Showing posts with label NI2 LINK TO EXERCISES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NI2 LINK TO EXERCISES. Show all posts

Monday, March 28, 2011

MY FAMILY 3. ALL

Aroa Corte

This is a picture of me with my boyfriend and my nieces at Easter. My name´s Aroaand I´m thirty-one years old. I live in Blimea,in asturias. I´m a teacher but now i´m unemployed. Angel is my boyfriend. he´s thirty-five. He lives in El entrego and works in a shop but he´s a lawyer . He has a brother whose name´s Rubén. My nieces are Nayra and Nuria. Nayra´s 3 years old and Nuria´s 7 years old. they´re at school and they live in Blimea. They like playing in the park, eating chocolate and watching TV very much. They go to the swimming-pool twice a week. They´re really lovely girls.


Susana Antuña

On the left is my older brother Lauri. He is forty-four years old and he works in Aceralia. Next to him is his ex-wifewith their son. alejandro is six years old. Next to my ex-sister-in-law is my other brother José Angel . He is forty-two years old and he´s an electrician, but now he´s umemployed. Next to him is his grilfriend´s dauter and his girlfriend. I am on the right of my bother´s girlfriend . My name´s Susana and I´m thirty-four years old. I work in a food company called clerk in La Felguera, the place I live. Next to me is my mother . Her name´s Sagrario and she´s sixty-five.she has a cleaning job and want to retire soon. the last person sitting on the floor is my boyfriend. His name´s Mario and he´s thirty-five and works for "HC" .We´re living together.


NI2A/C

  • Homework: Compositions were collected "An opinion essay". Grammar, unit 10.

  • Grammar and vocabulary test. Unit 4.

  • Vocabulary: St.B.p. 72. Word building.

  • Grammar: quantifiers. St.B.p. 74. Exercise. Grammar Bank, St.B.p. 138. Rules and exercises.

  • Speaking: Class survey. St.B.p.74 . All of, most of, none of...

  • Listening: St.B.p. 75. Childhood memories. Listen and choose the eadjective, listen and write details.

  • Grammar:St.B.p. 75 .Adjectives -ing/-ed. Grammar, unit 98.

  • Speaking: St.B.p. 75. Can you remember....a time you felt terrified?

  • Homework: Grammar, unit 98. Get a description of a photo ready for Wednesday.
  • ALL: Grammar explanations
NB1A/B
  • Exam, unit 4. Doubts about it were solved. It was checked and marked in class.
  • Unit 5. Who were they? St.B.p. 52. Listening. Match the names and surnames of several presidents of USA. Complete the dialogue with numbers and dates.
  • Grammar: St.B.p. 52. Was/were. Complete the sentences. Grammar Bank. St.B.p. 130. Rules and exercises. Grammar, unit 10 (11) Was/were.
  • Reading and listening: St.B.p. 53. Four statues. Who were they?, where are they?. Listen and complete the missing information.
  • Vocabulary: jobs. Sailor, leader, soldier, composer...St.B.p. 53
  • Speaking: St.B.p. 52. When/where you born?, where/when was your father born?.
  • Homework: Wk.p. 40, 41 and exercises of unit 10 (11) was,were.
  • EXTRA EXERCISES ABOUT PRONOUNS (POSSESSIVE/OBJECT) AND POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES. Grammar, units 53 (54) I/me, he/him, unit 54 (55) My/his/their, unit 55 (56) whose is this? It´s my book, it´s mine, unit 56 (57) I/me/my/mine. The chapters in brackets are for the new edition of the grammar.

Monday, March 14, 2011

MY FAMILY 2. HAVE STH DONE

Yésica Silgado



My name´s Yésica and I´m thirty years old. I live in La Felguera, Asturias, in the north of Spain
I have two brothers, their names are alejandro and Aitor, they´re 34 and 32 and they´re painters. They are single but they live with their partners. My brothers like football, going fishing and walking on the mountains very much. They also go to the gym three times a week.


My father took this photo in Gibraltar in 1997 and my brothers are on the left. I didn´t like Gibraltar because it was very dirty, but I love Málaga. It´s beautiful. It was a very hot summer and we went to the beach everyday. My mother is on my left. She likes travelling, sewing and the corating very much. My father took the photo because he doesnñt like to appear in them. he likes drawing and he´s a comic collector. he works in the family shop. I´m on the right. I like reading and listening to music .

Estíbaliz Amaro


This is a picture of me and some members of my family.My name´s estíbaliz and I´m 29. I´m on the right of the photo and I´m wearing a pink jacket.
The man beside me is my brother. his name´s Juan and he´s 35 years old. He´s married and he has a daughter. Next to him is my sister Eva. she´s 34 and she´s married too. she has two children: one daughter and a baby son.
The two girls who are in front are my nieces. their names are Ainhoa and Andrea. Now, they´re 11 and 8 but in this picture they were 6 and 3 years old.
This picture was made on "Palm Sunday" and we were in a park in Langreo.
Here, some other members of my family are missing : my husband, my parents,my brothers-in-law and my little nephew. I have come to realize that I don´t have any picture in which we are all, so I will make it next Christmas!!!

NI2A/C

  • Homework: Reading. St.B.p.58
  • 4C. A question of taste. Vocabulary.St.B.p. 60. Oldand new furniture. vocabulary Bank. St.B.p. 153.. quiz. St.b.p.60.
  • Phonetics. St.B.p.60. Weak sound as in over,leather.
  • Listening. guess which room they decorates. Lucy and Charles talk about each other´s rooms. What do they like/dislike?.Listen to the designer´s comments.
  • Grammar. St.B.p. 63. Have something done. explanation with the pictures. Grammar Bank. St.b.p. 136.rules and exercises. Grammar, unit 46. a projection with a street and shops. Say sentences e.g. you can have your eyes tested at the optician´s .
  • Vocabulary: Shops. St.b.p. 64.
  • Listening: explaining what you want. Important to describe an object whose name you don´t know. It´s for making holes in a wall (drill)
  • Speaking: pair work. Define the object so that your partner knows what it is.It´s for covering your head (shower cap)
  • Homework: grammar, unit 46 and write sentences with have sth done.
  • HAVE SOMETHING DONE : EXERCISES 1, EXERCISE 2

  • NB1A/B
  • Homework: Exercises about can/can´t.
  • Speaking : I like singing. A slide with drawings, just to speak and another slide to speak and write sentences joined by and and but.
  • Writing: a photocopy to complete with "I hate doing the housework" and similar statements.
  • Speaking: pair work. Ask your partner what he/she likes doing. Find the student who has the most similar taste in your group.
  • Grammar: Object pronouns in a power point. It took a great deal of time and practice to make the concepts clear. A photocopy with statements to complete with an object pronoun.
  • St.B.p. 128. Object pronouns: rules and exercises.
  • Homework : a set of exercises about subject and object pronouns and also possessive adjectives.

Friday, February 25, 2011

MODAL VERBS

Here you have a link to modal verbs , rules, exercises and answers.

Monday, November 29, 2010

SPEAKING TIPS


THE UNITED KINGDOM
Here you can find a lot of information about UK. Please have a look at it, it´s interesting and you´ll learn without noticing.
UNITED KINGDOM
www.britishcouncil.org
NI2A/C
  • Homework: Grammar, units 38,39,40,114,115. As the grammar book has the answers, only doubts were dealth with. Speaking: Private or public medicine? To my disappointment very few students has the speech ready . I repeat, this is one of the most common topics that can come out in Certificación, so if you don´t work with the ideas and their way of expressing them, you´ll certainly be in trouble.
  • EO:Describing a photo. We saw in great detail the techniques to describe photos, logical order of description, language used and to make youlselves understood .
  • EO. A power point with more ideas and lots of photos to practise.
  • EE: Describe one photo of the power point with the information provided.
  • EO: Student Book p. 24 "Do you want to be young for ever?" fout photos with people who look a lot younger that they are.
  • CO: St.B.p. 24. An interview with doctor Weeks who talks about the main factors "superyoung" people share. Write down two factors that aren´t important. Complete the statements.
  • Vocabulary: ST.B.p. 24. Word building. Abstract words. e.g.freedom, beauty,confidence...
  • Homework: Describe a set of photos from the power point with all the notes you have. I want it very well done. Workbook, p,14,15,16.

NB1A/B

I´m very sorry I forgot to write yesterday´s post.

  • Homework: Workbook.p. 11,12.
  • I told you about the Christmas party and the trip to San Francisco.
  • Grammar: Simple present. third person singular illustrated with a power poin. Say sentences and write them.
  • CL: St.B. p. 16. "Typically British?" We read the test and saw the statement in simple present, affirmative and negative.Vocabulary which was new.
  • Grammar Bank, St.B.p. 124 :rules and exercises in affirmative and negative. A photocopy : simple present: I and you.
  • Homework: Workbook ,p. 13, study the new verbs, a photocopy of the simple present and another one dealing with the third person singular.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

NI2 : PASSIVE VOICE & CONTRAST CLAUSES

We´ve been working on the passive voice and we´ve done these exercises
- passive voice 1
- passive voice 2
We´ve also done exercises on contrast clauses

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

NI2 : REPORTED SPEECH

Here you have a set of exercises on Reported speech:
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

DOTTED RAY



NB2
Homework: Exercises about infinitives and gerunds.
Speaking: For those students who hadn´t done their descriptions on Monday .
Grammar: St.B.p.56. "How much can you learn in a month?" Match notices to meanings. Rules of Have to and Must. Grammar Bank.St.B.p. 134 with the rules and a couple of exercises. Grammar, unit 33 dealing mostly with Have to.
Reading: St.B.p.56,57. "How much can you learn in a month?" About a journalist who had to learn a foreign language in a month. Some questions to answer.
Listening: St.B.p.57. Based on the previous activity. A true-false listening played three times.
Grammar: Have to and Must with exercises for homework.
Vocabulary: St.B.p. 57. Modifiers such as quite, really, very, incredibly...
Vocabulary: St.B.p. 58. Expresions to do withj sports: play, go, do.
Speaking: About sports.
Speaking: Interaction: to complain in a hotel.
Homework: Get the interaction ready for Thursday, the exercises on modals.
NI2
Homework:Grammar, units 92,93,94 about defining relative clauses
Grammar: Units 95,96 about non defining relative clauses. We saw the rules and examples
Listening: a mock exam for June tests
Writing: Writing letters: an application letter. We saw a couple of models: the ideas, laylout and basic rules to write a formal letter of this kind.
Homework: Grammar, units 95,96 and some more exercises on relative clauses

Friday, April 16, 2010

NI LETTER WRITING


NB2
Homework: Grammar, units 37,38
Listening: A mock exam to have some practice for the examinations
Reading: St.B. 54 "What makes you feel good?" , How many people mention...
Grammar: St.B.p.54. Verbs followed by -ing. We did the exercises. Grammar Bank p.134. with verbs followed by to infinitive and -ing. Grammar, unit 52 -ing, 53 I want you to do sth.Vocabulary Bank, St.B.p. 154.
Speaking: St.B.p55. Talk about sth you don´t like doing, a sport you enjoy watching, sth you spend a lot of time doing... with the use of verbs followed by -ing.
Photos description.
Homework: Grammar, units 52,53


NI2
Homework: Grammar, units 09,91 and exercises about quantifies I had posted in the blog. Reading:St.B.p.78, about telepathy with true-false statements.
Writing: A for and Agains composition. You had been given the photocopies with the instructions and we did most of the activities so that next you´ll write a nice composition for Monday.
I´ve found some information about formal and informal letters wwhich is interesting for you to know.
Vocabulary: St.B.p.79. words with more than one meaning. e.g.match, fit...
Phonetics: St.B.p. 79. silent letters.e.g. castle,talk,sign.
Listening: St.B.p.80 Indirect questions. differences between direct and indirect questions. Write indirect questions from direect ones. Listen and check.
Vocabulary: St.B.p. 81. Prepositions of movement. e.g. along, through, across..
Listening and speaking: St.B.p. 81. Asking for and giving directions.
Homework: Photo description composition for and against.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

SOME HOMEWORK NI2

This set of activities are for my NI2 students. I´ve taken them from the Oxford supplementary activities CD.
- Test 1. Answers. Audio
- Test 2. Answers. Audio
- Test 3. Answers. Audio
- Test 4. Answers. Audio

- Grammar: If you haven´t done the following units yet , please do them now.
- Unit 48. Questions 1
- Unit 49. Questions 2
- Unit 50. Auxiliary verbs
- Unit 72. The 1

WRITING
- Connectors
- Writing letters: expressions
- Punctuation

SPEAKING
- Speaking guide
- Topics for interaction and speech
- Debates: agreeing and disagreeing
- Go back to the 16/12/09 post where you´ll see activties of both interaction and speech.

LISTENINGS
- Listening 1: Djs. Exercises. Answers. Audio
- Listening 2: Gadgets. Exercises. Answers. Audio
- Listening 3: Mobiles. Exercises. Answers. Audio
- Listening 4: Sports. Exercises. Answers. Audio

Friday, March 05, 2010

EOI NEWS

I won´t be able to go to class until 15th ,Monday,March, 2010. I´m awfully sorry but I have a few leaks that have to be repaired and their require a little time since the plumber in my case is a doctor. In the meantime here below you have some activities to do .




Hampton House
“Hampton House” was written by Jenny Dooley in 1996. I´ve chosen this book because I like thrillers. This is an intrigue story of a young girl ,Kathy, who starts to work in Helping Hand. In her job she discovers an old woman and an old house, Hampton House which keeps secrets from her past.
The story is divided into two parts. In the first part Kathy knows William, her boss and they become very good friends. She starts to work in Helping Hand and in her first job she goes to The Old People Home and she knows Miss Emily. She´s an old woman who tells Kathy about Hampton House and his owner Lord Hampton. She workedin the house when she was young. Miss Emily tells Kathy her story because remembers it.
The second part is few days after when Kathy has an accident with her bike. Helping Hand needs to find a place for its office because The Council is going to pull this place. Kathy thinks in Hampton House because it is in the town and is uninhabited.
In the final part of the history Kathy, William and other workers visit the house. Only Kathy hears voices and noises and she hears Lord Hampton’s voice who tell she a story about her grandmother and her past. The other workers and William don´t believe Kathy.
Finally Hampton House is pulled down and instead the new Helping Handare office is built, William who loves Kathy is reconciled with her.
The most exciting part if the story is Lord Hampton´s Story that he tells Kathy. He met his grandmother years ago when he was poor. She helped him but he stole her a diamond. Years later Hampton gave him work when he was rich but he never told her what had happened. Lord Hampton gave Kathy the diamond .
The main character is Kathy, other important characters are William, her boss, who loves Kathy. Miss Emily, an old woman who speaks to Kathy about Hampton House and Lord Hampton.
I like the book because the story is interesting, although it´s something predictable. I thought it would be more intriguing. Nevertheless it was not bad.
NATALIA ANDRÉS RODRIGUEZ NB2



JASON CAUSES CHAOS

Introduction

Jason Causes Chaos is a novel by Jeremy Taylor.

• I ´ve chosen the book because the story seemed very funny and entertaining, but the story is a little short.

• It´s an adventure story.

Theme:

The main idea of the story is to have fun because there are several jokes and things that make us laugh, like throwing a pot on someone's head.

Setting:

The history takes place on a Saturday in a house at The Lodge on Waterbridge Road. The place is invented, because the author doesn’t tell us the town where the story takes place.

Plot:

A girl called Eva is a babysitter. She is 15 years old. She is going out with her friend on a Saturday and she is very happy, but Mrs Day calls her house and she tells her mother that she has to baby-sit that night. Eva goes to the house, and she meets Mr and Mrs Day and Jason Day, a child who is 10 years old. When his parents go out , he begins to behave very badly. He eats chocolate and ice-cream without his parents permission, blackmails Eva to let him do things, throws a rat to Eva’s hair, and many more things. Mrs Day realises that there is a murderer loose. Jason goes to the bathroom while Eva is preparing his bed. But Jason doesn’t go to sleep, he wants to watch TV. When he is watching TV, he hears a noise in the garden. They go upstairs and Eva picks up a flower pot next to the bed, and she throws it to a man, because they think that he is the murderer. But when Eva calls the police, Jason tells her that the man is a policeman. Eva cures him and he tells them that he is warning the people. When he leaves, the doorbell rings. A person that looks like the other policeman says that he wants to call the police station, but Eva and Jason think that he is the murderer, and Eva hits him. They hide him in the cellar of the kitchen. However, the other policeman returns to the home, and he tells them that the police have caught the murderer, and the man in the cellar is his twin brother.

When Jason’s parents come back home, the mother runs into her house and she kisses Jason. Finally Jason tells his parents a lie: Eva’s boyfriend came to our house. They sent me upstairs, but I watched them. First of all, they kissed…

Characters:

The main character: Jason. He is Mr and Mrs Day´s son

Eva: Jason´s babysitter.

Eva´s mother

Mr and Mrs Day: Jason´s parents.

The twins: they are policemen.

I liked the story, because it was very funny and quite entertaining.

The best part is when Jason throws a rat to the Eva’s hair, because it is very funny.

It has made me feel funny, because when the story seemed complicated, Jason and Eva were doing something to encourage it.

I really enjoyed reading it.

I have learnt many jokes and how we should act against a thief or a murderer.

I think that this book is the best that I have read in English, because the others were very boring and this is very entertaining. I like the story and the topic, and I will read it again.

ALBERTO GONZALEZ TORRE. NB2


NI2
-Speaking: Get your opinion ready , some of you in favour , the others against . This photocopy will be useful to state your point of view .
- Listening 1: Radio Ads , exercises and script, audio.
- Listening 2: Bibi Kahnim and the Muslim veil , exercises and script , audio.
- Song: "You´re so vain " ,exercise and video by Carly Simon.

-Grammar: Adjectives in -ed/-ing. eg: interested and interesting.
- Reading: Two reading activities and their answers
ROMINA ALONSO ALONSO has sent this song.Good girl. I wish everybody did the same.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

HUMOUR 5


Teacher: Can anyone give me the name of a liquid that won't freeze ?
Pupil: Hot water !

Teacher: Does anyone know which month has 28 days ?
Pupil: All of them !

Why was the head teacher worried ?
Because there were so many rulers in the school !

Teacher: I told you to stand at the end of the line ?
Pupil: I tried, but there was someone already there !

Teacher: I said to draw a cow eating some grass but you've only drawn the cow ?
Pupil: Yes, the cow ate all the grass !

Teacher: and what is "don't" short for
Pupil: Doughnut !

Teacher: In 1940, what were the Poles doing in Russia ?
Pupil: Holding up the telegraph lines !

Teacher: Why are you standing on your head ?
Pupil: I'm just turning over things in my mind, sir !
From: schooljokes.com

NB2
Homework: Grammar, units 17,95
Grammar: Present perfect: a series of exercises we did thoroughly to make sure everybody understood this tense.
Speaking: Pair work "Are you Telling the Truth?" with questions in present perfect such as "have you ever been...?" and in the simple past to ask for more details.
Listening: "I was really scared", a ghost story with specific question about the sequence of events. First we saw some vocabulary. Exercise, script and audio.
Homework: Grammar, unit 9( I have, I´ve got), 30 (I am I don´t). An extra set of exercises in the present perfect with answers.
NI2
Homework:Grammar. Units 10,11 and 39
Reading. St.B. p.54,55 Sections a,b,c,d. "Clothes to die for"
Grammar: Grammar Bank, p.136. Position of adjectives: Rules and exercises. Grammar, unit 99 Vocabulary: A crosswords about clothes. A photocopy with more specific vocabulary :adjectives describing clothes and verbs.eg.fit,suit,match.
Speaking: Communication: Fashion show:Describe a man and a woman using two adjectives. Student A:p. 117, Student B:p.121. Another activity:"Guess the drawing".A student has to draw what his partner says using two adjectives. It was fun and we laughed a lot.
Homework: Grammar, unit 37. Requests. Wk.p. 33,34,35.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

ENERGY RESOURCES: FOSSIL FUELS 2



Energy Resources

Fossil fuels

Crude oil (called "petroleum") is easier to get out of the ground than coal, as it can flow along pipes. This also makes it cheaper to transport.

I ought to point out that some scientists are claiming that oil is not a 'fossil' fuel - that it is not the remains of prehistoric organisms after all. They claim it was made by some other, non-biological process. Currently this is not accepted by the majority of scientists,

Natural gas provides around 20% of the world's consumption of energy, and as well as being burnt in power stations, is used by many people to heat their homes.
It is easy to transport along pipes, and gas power stations produce comparatively little pollution.

Advantages

  • Very large amounts of electricity can be generated in one place using coal, fairly cheaply.
  • Transporting oil and gas to the power stations is easy.
  • Gas-fired power stations are very efficient.
  • A fossil-fuelled power station can be built almost anywhere, so long as you can get large quantities of fuel to it. Didcot power station, in Oxfordshire, has a dedicated rail link to supply the coal.

Disadvantages

  • Basically, the main drawback of fossil fuels is pollution.
    Burning any fossil fuel produces carbon dioxide, which contributes to the "greenhouse effect", warming the Earth.
  • Burning coal produces more carbon dioxide than burning oil or gas.
    It also produces sulphur dioxide, a gas that contributes to acid rain. We can reduce this before releasing the waste gases into the atmosphere.
  • Mining coal can be difficult and dangerous. Strip mining destroys large areas of the landscape.
  • Coal-fired power stations need huge amounts of fuel, which means train-loads of coal almost constantly. In order to cope with changing demands for power, the station needs reserves.
    This means covering a large area of countryside next to the power station with piles of coal.

Is it renewable?

Fossil fuels are not a renewable energy resource.
Once we've burned them all, there isn't any more, and our consumption of fossil fuels has nearly doubled every 20 years since 1900.
This is a particular problem for oil, because we also use it to make plastics and many other products.

www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/fossil.htm

NB2
I gave you the exams you had done the week before and checked the answers.
Homework: Grammar unit15 ,17
Speaking: Have you ever ...? and the simple past to know more specific information
Listening: song: "True Blue" by Madonna. Lyrics and audio.
"Just Shopping" Two women who have been shopping meet and talk about clothes.
Exercises, script and audio
Grammar: A photocopy about the present perfect and the simple past.
HomeworK: I´ll collect the compositions you didn´t do for Thursday. Last call.
workbook.p. 31,32,
NI2
I gave you the exams you had done the week before and checked the answers.
Homework:Workbook.p.30,31,32. Grammar. Unit 29 about may,might and could.
Grammar: a handout about connectors
Listening: st.B.p. 52. Section 4A "Clothes to die for". two people being interviewed about their taste in clothes. A who -says-what exercises and secondly another to listen more in detail.
Vocabulary: St.b.p. 151 . Words related to fashion, items of clothing and materials , shapes and adjectives describing clothes. Test your partner.
Speaking: St.B.p. 52 ."You and your Clothes" To make a speech following and linking one question to the following.
Homework: Reading: St.b.p. 53, activities a,b,c.. Modal verbs , the end of the murder case. Please, focus on modals of possibility and deduction.


Thursday, December 17, 2009

NB2 & NI2 INTERESTING LINKS

I´m sitting in front of the computer,nearly frozen,feeling blue and miserable with this awful weather and daydreaming about where I´d like to be right now. Just look below. Do you know who I am? I bet you don´t.


Focussing on more serious matters ,I´ve found some web pages for you to browse. They are both useful and entertaining.
- www.tolearnenglish.com/cqui2/myexam/index.php
There are three levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced.
Have a look at these sections:
- Lessons and exercises
- Leisure time
- Links
- www.songsforteaching.com. about songs
Go to:
- Languages
- English
- www.agendaweb.org
Work the following sections:
- Grammar
- Vocabulary
- Verbs
- Listening
As you´ll probably get bored these Christmas holidays , you´ve got plenty of activities to do in English.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

NI2 SPEAKING

Here you have two kind of speaking activities to practise:
- interaction
- speech .
It´s important because these activities are similar to the ones you´re going to have in the exam.
ALBERTO PINTOS NOVO has sent us this song. Thank you.

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

PHOTO DESCRIPTION 3

N

This is a photo of my last Easter holidays. I went to Huelva with my parents, my aunt, my uncle and my cousin. This photo was taken one of the days we went to visit Gibraltar and my father took the photo.There were a lot of people walking across the long street. In the middle of the photo my mother and me are holding hands. On the left we can see my aunt and a part of my cousin. In the long street we can see many different shops: of clothes, food, and a lot of things. There, we knew a shop assistant who said to us that normally there aren´t many people in the street but on holidays there are many tourists.It was a sunny, warm day. I would like to return because the visit lasted only one day and I think the place is very nice. I would like to stay there for more days.

ANA SUAREZ PULGAR

NI2

- Speaking: Picture description with mark for the first term.

- Speaking: St.B. p.28 "Hooked on Caffeine" with some questions to discuss and a quiz. then another pair work speaking activity about caffeine. You had to memorize some information

and tell your parter whether the statments are true or false and why.
- Reading: St.B.p.29 ."Confessions of a Coffe Addict" dealing with the grammar aspects of habits in the present tense (usually) , past tense (used to) and to be/get used to doing. Grammar Bank,pg 132 with the rules and exercises. Two photocopies about the same topic we didn´t have time to finish.
- Homework: Some more students have to describe a photo. Grammar, unit 18 and the exercises
we didn´t finish in class.



Thursday, November 19, 2009

PHOTO DESCRIPTION 2


This is a Photo of a protected natural space whose name is Sanabria.

In the middle of the photo, there is a glacier lake with crystal water.

At the botton there is a beautiful bathing area when you can sunbathe. On the

Left of this area there are some trees without leaves because it´s winter

and some heavy rocks.

There is a person in the middle of the photo, under the trees and beside the lake,he may be fishing.

Although it is a sunny day, the person is wearing warm clothes, so I think the temperature is low .

At the top of the photo, there are high mountains with a bit of snowon them.

In conclusion, I recommend to visit this place.

EFRÉN PALACIOS FLOREZ

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

SALAD CORAL


To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970),

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott,

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox,

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862),

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)

We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999),

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau

The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich (1886 - 196

NB2
WARNING: You were very talkative on Monday in spite of my warnings. Please , remember you´re here to learn English and since this is not a bar or a café ,you have certain duties and one of these is that you have to remain silent when the teacher is speaking. I wouldn´t like to take serious action , so take notice of this.
- Homework: Grammar, unit 14, wk: p.15
- Reading: A photocophy titled "It was a cold, dark, night".A predicting story using the simple past and the past continuous.
- Listening and reading: As you had problrms with the last listening we had done on Thursday , we did it again. St.B.p. 19 . "The lovers of La Bastille". First, we read the introduction and then the listening activity.
- Vocabulary: St.B.p. 19. Prepositions in, at ,on. for place and time. Vocabulary Bank, St.B.p. 148. Here we saw the prepositions in detail.
- Speaking : I gave you a really important photocopy with the instructions to describe photos. It´s essential for you to learn how to describe a picture and you have all the steps in that paper. We saw it in detail.
- Homework: A drawing for you to describe (you can star on Tuesday and the deadline is Thursday, this means everybody have to do it that day) ,grammar , unit 106.

NI2
- Grammar: Grammar, units 38,39,40 about conditionals and the structures "Iwish; if only". We just did the activities I was most interested in , the remaining exercises were left for homework. This activity took us longer than I expected because of the writing and speaking practice. More conditional exercises and their answers.
- Listening: St.B. p. 25. People talking about alternative medicine with a matching exercise and a note taking and summarising one. As they spoke quite fast , in the end we listened to it with the script on p.124 at sight.
- Homework: Reading.St.B.p. 22 and finish the exercises on conditionals.

Celine Dion . I love you

Sunday, November 15, 2009

PHOTO DESCRIPTION 1


This photo was taken at my godson´s birthday.
In the background of the photo there are a lot of tables. Over a table there is the birthday cake with a candle.In the blackground I can also see a green umbrella. My godson is wearing a red dungarees with a white T-shirt. He has a dummy tied in the dungarees. He is wearing a white hat. He is like a rap singer. I´m wearing black T-shirt and jeans and white glasses. This day was a very funny day and the weather was perfect, it was a sunnyand warm, perfect.
My godson and other people had a good time because my godson didn´t stop playing and we laughed all his pranks.
I hope we can repeat more birthdays for many years.
PAULA GRANA GARCIA

This is a Photo of a landscape. There is a couple of women with warm clothes. They could be having a photo takien. In the middle of the photo the women are crouched down in front of a ship. They are wearing black coats, jeans, and scarves. One of them is wearing a white cap. In the middle of the two girls there is a panel with information about the ship.

This fantastic ship is long and it is painted in red and green. It is hard to see its sail

In the river there are two white ships too. On the right, the more modern ship is covered with a roof and windows. On the left there is the oldest small ship.

In the background there are small bushes in the river banks You can see the roof of two houses and other trees.

The season seems to be autumn because the women are wearing scarves and caps and the trees have the colour of this season.

This photo reminds me of my last holidays in Denmark. I went in October with an other girl to see my best friend Marina.

PAZ GARCIA ORVIZ


This is a funny photo of Oxford with my school friends. I met them in Regent School in London and I had a good time that month with them.

In the middle of the photo there are four girls and a boy jumping in a pedestrian zone near some trees. They look happy and they are smiling. On the botton, you can see their shadows what show their body reflection like a mirror. On the right I ´m wearing a pink and white sweater which I bought in Oxford the same day when this photo was taken since that day it was sunny but the temperature was cold.

On the right a boy is looking at the scene and he seems surprised, he might think “This people are crazy!”. He doesn’t seem to be cold because he is wearing a t-shirt.

In the background there is an old building, it may be a castle or a church. There are many windows but all are closed. Next to the castle, there is a modern building with big windows and a tall chimney, you can see people inside .It might be a restaurant or a typical souvenir shop. Near the door, I can’t make out what the woman is doing, but she looks as if she is wearing a traditional dress and she is waiting for the customers.

ROMINA ALONSO ALONSO


Romina, thanks a lot for the song.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

PEOPLES OF BRITAIN 5


Peoples of Britain
By Dr Simon James
The 'Dark Ages'

Were the 'Celts' displaced or absorbed by the invaders?
In western and northern Britain, around the western seas, the end of Roman power saw the reassertion of ancient patterns, ie continuity of linguistic and cultural trends reaching back to before the Iron Age. Yet in the long term, the continuous development of a shifting mosaic of societies gradually tended (as elsewhere in Europe) towards larger states. Thus, for example, the far north-western, Irish-ruled kingdom of Dalriada merged in the ninth century with the Pictish kingdom to form Scotland.
'It was once believed that the Romano-British were slaughtered or driven west by hordes of invading Anglo-Saxons, part of the great westward movement of 'barbarians' overwhelming the western empire.'
The western-most parts of the old province, where Roman ways had not displaced traditional culture, also partook of these trends, creating small kingdoms which would develop, under pressure from the Saxons, into the Welsh and Cornish regions.
The fate of the rest of the Roman province was very different: after imperial power collapsed c.410 AD Romanised civilisation swiftly vanished. By the sixth century, most of Britannia was taken over by 'Germanic' kingdoms. There was apparently complete discontinuity between Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England; it was once believed that the Romano-British were slaughtered or driven west by hordes of invading Anglo-Saxons, part of the great westward movement of 'barbarians' overwhelming the western

NB2
- Homework: Grammar, unit 24
- Speaking: Five students talked about their summer holidays and were given a mark.
- Listening: Holidays, the last part of a set of three .EXERCISES,AUDIO : ACTVITY 2, ACTIVITY 3, ACTIVITY 4, ACTIVITY 5, ACTIVITY 6, ACTIVITY 7 . SCRIPTS. Here you´ll find all the activities related to this topic.
- Reading: St.B.p. 18 "A Moment in Time" dealing with the simple past and the past continuous. A read and match exercise.
- Grammar: I wrote a few examples on the blackboard with the use of these two tenses and once you got it ,we went to St.B.p.128 to see the rules and do the exercises. We also saw in your grammars , chapters 13,14
- Reading:St.B.p.19 "The Lovers of the Bastille" . A couple who had their picture taken without knowing it.
- Listening: About the same French couple but many years later. True-false statements which seemed to be more difficult than the other listenings we had previously done. I suggested that you should listen to the CD at home and do the exercise again.
- Homework: Grammar, unit 14, Wk.p. 15

NI2
- Homework: Grammar, unit 111. Yet, still and already.
- Speaking: Describing a photo. As nobody had done the activity, I encouraged you to do it in written form. So, send me both a picture and its description following the guidelines I gave you and I´ll post them in the blog.
- Grammar: Conditional sentences. TYPES 0,1,2 , sorry if you see the exercise of linking words first, carry on moving the mouse and the conditionals will come out soon. TYPE 3, ANSWERS.
- Speaking and Reading: A fotocopy to match sentences with LINKING WORDS.
- Homework: Do the grammar activities , you also have to pick up a photo , describe it and send it to my blog, so that I can post it.