Homework for Avanzado 2

Here you have all the homework for these two weeks. The exam samples are for self study since you also have the key.
Homework

Do you know what Mardi Gras is?

Go to this website and do the video listening activity!

I don't have time to practise listening.

No more cheap excuses. Do you have 1 minute a day? Then you can practise. Here you can find a super summary of the news, and it lasts....(oh surprise!) just 1 minute!!!
BBC 1 minute news
CNN 1 minute news (for me this one is not as good as the BBC's, but you are listening to AmE)

Listening to the news about Spain in English

Here you have the news about Spain but in English. It's a really interesting website to learn current vocabulary about the present context in Spain. You can even download the files.
Click here

Homework for Básico 1

As you all know I'll be away for two weeks, but I don't want you to get bored at home until 12th March when we will start with the lessons again. So I thought it would be a good idea to read a book. It must be a graded reader and the level elementary. Don't forget your library card to borrow a book next day!
Enjoy your "holidays"!

In short. Homework for Básico 1, read a graded book level elementary. You can borrow (tomar prestado) it from the class library.

Present simple or present continuous?

Do you need to do some extra exercises? Here you have some
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

One Day

This is a book I've just read and really enjoyed. If you are in your 30s or 40s you MAY find yourself portrayed in the book.

It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.

Here you have different exercises to review modals

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4

Who is that "best boy" in the credits???

Best Boy

AKA: Assistant Chief Lighting Technician, Best Boy Grip, Best Boy Electric
The chief assistant, usually of the gaffer or key grip. In charge of the people and equipment, scheduling the required quantities for each day's work. The term originates from promoting the crew's 'best boy' to supervising, allowing the gaffer and key grip to stay on set and carry out the cameraman's lighting needs. The origin of the term is from "pre-union" filming days when the line between Grip and Electric departments was less rigid. When the head of either department needed another body temporarily, he'd go to the head of the other department and ask him to "lend me your BEST boy". By default the 2nd in charge of either department came to be known as best-boy. This term may also have been borrowed from early sailing and whaling crews, as sailors were often employed to set up and work rigging in theatres. There are no "best girls" per se; female chief assistants are also called "Best Boys".

Topics for the exam BÁSICO 1

BÁSICO 1
Find here here the topics for the exam in February. Download the file and work on them.