B2.1 - Adjectives ending in -ed and -ing

Oral practise: use -ing or -ed on these topics like in the example (exercise taken from this page)

Remember: …ing adjectives make you feel …ed

For instance: I think the film was boring. I felt bored when I watched the film. Because it was such a boring film, I was bored the whole time. Check out our grammar point on adjectives ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

1. Tell us about a time that you felt really relieved
2. When was the last time that you felt offended?
3. What do you find really boring?
4. Have you ever felt petrified by something?
5. What makes you determined to be successful?
6. Do you often feel tense at high school?
7. What seems thrilling to you?
8. Are you a sympathetic person?
9. Are you interested in language learning?
10. What do you find very amusing?

B2.1 - Personality & Advertising (unit 4)

If you want to speak about these topics, you'll need to use some specific vocabulary. These links are related to how to deal with an oral exam so have a look:

• Advertising: click here
• Personality and character: click here
• Other topics of the same kind: click here

About tag questions, here is there the exercise we did in class: click here; but there are many more like these ones: exercise 1      exercise 2    

B2.1 - Telling Stories

In class we've been working with telling stories. Remember the chart I gave you:

• STRUCTURE: 
• introduction: give details about the setting (when, where, who was there...)
• what happened: keep in mind that the readers don't know anything about the story and you should their guide. Don't leave anything for granted.
• ending the story or a kind of conclusion

• GRAMMAR CHARACTERISTICS:
• use past tenses principally (simple, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous) in active and passive if possible
• you may use direct and indirect speech (remember introductory verbs followed by -ing or infinitive: suggest, warn, remind, etc.)

• VOCABULARY:
• variety of sequence connectors: first / then / after ... / later / when / before / finally / in the end
• other connectors: so / as / although / because / not only ... but ... / so - such ... that / however, / in order to / so as to / ...., though / if / as soos as / unless 
• this links could help you: click here
• use of adjectives and adverbs

For having models (literary samples) go to this page: click here

B2.1 - The use of the article in English

This link is related to how to use articles in English: click here.
Apart from that, what we saw in class is that in general the articles must be used in this way:

• THE = the definite article is like a determiner so it's used as THIS or THESE; e.g. Have you seen the new car (this new car)? 
• A/AN = the indefinite aeticle has the meaning of ONE so it goes with countable nouns in singular and it can be taken as an example; e.g. I have a car  but  A car is faster than a bike

You should keep in mind that the use of articles is sometimes very different from Spanish as we never use article when it's referred to a general meaning: I love animals

There are many uses  but the best way to learn how to use articles is by practising so here are there some exercises to work on the grammar point; and remember that some of them have a grammar reference as well:

• exercise 1     exercise 2 (a list of exercises)    exercise 3     exercise 4 (filling the gaps)

Geographical nous are more difficult so practise with these exercises: exercise 1   exercise 2

I hope you won't have more problems with articles.

B2.1 - Modals of ability

In lesson 4A we've dealt with this sort of modals and this is a video that explained it (in a "funny" way I must say!): click here. Then you could work with these exercises:

• exercise 1     exercise 2     exercise 3

Apart from the modals CAN / COULD / TO BE ABLE/UNABLE TO, there are verbs which can be used instead as they have a similar meaning: MANAGE TO+ infinitive and SUCCEED IN+-ing and also *TO BE CAPABLE OF+ -ing (a bit weird). These verbs should be used when you are succeesful by doing the action, when you are very likely to do it. See the examples below:

• This morning I managed to start my car despite the cold
• I had a job interview and I succeeded in getting the post

Do this exercise to practise these two verbs and check the meaning: click here

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B21 - Food + lesson 7

In this lesson you've got vocabulary of food. We should enlarge our vocabulary by using more precise words. Here are some links that might be useful, but you can find plenty of them on your own:

• this link has vocabulartry about ingredients, ways of cooking, stuff for cooking...: click here
• this is a long list for B2-C1; have a look and see which you know and try to learn some more if you can: click here
• this link shows some useful sententces to speak about food: click here

About compartives and superlatives, here are some links for practising:

• this link has an explanation and some exercises (one of them done in class): click here.
• this exercise is about the double compartive (THE MORE .... THE MORE...) click here.

Apart from comparatives and superlatives, we saw the difference between SO and SUCH:

• SO + adjective or adverb: She's so nice that everybody loves her
• SUCH + nouns: She's such a nice girl that everybody loves her

If you want to practise a bit with this grammar point, go to this link.