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European Language Day

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Hello everyone. Do you know next 26th september is "European Language Day"?
Here you can see more information about it and play games!! Come on, try HERE and start enjoy.

Exercise #4 PAU - Key

Wednesday, May 29, 2013





Past exercises KEY









Widening English Exam - 1st Bac

Grammar:- Verb tenses: Present simple, present continuous, present perfect- Questions: Indirect, Subject, Object, Yes/no, Question tag- Infinitive + to- So do I / Neither do I
- Causative have (passive): have something done

Vocabulary: - Vocabulary unit 1 New Framework 4 (free-time activities, compound adjetives) - Vocabulary unit 2 (expressions with 'in')- Vocabulary unit 3 (means of transport, leisure activities, be likely to/be due to/be bond to, describing holidays and places, suggestions and preferences)
- Vocabulary unit 4 (health and lifestyle collocations, battle of the sexes text)
- Get + adjective- Castle 01x01, 01x02, 01x03- Illnesses- How to start a conversation- Halloween vocabulary (crosswords)- Character/appearance- Cooking

- Environment


Translations:- Listening SB 8 (Reference guide book)- Ahora tú (blog)- Children's Rights- Angelina Jolie's letters (only first paragraph)

Writings:
- Description of someone who you admire



Passive voice - KEY

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

This is the key for the passive voice exercises of 4th Secondary.

3rd Secondary School. Summary Contest:

Tuesday, May 14, 2013


Like+ing (and other verbs: love, hate, can’t stand…etc)
Present simple (affirmative/negative/questions)
Present continuous (affirmative/negative/questions)
Present simple vs present continuous
Comparatives and superlatives
What…like?
Have to / Don’t-doesn’t have to (affirmative/negative/questions)
Can / Can’t-Mustn’t / Don’t-doesn’t have to
Past simple (affirmative/negative/questions)
Past continuous (affirmative/negative/questions)
Past simple vs past continuous (when/while)
There is / there are
There was/there were
Adverbs (-ly and irregulars)
Quantifiers: too much, too many, not enough
Adjectives ending –ed/-ing
Present perfect (just/already/yet/ever/since/for) (affirmative/negative/questions)
How long…? (present perfect)
Been vs gone
Conditionals: 0 – I – II
Future: will/going to/might
Passive: present / past (affirmative/negative/questions)

Remember that maximum 4 sides of a piece of paper (4 caras de un folio) or 2 pieces of paper both sides (o 2 folios por las 2 caras).

If you think that there is something missing, add it!!!

Remember that the 3 best summaries will win a whole point in the final mark.

We will do another summary with the vocabulary, but after the exams.

Deadline: 27th of May.

(It's not compulsory, but if you do it, you'll get a positive!)

Online exercises

Friday, May 10, 2013

http://www.xtec.cat/~ogodoy/sac/rephrasing/rephrexercises.htm

PASSIVE VIDEO EXPLANATION

Friday, April 19, 2013

MODAL VERBS VIDEOS

I love these videos. Great explanation about modal verbs:



The first part is pretty interesting to know how modals work. The second part is explained in a different way as we know. The third part can be confussing...



Another way of explaining modals: (4 vídeos together: Introduction / Ability / Permission / Obligation)



This video has songs using modals:



IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW FOR THE PAU EXAM:

Tuesday, April 16, 2013


IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW FOR THE PAU EXAM:

Grammar:
-          All the verb tenses
-          Passive (normal/with 2 objects/impersonal/causative)
-          Modals (normal + perfect modals)
-     Gerunds/Infinitives
-          Conditionals (+ unless)
-          I wish
-          Reported speech (normal/commands-requests/questions/suggestions/reporting verbs)
-          Relative sentences (normal/omitting the relative pronoun/mixing sentences)

Vocabulary:
-          Phrasal  verbs
-          False friends (actually doesn’t mean actualmente!!)
-          Nouns/adjectives/verbs + preposition
-          So do I / Neither do I
-          Comparatives / Superlatives
-          Adjective ALWAYS before the noun
-          So / Such (so tall / such a tall boy)
-          QUESTIONS

Topics:
-          Environment
-          New technologies
-          Descriptions
-          Solidarity/charity
-          The media
-          Health
-          Sport events

Typical essays:
-          Opinion
-          Against/for
-          Summary

Conditional Songs

Wednesday, April 03, 2013




If I never had a cent I would be poor.
If it hadn't been or Cotton-Eye Joe I would have been alone all my life.
If my true love were gone I would look for another love!
If I get locked up tonight I will cry.
If I can't have youi I will fight for you until the end.
If you go don't come here another time again.
If you don't know me by now I'm sorry for you.
If I knew you were coming I would have stayed here.
If I were a boy I would treat women very well.
If you leave me now you will be very happy.

Relative sentences

Monday, March 25, 2013

Here you are a link with relative sentences. Click here.

A big truth

Sunday, March 10, 2013


SUBJECT AND OBJECT QUESTIONS – KEY

Thursday, March 07, 2013


SUBJECT AND OBJECT QUESTIONS – KEY:

1)
1. OBJECT
2. SUB
3. OBJ
4. OBJ
5. SUB
6. SUB
2)
What did Henry send me?
What made her feel sad?
Who cheated on the exam?
What do they need to find?
Who went on holiday to Paris?
Who is looking after the baby?
What did they ask me?
Who had an accident?
3)
What made you angry last night?
What did they see?
Why do they like going to the library?
Who looked after the cat?
Who did you phone yesterday?
Who goes out with him?
What do people do at the weekend?
Who caught the 10:30 train?
4)
What did you cook for dinner yesterday?
Who did Helen meet at the weekend?
Who gave the man money for food?
Who did Paul dream of last night?
What type of film did you like?
What happened after they left?
Why did Sue need a pair of scissors?
5)
Who is 44? Mrs Andrews / How old is Mrs Andrews? 44
Who does John visit every Saturday? Mary
Who discovered America? Columbus
What happened? Something strange
Who does Mary help every day? Her mother
Who reads a book after lunch? Dave
Who has a shower in the morning? Somebody
Who is my aunt visiting next Saturday? Us
Who does Mary love? Burt
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare
Who gave me this key? Susan
What did Henry give me? Something
Who does Tom meet every day? His girlfriend / Who meets his girlfriend every day?
What fell on the floor? Something
What does this word mean? Something.


I wish/If only - Modals - So/Neither do I - KEY!!!

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Click here for the I wish / If only exercises

And here for the So/Neither and Modals ones.

GERUND AND INFINITIVE - KEY

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Answer to the exercises of the worksheet about gerunds and infinitives:


1. eating
2. to go
3. having
4. getting up
5. to cook
6. going
7. to buy
8. to buy
9. not doing
10. being
11. being
12. living
13. to buy
14. to do / doing
15. going
16. to work / working
17. to smoke
18. to play
19. to study
20. to learn
21. going
22. living
23. to go
24. visiting
25. to go
26. Smoking
27. to rain/raining
28. having
29. learning
30. to study
31. having
32. worrying
33. being
34. going
35. to send
36. going
37. to have
38. smoking
39. studying
40. being dyed to go
41. talking
42. to post
43. to make
44. failing
45. going
46. to go
47. Reading

Writing tips

Tuesday, December 11, 2012


One of the best ways to improve your WRITING is to do much READING.

Obviously, you should have some good vocabulary and some basic understanding of the grammar rules, but the next step is to READ.

It's priceless. You get to see vocabulary and grammar in action. You also see the typical collocations.

Now, collocations are very important. A collocation is a combination of words that is used together frequently. It's actually a common phrase.

For example:
"Commit a crime" is a typical combination of words in English. You could say "make a crime," and it wouldn't be incorrect, but many people tend to use these words together. So "commit a crime" is a collocation.

Here are some more examples of collocations:
Fully aware ("We are fully aware of the problem.")
Do homework ("I will do my homework later.")
Give a speech ("He gave a very good speech at the conference.")

There are many many collocations in English. And the better you use them, the more natural your English becomes.

So how can you know the collocations of English? How can you write naturally and clearly?

READ. Eventually you will get the hang of it (= know how to do it right). You will be familiar with more vocabulary, and see more grammar in action (how it is actually used).

That will make a world of a difference to your writing :)

Education is...

Big truth!


Widening English Exam - 1st Bacalaureate - 1st Term

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Grammar:
- Verb tenses: Present simple, present continuous, present perfect
- Questions: Indirect, Subject, Object, Yes/no, Question tag
- Infinitive + to

Vocabulary:
- Vocabulary unit 1 New Framework 4
- Get + adjective
- Castle 01x01, 01x02, 01x03
- Illnesses
- How to start a conversation
- Halloween vocabulary (crosswords)
- Character/appearance

Translations:
- Listening SB 8 (Reference guide book)
- Ahora tú (blog)
- Children's Rights

Pasos a seguir para traducir un texto del inglés al castellano

Monday, November 19, 2012

Por la globalización y gracias a las nuevas tecnologías, cada vez se reciben más documentos en inglés que necesitan traducción. Debido a esta gran demanda, existen traductores, tanto automáticos (Google Traductoro Babel-fish, online ambos) como humanos, que se dedican a esta labor, pero ¿Qué pasos se deben seguir a la hora de traducir un texto en inglés?
1. Leer todo el texto
Es importante leer todo el texto antes de empezar a traducir. No se debe leer el primer párrafo y comenzar con la traducción, pues se pueden traducir incorrectamente conceptos que se clarifican con posterioridad en el texto.
Durante la fase de lectura se deben detectar los problemas que se encontrarán después al traducir, aunque no se debe buscar todavía solución para ellos: palabras que no se entiendan, estructuras complicadas, dobles sentidos, etc.
2. Documentarse
Una vez se ha leído todo el texto y sabiendo la temática con la que está relacionado, si es pertinente se debe buscar contenido similar en la web para descubrir cuáles son los términos más utilizados en ambos idiomas.
3. Comenzar a traducir
Después de la lectura y de la documentación, se puede empezar a traducir; sin embargo, no se debe hacer palabra por palabra (como hacen los programas automáticos de traducción) sino que es más importante captar el sentido de la frase y pasarla al español sin hacer calcos de estructuras en inglés.
Algunos problemas frecuentes que tienen lugar por traducir palabra por palabra son los siguientes:
Abuso de pasivas, que en inglés se usan mucho pero en español no.
Uso de los pronombres en español cuando son innecesarios.
Empleo de giros u expresiones calcadas del inglés que en español resultan artificiales.
En este paso se deben buscar las palabras desconocidas, no sólo en diccionarios bilingües (Wordreference.com, por ejemplo) sino también en monolingües para captar perfectamente el sentido de la palabra (Merriam-webster.com, por ejemplo).
4. Revisar la traducción
Es muy importante revisar las traducciones, pues suelen escaparse fallos fácilmente detectables.

Además, si se deja reposar la traducción unos minutos, horas o días, las estructuras extrañas y que suenan artificiales serán más fáciles de detectar.
Traducir no es fácil, especialmente dependiendo del texto, pero siendo organizados y siguiendo esta metodología la traducción tiene muchas posibilidades de ser un éxito.

Widening English Exam - 1st Term (2nd Bac)

Wednesday, November 07, 2012

New Framework 4:

Unit 5:

Pages 42, 43
- Vocabulary - Headline, reports...
Page 44
- Vocabulary: Using the internet
- Preferences: I'd rather read a book than go to the cinema
Page 45
- Vocabulary: The four most influential blogs
Page 46:
- Vocabulary: Breaking news...
Page 47:
- Conjunctions of purpose/reason
Page 48:
- Vocabulary: News (ex. 4 page 49)
Page 53:
- Used to/get used to/be used to

Castle:
Vocabulary episodes 1, 2 and 3 (season 1)

IT words:
asap, lol...

Translations:
- Bluetooth
- Angelina Jolie's letter (Malala)
- Ahora tú (song)

Illnesses: vocabulary

Blog:
- The Beatles (50th Anniversary)
- Media manipulation
- Halloween power points

Passive voice:
- Causative
- Impersonal

Creativity

Saturday, September 22, 2012


Very interesting!!!

Reading Books - 2012/2013

Monday, September 17, 2012

URSE
TERM
BOOK
3 ESO
1
 Lost I / A trip to the stars
3 ESO
2
 Lost I / A trip to the stars
ESO
3
 Lost II
ESO
1
 Iraq in fragments
ESO
2
 The curious case of Benjamin Button
ESO
3
 Dracula
1 BACH
1
 Jane Eyre
1 BACH
2
 The 39 steps
1 BACH
3
 The Elephant Man
2 BACH
1
 White Fang
2 BACH
2
 Brave New World
2 BACH
3
 Sea Bandits

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