea for a 10-minute session of listening practice just before exams.:)The website is TED

Hope you like it!;)

Site to learn useful words!!

 

Why Vocabulary.com?

Learn useful words.

From a huge corpus, (books, periodicals, and other material that cumulatively contain over 1.6 billion words) the most essential English vocabulary words are taken; the words that you need to succeed in an academic or businessenvironment. This list serves as the basis for this learning platform.

Learn only the words that you have trouble with.

Vocabulary.com uses a technology called Adaptive Vocabulary Instruction or AVI. Unlike traditional learning systems, it doesn’t rely on a series of time-consuming and boring assessments. Instead, everything you do on the site adds to the AVI model. It’s as if you have a personal trainer in the room, monitoring your work and suggesting new words and exercises to challenge you on your level. Because of this, you don’t waste your time learning words that are too easy or too hard.

You won’t forget.

Finally, your achievements are analyzed, and your skills are reinforced by reintroducing words at various times to make sure that you are retaining the words you originally learned.

JUST CLICK ON THE IMAGE AND IT WILL TAKE YOU TO THE WEBSITE

 

PRONUNCIATION: DISAPPEARING SOUNDS /t/ and /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

Flu or cold?

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 1C 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.

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

VOCABULARY: Unit 1C: ILLNESSES & SYMPTOMS

In unit 1C 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 1C( 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.

Adjectives describing FEELINGS and some more modifiers.....

Hi again,

Here you'll find a hand-out with some interesting and useful vocabulary.
Do activities 2B, 2C and 3A, 3B. Click on the link below.

Adjectives describing FEELINGS

A SONG with question tags, right?

Hi guys,

This is a song by the  BEAUTIFUL SOUTH called " A little time". You may say it's a bit old-fashioned, but it's quite good to get some extra practice  on QUESTION TAGS!!

As you listen to the song, please do fill in the blanks( PDF document) with aproppriate question tags , some other words  with similar  pronunciation and some useful phrasal verbs.

Make sure that the  document below is made up of  two pages. You ONLY have to do the activities on the song, that is, on the 1st page. The ones on the 2nd page, we'll do  them in class.


Download: PDF document

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.

HALLOWEEN is getting closer, 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.

Here below you have the lyrics

DO YOU FEEL THE HALLOWEEN SPIRIT NOW?

Recommended Reading for this year

Hi guys,

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

            

More Practice on AUXILIARIES

Hi everyone,

Here you have some more activities to give you  extra practice ,specially, 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?