Class docs (Wednesday 25th July)

Strong adjectives presentation

Gradable/ungradable adjectives ex.

Compositions - Typical mistakes

Informació exàmens

Informació exàmens

 

Dimecres 25/07 - Prova d'expressió escrita de 12.30 a 13.30

Dijous 26/07 - Proves de comprensió oral, escrita i gramàtica i vocabulari, de 9.30 a 11 aprox.

L'assistència mínima per rebre qualsevol certificat és del 80%, és a dir, mínim 16 dies dels 20 lectius. Si un alumne no arriba al nombre mínim d'hores d'assistència no rebrà cap tipus de certificat. Si un alumne suspèn el curs, rebrà un certificat d'assistència sense nota.

Class docs (Tuesday 24th July)

Exclamations and interjections

Second conditional

Additional explanation about the second conditional

Additional exercises online
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4

Third conditional

Some extra exercises online for you to practise:

Exercise
Exercise 1-5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7

Class docs (Friday 20th July)

Second conditional

Love is...

Speed dating discussion

Modal verbs - Answer key to exercises for extra homework

Handout 3A - Modal verbs of obligation - Must, should, have to - answer key
Handout 3B - Modal verbs of deduction - Must, may, might, can't - answer key
Handout 3C - Modal verbs of ability and possibility - Can, could, be able to - answer key

Reported speech - revision

 

THEORY

Tense changes
Reference changes


PRACTISE

Exercise a & b
Solutions ex a
Solutions ex b

Online exercises

# Exercise 1: General
# Exercise 2: Statements
# Exercise 3: Questions
# Exercise 4: General

Composition 3: Writing an article

Choose one of these options and write a letter of approx. 125-150 words (to be handed in by Tuesday 24th July at the latest)

Class docs (Thursday 19th July)

Neighbours discussion

Reported questions

English rhythm and stress

Class docs (Wednesday 18th July)

So and such

Making and accepting apologies & excuses

Discussion about friendship

Unit test

Module 2 Unit 1 ("Family ties") - Test - Answer key a & b

Module 1 Test

For those of you who were not there last Friday:

Answer key

-ed / -ing adjectives

-ed / -ing adjectives

If you want to practice a little bit more, check out these links:

BBC World Service

Exercise

More personality traits

If you didn't have enough with all the personality adjectives from this morning, take a look at this worksheet.

Present perfect

Present perfect 

If you want to practice a little bit more (taken from New English File Intermediate Student's Book):

Theory
Exercises
Answer key

Or you can check these sites where you can do some exercises online:

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Revision of Units 1-4

For those of you who were not there today or left before the end of the lesson:

We will do an exam next Monday. It is the module test (units 1-4) from the textbook, similar to the unit tests I have been giving you to do at home.

By the way, that reminds me that I had to give you the answer key of Unit 3 Test and Unit 4 Test. Here you are!

Unit 3 Test answer key a & b
Unit 4 Test answer key a & b

Composition 2: Writing a letter

Choose one of the following options and write a letter of approx. 125-150 words (to be handed in by Tuesday 17th July)

REMEMBER: Pay attention to the structure of the text. Organize your ideas in consistent and coherent paragraphs :-)

Class docs (Friday 13th July)

Doc with the differences between:
hope and expect
hope and wait

Class docs (Thursday 12th July)

Future tenses

Please find the future tenses document we saw this morning. I've added a few explanations and examples. I hope it helps! ;-)

Conversation fillers

Using fillers is an extremely useful conversation strategy because it helps you keep the floor, rather than leaving a pause where someone else could start talking. They give you an extra split second to decide what to say next, for example.


Take a look at this PDF.

Begin and start

Meaning / formality 

Begin and start can both be used with the same meaning:
I began / started teaching when I was 25.
If Matt doesn't come soon, let's begin / start without him.

We generally prefer begin when we are using a more formal style. Compare:
We will begin the meeting with a message from the President.
Oh no! It's starting to rain!

Cases where begin is NOT possible

Start (but not begin) is used to mean:

a. "start a journey"
I think we should start at 5am, while the roads are empty.

b. "start working" (for machines)
The car won't start.

c. "make something start"
How do you start the washing machine?

Modifying comparisons

More info about what we have seen today in Unit 3

Remember: if you have time, for homework, do ex. 5 on page 12 writing a few sentences about a specific topic. Example:
Food
- Burgers are far cheaper than steaks. / Steaks are far more expensive than burgers.
- Steaks are much healthier than burgers.
- Burgers aren't quite as nutritious as steaks. / Burgers are nowhere near as nutritious as steaks.
- Burgers are far more popular among young people.

Class docs (Monday 9th July)

Relative clauses explanation

Relative pronouns exercise

More online exercises
Ex. 1
Ex. 2
Ex. 3

Class docs (Friday 6th July)

Unit 2 Test - Answer key 1 & 2

More homophones exercises

Past perfect handout - answer key 1 & 2

Composition 1: Writing a story

Choose one of the following options and write a story of approx. 125 words (to be handed in by Tuesday 10th July)

Class docs (Thursday 5th July)

Unit 1 Test - Answer key 1 & 2

Adjectives as nouns (handout)

Adjectives as nouns - Speaking exercise

The origin of my name

Please find the link to my own presentation



Have you ever wondered what your name means? Do some research and prepare an oral presentation asking the following questions:

Do you know what it means?
Do you know why your parents gave you that name?
Does it go with my personality?
Do you like your name?

Class docs (Tuesday 3rd July)

When you are discussing a topic and you want to give your opinion, some of the following expressions can be useful:
Expressing opinions

Extra: Today we looked at adverbs of frequency. If you want to know a bit more about other types of adverbs and adverbial phrases, check this out.

Class docs (Monday 2nd July)

These links will take you to a couple of docs we have seen today:

Agreement & disagreement tags - Me too / Me neither, etc.

Listening: Are you a morning or evening person?
Questions
Transcript

Watching the news

Watching the news

If you want to improve your listening skills you can use this site run by CNN based on their own news stories. The site allows you to read, listen and view video and do a series of interactive activities to test comprehension. The listening and comprehension activities are aimed at learners at intermediate level and above.
Let's get started!

Story archives

Agreement & disagreement tags

Agreement & disagreement tags

Links to online exercises to practice "Me Neither / Me Too / I Don’t Either / Neither Do I"

Exercise 1
Exercise 2

More about body language

More about body language

Are you good at picking up body language signals? Watch the video and find out more about this other way of communication.

Power of body language