Key going to/present continuous/will

Find here the key of the exercises.

Exercise going to/present continuous

1 We're going to stay/We're staying at home tonight. 2 It's going to rajn

tomorrow. 3 We are going to eat/We're eating at a restaurant tonight.

Happy Thanksgiving

Ordinal numbers

Read here.

Entry Checker answer key

Click here.

Key past simple and continuous

Find here the key of the exercises on past simple here and continuous here.

Prepositions (thanks MJA)

You can print these charts to review the prepositions.

 

Time 

Place

Difference between sounds /z/ and /s/

These are the two videos we watched in class.

Word order in questions

Find here some extra exercises
Exercises
More exercises 

Welcome Básico 2

This is our blog  this course, I hope you enjoy it!

This is the end...

Avanzado 1 it's been a pleasure

Avanzado 1 12:30

You can see your marks on the board of classroom 6.

Avanzado 1 9:30

Ya tenéis las notas en el tablón de la entrada del aula.

Oral Exam times Avanzado 1

AVANZADO 1

Horario para los exámenes orales 23 de junio

Nombres	Hora
Teresa y Macarena	10:00-10:25
Paola y Luz	10:25-10:50
Beatriz Tormo y Carmen	10:50-11:15
Alucia y Ana Belén	11:30-11:55
Olga y Rosa	11:55-12:20
Raquel y Álvaro	12:20-12:45
Blanca Manso y Natalia	12:45- 13:10
	13:30-13:55
Ana Bermúdez y Lucas	13:55-14:20
Auxi y Eduardo	14:20-14:45
Consuelo Elola, Beatriz Llorente, María Ángeles Nieto, Irene Puigdollers, Verónica Rodrigues	14:45

*Los horarios y las parejas son orientativos y pueden variar según las necesidades.

Se debe estar siempre al menos 10 minutos antes de la hora a la que se esté citado.

Horario para los exámenes orales del 25 de Junio

Nombres	Hora
Carmen y Mº Jesús	10:00-10:25
Ana Lobera y Belén	10:25-10:50
Mireya y Olga	10:50-11:15
Ana Clavero y María	11:30-11:55
Irene y Jordi	11:55-12:20
Cristina y Verónica	12:20-12:45
Ana Gómez y Alejandra Angel Sifuentes y Liseth Javier Esparza, Rocío Orna, Marta Pérez, Elena Rodríguez, Angel Zugasti	12:45

*Los horarios y las parejas son orientativos y pueden variar según las necesidades.

Se debe estar siempre al menos 10 minutos antes de la hora a la que se esté citado.

Reported speech extra exercises

Find here some extra esercises on reported speech.
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Collection of exercises

Good example of reported speech!!!

Verbs + ing or to

Click here to se the key of the exercises I gave you in class.

Magical places 2

Where are these magical places? The12:00 group has written the texts.
If you have any idea write a comment.

A. It´s a glacial lake on the East coast. It´s named after the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and the wife of the the Marquis of Lorne, who was the Governor General of Canada.

The emerald colour of the water comes from rock flour carried in the lake by melt-water from the glacier that overlooks the lake.

It has a surface of0.8 km2. There is a great variety of hiking trails around the lake and some f them  are open to mountain hiking and horseback riding.

Some of the mountain faces offer opportunities for rock climbing, kayaking or canoeing which are very popular in summer.

It is said that the remains of a half-mam half-fish mummified creature can be found in the lake.

Ana

María

Carmen

Angel

B. This place is located in the UK. It is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns that appeared around 60 millions years ago due to an intense volcanic activity.

There is a legend about the origins of its creation. The story is about two giants who did not get along well. One of this giants lived on the Antrim coast and the other in Scotland. In order to solve their differences they decided to have a fifght. Then one of them built a causeway of enormous stones across the sea from Antrim to Scotland, but as soon as he was approaching to his rival, he got afraid and went back home, losing one of his boots. The other giant ran to reach him nut when he arrived he just found a baby (who was the giant in disguise). He was scared thinking about the size that the father’s baby would have, so he ran away home too.

This peculiar landmark intrigues and inspires visitors who come to this magical place attracted by this unsolved mistery.

Mireya

Recío

Ana                              

C. It is located in England. For centuries, historians and archaelogists have puzzled over the many mysteries of this places. Archaelogists believe this magical place was built in several stages.

According to the 12^th-century writer Geoffrey of Monmouth, this famous places is the handiwork of Merlin the Wizard. Other early hypotheses attributed its building to the Saxons, Danes, Romans, Greeks or Egyptians. Many modern historians and archaelogists now agree that several tribes contributed to build this place.

Every year, one million people visit this magical place, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986.

Belén

Olga

Jordi

Javier

Magical places

Where are these magical places? The 9:30 group has written the texts.
If you have any idea write a comment.

A. This is the story of a haunted house, located in a misterious city in the southern USA, whose ghostly legend dates back to 1832. Former owners, who were a very rich family, were told to kill their black slaves inside the house in a very cruel way.

After the death of this family, the house became a high school, then a music and fashionable dancing school and finally it was bought by a rich man who also died inside the house in strange circumstances.

The people who lived in the mansion, after the wealthy family left it,  said they used to hear strange noises, cries and groans at  night. This mansion became the center of rumours regarding strange events.

There were also rumours of a lost treasure circulating but nobody dared  to go in search of it.

Today the house has been restored  and it is a luxury apartments house for those who can afford them, but when restoring it there was found a cementery beneath the house. It is said the former owners used to bury their slaves there and the ghosts that appear nowadays are those people tortured and killed inside the house.

Ana

Natalia

Ángel

Blanca

                      

B. If you imagine an unreal and beautiful landscape, this is the right place. We have chosen it because it’s like being into a tale due to its several waterfalls and the beauty of the rock formations carved by the falling water, and as a consequence of this, numerous cold, blue and crystal pools are created where you can swim and even see the bottom if you are brave enough.

These famous pools entice visitors from all over the world. It is a good place to take some lovely photos; this really is an enchanting spot.  

You can follow the gravel path and you can see the first waterfall with the highest fall and the deepest pool. The next pool up is properly the most famous.  It features a natural arch, offering a beautiful view.

There is a legend that says that in this place inhabit good and evil fairies so if you like hiking and you come there, you might see them!

In our opinion, if you want discover a magical feel and enjoy with great views you cannot miss it, we are sure that if you visit it you will not regret it.

Ana

Alicia

Raquel Ana Belén

C. This magical place is located in Europe, in a mountain range where the highest mountaintop of this land can be found. It is known as the most spectacular mountain in the country.

It is placed close to a town steeped in culture and local history, where more than half of its population speaks the language of King Arthur and Merlin.

This green region, due to the heavy rainfalls, hides wonderful legends in its valleys and mountains.

The most popular explanation for the name of this place talks about a giant warrior poet and his chair. It is said that the giant used to sit in this mountain, as it was his own armchair, to gaze the stars.  Landscape features of the mountain are attributed to the actions of our Giant: for example, some huge boulders at the side of the mountain are said to be stones that our friend shook out of his shoes. The local elderly say that anyone who sleeps on the mountain will awaken either a madman, a bard or indeed never wakes again.

It is said too, there was a giant king in those lands who used to shave and collect the beards of his enemies. Once he demanded the beard of King Arthur, who challenged him to a duel. R____ the Giant was killed by Arthur and was buried at the highest peak in this area. From then on it is called G_______ R____, known in English as S_______.

At the base of this mountain is the ancient fortress of D_____ E_____. According to legend, King V_________ sought refuge in The E____ Mountains and started to build his fort. But every time the workers began to build, the foundations fell. The King gathered all the magicians of the Court who told him that the fort could only be finished if an orphan was sacrificed. Legend has it that Merlin was this boy. He was taken to the palace to be killed, but he challenged the magicians telling them that the King was the real cause of their failure. What really happened was that there was an underground lake in which every night a white dragon fought against a red dragon. The red dragon represents the Celts and the white dragon represents the Saxons. Every night the white dragon beat the red one, and this is what would happen in the future: Saxons would beat and would dominate the island.

And so happened. Thousands of Celts had to leave the island in the hands of the English invaders and part of them even had to cross the sea to Britain, Asturias and Galicia. The Celtic language and culture nearly disappeared, but the red dragon spirit remains nowadays.

Luz

Paola

Maca

Teresa

D. Those that live here have a theory about how the hills came to be: once upon a time, a giant fell in love with a village girl.  The giant kidnapped the girl, but she died en route.  The giant’s tears solidified in this particular area.

This extraordinary area is formed by mounds of a generally cone-shaped and and they are almost symmetrical.  There are between 1,268  and 1,776 mounds, these cone-shaped or dome-shaped hills are actually made of grass-covered limestone.  The domes vary in size,  from 30 to 50 metres high, with the largest being 120 metres in height. Geologists have not reached consensus on how they were formed, but the most popular theory suggests that these mounds were lifted up from the seafloor of coral deposits and the action of rainwater and erosion.

The grass that covers each hill turns chocolate-brown during the summer season.

Rosa

Eduardo

Olga

Key causative have

Find here the key of the exercises on the causative have.
Interesting wiki

Linkers

Somebody in class asked for a list of linkers/connectors/linking words.
Here you have some websites that can help you. However, as one of the sites says, it's important to use them but be careful not to overuse them.

List 1
List 2
List 3
List 4

Roddy Doyle: the films

The Commitments

The Snapper

The Van

Learn more about them by clicking here.

French toast recipe

Here you have the recipe, remember you can always adapt it to your taste.

Ingredients

1 egg

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (optional)

1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon (optional)

A glass of milk

1 tablespoon of sugar

4 slices bread (if the bread is fresh, toast it first)

A pinch of salt

Directions

1. Mix egg, sugar, salt, vanilla and cinnamon in shallow dish then add milk.
2. Dip bread in egg mixture, turning to coat both sides evenly.
3. Cook bread slices on lightly greased pan on medium heat until browned on both sides (1-2 minutes).

Enjoy!

St. Patrick's Day

Bet-you-didnt-know-st-patricks-day

Why green?

The best cover of the Irish Rover ever.

I have a dream

You can watch here the whole speech.

Passive voice

Click here to see the key of the exercises on the passive.

Palindromes

Remember the poem we read in class? It was a kind of palindrome.
Here you can find an article about the film The Imitation Game and palindromes.
http://theweek.com/articles/541717/imitation-game-codebreakers-also-created-brilliant-palindromes

Used to, be used to, get used to

Find here some exercises to practise at home.
Rules
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

The Stolen Generation

This is your homework. Cloze Test

Click here to learn more about the Stolen Generation (presentation)

Click here if you want to watch some testimonies.

New report shows urban 'donut' shifting

Interesting article about Millenials and urban patterns.
Article USAToday

Taste and texture

Find here the updated list of vocabulary

Presentation

Used to vs would

We use used to/would to describe habits and repeated actions which took place over a period of time in the past.
Used to
-To describe extended past states we can only use used to
There used to be a church here.
I used to have an old car.
-To talk about regular and important habitual behaviour.
I used to smoke.
Maria used to go to ballet lessons 

Would is generally used when the time or topic are clear, otherwise the meaning of this modal verb wouldn't be clear.

(one customer to another customer in a shop)
I would buy that, but it's a waste of money.
I used to buy that, but it's a waste of money.

The Party is over, Lesley Gore dies

Read more about it.

Read very carefully the lyrics of this song.

Great song which instantly puts me in a good mood.

Valentine's Day

This is the video we watched in class, just in case you want to watch it again

Parenthood

Do these phrases sound familiar?....
Click here.
If they do, that means we are pre-programmed for sure, no matter the language.

Interesting video about parenthood and parenting

 

Some interesting activities

Free activities in English. Yeah,you read that correctly, for free.

Relative clauses

You can find here some exercises to practise at home.

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

And you can find plenty of extra exercises here too.

Extra information and exercises on vague language

Examples, listening and a quiz
More examples

Writing a review

Here you can see a guide to write a review

Writing a review

Thanks EOI Santa María de Guía

Trip, travel or journey

You can read about the differences on these websites I used in class.
Website 1
Website 2