Saturday, 28 February 2015

Here you have the grammar in case your dog's eaten it



Relative Clauses revision

Complete the sentences with relative pronouns.

a.        Christopher Columbus was the sailor __________ discovered America.
b.       This food has an ingredient ________________ is very sweet.
c.        The lady ________________ son plays football with me is the headteacher of my school.
d.       The house ________________ I was born is now for sale.
e.       Antonio Banderas, _______________ is married to Melanie Griffith, was born in Málaga.
f.         D.H. Lawrence, _______________ was an English author, wrote many interesting novels.
g.        London, ________________ is on the river Thames, is the capital of the United Kingdom.
h.       The Prado Museum, ________________ is in Madrid, is one of the best art galleries in the world.
i.         I know a man ____________ eats paper.
j.         The man ____________ you want has just left.
         That's the teacher _______subject is my favourite.
k.        It’s a kind of paper ____________ you can eat.
l.         The lady ____________ was here yesterday has gone out.
m.      He eats only the paper ____________ his wife makes.
n.       The magazine ____________ you lent me was very old.
o.       His wife is a woman ____________ loves a joke.
p.       The chair ____________ was broken is now mended.
q.       He’s one of the people ____________ I really like.
        that's the man __________car was stolen last week.
        I'll never forget the day ___________I met you all.   
r.        The old man ____________ lives next door has just died.
s.        You can write on the paper ____________ she makes.
t.         Women ____________ work in hospitals are admired.
u.       Has this paper got a flavour ____________ pleases you?
         The name of the village ___________I was born in Granada.
v.        The cigarette ____________ you are smoking is a Player’s.
w.      Have you met anyone else ____________ does such tricks?
x.        The girl ____________ lives next door is very pretty.
y.        I’m looking for someone ____________. I can trust.
z.        The fish ____________ I ate yesterday was not so good.
aa.     I want to find a man ____________ will lend me money.
bb.    The street ____________ leads to the school is very wide.
         This is the building ___________my mum works.
         I don't like restaurants ______________there are a lot of people.

Join each pair of sentences with a relative clause. Omit the relative pronouns wherever possible.
1.       
         Last night we met a man. He’s a millionaire.
2.       Yesterday we found a wallet. It was empty.
3.        We like cereals. Well, if they are wholemeal.
4.        Michaelangelo was a famous artist. He painted the Sistine Chapel.
5.        She’s bought a CD. It is broken.
6.        I had won some money. I spent it on a new bike.
7.        My grandparents live in Córdoba. They are school teachers.
8.        Victoria Station is situated near Buckingham Palace. It is one of the most famous railway stations in London.
9.        “Guernica” was painted by Picasso. It is permanently exhibited in Madrid.
10.     My friend Luis has lived in many exotic countries. He works for the government.
11.     Sharon is a wonderful cook. She’s married with two children.


Join the sentences to write a single sentence

 a. Ann took some photographs. Have you seen them?                
Example : Have you seen the photographs Ann took?

 b. You lost a key. Did you find it?                       
  Did you find the ________ ___________________________?

c. Jill is wearing a jacket. I like it.                           
I like the _______________________________________

d. I gave you some money. Where is it?               
Where is the ___________ __________________________?

 e. She told us a story. I didn’t believe it.          
   I_____________ the _____ ______________________.


 f. You bought some oranges. How much were they?               
 How __________________________________? 

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

Let's play a game, shall we? But first, let me tell you how the zero conditional works ( I didn't explain that to you today because I won't ask you that in the test but it may appear in the game).

If + present simple, present simple. ( 100% sure)

If you boil water, it evaporates.

Here

Thursday, 5 February 2015

Homework

SINGERS

TASKS 

 1) Prepare a Power Point presentation with the info below ( steps).

 The presentation must have a different picture as the background of every slide ( according to the topic you’re dealing with or speaking about)

 The info in the slides must be simple and relevant ( not too much info, please!)

 2) Once you’ve finished presenting, you’ll have to choose 10 students to answer 10 questions written in advance.

 3) Prepare a famous song of the famous singer you’ve been given for your classmates to fill in.

 STEPS 

 - Introduction ( name, date and place of birth)
 - Life: early life, school, children, mariages, jobs…
 - Prizes ( if any)
 - former Group
 - Music genre ( origin, examples of bands or singers, instruments used.
 - Death ( how, when and why)

DEADLINE: 16 th , March. 

Here's the list : 

Jim Morrison
John Lennon
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Frank Sinatra
Kurt Cobain
Louis Armstrong
Bob Marley
Amy Winehouse
Michael Jackson
Elvis Presley
Sam Cooke
Freddie Mercury

Monday, 26 January 2015

My weekend

I think it's a fun activity to repeat but instead of being a text from the book, it will be my weekend.

 So in pairs, you'll have to write 5 meaningful sentences guessing what I did.

 For next week, I want you to do the same thing writing a small paragraph and editing it on Wordle. You can either bring some copies or send your link to my email. Of course, you can also share the link in a comment here.


  Wordle: My weekend

     Wordle: Untitled

See ya!

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Human rights

Hi!I'm uploading these videos so that you are aware of how lucky you are, apart from being Human Rights Day.

Friday, 31 October 2014

I know you aren't very keen on reading but I could have a solution to that!

Everybody knows that you learn by doing, so if you have problems with your listening skills, here you can find some links to help you out with that task. I'm afraid you won't be able to see the text and listen to it at the same time, you'll just find the recordings. Well, don't worry, "your reader" does the job very well, reading very slowly and pronouncing the words correctly. Enjoy!

The Picture of Dorian Gray

 Romeo and Juliet 

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Oliver Twist

Oscar Wilde ( short stories)

Great Expectations


Thursday, 30 October 2014

Natural disasters

Since unit 2 is about "natural disasters" ( I wrote it using inverted commas because some disasters are , unfortunately, caused by us- the human race), let's start with these beautiful songs sung by Michael Jackson.

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

B1

If you want to practice a bit more for the B1 or B2, visit the blog we have for Proyecto Integrado.

Please, if you have any doubt about the different papers, let me know ( I can give you a hand although I'm not your "official" teacher).

Bye!!

Listening

resources


Sunday, 10 November 2013

Past Simple

In this unit we are going to learn ( again) the Past Simple. Let's do something different and listen to these songs...You'll have to write down all the verbs written in the past simple. After that, we'll complete a chart with them. There are 15 verbs written in the past simple. ( 6 verbs) her: (8 verbs)