Merry Christmas

 

 

I want to wish you all

 

 

and

 

 

See you next year!

Nelson Mandela

Madiba has died.

After such a long, generous and plentiful life, he will rest in peace.

Songs

These are two of the songs we have listened to in class. Get the lyrics and enjoy them!

Differences between British and American English

Apart from the examples we have seen in the class, you can see here more differences between these two varieties of English.

WELCOME TO NB1

Dear new students,

This is your first year studying English at our School and I hope you have a very good time in class and also you learn a lot of English.

The first thing you have to do is to study the most well-known verb in the world: to BE. I'm sure you'll find it easy.



See you in class!

September exams

Dear students,

The dates for the September exams are published in the School webpage.

http://www.eoilasrozas.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117&Itemid=139”%20font%20face=

On 2nd September you have to do the Reading, listening and writing parts. This is the order:

16:00 horas: Writing
16:45 horas: Listening
17:15 horas: Reading

BE PUNCTUAL!

The oral exam will take place on 5th September at 4.00 pm. We'll make the arrangements the day of the written exam.

Try to practise the oral with a partner and the exam will be easier for you.

 

Some work for the summer

I'm going to post here little by little some materials for you to review the September exam. I hope that you find them useful.
There are some exercises first and then you have the key.

Remember: first do the exercises and then check with the key!

Sentence transformation + - ?

 

September Oral exams

Dear students, as you probably already know, we have reduced a bit the oral exams for September.
I put here the link to the new version. The topics are the same, but we have "eliminated" some of them because there were too many.
Print them again and make sure you prepare them along the summer and find someone to practise with. It's really important for you to TALK, not only write and "imagine" you are talking.

Click here to get the September version

September oral exam NB1

HAPPY SUMMER TO EVERYBODY

Dear students,

Yesterday we had a really nice dinner in La Bodega, a restaurant in Europolis with the group on Monday and Wednesday. We had a really good time and talked about life, family, anecdotes during the course and how lucky you are to have such a nice group. We missed tha ones who couldn't go but we'll meet again in October with the new course.

I'm going to miss you all, our celebrations with chocolate, your sense of humour, your nerves, your smiles and especially Ana's tortillas and all sorts of delicatessen she prepared for us (including her tablecloth for the teacher's desk and the beautiful decoration).  I'm also sure that if you have to celebrate a birthday during the summer, you'll remember the chocolate we had in our class.

You have worked really hard this year and I'd like to say 'congratulations' for your excellent results.
I know some of you love so much the English language that you have decided to come back in September. No problem! I'll be waiting for you. Remember that you only have to do the part you failed in June. And I'll also post here some exercises to help you study a bit, and the new version of the oral exams: the same topics, but reduced!

Anyway, I have really enjoyed teaching both groups and now I can just wish you a really nice and happy summer.

 

The end of the course

We had a really nice end of course celebration in the last class with the group on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Our artist Felipe made a beautiful and delicious chocolate cake to celebrate that summer is already here. We even had to eat our photographs made of chocolate! It was a very difficult moment for us "to eat ourselves" but we did it!  Here you can see the cake, which doesn't exist any more.

Thank you very much, Felipe!

And we also had a great time in the barbecue at Lourdes's house. Thanks a lot, Lourdes for your hospitality. Everything was delicious! By the way, any Spanish omelette left, Raquel? Can I have some more, please?

I really enjoyed the video Nieves prepared with the photographs of the group along the course. Thank you very much, Nieves!

There are a lot of good moments to remember and also sad moments we will never forget; but we had a great time together. It has been a pleasure to be your teacher.

Have a nice summer of all you. I'll try to post some extra-work on the blog for those who decided to do the exam again in September. Leave some comments if you want to tell me something.

Be good and enjoy your summer!

KEY to the last part of the REVIEW

This is the key for the exercise of sentence transformation that you have in the photocopies that I gave you in the last class. In some cases there are some possibilities, and all of them are all right as long as they are grammatically correct and make sense.

If you have any problem with the correction, leave a comment here and I'll try to answer as soon as possible.

Key to NB1 review

I have included the key for all the exercises as some of you couldn't do it in class.

Oral exam: missing parts

Dear students,

Here I attach the situations you prepared for the exam in March. Remember that they are also included in the final exam.
And apparently there was a problem with the other document and one of the situations was missing: topic 11 for the interaction: likes and lislikes.

Make sure you print all the situations to prepare them for the final exam.

Sorry for the inconveniences and I hope there isn't any problem now.

Individual topics_part_1 and topic 11    

ORAL EXAM

Dear students,

I insert here the individual topics that you have to prepare for the oral exam and also the new situations or dialogues to do in pairs.

Remember that the topics we gave you in March are also included, but the situations you did in pairs in March are NOT included now, only the new ones.

We'll go through them in class, so I recommend you to print the document before.

Oral situations June 2013

Table of irregular verbs

Thanks to Eduardo, you can see another way to study the irregular verbs. You have many more verbs than you have to study this year, but you will be able to use the table also in the future.

Click here to see the table

Table of irregular verbs (classified)

Draw the plan of your house or flat

Here you have a couple of examples of the plan of a house. Now draw the plan of your own house or flat to show it to your classmates.

Now choose one of the rooms and describe the furniture in it.

 

Test unit 7

As I promised, I leave you here the link to the test for unit 7. Today you have only the test. You'll have the 'key' with the answers soon.

Make sure you study File 7 complete before doing the test.
Good luck!

Test File 7 English File 3E





 And now the answer key:

Test file 7 KEY
 

Types of houses

Which is your favourite?

 

Irregular verbs

Dear students,

the link to the pronunciation of the irregular verbs didn't work yesterday, but it works now.
Click on the link and then on 'download'. Then you can simply open it and listen to the verbs.
Don't forget that it's interesting to LISTEN and REPEAT.

Irregular verbs - pronunciation

Have a nice and loooong weekend!

Prepositions of place

Irregular verbs list. How to pronounce them

 

You have here the list of the irregular verbs for this year, the one you have at the end of the book.
If you click here on the following link, you can hear the pronunciation. I'm sure it's going to help you.

Irregular verbs - pronunciation

Don't forget to listen and repeat each verb!