February 14, 2012

0 Another useful page

Internet offers us lots of opportunities to practice English, and chatting is a great way of taking advantage of the internet.

Sharedtalk is a page where you can chat with natives speakers of English and you can choose if you want just to write or if you have a webcam you can also speak with people. But be careful, because as in Spanish, people may use contractions, or not write properly!

You just have to register and is totally free!

0 PRESENT PERFECT

Hello everyone!



Here in this link, you have a little review of the uses of past simple. In class we have only seen the first use. Be careful!

I know that you want to practice this new tense, so here you have some exercises to do:

Exercise 1, statements.
Exercise 2 to practice questions.
Exercise 3 negative sentences.
Exercise 4 mixed sentences.

See you tomorrow!

January 31, 2012

1 Culture shock

Hi!!

As we are reading and talking about culture shock inthe next lesson, here you have a video to introduce the topic.  

Enjoy it!

Click here to see the video.

See you tomorrow!

January 24, 2012

0 PRESENT CONTINUOUS;BE GOING TO; WILL

Hello everyone!
                                                  

You now have many tools to express future, but I'm going to sum up the most important things here:

FUTURE PLANS

To express something that is going to happen in the future but was decided in the past you have present continuous and be going to.

Present Continuous:
It describes an action that is going to happen in the future, but is something that you decided in the past


Next Monday I'm flying to Nottingham
(you decided it in the past)


Remember that you always need a time reference! (next year, next month...).

Be going to:
It has the same meaning as present continuous.

Next Monday I'm going to fly to Nottingham.


Will:
Will/won't + infinitive
 It describes future actions, BUT it does not refer to things that you planned in the past but to things that you plan in the moment that you are speaking.(instant decisions)

Oh, It's very late I will come back home.
Oh It's very cold, I will close the window.


PREDICTIONS


To talk about predictions you use GOING TO and WILL

The sky is so dark, It's going to rain.


The match between Real Madrid and Barcelona will be exciting.


NOTE: you can use "will" to express other things that we are going to see in next lessons.

LET'S PRACTICE!!

Exercise 1
Exercise 2

See you tomorrow!!



December 21, 2011

0 Today's lesson.

Hi everyone! I'm really sorry but today we are not having lessons, some of you already know that  I was ill last Monday, and I'm not feeling ok today, so we will have to review exams after Christmas holidays, but you can see your marks in the school next Friday.

Anyway , I hope to be better for the party on thursday, and wish you all a merry Christmas.