AVANZADO I
FUTURE CONTINUOUS VS FUTURE PERFECT
Click on the links below to read and practice!
Future perfect & Future cotinuous
WAYS OF MODIFYING COMPARATIVES
Click here to watch a video where ways of modifying comparatives are explained. Find some more information here.
RELATIVE CLAUSES
If you want to find more information and practice on relative clauses, have a look at the links below.
Great page with video, explanations, etc
Explanation and lots of exercises
Complete explanations and exercises (upper-intermediate+)
One more website with explanations
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT
Write a review of a book you have read recently or about the last film you have seen. Do not forget to organize your ideas in a clear way, use connectors and modifiers…(200 words).
AVANZADO A: DEADLINE, Wednesday, 18th.
AVANZADO B: deadline, Thursday, 20th.
You can have a look at the following tips before writing your review.
Tips, how to write a review, how to write a film review, movie review with video, how to write a simple book review(video)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT
We have been working on how to tell stories in English. There are many aspects to be considered when telling a good story: tenses, modifiers, details, etc. I have included some links below that may be helpful when writing your next task.
Well, now that you have studied all the links above, you are ready to write your story. You have to write a story (200 words) beginning or ending with one of the sentences below. You have to choose ONLY ONE. Remember to make your story interesting, use a variety of adjectives and adverbs to give details to your story.
1. “She smiled and walked away”.
2. “Simon opened the door and knew immediately he had made a mistake”.
3. “Jakob was absolutely furious when he saw what was going on outside his window”.
AVANZADO A: DEADLINE, Monday, 12th.
AVANZADO B: deadline, Tuesday 13th.
If you have your compositions ready before, I would appreciate if you send them to me asap, as I have to give them back to you that same week, before the exam.
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT
The deadline for Avanzado A is Wednesday, February, 1st.
The deadline for Avanzado B is Tuesday, February, 7th.
“Sometimes I wish I were a man”. “I wish I knew what women think”.
Have you ever wondered how it would be like to be of the opposite sex? Write a for and against essay about this. (200 words).
Revise the structures and expressions to be used when writing a “for and against” eassay.
You need to use conditional structures as seen in class.
If you send the assignment by email, you need to send it as an attachment, DO NOT WRITE YOUR COMPOSITION IN THE EMAIL.
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT
The deadline for Avanzado A is Wednesday, 30th.
The deadline for Avanzado B is Tuesday, 29th.
Following the structure we have seen in class, write a for and against essay about being your own boss. (200-225 words).
Remember to organise your information in paragraphs, use appropriate language to your level and also a variety of linkers and connectors.
Your composition needs to be double-spaced and handed in by next Thursday, 24th.
To find some information on how to write a for and against essay, check the links below.
For and against composition outline.
LISTENING PRACTICE
As you won´t have a lesson on Monday or Tuesday, and just so that you get your English dose for the day, check the links below where you can practice your listening skills. They are about topics which we have seen in class so far.
- BBC 6 minute English. Education and Poverty.
- BBC 6 minute English. Centenarians.
- Healthy lifestyle.
BE/GET USED TO
To read read and practice about these two structures, click on the links below, they may help you!
-Explanations in Spanish with exercises.
-Explanations in English with exercises.
Used to/be used to/get used to exercises.
-Activity.
HOW TO LIFE A LONG AND HEALTHY LIFE
Click here to watch again the video we watched in class about Okinawans. If you are interested in the subject, you can find the rest of the documentary on the web.
Click below to see the activities and their answers.
How_to_live_a_long_and_healthy_life_students
How to live a long and healthy life_teacher´s
WOULD/USED TO
Click here if you want to listen and read an explantion on the use of would/used to.
STUDYING ABROAD (Avanzado B)
Click here to listen again to the activity we did in class about “studying abroad”. You will be able to read the tapescript too.
CONFUSING CONCEPTS
Click on the link below if you want to see again the powerpoint we saw in class. Read the concepts and do the practice at the end of the explanations. These are common mistakes that I have seen in your compositions, so hopefully, it will help you to correct them.
VERB PATTERNS
Click here to see a classification of verbs according to the patterns they follow.
Here you can listen to an episode of “The Flatmates” where the language point is verb patterns.
To get some practice on verb patterns click here.
HOMEWORK GROUP B
Textbook, page 13. Review.
HOMEWORK GROUP A
-Textbook, page 10. Ex. 3 a, b, c.
HOMEWORK
-Copy.
-Textbook. Reading: Page 10, ex 1b, 2a.
-Written composition
Describe yourself as an English learner. You can write about when you started to learn English, why you did it, how you feel about your English level and things you do outside class to improve it, what your goals are at the end of the year, etc.
Write your composition in 200 words. Do not forget to organise your information in paragraphs, use connectors and follow the guidelines indicated in this blog.
You can either bring me your piece of work to class or email it to me including your name and group on the subject.
Avanzado A´s deadline is Wednesday 5th.
Avanzado B´s deadline is Thursday 6th.
HOMEWORK
ENGLISH VERB TENSES PRACTICE
Click on the links below to get some more practice on verb tenses.
HOMEWORK 2O/09
Click here to learn a bit more about speed dating in the UK. There are some vocabulary explanations to help you out.
I have done “be creative”, it´s funny. Thank you Ana.
Mariola R. (Avanzado I)
Thank YOU! Glad you enjoyed it!
Un listening muy bueno, cuando tengais tiempo escúcharlo.
Crescen, thank you very much for sending this video!!!
Ana, I need your e-mail because I have to tell you something. Can you give me it? Ruben Hidalgo (Avanzado I)
Hi Rubén, mi email is analeiva@gmail.com!