Preparing the final exam

If you want to practise with the type of examns of certificate, here you are a good page with plenty of information about them; click here. However, you should bear in mind that your level is between NB2 (A2) and NI2 (B1) but this could be a way of preparing your final exam due to the fact that many of the exercises are similar to the ones you'll have in your own exam; the problem is the level.
If you want to practise with listening, remember you can use this page and if you want to practise writing, write a report (like the sampel you have in your class book) about a film you've seen recently.
See you next week!

Indirect Speech

When we work with this topic we think of "transforming" direct into indrect speech or vice versa, but we should take into account how frequent it is in our daily life, especially when we "reproduce" a previous conversation. Let's see an example:
"Yesterday I saw Peter and he told me he was working in another place and that he wanted to move his apartment for a big house in the countryside. He said he had met a girl two years ago and he wanted to get married soon so he was looking for a new house. I gave him my congratulations and asked him if I knew the girl but he said he didn't think so".
We also worked in class with the structure: COMPLEMENT + INFINITIVE; let's see some examples:

• "Don't close the window, will you?" --- She asked me not to close the window
• "Can you come with me, please?" --- He asked me to go with him

To finish with, pay attention to the use of TELL and SAY; the first one is used with personal complement while the second goes without it as you can see in these examples:

• Tom told her/Susan he had to work until late
• Tom said he had to work until late

Here you are some exercises to work with this: exercise 1   exercise 2    exercise 3    exercise 4

Remember the exception of using TELL without personal pronouns: to tell the truth, to tell a lie, to tell a story/a tale, to tell a joke.

That's English! - Module 6 - Unit 10: Stories and Legends

In this unit we are dealing with past tenses in different ways: past simple, past continuous, past perfect, used to and would. If you need more information about used to and would, go to this link
What is the main difference between WOULD and USED TO?

• WOULD is used in repeated actions in the past and it's only possible with static verb

• USED TO is referred to a habit in the past that you don't do any more.

When I was a little girl I used to go to the cinema with my parents and we would eat pop corn while we were seing the film.

I hope it's clear but don't worry too much; you'll be able to use it little by little.

That's English! Module 6 - Unit 9: Theatre

The title of this lesson is "The World Is a Stage" and it's about theatre. Apart from the vocabulary specific about this topic and some other shows, you can get words connected to expressing satisfacction or critisicism. As a summary here you are the principal adjectives used for doing this: 

Really possitive	Rather negative	Possitive
Amazing Brilliant Outstanding Fantastic Great Terrific Extraordinary Gorgeous	Awful Dreadful Rubbish Disappointing Dull / Plain   Boring Annoying Worthless	Nice Amusing Entretaining Witty Clever Enjoyable Pleasant Fine

Remember these adjectives can be used in other contexts or for other general comments such as literature, painting, movies, etc.

To finish with, if you want to have a good idea about how to write a review, here you have a link which is quite useful; click here. 

Education

We have started lesson 7A which is about Education. Here you have a video with a documentary about education; it's a bit long and not very easy but quite interesting: click here. If you want to increase your vocabulary, go to this link with drawings: here

Coming back after my workshop

I've got so many ideas to practise with you... We are coming back to class but we must take into account that we are finishing the course in few weeks so we should make an effort.
The other thing is that I want you to have another test at the end of this term, which means next week! so we have to hurry up this week to prepare the exam.
See you in class since tomorrow morning!

That's English! Module 6 - lesson 6

Hi, everybody!
This week we've got an important lesson because giving your opinion is a very natural way of speaking and it's pretty frequent to use it in your daily life. Let's see some pages to work with this topic:

• A list with common expressions and an exercise to practise; click here
• Another list but you can see the distinctions among ways of expressin opinions; click here
• This is to express agreement, partial agreement and disagreement; click here
• Video oriented to pass an exam but it's useful but rather long, to tell you the truth; click here
• This PDF is to show you how to use these expressions while you are writing; click here

But I'm more interested in giving you practical exercises such as these ones:

• Work with your partner (if possible)about these discussions; you must have a different point of view supported by reasons (even if you don't agree with your part in the dicussion): 
• cats or dogs for a pet, what's better, more practical, nicer...?
• a car or a bike in the city; your own transport or public transport
• a house or a flat; living in the outskirts or in the city centre.
• using cash or credit card; buying in a shopping centre or in small shops.
• You can do the same exercise by writing your point of view.

Another important point in this lesson is the use of question tags; here you are a good explanation, click here or here if you prefer a video; but if you want to practise, click here. 

The most difficult thing is to do it while speaking and to give the right entonation. You can do it at home by recording to yourself; try it and you'll see how you improve.

Just to finish with, here you have a video about body language; I think it's quite interesting so click here; this other video is also quite interesting, but a bit longer; have a try and click here

See you in class!