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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Stephen Wiltshire, the "human camera"

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Ítaca. Health, illnesses and treatments.
2016-17
Poliomelitis, Roleplay at the doctor. Marina Díaz and Andrea Ruiz.
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From 2014-5:
Carmen, Hans, Dani and Cayetana.

Ventriloquist:
Inma Ramirez, Inma Godoy and Lorena Montero

Food. Role plays:
Mexican: Pablo Ramos, Beatriz Soriano, José Mª Balbuena. Press here

One weekend to a full school year Immersion Programs. Familiy stays. www.geniuslingua.com

One weekend to a full school year Immersion Programs. Familiy stays. www.geniuslingua.com
Immersion Pogrammes with Native Speakers. Learn English in Ireland or the UK or Spanish in Spain.

The news

Read and practice with the news.

PET and FCE exams and practice.

For a full description of the PET B1 exam press here.

Exam practice. Find speaking, listening, written examples of exams for A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2. Here for more.
PET Sentence transaformation excercises. Here 1,
Free B1 Course and activities. Press here to see blog.
More practice for B1. Parts I, II, III and IV.

FCE Sentence transaformation excercises. Here 1, here 2.
B2 READING PRACTICE. Press here.
SPEAKING tips for B1 and B2 exams.
Speaking practice and examples.

LISTENING PRACTICES

B1:
Listening Practice part I.
Listening Practice II.
Listening part III. Part IV.
Listening sample tests for b1: A, B, C, D, ...
Listening samples of part I, II, III and IV.
B2:
Practice 1. Practice 2. Practice 3. Practice 4.

LISTENING ACTIVITIES (US ACCENT)

practice your listening skills here.

Conversations and situational dialogues, press here.
New Year's converstation (A2).
New Year Resolutions (b2).

A typical day (present tense)

Click here to watch video.

Making Questions

Press here for theory.

EASY GRAMMAR

Showing Possession.
The Possessive 's, press here for theory.
Possession through pronouns and adjectives, here for theory and activities.

-Pronouns in English. Theory and practice.

Present Simple and Present Continous: Dialogue.


Press here for present continuous explanations.

Press here for basic practice.

Press here to practice with a song (in the ghetto by Elvis Presley.) Lyrics here.
Interactive board, press here for practice1, practice2, practice3...


- Past simple vs. past continuous. Click HERE for theory and activities.
- Grammar theory, click here for explanations about the past simple and past continuous.
- Past simple and/or continuous. For a song in the past simple and past continuous, press here. Video here. or here.

- much or many? press here to practise.

-CONDITIONAL (O, 1st, 2nd, 3rd). Press here for theory. Press here for practice. Beyonce song here.

-The Future in English. Very basic theory. Press here for further theory. Here for practice. Song: Next to me by Emili Sande.

-The future continuous. Click here for theory and practice.

to infinitive or -ING

We sometimes ignore when we may use the infinitive or the -ING for, here you may find some explanations and here you may find some activities to practice. Press here to watch a musical video with examples in songs.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Press here for present continuous explanations.

Press here for basic practice.

Press here to practice with a song (in the ghetto by Elvis Presley.) Lyrics here.
Interactive board, press here for practice1, practice2, practice3...

TOO vs. ENOUGH

Practice here. Theory here.

FEW, A FEW / LITTLE, A LITTLE / MUCH, MANY / LOTS, A LOT OF

Countable versus uncountable. Press here for explanations.
Press here for activities. Much or many.

ALL, EVERY and EACH

Press here to watch video with theory and examples.
Press here for practice.

THERE IS/ARE, THERE ISN'T/AREN'T

Go onto this webpage to learn about the verbal form THERE IS/ARE. You many also find activities for further practice.

Click here to work on a text in which you can practise vocabulary plus the expressions there is/are.

Digital board, (a/an, some, any) activity. Press here.

HOW MUCH / HOW MANY

DIGICTAL BOARD, press here for activity. More activities here.

AS vs. LIKE

Can you distinguish "as" from "like". Do the following activity to find out. Press here.
For theory, press here.

DURING VS. WHILE

With this video you'll find it much easier to distinguish bwetween "during" and "while". Press here for explanations.

PRESENT PERFECT

Click here for theory and practice
Click here to watch cartoons which use the Pr. Prf. tense.
More examples on this video. Press here to watch.
Present perfect vs. Past simple.
Just / still / already / yet. Press here for theory and practice.
For and since. Theory and practice.
For song and lyrics, press here.

Prepositions:

Of Place:
street prepositions, click here to watch.
Practice the prepositions: under, behind, in, on, between, in front of, opposite, etc...
Click here to play game.
Clcik here to watch video.
Of Movement: Press here.

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

For general rules press here.
For practice press here.
For more complicated activities press here.

USED TO + VERB

Theory and grammar explanations click here
For activities and practiCe, clik here
For a song, press here.

GET / BE USED TO + ING
Press here for theory and practice. More here.

USED TO/ WOULD VS. GET/BE USED TO. Summary here.

MODAL VERBS

Press here for theory.
Press here for practice.
Here for games.
Modal Perfects and modals in general. Here.

THE PASSIVE

The following site will give you a thorough explanation on the passive as well as a varied set of activities to practice the passive form. http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive
The Causative Passive:
Theory and practice, press here.
More proficiency type activities on the causative in the following link. Good luck!

DEFINING VS. NON-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES

Press here to practice relative clauses. Easy excercises.
Defining and non difining. Practice here.
Theory and grammar reference. Press here.

REPORTED SPEECH

Here for theory and excercises.

Can you put the following questions into reported speech?
1) Mandy: "Are the boys reading the book?"
Yesterday Mandy asked me ____________________________________.
2) Jason: "Who gave you the laptop?"
Yesterday Jason wanted to know __________________________________.
3) Robert: "Is Tim leaving on Friday?"
Yesterday Robert asked me___________________________________ .
4) Daniel: "Will it rain tomorrow?"
Yesterday Daniel asked me________________________________ .
5) Jennifer: "Where do you play football today?"
Yesterday Jennifer wanted to know _____________________________.

Press here for answers and/or more exercises.

LINKING WORDS

The following are the most common linking words used in English. Press here to see list.
WORD FORMATION. Click here to see the typical endings of words in English.

Agreeing /but /in contrast...

although/ even though/ though vs. despite/ in spite of:
For an explanation on the use of these expressions press here.

For more examples and exercises press here.


So do I / nor do I / neither do I
Press here to watch video. More examples on this video.
Press here for practice. Here for theory.

VOCABULARY

Click on the topic you are interested in.
Weather; Four seasons in one day, song:

Gerund vs. Infinitive. Press here for song.

City places, click for video
Recycle video here
Clothes
Sports
Animals
Holidays, video press here.
etc...

GAME:
Click here to practice with opposite adjectives.

IRREGULAR VERBS

click here to find irregular verbs. Here for game.

Vocabulary Games (written and listening)

Click here, or cut and paste the following link:

http://www.eslgamesworld.com/VocabularyGames.html

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Holidays!!!!

Christmas:
Gingle Bells rock, play here for video. Here for lyrics.
Last Christmas, Wham video, press here.
The Corrs, "So this is Christmas." Press here.
New Year Resolutions (b2).
Speaking activity about Christmas here.
December holidays around the world here.
Christmas project.
Christmas around the world. Click here to see video.
Christmas story for younger students, click here.
Beatiful Chritmas commercials, here.
Halloween:
Click here to find out about this popular holiday!
Fears, scared, halloween English Lesson on video, press here to watch. The Corrs, "silent night."

Interesting web sites

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MUSIC - VIDEOS- LYRICS

1- Don't know much about history...Click here for lyrics and music
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PAU TYPE ACTIVITIES

Activities for Selectividad Type Exams. Click here to view.

SELECTIVIDAD

For those of you who wish to practise selectividad-type exams, I've included a couple of exams and links (eg. Universidad de Jaen).
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LYRICS, MUSIC AND VIDEOS

Click here to listen to your favourite tunes and learn English at the same time.

Songs for grammatical contents. Click here to practice.

glaciar fox!

glaciar fox!
at the foot of a powerful white tongue called fox!!! (NZ 2009)

wanderer!!!!!

wanderer!!!!!
holiday maker

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Inca's jewel.

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