Happy Halloween!!!

• How much do you know about The History of Halloween? 
• What's the meaning of the word "Halloween" and 'Jack O’ Lantern'? 
• Have you ever carved a jack-o'-lantern?

 

CONDITIONALS

Dear students,

This powerpoint is about conditionals. It is explained in a very simple way for you to understand.

Conditionals from Yolanda Giménez

1st conditional
2nd conditional
3rd conditional

Unit 6: PASSIVE VOICE

Dear students,

Have a look at this powerpoint. I hope it helps you to understand The passive voice better. 

Passive grammar powerpoint from Angel Ingenio

• Passive chart - Video
• All passive tenses - more exercises: 1- 2 - 3
• The causative - Video - PP
• Passive Verbs With Two Objects- Some theory for you

Laughter therapy

• What do you know about smiles and laughter?
• What makes you laugh? Why?
• It is said that 'laughter' is the best medicine'. What does that mean? Is it true?

Unit 5: Modal Verbs

Modal verbs from anaojer2

• Revise your modals! Answer key
• Some more exercise to revise your modals: 1, 2, 3, & 4

Reading Unit 4: West Side Story

Do you know this musical?

 

Some activities about the song

UNIT 4: REPORTED SPEECH

Reported Speech Adapted From Carmen Torres de Marga Alfonso

     

Some theory about reported speech.

Basic Exercises on Tense Changes : 

Ex. 1, Ex. 2, Ex. 3, Ex. 4,

Ex 5, Ex. 6, Ex. 7, Ex. 8

Click here for more exercises on Reported Speech

Reported questions and requests 1

Orders, Requests and Questions 2

Orders, requests 3

Reported Speech Questions

Correct the mistakes.

Reported Speech Mixed Exercise 1

Reported Speech. Mixed Sentences 2

Reported Speech. Mixed Sentences 3.

How to tell if your boyfriend is a slob

UNIT 3: Relative Clauses

You can go to the following website to see more grammar and exercices related to Relative clauses: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses#exercises

Some basic explanations in Spanish.( I hope it is useful for you)

Exercises:

           A. Basic relative pronoun usage.
           B. Test Relative Pronouns. (Marina Petchpeng)

Reading unit 2: Survivalists

• Are you ready for the end of the world?
• What is a prepper?
• What do you think of them?
• Do you think preppers are crazy, or do you think they're just showing common sense? Write an opinion essay to answer the question. You should write 120-180 words. Check the following link to know more about opinion essays.

If you want to watch the complete episode of 'Doomsday Preppers' follow the link.

Extra vocabulary activity
Some historical background about the survivalist movement
An example of opinion essay

Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns

Unit 27 reflexive and reciprocal pronouns de Lauren Rein

• Reflexive pronouns
• Reflexive pronouns + verbs
• Personal and reflexive pronouns – me, myself, him, . . . 
• Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre's review

Jane Eyre's summary

Lessons That ‘Jane Eyre’ Can Teach Every 21st Century Woman About How To Live Well

• “You can overcome your past, no matter how bad it is.
• “Your will shall decide your destiny.”
• “Tell the guy you want to date him already!”
• “Loving and respecting yourself is essential, and is the key to     independence.” 
• “Be positive.” 
• “Don’t ever let anyone tell you you can’t do something just        because you’re a woman.” 
• “ are stronger than you think.” 
• “Most true is it that ‘beauty is in the eye of the gazer.” "La belleza reside en la mirada del obervador", "...,en los ojos de quien la mira"
• “The possibilities for life are endless for those who take  risks.”  
• “Don’t be afraid to speak your mind.” 
• “If you choose to get married, do so only for love.” 

Unit 2: Future Tenses

Future tense in English. All different ways of expressing future with a little practice from I.E.S. ALONSO DE COVARRUBIAS

Some notes about Future perfect:

We use the Future Perfect to talk about something that will be completed before a certain time in the future:

We often use by with the Future Perfect to mean ‘before this time’
- by the time + clause (by the time I'm old)
- by the time next week, next year,  next season etc.
- by the end of this month/ year, etc.

and...

- in two years' / a thousand years time...

Let's practise:

Will
Going to
Future continuous
Future perfect
Future mix

Unit 2: Tomorrow's world

Into the future

• Do you know any science fiction stories? What are they about?
• Are science fiction stories usually optimistic or pessimistic? Why?
• In general, do you feel optimistic about the future? Why? Why not?

Emotional Rescue ( The 33)

Who are the men in the photo?
What happened to them? 

Do you remember this story?

Revision of verbal tenses for Bachillerato

table of-english-tenses de Yolanda Giménez

Our friend and partner Mar Pérez has done this interesting powerpoint to revise verbal tenses.
The explanations are in Spanish. I hope it is useful for you.

Verbal Tenses Bachillerato from marperez

First of all, revise your irregular verbs in the following links:

Irregular verbs 1

Irregular verbs 2

Irregular verbs 3

Irregular verbs 4

The 100 most common English irregular verbs

Game: Spin the wheel

Practise your tenses here: Bontips

Past perfect de paly2h

Used to + inf / would + inf / be - get used to + gerund or noun.

Used to-be-used-to-get-used-to de Cristian Correa Berrío

Here you have some grammar notes in Spanish to download:  grammar notes

Do the following exercises if you still have problems with it:   
Used to - Be/Get used to

UNIT 1: Reading (Trapped!) - British vs American English

February 28, 2009 2:00 am

Nick White - "I Got Stuck In A Lift And Ruined My Life"

By Sarah Duguid

British vs American English by Miracleea on Scribd

You can see more words here: EnglishClub

MODALS

Dear students,
Here you have some explanations about modals. Please have it a look and send me an e-mail if you have any questions. This is another excellent powerpoint from the teacher Carmen Torres.

Modal Verbs

View more presentations from Carmen Torres.

PASSIVE VOICE

Dear students,

This is our last grammar point. Have a look at this powerpoint. I's a useful powerpoint by a partner teacher called Mar Pérez. I hope it helps you to understand The passive voice better. The explanations are in Spanish.

Passive Voice

View more presentations from marperez.

RELATIVE SENTECES

Here you have another Carmen Torres powerpoint to revise Relative Sentences, there is an exercise to complete in your notebook.

Relative Sentences

View more presentations from Carmen Torres.

You can go to the following website to see more grammar and exercices related to Relative clauses:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses#exercises