London's Olympic Story

I will be adding more sites about this topic:

The story
Inspire a generation

...to be continued...

Speaking exam

This web contains some tips to prepare yourself for the oral exam!!

"Tingo"

Tomorrow, we'll be looking at words English borrowed from other languages. You might be interested in the following links:
"The meaning of Tingo"
An interesting blog
Etymology dictionary
Where do words come from?
Interesting origins

Listening Practice

Click on the following links:
Private lives
Listening lessons
Videos

Film Reviews

Here you have a model of a film review. Click on here to get a full-sized worksheet to print out and fill in. This worksheet is only to help you organize your thoughts about the movie!
Click here to read real film reviews.

Complaint letter

samples
how to write a letter
tips
more samples (American version)
how to reply to complaints

HOMEWORK:
Write a complaint letter about one of this topics:
- a product you bought
- your last holidays
- health service at the hospital

Health

Revise vocabulary about health. Click on the following links:
vocab
Health in Britain
Article
Health News
Medical dialogues

Doctor appointment. Video

Do

Phrasal Verbs

Click here.

Homework

Write a composition (200-250). Include the following information:

- A dish (where it comes from)

- Its recipe (how you make it)

- How it tastes

- Pieces of advice (what to do to prevent it from tasting weird, when it's the best time to do it, special occasion in which it can be made)

- An anecdote about it.

Deadline: 9th April

Remember you can send me any writing you want!!!! I´ll mark it as soon as possible!!!

Telephone

Telephone Terms

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Health

Click here to learn some vocabulary.

More vocab here.

Exercise 1

Exercise with phrasal verbs

Recipes

Bunny cakes for Easter

The Perfect Omelette

Doughnuts

Doughnuts again!

Full English Breakfast

Coleslow

Scrambled Eggs

Travelling alone!

Read this article which has lot do with your exam composition!! Enjoy!

Sessions 29, 30 & 31.

During these three sessions we have been talking about cities and towns. We have learnt a lot of vocabulary about it and we have been able to point out the positive and negative aspects of a place we have visited. These contents can be found in Unit 6 in your books and in handouts given in class. (ask the teacher or any of your classmates).
Remember to give me your last composition before the exam so that it can be marked before it.

St Valantine's Day

Click here to know you are in love. On the side, you can find some other videos of the series. Very funny!! Enjoy!!!

Popular ads

Click here to watch the ads from the Super Bowl.

More about idioms!!!

Look at this site!! You will love it!!!

And click here to know about colour idioms!! great video!

Sessions 26, 27 & 28

During these three sessions, we haven't paid much attention to our student book!! (except p.87: collocations and pauses when speaking in public).

Ernesto did a great presentation about idioms in English. Watch the video.

We celebrated an auction about idioms as well. We have done a listening comprehension exercise and a specific exercise about changing the category of the word.

We worked on a handout about well-known quotations and we listened to professor Atkinson talking about techniques to speak in public successfully!

Sessions 24 & 25

On Friday, we corrected p 85 and after explaining some specific uses of articles, we did the exercises on page 143. Then, we did two listening comprehension exercises which will probably be very similar to the one in June.
On Monday, I gave you a handout with some instructions about how to write an essay stating the advantages and disadvantages about a given topic (brief version on page 113). Then, we read the text on page 86, we did the listening exercises and talked about possible problems with presentations.

HOMEWORK:

Write a composition (225-250 words) about the advantages and disadvantages of any of the following topics. CHOOSE ONLY ONE! Deadline: 30th January.

1. Studying English in an English speaking country
2. Living in Seville
3. Study a degree abroad
4. Being a teacher, nurse, secretary, architect, student, footballer, doctor, etc. (any job!, choose only one!!)
5. Shops with unlimited opening hours (like in Madrid)

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Session 23

Happy New Year!!! Coming back from holidays I found out your English is not rusty at all!! well done!! On Monday we watched a couple of videos on New Year's celebrations in New York and in London. We alse watched some celebrities making New Year's resolutions.

Moving on, we started unit 6 on your books. We talked about the importance of definite and indefinite articles (text on the moon landing). Finally, we talked about some strategies to speak in public (watch this video).

HOMEWORK:

For Friday, complete the texts on page 85 and do the exercises about articles on page 143.