Verbs, Adjectives, Nouns and Prepositions

Just as I promised, here are the different lists you'll be taking the exam on as soon as we come back from the holidays. Remember: The vocabulary will be asked from Spanish into English.
Verbs and prepositions 1
Verbs and prepositions 2
Verbs and prepositions 3
Nouns and prepositions
Adjectives and prepositions

2ª Evaluación Vocabulary

Here are the links to the vocabulary exercises we've been working on in the different listening tasks. Remember, the vocabulary on how to describe a picture will also be in the test. This time, Spanish into English and English into Spanish will be asked.
Vocabulary exercise: translation
Exercise 2

Asher B. Durand Exhibition

Today we've visited the exhibition: "The American Landscapes of Asher B. Durand" in Fundación Juan March.
Here is the link to the English version of the visit.
I'm looking forward to receiving your comments.

The American Landscapes of Asher B. Durand

Prepositions of movement

A couple of presentations from www.MES-English.com on the prepositions of movement



And the second one:

Prepositions of place

Here are some links to some flashcards using prepositions of place from bogglesworldesl.
Click on the links to see the slides.

prepositions cards1
prepositions cards2
prepositions cards3

And from www.mes-english.com

Watching a picture

Here is the presentation with the vocabulary to help you describe pictures.

Madagascar Presentation

Here is the presentation about Madagascar done by Diana, Rosana, Saray, and Silvana.
Thanks a lot!

The USA Presentation

Here is the presentation about the USA that Miguel Ángel, David and Nacho did for Ampliación.
The text is in this link
Thank you!

Students Presentations

Here is Dominik's and Veronika's presentation about their country. Many thanks!!

Vocabulary from the Listening Exercises

Here are the vocabulary exercises from the listening (BBC Learning English Words in the News)
Vocabulary in English
Vocabulary in Spanish

Halloween e- Card

Click on this link and you'll be able to see a Halloween e-Card.
Enjoy!!
Happy Halloween!

Unit 2 Tell the Truth

Exercise from Burlington books on line. You can do it and check the answers yourself.
Exercise on Modal Verbs

Unit 2 "Tell the Truth" Modal Verbs

Here are some exercises on Modal and Modal perfect Verbs. You can also revise last year's entries for 1º Bachillerato.

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Exercise 8

Unit 2 Tell the Truth

In the following entries you'll find:
Verbs and prepositions
Compound adjectives
Vocabulary from the unit. Translation
Vocabulary from the unit. Definitions

School Trips

These are the school trips we've been lucky enough to take part in. These entries as well as the following ones were part of the work done during our Comenius Project.

Our High School

Here are are some pictures from our school.

School Presentations

Here are a couple more presentations made by the students from 4º ESO during the school years 2008-2009 and 2009-2010.
We hope you enjoy them.

Extracurricular Activities

Sporting Idioms

Child directs air traffic at JFK

From Words in the News:
US officials are investigating how a child was apparently allowed to direct planes at New York's JFK airport.
Pilots heard the voice of a surprisingly young boy instructing them from air traffic control. He had been brought along to work by his father

Reporter:
James Gordon
Report
Words
Text
Vocabulary

Beyoncé "If I were a Boy"

Here are the song's lyrics:

Synonyms and Vocabulary

This is a mixture of the vocabulary from different activities: the listening we did on "Home Schooling", both Dido's and Beyoncé's songs and the topic on honesty.
Vocabulary activity
Home Schooling Vocabulary

Thank you by Dido

Here is the video with the song's lyrics:

Paris gets fizzy water fountain

Here are the links to the vocabulary from the listening exercise.
1.- Translation
2.- Definitions

Paris gets fizzy water fountain

From : "Words in the News"
Summary: Environmentally-friendly people in Paris can now drink free fizzy water from a new public fountain. France is trying to reduce the use of plastic bottles because these require a lot of oil to manufacture and produce thousands of tonnes of waste.

Click here to listen to the text.
Here you can practise some of the vocabulary.
And in this link you can download the text

Unit 1. Perfect Tenses

Apart from perfect tenses, you'll be able to revise the future tenses in the different links.
From "English Grammar on line":
Simple past or past perfect (1)
Simple past or past perfect (2)
Simple past or past perfect (3)
From "Englisch -hilfen.de":
Present perfect progressive
Future perfect
From: "speakspeak.com":
Future perfect#future continuous

Revision of Tenses

I'm inserting here the links to different exercises for you to revise some verb tenses and its uses:
Present simple and continuous; past simple and continuous; present perfect.

Uses of the different tenses

Simple present or present progressive (1)
Simple present or present progressive (2)
Simple present or present continuous (3)

Simple past or past progressive (1)
Simple past or past progressive (2)

Simple past or present perfect
Present perfect versus simple past
Choose the correct form of the verb
Time expressions used with present perfect or simple past

Unit 1.

Here you are! The first post of this school year. Vocabulary exercises for Unit 1.
Exercise 1: Synonyms
Exercise 2: Suffixes
Exercise 3: Adjectives: "ing" endings
Exercise 4: Adjectives: "ed" endings
Exercise 5: Translation

Reported Speech. Explanation.

These are the explanations on how to report statements , questions and commands.
Once you've revised the grammar, you can start doing the exercises that you'll find in the entry that follows this one.

Reported speech

Reporting Verbs
Reporting verbs exercise 2
Statements. Exercise 1
Statements. Exercise 2
Statements. Exercise 3
Statements. Exercise 4
Questions. Exercise 1
Questions. Exercise 2
Questions. Exercise 3
Questions. Exercise 4
Questions. Exercise 5
Requests. Exercise 1
Requests. Exercise 1
Requests. Exercise 1
Mixed exercises. 1
Mixed exercises. 2
Mixed exercises. 3

David Cameron appointed Prime Minister

Watch and listen to David's Cameron acceptance speech. You can have a look at London at dusk as well. It's a beautiful sight. You can read transcript of the speech in the first "comentario"

watch the video

James Morrison

Here is the video from today's song.

Passive Voice. 1º Bachillerato

Here are a few exercises for you to revise the uses and formation of the passive voice. Enjoy it!

simple past tense. Passive form
present perfect passive forms
passive sentences with two objects
passive sentences. Various tenses
passive sentences. Various tenses 2
passive sentences with modals
passive voice in questions

Oil spill approaches Louisiana coast - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Oil spill approaches Louisiana coast - The Big Picture - Boston.com

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Images from the volcano

Have a look at these images from the volcano Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland and read the story. There are 35 amazing pictures.
More from Eyjafjallajokull

1º Bachillerato C Idioms

Here are the idioms you have to study for your English test:
Idioms from the magazine

The Fray "How to save a life"

Here is video with the lyrics of the song we worked on in class: How to Save a life

Unit 7 Noun Suffixes

This is the last (I'd better say "latest") exercise on noun suffixes.
Noun suffixes from workbook

Barack Obama Acceptance Speech

Here is the video of today's listening. The transcript is in the "comentario"

Kathryn Bigelow

Watch and listen Kathryn Bigelow on her Oscar win. We'll be soon working on it! But first you have to watch the car's ad. There's no way I can get rid of it. So, first the car ad then the news.
Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar
And from BBC World:
"Hurt Locker dominates Oscars"
Listen to the Report
Listen to the Words
Now, you can read the Text

Unit 7 Formation of new words

This exercise will help you remember the new words formed by adding suffixes.

The Golden Globes and The Baftas

The other day in class we did a listening exercise on both of these awards, the Golden Globes and the Baftas.
Here are the tapescripts and the recordings, in case you want to practise.
The Golden Globes:
Listen to the pronunciation of the words
Listen to the report
Now, read the text
The Baftas:
Listen to the pronunciation of some of the words
Listen to the report
Now, read the text
Now, have a look at the vocabulary for both listenings
Golden Globes
Baftas

OpenCities

Here is a video on the OpenCities exhibition organised by the British Council at Barajas Airport. Two groups from 1º Bachillerato went to the exhibition.

Having a Ball

Here is the vocabulary from the listening.
Having a Ball. Definitions
Having a Ball. Meanings

Bolt. Listening Comprehension

Watch a little bit of the film "Bolt". Then, answer the listening comprehension questions and check your answers.
Bolt (1)

Present Perfect

When is the present perfect used in English?Here are some exercises to help you out. First, fill in the gaps with the present perfect form of the verbs. Then, do this test and find out how much you know about the present perfect. Try doing this revision test.
Now, let's work with the difference between the simple past and the present perfect.

Verbs followed by gerund or infinitive

Another exercise to remind you how to use certain verbs. Are they followed by gerund or by infinitive?
Tryit!
Exercise: Infinitive or gerund after certain verbs.

Gerund or infinitive

What verb form is the correct on? The gerund or the infinitive?
Do these exercises to get some more practise.
Gerund or infinitive(1)
Gerund or infinitive(2)

Verbs and prepositions

Which preposition should you use after each verb? Are they followed by gerund?
Do this exercise and check it out.