A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Watch this excellent 1972 animated version of the Charles Dickens classic. Animated in the style of 1800s engravings by the great Richard Williams Studio.

REINFORCEMENT EXERCISES FOR 2nd ESO

These exercises will help you to revise some grammar we have studied so far. Do them carefully after reading your grammar notes and understand what you are doing . In case you don't understand something, just ask me.

• Comparatives 1
  
• Comparatives 2
  
• Comparatives 3
• Comparatives (Spanish)
  
• Making questions
• Question words 1
  
• Correct the mistakes
• Questions in the Present Simple
• Questions with "do" or "does"
• Questions in the Present Continuous1
• Questions in the Present Continuous 2
• Present Simple/Present Continuous 1
• Prepositions of Time 1
• Prepositions of Time 2
• Family relationships
• Irregular verbs 1
• Irregular verbs 2
• Irregular verbs 3
• Irregular verbs 4
  
• Irregular verbs 2
• Time Prepositions 1
• Mixed questions
• Prepositions of place
• Past Continuous (tutorial and exercises)
• Be going to
• Modal Verbs (Spanish)
  

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IDIOMS ON ANIMALS

This is your new task if you want to "win" an extra point: watch the video and listen to it carefully as many times as you need. Make sure you've understood what these three idioms mean because you'll have to tell them in front of your classmates and explain their meaning. Enjoy!

Here you can see the answer to the question I made in class: What do these idioms
mean?: -there is no room to swing a cat
-to let the cat out of the bag
-to put the cat among the pigeons

FOOD, MEALS, DISHES

Click here and you will find very interesting information about British meals, meal
times and traditional dishes. Are these same as in Spain or are they different?
Take notes in your notebook and we'll speak about it in class

Fruit names   (with sound) 
Veg names    (with sound)
Food names   (with sound)
A recipe: Tuna  Rissoto

Listening: What do they have for breakfast?
Listening: What do these people like for dinner?
A game: Which fruit is being described? Now it's your turn! 
               "It's  round/long/oblongue ..."
               "It's hard/soft on the outside/inside"
               "You must/needn't peel it"

PODCAST: TOP HOLIDAY SPOTS

Simon is being interviewed about his favourite places to go on holiday. There are two places he loves: Paimpol and Madeira.

Copy down these questions and read them carefully before listening to the podcast. Then answer them

1. Where is Madeira?

2. Which language do people from Madeira speak?

3. Why do people like to go to this island? (write three adjectives)

4. What can people do there? (2 things)

5. What surprises the interviewer about this island?

6. What’s the weather like?

7. Why is March the best time to visit Madeira?

8. Has Simon ever been to this place in March?

9. Where is Paimpol?

10. Who is it a good place for?

11. Which is its major attraction?

12. Why does Simon like going to Paimpol ?

1ST ESO TERM ONE

1. Read and listen
2.The alphabet
3.Countries and Nationalities
4.A rhyme
5. Christmas vocabulary
6. A Christmas poem
7. Rudolph is missing








(lyrics on page 45)

PROFESSIONS

1. jobs (with audio)
2. job quiz
3. crossword
4. listening exercises

A PRESCHOOL TEST

Draw this picture and copy the question, then answer it -in English, of course!- and give an explanation.

TONGUE TWISTERS

Practise these tongue twisters to improve your pronunciation

USEFUL LINKS FOR 1ST BACH

• Extra listening (3)
  
• Gerunds and infinitives
• Used to/get; be used to
• Phrasal verbs
• More phrasal verbs
• A supermodel biography
• Alek Wek speaks on behalf of Sudanese refugees
• Alek Wek in Sudan
• Memories of the Sudanese civil war
• Is fashion important to you? (listening exercise)
• How to write a biography
• Present Perfect
• Verb Tenses
• Future Tenses
• Future Tenses (2)
  
• Future Tenses (3)
• More Verb Tenses (includes modal verbs)
• Relative clauses (tutorial)
  
• Relative clauses 1
• Relative pronouns (omission)
• Relatives pronouns : which, where
• Relative pronouns : that, what
• Conjunctions (3 exercises.)
• Connectors (contrast)
• Connectors (addition)
• Connectors (cause and result)
• Reported Speech (tutorial)
  
• Reported Speech
• Reported Speech
• Reported Speech
  
• Reported Speech
• Reported Speech 2 (answers)
  
• Revision April
• Revision April (sol)
• Discourse Markers. (linking words tutorial)
• Clauses of purpose (Spanish)
  
• How to express purpose
  
• Conditional Sentences (mixed types)
• Passive Voice (exercises)
• Passive Voice (verbs with two objects)
• Passive Voice (verbs with two objects)
• Personal Passive (people say, think, believe ...)
• Passive Voice (mixed)
  
• Have/get Causative (tutorial and exercises)
• Make/do Collocations
• ALUMNOS SEPTIEMBRE
  

LET'S PLAY SOME MUSIC

Here there are some links where you can practise and improve vocabulary related to music.

• musical instruments 1
• musical instruments 2
• families in an orchestra . You can listen to the instruments

SOME SONGS I LOVE

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• Me and Bobby McGee lyrics
• Janis Joplin biography

lyrics

VINCENT MALLOY

Watch this video and answer the following questions:

• How old is Vincent Malloy?
• Is he an obedient boy?
• Who does he want to be?
• Which animals has he got at home?
• What does he imagine when his aunt comes to visit him?
• Which are his hobbies?
• What does he think his mother's flower bed is?
  

WHAT'S THE WEATHER LIKE TODAY?

You are going to listen to 14 people answering this question.

• Write down their answers in your notebook
• Watch the video again. This time the video is subtitled so that you can check your answers.
• There are some words you don't know: -overcast, brick, crisp, dull
• What do they mean? Look them up in a dictionary and add them to the other terms related to the weather you already have .
  

COUNTABLE/ UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

Before doing these exercises, make sure you remember how to use determiners and quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns.

.much, many, a lot (of)
.a/an, some, any

If you click on "next page", you'll find some exercises on "(a) few/(a) little".

EXPRESSING ABILITITY: CAN, BE ABLE TO, COULD

These are my robot skills

OBLIGATION, PROHIBITION, PERMISSION

Do this exercise and practise the use of must, mustn't and can. It has to do with road signs, but I hope it will be more helpful than the one we did in class.

ANIMALS

Spend some time doing these exercises and you will always remember how to write and say a lot of animal names

• One: a match exercise
• Two: point at the animal whose name is said
• Three: animal memory game
• Four: hangman
• Five: a bingo activity
• African animals  (with audio) 
• Sea animals  (with audio)
• Six: online animal alphabet book
• Seven: Jersey zoo
• Bird vocabulary (includes quiz)
• Endangered animals
• A video
 

 

Endangered animals - gorillas targeted by hunters - BBC (flv video)
   

• Vocabulary extension

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Click here to do this interesting quiz online

ELVIS PRESLEY

I think you enjoyed this song in class. Now you can listen to it when you feel like.
Click here to do the exercise and revise some irregular pasts




What about this one?

JUST FOR FUN. Optical illusions

Do you know what an optical illusion is? Whatever your answer is click here

SPORTS

Vocabulary has to be revised once and again. The web is full of interesting sites where you can practise what you study at school and where you can learn new words. Click on the the numbers below and have a good time!
One
Two: find the pairs
Three
Four: :places and areas used with sport
Five
Six: a crossword

OLD GREYBEAR

This exercise is very similar to one you had to do in your February Test. Some of you didn't do it very well.
Never mind! Try it again. This is a hotpotatoes exercise

CAN YOU GUESS THE MOVIE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT?

Click here and prick up your ears