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HAVE A NICE SUMMER AND GOOD LUCK IN YOUR EXAM!!

Our Twenty Fifth Session (13 May 2015)

Our very last Wednesday we:

1- Tried to be as quick as possible when answering to some short questions.

e.g. Why did you watch "The Simsons" yesterday?

2- Corrected exercises 4 on page 115.

3- Explained that when you add the suffix -ly to some adjectives, these become adverbs:

e.g. quick (adjective) --- quickly (adverb)

4- Corrected some exercises about conditionals.

5- Thought of our dream jobs and interviewed all our classmates to find out what their dream job was. (Yes/No questions)

6- Explained how to create "Reported Speech" structures (remember that I will send you some useful information about this to keep in mind).

7- Listened to a "First Certificate in English" listening. It wasn't easy at all, but you've improved a lot.

8- Eva and Paqui spoke for about 20 minutes on their rehearsal about the "EOI speaking".

9- José Carlos, "upon" is a synonym for "on", not for "about" ;).

Our Twenty Fourth Session (6 May 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected exercise 7 on page 99 and exercises 1 and 4 on page 101.

2- Corrected the exercises about "Used to". (The photocopy that I gave you on Wednesday 29th April.

3- Explained what modals of abilty are.

4- Did exercise 6 on page 99.

5- Thought of decisions or events that changed the world (Speaking).

6- Spoke around 10 minutes about changes that changed your lives.

7- Did exercises 1 and 3 on page 105.

8- Explained second and third conditionals:

e.g. If I were you, I would study harder (2nd conditional).

9- Did exercise 5 on page 118 and exercises 5 and 6 (speaking) on page 107.

Useful videos for your oral presentation

Have a look at these useful videos:

You can as well check this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9c0ohGGuFuSh7g23NeQm1Q

Somebody that I used to know

If you want to practise a bit more, here you have a really nice song. You just need to fill in the gaps and look up all the words that you don't know.

I hope you enjoy it!

Here you are the same song but with the lyrics!

Our Twenty Third Session (29 April 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected exercise 9 on page 83 and exercises 10 and 12 on page 86.

2- Played a guessing game where we had to describe words related to the expression: "education".

3- Listened to exercise 1 and 2 on page 92.

4- Spoke a bit about our learning experiences: "What was your best/worst learning experience?"

5- Read the text on page 95 and did exercises 3, 4 and 5.

6- We watched a video about Matilda and discovered what kind of teacher she had: frightening and strict.

7- What type of teacher are you? 

boring-calm-clear-encouraging-enthusiastic-frightening-imaginative-inspiring-interesting-knowledgeable-patient-strict-tolerant-understanding

Happy Mother's Day

Hi all,

If you want your children to learn some nice lyrics, here you are a very easy song for a very special day. 

Happy Mother's Day!

Our Twenty Second Session (22 April 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected the exercise taken from the video "Dream Holidays".

2- Explained how to use the "Past Perfect Simple".

3- Did exercises 6 and 7 on page 79.

4- Listened to exercise 10 on page 80.

5- Spoke about the difference between "castle and palace, pub and café", etc. on page 81.

6- Listened to exercises 2, 3 and 4 on page 81.

7- Explained some differences we can find in the word "get" and did exercise 3 on page 87.

8- Learnt how to write and article and an essay.

Our Twenty First Session (15 April 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected exercise 5 on page 67 and the exercise about the verbs followed by -ing and infinitives (remember, regret, forget, stop and try).

2- Spoke about our hobbies and likes and dislikes (ex. 5, page 67).

3- Listened to exercise 1 on page 70 and discovered what Argentinian people eat.

4- Explained countable and uncountable nouns an the use of quantifiers.

Common uncountable nouns:

accommodation, experience, knowledge, noise, shampoo, time, advice, food, luggage, paper, smoke, transport, countryside, furniture, make-up, pollution, software, work, damage, homework, money, rain, space, electricity, housework, music, research, sugar, equipment, information, news, scenery, sunshine...

5- Exercises 6 and 7 on page 71.

6- Had a look at "lifelong learning" box on page 73.

7- Watched the video "Dream Holidays" and did exercise 3.

Our Twentieth Session (08 April 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Listened to Naomi speaking about her hobbies and we did a comprehension quiz about it.

2- Explained what a creative person is and we named some jobs that only a creative person can do.

3- Did exercise 2 on page 64.

4- Learnt how to describe a picture.

5- Did exercise 3 on page 64 and described some famous paintings in English. By the way, Edvard Munch is Norwegian and the painting is located in Oslo. (A piece of advice for you: you should study a bit more about Van Gogh, Da Vinci and Dalí) ;)

6- Explained the Present Perfect Continuous and the Present Perfect Simple:

e.g. I've done my homework, mum.
      I've been doing my homework for 5 hours, mum.

7- Did exercise 6 and 9 on page 65.

8- Listened to exercise 2 on page 67 and did exercises 2 and 3.

9- Learnt the difference between verbs followed by -ing and infinitive. (See page 75 on your textbooks).

MATRÍCULA LIBRE CURSO 2014-2015

Hi all,

Aquí os dejo la información relativa a la matriculación para el examen en la EOI. Tan sólo tenéis que pinchar en el siguiente enlace: EOI matrícula

Leed todo con cuidado antes de rellenar y presentar la documentación. 

Good luck!

Happy Easter!!

I hope you had a very Happy Easter. Here you are a listening where you can listen to David Cameron wishing a happy Easter to all the British families. 

Here is a challenge for you: 

1- Listen to it without subtitles.

2- Listen to it again with English subtitles and try to check what you understood in the first listening you did.

Good luck!!

Our Nineteenth Session (26 March 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Checked the compositions you wrote in your exams.

2- Corrected exercises 1, 2 and 4 on page 59.

3- Did exercises 2, 3 and 4 on page 63.

Our Eighteenth Session (18 March 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected exercises 5 and 7 on page 54.

2- Corrected exercise 11 on page 11.

3- Corrected exercises 6, 7 and 8b on page 57.

4- Made some oral expositions for 3 or 4 minutes and spoke in pairs for about 5 minutes. We tried to do it as similar as the EOI exams.

5- Checked the meanings of the words in the box in exercise 1 on page 50.

6- Created a character with the adjectives on page 53, exercise 2.

Our Seventeenth Session (11 March 2015)

Last Wednesday we sat an EOI exam. Good luck!

Our Sixteenth Session (4 March 2015)

Last Wednesday:

1- We sang this song by Abba: "Money, money, money". We also filled in the gaps and underlined some vocabulary related to "wealth". Examples: work, pay, bills, penny, wealthy, rich, fortune and win.

2- We answered these questions:

a) Underline the conditional sentences you find in this song.
b) Underline the modal verbs you find. What's the difference between "must" and "have to"?
c) Find the word "must" expressing certainty.

3- We explained "modals of obligation and prohibition" (have to, must and should-recommendation) and "zero and first conditional with if/when/unless/as soon as".

4- We did exercises 1, 2 and 3 on page 49.

5- We corrected exercise 4 on page 51 and played a fun game with some "crazy hands" on our whiteboard. We recapped on those phrasal verbs: pick up, make up, end up, etc. Women won, well done, girls!!

6- We listened to a real EOI listening.

7- We played a game using some modals of obligation and prohibition. We had to fill in these recommendations:

How to be fit + how to be rich + how to be a good friend

-You must / you don't have to / you shouldn't / you mustn't / you should / you have to

Paqui and Lucía were the winners, CONGRATULATIONS!

8- We discovered that ATTITUDE is the best word in English, 100% guaranteed ;).

Our Fifteenth Session (18 January 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected a letter about the Coca-Cola ad.

2- We explained how to write a report.

3- We listened to exercise 2 on page 46 and filled in the gaps. "Living in the country or the city?"

4- We spoke about our dreams and hopes (look at exercise 3 on page 46).

Our Fourteenth Session (11 January 2015)

Last Wednesday we:


Do you know the difference between:


"I want to clean the floor" and

"I want you to clean the floor"?


1- Corrected some exercises about "the passive". I encourage you to do some more.

2- We corrected exercise 1 on page 34.

3- We learnt that the modal verbs "could", "might" and "may" are used to express possibility. Rememeber not to use the negative with "could" to express possibility. 

4- We did exercises 1, 2 and 4 on page 45. You can reinforce your ideas doing the exercise about prefixes and suffixes that I sent you on Monday.

5- We saw how different our grandparents' lifestyle was while we watched a video about Coca-Cola. 

6- We discussed in class those differences using the comparatives and superlatives.

Our Thirteenth Session (04 January 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected exercise 6 on page 26.

2- We watched the video corresponding to Unit 3 with English subtitles. 

3- We did exercises 2 and 3 on page 35.

4- We corrected exercises 1 and 2 on page 36.

5- We listened to exercise 4 on page 37 and completed parts "a" and "b".

6- We learnt how to build the future tense and did exercises 5 and 6 on page 37.

7- We read the chart "How to...complain" and learnt different ways to express ourselves if something goes wrong in a hotel, restaurant, shop, etc.

8- We did a role-play in which the students had to split in two groups: one of them was the manager of a hotel and the other one was the client who wanted to complain about the cleanliness and noise in the hotel.

9- We listened to exercise 1 on page 39 and tried to differentiate between city sounds and country sounds.

10- We explained how to build the comparative and superlative adjectives and discussed about our likes and dislikes while we compared our decisions.

Taken from New Total English

Our Twelfth Session (28 January 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Watched the video "The Mag" and answered some questions.

2- We also created our own interview. That was awesome!

3- We corrected these exercises:

• 8 and 9 on page 26. (Textbook)
• 10 on page 27. (Textbook)
• 2 and 3 on page 28. (Textbook)
• 4 and 5 on page 29. (Textbook)

4- We learnt the differences between "past simple" and "past continuous".

5- We did exercise 8 on page 30.

6- We listened to exercise 2 on page 32.

7- We watched a video where some people explained the differences between living in a city or in the country. Finally, we completed a worksheet using these differences.

Our Eleventh Session (21 January 2015)

Do you remember what "gripping" means? 

Eg. I love "Los Otros". Nicole Kidman and Alakina Mann star in this gripping thriller by Alejandro Amenábar. 

1- We corrected exercise 3 on page 23, but before we explained again the relative pronouns.

2- We corrected exercises 4 and 5 on page 23.

3- We completed exercise 9 on page 24. We learnt how to show our agreement or disagreement on any subject.

4- We listened to exercise 10 on page 24 and spoke in pairs while we practised what we've already learnt.

5- We read exercise 11 on page 24 and gave examples of real English outside the classroom.

6- We completed the "How to..." box with the correct prepositions. Do you remember the exercise we did last Wednesday about objects? It's just the same:

Eg. Pen: It's a kind of pencil, it's used for writing and it's made of plastic.

7- We played "Shh!". We made two teams and tried to describe an object or a word withouth saying three essential expressions related to that object:

Eg.  TV channel: we couldn't pronounce the words "to watch", "programme" or "film".

Finally, the Superwomen won.

8- We explained the passive voice and did exercise 11, 12 and 13 on page 27.

9- We watched the video "The Mag" and we discovered where Leicester is in the map of the UK.

Our Tenth Session (14 January 2015)

Last Wednesday:

1- We were considering the positive and not so positive aspects of your oral presentations. To do so, we paid special attention to pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.

2- We described some of the main characters of the film "Love Actually" and the rest of the class had to find out who was the actor we were describing.

3- We named the different types of relationships in "Love Actually":

• Brotherly
• Unfaithful
• Open
• International
• Friendship
• Paternal
• Impossible
• Unbelievable

4- We explained what a relative clause is. (Bear in mind the relative pronouns):

                          which - who - where - when - whose - that

Our Ninth Session (7 January 2015)

Happy New Year!!

I hope you had a good time and that the 3 wise men treated you well. Last Wednesday:

1- We brainstormed some new vocabulary related to Christmas time! Here you are a link to listen again to some of the words we learnt. Keep in mind the word "New Year's resolution (NYRs)", in Spanish, "propósitos de año nuevo".

2- We briefly explained the future tense and the conditional "would". We used these three forms to express our NYRs.

• Will / will not = won't (to speak about promises)

 Example: I will eat less chocolate. / I won't eat unhealthy food.

• Be going to / not be going to (to speak about plans)

Example: I'm going to read a book every week. / I'm not going to drink alcohol.

• I would like to = "me gustaría" (to speak about conditions)

Example: I would like to have a baby in 2015. 

=> BE CAREFUL WITH THE "TO", you have to add "to" after the word "like" just in this case.

3- We did an exercise to recap on these new verbs. We also put in order our NYRs.

4- What are your 2015 resolutions? Write them down and practise your English! ;)

5- We saw an example of formal and informal letters and an email.

6- We corrected our "writing folder" (Reviews).

Have a nice week, mates and don't forget to do your homework!