Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Describing my room

Another video about describing, this time he is describing his room.


Describing my house

Describing my house - NB1 Elementary - EOI Getafe

Mercedes describes her house. Her English is very fluent!
Thanks for sharing! 
English at EOI Getafe

Describing my house

Practising the conditional forms

Today we have been practising the conditional forms, try to answer this questions:

"If you could live in another period of time for its fashion, when would you choose and why?"

"If you could come back in another life, who (or what) would you like to be?"

"If you could change one part of your body, what would it be?"

"What would you wear if you were invited on a date by someone you really liked?"

And we have revised the grammar bank on page 136 and vocabulary bank on page 151.

Friday, February 15, 2013

People talking about different topics

In TED Ideas worth spreading you have an incredible site where listen to 
people talking about different topics.

Link to TED - People talking about many topics

You can select subtitle's language and you can also select the talk you want 
filtering, for example, by topic or length. It's amazing!!


Wednesday, February 13, 2013

List of links for learning English on the Internet

In the following link you will find an useful and complete list of links for learning English on the Internet.

List of links for learning English

We haven't tested all of the links so some of them might be broke but, 
is sure that the site where you are in will be interesting.

Steady job/ Steady phone (Vocabulary)

Lo único que tengo ahora es un trabajo estable

"Lo único que tengo ahora es un trabajo estable"

steady job - trabajo estable



steady phone - teléfono fijo

Time clauses

Time clauses

(Here you can find some exercises)

Conditional forms and exercises

We have learnt the conditional forms:

Type 0. If + Present tense + Present tense i.e.: 
  • If I press the button, the bell rings. / The bell rings if I press the button.
  • Si pulso el botón el timbre suena.
Type 1. If + Present tense + Future tense i.e.: 
  • If you study, you will pass your exam.
  • Si estudias pasarás tú examen.
Type 2. If + Past simple tense + Conditional simple i.e.: 
  • If you studied, you would pass your exam.
  • Si estudiaras pasarías tú examen.
Type 3. If + Past perfect + Perfect infinitive i.e.: 
  • If you had studied, you would have passed your exam.
  • Si hubieras estudiado habrías pasado tú examen.
Besides, you will be able to know more about this topic in the following links and have to do the exercises related to it at home:

We haven't to know anything about "I wish I knew" form so you don't need to study nothing about the part of this unit related to it.

Other ways to certificate your English level

Some people don't know that they can get English certifications by other ways so I have written this information for them.

This is a table of equivalences between English level and certifications you can get:

CEFR: 
Common European 
Framework of Reference
EOI: Escuela Oficial de Idiomas
Certificados Cambridge y British Council
C2
CPE
C1
CAE
B2
Nivel Avanzado  (5º)
FCE
B1Nivel Intermedio (3º)PET


    Moreover, you can get information related to Cambridge English exams in the links below:

    By the way, here you can obtain a table of equivalences made by U.H.U. and, if you have any doubt you can navigate throw this link to get more information about this topic.

    I really hope that this information will be useful for some of us.


    Monday, February 11, 2013

    Exercise about writing informal letters

    Today, We have done a exercise about writing an informal letter, you can download it on the link below:


    Here is some vocabulary about the text:
    • secluded  /sɪˈkluːdɪd/ - apartado.
    • greenery /ˈgriːnərɪ/ - vegetación.
    • marshmallows /ˈmɑːʃˈmæləʊ/ - merengue, nube, malvavisco.
    • hilarious /hɪˈlɛərɪəs/ - divertidísimo.
    • boast /bəʊst/ - presumir.

    Thursday, February 07, 2013

    Free English UNED courses

    They are available a couple of free courses relative to English Language 
    at 's online platform:


    I think It would be good for us and so I publish it here.

    Monday, February 04, 2013

    Vocabulary about Education

    Homework

    Today we have been talking about topics related to Education (N.E.F. on page 52 - Back to school, aged 35), and in the following link you will find homeworks for next day:

    Revising modal verbs


    Homework

    Exercises for revise modal verbs:

    · Must, have to, should
    · Must, may, might, can't
    · Can, could, be able to

    Monday, January 28, 2013

    Lesson 3 homework for next monday

    Do all exercises about:

    • "An informal letter - Writing" on page 49, 
    • "What do you remember?" on page 50 and 
    • "What can you do?" on page 51.

    Song "You can get it if you really want"

    Here is the song we have listened to today, its name is "You can get it if you really want" (Jimmy Cliff version)

    Solution: 1.ʇsnɯ 2.pǝǝɔɔns 3.ʇsnɯ 4.uıW 5.ǝsol 6.ʇǝƃ 7.ʇǝƃ 8.ʇlınq 9.ǝɯoɔ 10.ǝǝs

    Formal and Informal Letters

    How to write formal and informal Letters...

     
    Part onePart two

    Tuesday, January 22, 2013

    Writing about "A nightmare journey you've had".


    In the Unit 2 we have to make a writing about "A nightmare journey you've had (or invent one)", it will be done about mid-February.



    Maybe interesting try to do it at home.