Fruit and Vegetable Idioms

Hello everyone,

Here you have a funny video to learn some idioms which include fruit names. Think about how you would say these expressions in your mother tongue.





And now, vegetable idioms:



After you watch them, if there is anything you don't quite understand, here you have the script to fruit idioms and the one to vegetable idioms.

I hope you enjoy them!

Third week

Hi there,

This week we have been talking about food...(yummm) and our linguistic focus was on phonetic transcriptions and on the present simple and continuous.

We also met our language assistant, Paul, who showed us what Afternoon Tea is.

As for homework, you can click on the numbers to get the key to handouts 2 and 3.

Here you have an extra reading activity to practice True/False sentences. Thanks to my colleague Laura Jiménez, who recommended it.

See you in class!

Podcasts

Hi there!

Our classmate Tíscar recommended this website in class:
http://www.listen-to-english.com/?cat=podcasts

You can either subscribe so that they will send you podcasts with exercises to your email or you can simply visit periodically that website and practice listening, reading, writing and even speaking if you try to do activities orally.

It will be quite useful for you, I am sure.
Thank you Tíscar!

Welcome everyone

Hello!!!

A new course has just started, new students, old friends... We are at intermediate level, so congratulations and let's get started!!!

After all the introductions, greetings and "I've heard a lot about you", a new relationship between Mark and Alli..., descriptions, and a couple of more exercises, our next step will be talking about FOOD and DIET.

You have handout 2 to learn more vocabulary, but do not forget to look up the words in the dictionary to check pronunciation. I will upload the key here next week.

You can have a look at these websites about food and check pronunciation. It is American English, so some lexicon might be different and of course, you will notice some changes in pronunciation:

Fruit
Vegetables
Food
Food 2

Have a nice weekend!

September tests

Hello everyone,

I hope you are having a nice summer.

I just wanted to remind you of the dates for the tests in September. The written parts will be on the first of September at seven o'clock in the afternoon, room 7.
You can check that information at the school web site in "Novedades", or by clicking here.

The oral exams will be on the second and third of September. This is the document that I published at the door of room 7, where you can check the exact date and time when you should come.

Good luck for everyone!

Last keys and... HOLIDAYS!!

Hello everyone,

We have finished our course now.It has really been a great teaching experience for me and I have met really nice people, so thank you everyone. I hope we can work together next year too!

Here you have some recommendations for the summer, as some of you asked:

To read, I think the best thing you can do is to have a look at this site and click on READERS CATALOGUE on the left. There you can choose any level (I recommend you start reading INTERMEDIATE), and once you have chosen your level, you can also click on any book to read a brief summary and check that you like it.

So here is the link: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/readers/resources.htm

I also like this site: http://www.blackcat.vicensvives.es/ . It is the same editor as Sherlock Holmes' Stories that you have already read.

I hope this is useful...

If you want to practice Grammar, I specially like R. Murphy's English Grammar in Use (with answers). The editor is Cambridge.

There is a similar one on Vocabulary (Redman's English Vocabulary in Use) by Cambridge as well.

Intermediate English Practice (MacMillan) is also very good, and it contains both vocabulary units and grammar units.

They are very complete reference and self-study books. Sometimes I chose some handouts from them as homework for you.

By the way! Here you have the key to our last handout on -ing and -ed adjectives.


Good luck with the exams. The grades will be published on the school notice board on Monday 22nd of June at 16.00.

Well, that's all from me by now.

Have a nice holiday and I hope to see you next October!

Caaalm down

Hello everyone,

First of all,... don't get nervous. The final tests won't be so difficult and I am sure you will do very well.

Last week we were learning the passive voice and revising the present perfect tense. Don't forget to practice with the exercises in the workbook and with the handouts.

Here you have the key to handout 29 and to handout 30.

Next week we will focus on your questions and we will practice speaking mainly.

See you in class!