CLASS 2ND APRIL - UNIT 7B

We're going to continue talking about films. Go to page 60 in your class books. Read the text and do exercises 2 and 3. Once you've finished doing these exercises, check your answers here (click).

Fun homework for next day: watch a film in English and write a comment with the title of the film and tell other classmates if you liked it or not. In my case, I watched Money Monster yesterday night and it was quite entertaining. I definitely recommend it. 

By the way, do you remember I promised to show you a happy song? Well, here you are! I hope you'll like it! My message with this song: Close your eyes and let's pretend we're dancing in the street in Barcelona.

CHEER UP!

Thanks to all my colleagues for this great encouraging video! You're awesome!

EOI Torrevieja

CLASS 31st MARCH - START UNIT 7

Hi everybody! Our challenge begins here! We're going to start unit 7 online. We'll try to do everyting as if we were in our classroom. Remember you can write comments on each post to ask doubts and other classmates can also answer doubts. We need to use all the help we can right now. So, I encourage you to become more active. 

First of all, go to page 58 and do exercises 1, 2 and 3 about the text.  (Check your answers here). Remember to do the vocabulary activities on page 146 (check answers here).

Then, have a look at exercises 4, 5 and 7 on the grammar of the passive voice. (Check your answers here). At this point you can go to the grammar page 124, read the grammar explanation and do the activities. (Check your answers here).

After the grammar practice, go back to page 59 and you'll see that we only have exercise 8 left, which can be done as a monologue. I encourage you to practise this exercise as a 'certificación' monologue, so think and prepare some ideas and then talk about this topic for 3 minutes.

And if you want more online activities on the passive voice, try these links:

• Link 1 Perfect English grammar 
• Link 2 English grammar online
• Link 3 English grammar

I hope you'll enjoy the first part of the lesson. 

CLASS 26TH MARCH - REPORTED SPEECH

We use reported speech to say what other people said. We usually change all the verbs one tense into the past, since 'what other people said' they usually said it in the past. Besides, we also change time expressions and pronouns. 

Example 1:
Adriana: 'I'm at home right now.'

 St 1 to st 2: 'Adriana said she was in her house at that moment.' 

Modal verbs also change to make them more past:

• can -> could
• must -> had to
• may -> might
• will -> would

Also, remember we use the verbs say or tell to report the words, but if we use tell we need to include someone, for instance 'Adriana told me she was in her house at that moment.'

To report questions there are 2 ways: for yes/no questions we include the word 'if'; and for wh-questions we use that wh-word instead of if. 

Example 2:
Adriana: 'Do you like online classes?'
Student 1 to student 2: 'Adriana asked us if we liked online classes.'

Example 3:
Adriana: 'What sport do you do at home?'
Student 1 to student 2: 'Adriana asked us what sport we did at home.'

If you've already done the homework on the reported speech (section 10A page 130), you can check your answers here (click). And if you have doubts, write a comment on this post and I'll try to explain it further.

Moreover, here I include some links where you can do more online activities on reported speech. Don't forget to check your answers once you've done each exercise.

• Link 1 Perfect English website
• Link 2 English grammar online
• Link 3 Test English 
• Link 4 Learn English online 

As some of you told me yesterday, here you are activities for three pandemics. 

WORKBOOK KEY PERSONAL BEST B1+

Hi groups!

Some of you asked me for the workbook key since our title doesn't include it in the students' edition. What a shame! Everybody knows the workbook is for students individual practice and you should have the answers to check on your own. 

Anyway, here's the solution. Click here!

Work well at home!

CLASS 24TH MARCH 2020 - ENVIRONMENT

Hi there! Here you are some activities on the environment to finish with unit 11. 

First of all, READING: read this brief text and do tasks 1 and 2.  

China has big plans to reduce single-use plastics by 2025. It is fast-tracking measures to cut the production and use of plastics in the next five years. By the end of 2020, non-biodegradable plastic bags will be banned in major cities. Food delivery and takeaway services, which use a lot of plastic, will stop using single-use plastic straws and cutlery. These will be banned nationwide. They will use alternative things, like biodegradable shopping bags.

Single-use plastics are a big source of pollution. They are a part of our daily life and throwaway culture. China wants to reduce overconsumption to reverse our use of plastics. Previous regulations on plastic use, in 2008, cut the production of 67 billion bags. The United Nations said all countries needed similar policies. It said the world cannot cope with the amount of plastic waste we generate, We must rethink how we manufacture, use and manage plastics.

TASK 1. Read the text and then go to the following link to do the online reading activity. 

Reading activity 1 (click here)

TASK 2. Read the previous text again and then match the halves:

Paragraph 1:

1. China has big plans to reduce
2. It is fast-
3. non-
4. banned in
5. Food delivery and
6. single-use plastic straws and
7. These will be banned
8. biodegradable shopping

• takeaway services
• bags
• cutlery
• nationwide
• single-use plastics
• major cities
• tracking measures
• biodegradable

Paragraph 2:

1. Single-use plastics are a big
2. throwaway
3. reverse our use
4. Previous regulations
5. the world
6. the amount of plastic waste we
7. We must rethink how
8. use and manage

• we manufacture
• on plastic use
• plastics
• cannot cope
• culture
• of plastics
• source of pollution
• generate

Check your answers on the text and study all this interesting vocabulary. 

Secondly, LISTENING 1: Green tourism in London. Go to the following webpage where you can continue practising with a nice video. There are 4 activities related to the video.

1. Predict information.
2. Watch the video.
3. Multiple choice exercise.
4. Revise the vocabulary.

Click on this link to start.

LISTENING 2: London's air pollution. Here's another website to practise on this topic.

1. Check you know the voculary.
2. Watch the video and answer the questions.
3. Practise the vocabulary.

Click on this link to go and start.

I hope you'll enjoy it!

By the way, I almost forgot! Homework for Thursday: do the grammar activities section 10A on your books on reported speech. I’ll give you the answers on the next post. 

OUR CLASSES ONLINE CONTINUE HERE! 2B1

Hey students! How are you? I hope you're doing your best despite the circumstances. It'll be great if you can all write a comment on this post to let me know that you're all good. 

I'm taking this time to reconnect with myself, doing crafts with my children and sport at home, cooking all the recipes I never have time to make, and, of course, thinking of resources I can share with you so our teaching and learning continues. 

After spending some days trying to make conselleria's platform Aules work without any progress, I think it's about time we look for other means to continue with our classes, and I believe my old blog can help us there. That's why we are going to keep in touch this way. 

I'll be posting all the activities, resources, explanations, links, etc. on this blog. You'll be able to correct some online activities yourself. We'll also continue with our Personal Best book so we don't get behind our schedule. 

So far we've seen units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 and 11 in our book. We're going to continue with unit 7. Remember that you also have plenty of resources to practise on the richmond platform and on the book app (you can download it on your mobiles). You can work on both of them at your own pace. 

Don't forget to write your comments! 

All the best,

Adriana 

Entry Checker Upper-Intermediate

Hey students! Welcome to our course!

As you know when you buy your upper-intermediate books, inside the workbook you can find a bunch of activities to revise the grammar contents of the previous year, called the Grammar Checker. However, the key for these exercises is not included. Well, here you are.

Answer Key

You need to know the contents of this booklet well in order to be ready for the grammar contents of the upper-intermediate book. 

So, enjoy revising them!

Extra Grammar Activities! 1B2

Hey Students!
You asked me the other day for more grammar activities to practise at home, and here you are! They're related to all the grammar contents of our upper-intermediate book. 

You just need to click on the link and print the specific section (e.g. 1A) and do it. Of course I've included the Answer Key so you can check your answers once you've done the activities.  

Intro   1A    1B    2A    2B    3A    3B    4A    4B    5A    5B    6A    6B    7A   7B    8A    8B   

 9A    9B    10A    10B          Answer Key 1        Anwer Key 2       Answer Key 3

Mini Grammar 1B      Mini Grammar 3A       Mini Grammar 7A

Mini Grammar 7B      Mini Grammar 8A     Mini Grammar 9A     Mini Grammar Key

If you have questions, ask in class or in a comment on this post and other students or the teacher will answer your doubts. 

Enjoy the practice!

Discourse Markers List

If you need a complete list of discourse markers to use when writing and speaking, check out this one. Look at the examples since each marker is usually used in a particular position in the sentence and you need to bear that in mind. 

Discourse Markers List

Useful Expressions

When you're discussing topics they are some expressions you can use to sound more natural in English, for example to ask somebody's opinion "Helen, what do you think about this?", to state your opinion "The way I see it..." or to interrupt if the other speakers don't let you talk "Can I add something here?".

Besides, it's also necesary to agree or disagree with others in a conversation. So, you can use "I'm with you on this" to agree, or "I'm not sure about that" to disagree.

These are only some examples, but there are many others you can use. 

Here you have a document with a list of useful expressions. I recommend you print it and use it when discussig topics. It's good practice for the exam!

New academic year 2015-2016

Here we are again starting a new academic year 

and it's absolutely true the saying 'time flies'!

So a new year with new students, new things to learn and teach, 

to share, to discuss, to work hard and enjoy. 

I hope my students will be as curious as me.