final marks

• Please, visit orals & marks page to view your final marks.

to all for your effort and great marks, very especially MANU ZULOAGA (1ºÑ), you are the winner!!

1st intermediate unit 5. solutions

Advantages/disadvantages essay

• Please, click here to download your composition.
• see the presentation from today's class
• find your topic here 
• a few more topics
  
• read essays online

My daily routine
Please click here to download your composition corrected and marked.


Speaking topics 

• please, follow the link
  
 

James May's 20th Century

1st intermediate unit 4, jobs

 unit 4 lookback key

• please click here 

 routines

• chores and adverbs of frequency 
• a day in the life of Denis Cook
• The Simpsons: how often do they... ? 
• household chores: listening
• how the average American spends their day
• A day in the life of the Queen
• Melissa talks about her routine
  

 
this unit's writing: cover letter

• follow the link to download the presentation we've seen in class. It includes 3 cover letter samples.
• sample cover letters: plenty of choice
• Microsoft Word cover letters
• CV templates: choose your favourite
• More CV: Microsoft Word basic templates, job-specific templates and situation-specific templates.

work

• 7 jobs that sound like a joke
• the 10 worst jobs in science
• people and occupations with pics
• listen and learn: the workplace
• listen and learn: job hunting
• listening: my summer jobs

used to & would

• reference
• the cranberries song (used to)
• used to vs would reference
• an exercise
• grammar + quiz
• onlineT /F quiz

strong adjectives

• online multiple choice quiz
• gradable/non gradable reference
• quiz

speaking topics units 3 & 4

Follow the link to find your topics.
Remember that you must choose any three you like, prepare them and then, let you teacher choose one for your oral test. Good luck!

1st intermediate unit 3 contact

the future

• presentation and intereactive exercises
• future forms
• Euro millions winners: plans
• supercomputer
• 12 events that will change everything
• future forms: quiz
• hopes and plans
• more futures
• what are they going to do?
• what will life be like in the future? 
• Michio Kaku: visions of the future video  

•  see the script here
•  to learn more about him: read wikipedia

 idioms

• browse for your favourites
• idioms and phrasals
• idioms and their meaning

lookback

• key to exercises on page 42 of your student's books. section 3.5.

1st intermediate. unit 2 tales

listening action films



linking words and writing

• about writing: check questions you may find useful before handing in a composition
  
• please visit "printables" on the top bar to download my own printable on linking words.
• see the right hand-side for a bookmark on linkers, as well.
• try the cloze
• use the right word

spanglish

not long ago, some of you seemed interested in this. Please, follow the link to get to know about this more than curious linguistic phenomenon.


news

• read news stories
• listen to news online
• vocabulary
• weird news: the Telegraph
• The Times
• Google fast flip
• British press
• simple english news
• world newspapers
• breaking news
• free online magazines
• BBC
• sky news

prepositions

• choose your game
• time: at, on, in
• time prepositions

present perfect vs simple past

• how to use them
• use + exercises
• choose your tense
• exercise

narrative tenses

• review of tenses

• presentation we've seen in class (writing)

useful for writing: you may wish to take a look at these tips.





the cinema

• what's where in Hollywood?
• the Internet movie database
• subtitled trailers
• genres and ratings
• movie ratings
• the english learner movie guide
• history in the movies
• more history in film

speaking topics: test units 1 & 2

follow the link

listening jobs

see the script

hallowe'en

1st intermediate unit 1, identity

key to lookback exercises p. 18

second life  

• bbc breakfst TV 
• second life

work

• exercise 4A (recording1.7) pag.14 
• a video with many useful tips
• watch this:

the family

• family relationships: listen and learn
• marry
• family characters: listening
• family crosswords and quizzes
• famiy tree: who's who?
• the Royals, find out 

question words

• choose your exercise
• which word?

email writing

• useful tips
• a few more tips
• write your letter online
• sample letters
• you tube video
• watch a second video

2nd intermediate unit 7, appearances

future plans

• grammar secrets: going to/will
• grammar secrets: present
• grammar plus exercises
• exercises

look, look like

• some explanations first
• try the quiz
• another look quiz
• different uses of like
• What are the Americans like? (video)

fashion

• fashion phrasals
• play this game 1
• game 2
• game 3
• clothes crossword
• conversation at a shop 

compound adjectives

• read the rules
• bbc rules
• dropdown exercises
• matching quiz
• one extra exercise

indirect questions

please, search the blog

Back to school ... again!

Hello everybody, once more. I'm back, I just hope the summer was great and your really recharged your batteries. This is a brief hello to all my visitors and a warm welcome to my new students from 1st Intermediate (letters s,d,ñ) and 2nd Intermediate (e and f). I'll miss all of my old students but do hope to see you around here. Enjoy the year and happy learning!

 2nd intermediate, the course at a glance:

• Language School Rules
• 2nd Intermediate course tips 
• 1st Intermediate course tips

2nd Intermediate. extra practice. unit 12 fashion

clothes & accessories quiz

1st Intermediate. extra practice. unit 6

indirect speech

• multiple choice quiz
• tutorial, shifts and exercises
• multiple choice quiz
• another multiple choice one
• online quiz
• an introduction to indirect questions
• indirect questions
• dropdown exercises, more reported q's
• indirect commands
• write your commands

gerunds vs infinitives

• tutorial plus exercises
• some more explanations and online exercises
• this video will help you
• try the quiz
 

extreme adjectives

• match the adjectives
• do the online exercise
• game time: jeopardy

1st Intermediate. extra practice. unit 5 politics

past perfect

• use and exercises
• fill in the gaps exercise
• online quiz 
• another exercise

Shakespeare:  Richard III

• the play by sir Ian Mc Kellen

crime

• rob or steal? : online exercise
• play with vocabulary
• other confusing words
• listening: new body scanners see through clothes

politics

•   politicians in Britain: listen and read
•   symbols of the US government
•   US elections
•   quiz on elections 

the article

• do this online excercise
• a quiz
• a second quiz
• one last quiz
• the grammar aquarium

rules 

• the highway code game 
• I have to song
• needn't or mustn't?
• mixed modals: snakes and ladders -game-

2nd Intermediate. extra practice. unit 11 age

the rolling stones

• sing along: satisfaction
• beast of burden: exercises  
• video:

adverbs of attitude

• reference
• online quiz

hypothetical conditions

• listen to a hypothetical situation on a desert island
• interactive quiz by BBC
• see the lesson + exercises
• a few assorted exercises

wishes

• lesson and exercises
• click on the buttons
• online quiz

third or impossible conditionals 

•  a guide
• match the two halves
• all types
• choose the exercise

St. Patrick's

• read a text and do the questions about the celebration.
• something to listen to
• here's a video plus a worksheet
• St Patrick's and other celebrations
• green, more than a colour
• watch U2 Beautiful Day

1st Intermediate. extra practice. unit 4 feelings and opinions

relatives

• interactive quiz
• online test
• theory and practice

the comparison

• do an online exercise
• the superlative story

music

• lyrics training
• do some listening activities 
• British music styles and groups: reading
• instruments on the stage
• music crossword
• national anthems 

restaurants

• a list of useful expressions 
• listen to a restaurant situation
• vocabulary game: hangman
• dinner for one. watch this video, a jewel of English humour

Mr Bean at the restaurant

2nd Intermediate. extra practice. unit 10 childhood

word formation

• preffixes and their meanings, part 1
• part 2
• preffix-suffix multiple choice
• vocab building plus exercises

pushy parents

• interactive exercise and video

real conditions 

• lesson
• zero lesson
  
• zero conditionals
• real conditions multiple choice
• real: cloze
• online exercise+song

indirect questions

• an online quiz
• what are the questions?
• try this other quiz

2nd Intermediate. extra practice. review C

• find the key to the exercises in your book.
• and the audio too.
• listen to Amelia Earhart's interesting life and do the test.

2nd Intermediate. extra practice. unit 9 opinions

reported speech

• grammar definitions
• backshift of tenses and expressions
• a few more examples and reference
• interactive exercises
• reported questions
• reported commands
• reporting verbs
• a few more reporting verbs 

film making

• are you a skilled film director? try your luck here.

collocations

• quiz
• a list of common collocations

1st Intermediate. Extra practice. unit 3 schooldays

school



used to

• reference +exercises
• a song: just my imagination
• a video

present perfect

• revise your verbs: match infinitive and past particiciple in a memory game
• what have they done?
• ago, for or since?
• present perfect or simple past?
• another grammar quiz
• multiple choice
• this one may also help

job interviews

• on the phone
• how to write a cv
• free sample-resumes

1st Intermediate. extra practice. unit 2 countries and cultures

• are you good at geography? try the quiz!
• test your worldwide geography knowledge
• the+geographical names

adverbs of frequency

• online quiz
• gap-fill exercise
• this is a jewel: interactive book

past simple vs continuous

• reference plus exercises
• fill in the blanks exercise
• another activity
• online quiz
• choose the game you want

time expressions

• use of time expressions plus quiz
• unscramble the expressions

2nd Intermediate. extra practice. unit 8 journey

travel

• watch this clip at Venice Beach
• travel cloze
• travel phrasals quiz
• london video: 5 best shopping areas. see script at the bottom.

modals of deduction

• online quiz

past perfect

• uses + cartoon
• past simple or past perfect?
• past perfect quiz

indirect questions

• reference plus quiz
• click the answer button

1st Intermediate. extra practice. unit 1 yourself and others

greetings

• Greetings and introductions
• greetings game
• learn English greetings with sound

• the Notting Hill Carnival

reflexives

• reflexive pronouns
• another quiz on reflexive pronouns
• use and exercises
• grammar exercises: choose the pronoun you need
• a few more exercises
  
• see Bridget Jones singing All by Myself, the song we've done in class.

prepositions

• find your favourite game

Art: how to explain who people are

• watch a video about Parthenon sculptures at The British Museum
• journey into the mummy
• the National Gallery
• The Prado Museum audioguides

false friends

• try the online quiz
• and this quiz is interesting too

present simple vs. continuous

• practise forming it
• here's a clear explanation plus a few exercises
• reference
• explanation, key words, exercises
  
• practice
• online exercises
• quiz
• online interactive book
• yellow lemon tree

2nd Intermediate. extra practice. unit 7 news

news

• Read News at Google Fast Flip
• Listen to Simple English News
• British Media Online
• Papers and Magazines from around the world
• CNN Student News
• Breaking News English Lessons

gerunds and infinitives

• infinitives and gerunds
• online quiz

regular past pronunciation

• -ed pronunciation quiz
• another exercise, listen and check
• -ed pronunciation

English Pronunciation Quiz

passives

• try this quiz
• a short-answer quiz on the passive
• participal adjectives
• things we carry
• passives with two objects

Hello again

The new course is about to start, I hope you all had a really nice summer and recharged batteries.
Here goes a reading exercise to get started off, The wise student and the teacher, and a few tips on How to do your homework.



Hope you like them!

JUNE MARKS

Here are your final marks, they're updated and now everybody has been assessed:

• 1st G Advanced
• 1st E Advanced
• 1st M Intermediate

1st Advanced. Extra practice. unit 8 health

phrasal verbs

• gap-fill exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3
• exercise 4
• exercise 5
• advanced grammar exercises: choose your phrasals
• according to the preposition

health

• Obama's health new law. FAQ's
• extra reading: US House passes key healthcare reform bill
• more news about health
• US obesity problem
• health in the UK
• choose among several eslflow health quizzes

MARCH MARKS

Here are your 2nd term marks. Check them carefully and please email me if you see any mistakes.

• 1st Advanced G
• 1st Advanced E
• 1st Intermediate M

Here's my gratitude and my recognition to all of you, but very especially to the three students who have worked the hardest this term. CONGRATS!!

1st Intermediate. Extra practice. unit 5 edible

food

• Pronunciation: watch these videos for kitchen vocab as well as how to pronounce your veggies
• food and drink
• food riddles
• british council foods
• food picture vocabulary
• food drag and drop + pronunciation

1st Advanced. Extra practice. unit 7 green issues

• prepositions for different levels
• Here's an interesting site where you can read about the environment and related problems.

The future

• do this quiz
• grammar exercises

make

• expressions with make
• set phrases with the verb make

1st Advanced. Extra practice. unit 6 politics

Wishes, regrets (thanks, Montse)

• wishes: reference plus exercises
• conditionals type 2 and type 3, class worksheets
• which conditional?
• learn your conditionals

Politics

• bbc website
• the New York Times
• try your luck at politics vocab 

for more, please see teh reading section: newspapers on the right handside (links of interest)

This is a presentation of how politics work in UK



Profile: Arnold Schwarzenegger

1st Intermediate. Extra practice. unit 4 party

If you're looking for phrasal verbs interactive exercises, please check 1st Advanced unit 5 extra practice. There's lot of useful stuff there.

make or do?

• exercises
• another interactive quiz
• and here's another activity

the future

• here you are the lyrics
• online exercises
• future tense review quiz
• going to or will with exercises
• launch your six hopes and worries for the future on a paper plane
• interactive quiz
• another quiz

"Teacher: Can people predict the future with cards?

Student: My mother can.

Teacher: Really?

Student: Yes, she takes one look at my report card and tells me what will happen when my father gets home."

1st Advanced. Extra practice. unit 5 art

phrasal verbs

• phrasal verb worksheets from class
• here you are a few phrasal verbs interactive exercises.
• try this phrasals quiz
• face up to phrasals, from the BBC. learn as you listen along to twelve different episodes.
• learn phrasals with Madonna's Hung Up. Video plus exercises and quiz.
• Phrasal verbs game
  
• do, go, come, get phrasals

story writing

• narrative tenses and key
• see section C

books: the color purple

Some of you were interested in Steven Spielberg's film The Color Purple, based on the novel by Afro-American writer Alice Walker. We were discussing in class which character Oprah performed, it was a minor one, Sophia, Celie's sister-in-law.

• If you want some extra information about the film, here's a link.
• as for Oprah's appearance on the film, take a look at this.

art lovers

• looking into paintings at the National Gallery with sounds and music (thanks, Mayte)
• art: vocabulary exercises
• odd one out
• Starry Night, to those Van Gogh lovers.

women in art: 500 years of women's portraits condensed in this morphing video.

frida khalo

CONDITIONALS

What Would You Do?

An English teacher asked her class to write an essay on what they'd do if they had a million dollars. Alec handed in a blank sheet of paper. "Alec!" yelled the teacher, "you've done nothing. Why?"

"Because if I had a million dollars, that's exactly what I would do!

• conditionals quiz
• complete the given conditional

• If I were a Boy, by Beyonce. Video and lyrics

XMAS IS BACK

• Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
• Xmas book with good activities
• How about a few xmas activities? Help yourselves!

• please, follow the link to see my personal wishes.

• xmas vocab1
• xmas vocab 2 
• xmas vocab game
• 10 things you probably don't know about xmas
• esl activities 
• xmas around the world 
• a bit of reading to get to know xmas better
• how much do you know?
• listen: Santa Claus
• A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
• Read A Christmas Carol
• The xmas gift. A listening exercise and a conversation
• read and listen to a text

DECEMBER MARKS

Dear students:
Please, check carefully that everything's fine, otherwise, email me, or we can see it in class. Thanks.

• 1º intermedio M
• 1º avanzado G
• 1º avanzado E

1st Advanced. Extra practice. unit 4 fears

End of unit 4 test plus key

homophones

• interactive game

present perfect

• a few more tenses?
• present perfect continuous exercise
• online quiz. present perfect
• quiz with pictures
• try another quiz

unit 4c. The land of the Brave. See Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance speech.
Or, just the first few minutes here:



What can I do to...? by The Corrs

Song lyrics | What Can I Do lyrics

• so vs such

purpose

• what's this for?
• purpose quiz

fears and phobias

• a complete list of phobias
  Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
• fear idioms
• French Kiss funny beginning with an arerophobiac Meg Ryan

suffixes

• suffixes and word formation
• bbc suffix quiz
• -less vs. -free adjectives

• Listen to Madonna's Love Profussion, and read the lyrics

• Black Friday

1st Intermediate. Extra practice. unit 3 relationships

End of unit 3 test and its key

personality adjectives

• test 1
• test 2

Mr. Bean makes it clear, you know, what NOT to do on a date!


family

• who's who in a family. the possessive
• family words: a quiz, and another one

1st Advanced. Extra practice. unit 3 fashion

• end of unit 3 test with its key

slang

• visit this site for a complete list and some interesting exercises
• slang worksheet

participle clauses

• read this clear reference sheet on participle clauses and try the exercises. rewriting ones included!

• unit 3 listening test
• you can hear the recording too.

relatives

• try this online quiz
• reorder the sentences using pronouns
• relative multiple choice
• join the two sentences
• fill in the gaps online test
• relatives in context

others

• causative have/get
• compound adjectives
• try the quiz
• and this is another good exercise for different face features

1st Advanced. Extra practice. unit 2 animals

• here's your end of unit 2 test and also its key.

animals

• animal idioms
• watch this video about pets and how they travel
• animal idioms, try the quiz
• who said animals can't talk?

fox hunting


  
stative vs dynamic verbs

• see the tutorial on stative vs dynamic verbs
• stative vs dynamic verbs
• a few more stative-action verbs and quizzes

used to

• coldplay viva la vida. online exercise to practise used to-would
• used to and would. You can do the exercises at the bottom.
• online quiz: used to/would
• another good used to-would quiz
• here goes another exercise, includes get used to

get

• uses of get
• a reference sheet on get

phrasals

• easy phrasal verbs 

1st Intermediate. Extra practice. unit 2, adrenalin

• end of unit test plus its key

health

• learn as you listen to vocabulary
• do you feel like doing a quiz?
• read this interesting bbc article and listen to it at the same time

gerunds vs infinitives

• Here you'll find a set of useful exercises http://www.englishexercises.org/

the comparison

• grammar notes
• test your comparatives and superlatives
• another interactive exercise
• one more exercise on comparatives

sport
sports that we play, go or do. watch this video.

• choose your fave sport and do activities related to it.
• play this sports game
• sports and apparels. drag and drop exercise
• watch this video.Shakira's she wolf You can read the lyrics at the same time.

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irregular verbs

• irregular verbs chart (phonetics included)
• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3
• online game to practise irregular verbs
• irregular hangman, wanna play?

present perfect

• simple or continuous? find the mistakes
• present perfect vs simple past
  
• fill in the blanks exercise
• song: have you ever? by S Club 7
• try these online exercises about present perfect
• just & already
• I've seen it all, by Bjork
• find the mistakes: pres. perf / s. past
• nadal's present perfect vs simple past

adjectives

• -ing / -ed adjectives
• so/neither exercises
• follow this link for an explanation on gradabe/non-gradabe adjectives
• Try the quiz.
• a few more adjectives.
• here's some more
• the last few

hallowe'en for you

• halloween words
• trick or treat?
• Michael Jackson's thriller
• a poem

1st Intermediate. Extra practice. unit 1 friends

• story writing. follow the instructions and write the story in the comic.

• unit test and unit test key

so & neither

• a grammar explanation
• try an exercise
• another good exercise
• online grammar quiz

listening

• anecdote, page 9

unit 1 tests

• listening test
• listening audio and script
• reading test

songs

• try this nice video activity with the song You've got a friend in me. Enjoy it!

social networking




friends

• practise listening with this funny chapter from friends, the one where they all turn thirty, have fun!

1st Advanced. Extra practice. unit 1 collectors

unit 1 tests

• conceptual map, scheme and others
• listening test

question tags

• question tags
• a few more tags
• some more?
• here comes the last one

tenses

• tenses
• more mixed tenses

CV's

Cv + Covering Letter

View more presentations from evarm.

this is what one our your classmates has written. It is her outstanding cv written in an outstanding style. Congrats and thanks, MLA, for sharing it with us.

adverbs

• time adverbials
• more adverbials

listening test

• watch your test video again for a fully understanding.

tests

• end of unit 1 test
• end of unit 1 test key

linkers

• Here's the link for you to download a good reference sheet.
• And this is a second one

listening

• speaker 1
• speaker 2
• speaker 3
• speaker 4
• speaker 5

a welcome message to my new students

Hello everyone! This is just a short welcome message to show you my blog. I hope to see your comments soon and your visits too, your doubts and suggestions as well. Please let me know if you spot any typos. Cheers!