Hi everybody and welcome to the big weekend!!!

    First of all, an important news,  next Saturday progress test unit 11 and 12( more or less 20/25 minutes).
    Besides, it would be a good idea to download a free aplication for improving our listening: 6 Minute English (BBC).  

    Speaking:   page 82 exercise 1.
                       page 86 exercise 1, using the vocabulary of exercise 2
                       page 94 exercices 1,2 and 3
   Listening: page 94 exercise 4
   Grammar: The pasive voice and the backshift ( it´s a change of a tense in the indirect speech).

   Tom recommended me to remember these important points in the reading:
   1- Read all the questions + underline important words.
   2- Skim the test + underline information related to questions.
   3- Answer the easy questions.
   4- Read in more detail for other questions. ( questions in same order as test and max 15/20 minutes)

  Homework: 
 Reading: pages 82-83
 Page 84- it´s an difficult and optional exercise.
 Page 85- exercise 8
 Page 94- exercise 3
 Pages 90, 91, 92 and 93 would be useful to prepare next progress test.
Have a great week!!!!
 

Reported speech: Theory and practice.

Here are two useful pages which will help you understand and practise reported speech.

We'll be using them in class.

Practising passives

Here's a link to our old friend Perfect English Grammar to help us with passives.

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/passive-subordinate-clauses-exercise-1.html


You'll also find simple explanations of the theory, with lots of examples, using the link below:

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/passive.html

English Listening

Today I want to share with you my secret: “6 minute English Listening”. It is an mobile application that a friend recommended me. It is free and we can improve our listening spending only a few minutes a day.

I hope you like it!!

Belén

Today I want to share with you my secret: “6 minute English Listening”. It is an mobile application that a friend recommended me. It is free and we can improve our listening spending only a few minutes a day.

I hope you like it!!

Belén

  

  

Class 21/02/2015

Class 21/02/2015

Hello everybody!

Yesterday( I apologise for the delay) we have done:

SPEAKING
1. Tell your partner anything that you forgot recently.
2. In pairs, say wich adjectives descrive yourself, your collagues, your neighbours…  
3. Talk to your partner  about your family

*VOCABULARY
1. The adjectives that describe personality
SB p.78 Ex. 1

2.A video of Satish Kumar on human nature, who talks about how to improve ourselves

*LISTERING (Dangerous sports)
SB p.76 Ex. 3&4

*REVIEW
See the exams.

*HOMEWORK
nothing? Maybe I was absent-minded… =D

See you next week!!

Belén

Satish Kumar video: human nature

Satish Kumar video: human nature

Here's a talk by Satish Kumar on human nature, and how to improve ourselves.
Try to make a list of the positive and negative qualities he mentions. 
Don't worry if you don't understand all the gardening vocabulary he uses as a metaphor at the beginning, but if you're feeling ambitious you can also try to list the positive and negative plants he mentions.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWq83Gnxyus

I hope you enjoy it.

Language exchange meeting in Madrid

https://www.facebook.com/events/1554803141437377/?sid_reminder=3918803339977949184

https://www.facebook.com/events/273013989537886/

One day I visted to one of these language exchange events and it was impressive.
I could meet a lot of people from English spoken countries and Germany, Russia etc.
I hope we can go together someday!

I just started a blog!

Hi guys!
I just started a blog today. I will blog some of my homeworks which I did during my degree and financial articles to show my interests about finances and to practice language.
It will be written down in Spanish, English or Korean.

This is my first blogging in English : The evolution of deposit facility from 1994 in European Central Banks.
http://chkimfinance.blogspot.com.es/2015/02/evolution-of-deposit-facility-in.HTML

I will be appreciated with you if you visit the link!

Thank you.
Chan

Exam date reminder: Saturday 14.2.15

Hello, everyone.

This is to remind you all, especially those of you who haven't come to class recently, that we have our first progress test this week, on Saturday 14th.

Please be punctual.

See you there.

Tom.

Exam task techniques.

Here are my suggestions on how to approach some of the typical FCE exam tasks. I hope you'll find them useful.

You can, and should, practice them on this website. Being familiar with the exam tasks is essential.

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/strategy/index.htm

Exam techniques.

Word Formation:

First predict the form of the missing Word. Is it a verb, an adjective, a noun perhaps? This may seem like a waste of time under exam pressure, but it will get you better marks.

Gapped reading:

1.       Read missing phrases.

2.       Skim text, underlining anything that seems connected to the missing phrases

3.       Now complete the gaps which seem clearest.

4.       Finally, read the paragraphs you haven’t completed, paying special attention to the sentences immediately before and after the gaps.

5.       Remember to answer everything. Even if you’re guessing, you may be right.

Reading: (See suggestions in SB p.58-60)

1.       Read the questions carefully, they test detailed understanding.

2.       Skim the text, underlining anything that seems connected to the questions.

3.       Now answer the questions that seem clearest to you.

4.       Look for the sentences specifically related to the questions you haven’t answered yet. (They are asked in the same order as the paragraphs in the text.)

Listening – Sentence completion: (See suggestions in SB p.68)

1     1.  You have 45 seconds to read and underline the questions.

2    2.   During the first listening, take notes.

3    3.  During the second listening, confirm.

4    4.  Answer everything: you don’t lose points for a wrong answer.