Compound Adjectives

Compound Adjectives

Exercises1

Exercises2

Compact nouns tests

Amount of, number of or quantity of?

Here's a useful article on the differences between those 3 expressions

Do & Make

Do & Make

Lay and lie

Explanation

Exercise

Verbs of the senses

Report sample answer

Report

Ready for cae ss p 34. reports from tomeualoy

Food for Thought

Metaphors galore!

Inversion in conditional sentences

• Inversion in conditional sentences
• Omitting "if"

Myers-Briggs Personality Test

Try the Myers-Briggs Personality Test!

Writing a report

• How to Write a Report 
• Example 
• Writing Task: An international research group is carrying out an investigation into the housing situation for young people around the world. You have been asked by the group to write a report about your country, including the following points:
  • the different housing options available in your country for young people in their early twenties.
  • the problems faced by young people with each option
  • possible future changes in the housing situation for young people in your country  
  • Write your report 
    
    Deadline: November  17^th & 18^th
    
    Speakout Advanced p.73

Speaking Exchange

FCB Brasil and the CNA language school network are launching the Speaking Exchange project, which connects CNA students in Brazil with Americans living in retirement homes. This meeting is carried out via an exclusive digital tool that uses video chat technology to bring the students face to face with Americans.
What do you think about this initiative?

Advanced Video Podcasts

Advanced Video Podcasts for Speakout Advanced

Ex-IMF head Rodrigo Rato told to pay €3m court bond in Spain bank fraud inquiry

Vocab:
- court bond: A sum of money paid as bail or surety
- IMF: International Monetary Fund
- lavish: extravagant; prodigal; wasteful

Use Skype to practise your English

Do you wish you could practise your English with other speakers?

There are some websites where you can find yourself a language exchange or a penpal like:

 - conversationexchange.com or 

 - lingobongo.com

Alternatively, if you don't like the idea of talking to strangers, you can chat on Skype with a classmate.

You only need an internet connection and a microphone connected to your computer.

Do give it a try. You no longer need to travel around the world to talk to English-speakers.

Phone boxes listening

Some students asked to be able to listen to the text again, so here it is: 

Phone boxes listening

Mailing list

To join the mailing list for your class, don't forget to email me your name and class.

What You Need to Know About Ebola

The facts about ebola, one of the world’s deadliest diseases that’s making a stand in West Africa.


Vocabulary:

- host: an animal or plant on which a smaller animal or plant is living as a parasite
-  Zaire [zɑːˈiːəʳ]
- outbreak: if there is an outbreak of fighting or disease in an area, it suddenly starts to happen
- fatality:  a death in an accident or a violent attack
- diarrhoea British English , diarrhea American English
- austere: plain and simple and without any decoration
- a glimmer of hope: a small sign of hope 
- W.H.O.:World Health Organisation
- breakthrough: an important new discovery in something you are studying, especially one made after trying for a long time

Writing an application letter

I'd like you to write an application letter for next week (see the Composition calendar), so here are some links to information about the format and some examples:

-Cover Letter Outline 

-Example Cover Letters 

-Cover Letter Example

-Job Application Letter Format  

-Sample Job Application Letter

-Application for the Post of Management Trainee

Spain Exposes Holes in West’s Preparations for Treating Ebola

Read the New York Times article here.

Ask the Madrid Department of Education to offer C1 and C2 certifications

Ask the Madrid Department of Education to offer C1 and C2 certifications

I'm back

I'll be back today even if my voice isn't. I feel a little better.
So see you later.

No class today

I'm ill and still without a voice, so there'll be no lesson today.
Hopefully, I'll be better by Monday. I'll keep you posted.

Por el reconocimiento de los títulos de las Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas de España en la Unión Europea

Sign the petition!

Por el reconocimiento de los títulos de las Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas de España en la Unión Europea

September exam

Written Exam -1/9/14, at 3.45pm, classroom 5

Oral Exam - 9/9/14, starting at 4pm, classroom 3

Conversation exchange

Why not get yourself a conversation exchange?

Click here!
or here

C1 course

If anyone is interested in taking the C1 course next year, here's the info.

ERROR CORRECTION FOR BOOK REPORTS

Here is feedback on some of the mistakes from your book reports:

 
Click

Common Mistakes

Common Mistakes (version 4) from Peter Mangiaracina

Good luck!

Just wanted to wish you the best of luck in the exam!
Remember there are lots of sites to keep practising. Check here.
And you can try exams from different communities to keep your hand in.
To work on your vocabulary I'd like to recommend this great site.

Footballers' salaries

Clarke Carlisle, Chairman of the Professional Footballer's Association, says the money footballers get paid should be seen in context of the supply and demand in the multi-billion pound industry. He argues that the perception of footballers as not worthy of large salaries should be challenged, and that players work just as hard to stay at the top of their game as actors or businessmen who earn similar amounts. He tells Stephen Sackur that big budget transfers will continue as long as the massive sums of money flood into the game.

ADVANCED 2 FINAL EXAM

Written Exam

       June 18th, at 3.45pm

• 4-6.15pm class: Room 2
• 6.30-8.45pm class: Room 3

Oral Exam

June 24th & 25th, starting at 4pm  

End of course

The last class will be on the 26th of May.

Lookalikes

If you have ever been told you have a lookalike, and you would like to find yours, there is a Canadian artist who might be able to help you. Francois Brunelle is connecting doppelgangers from across the globe, for a book and art tour. Al Jazeera sent Daniel Lak to Montreal to find his.

Thank you Inma!

Tate Modern is 10

The programme, dedicated to Tate Modern's 10th birthday, seeks to understand how the institution has become one of the most successful modern art museums in the world.
In class we saw from 1:45 to 4:14.

Advise/Recommend/Suggest-Common Mistakes

UNREAL PAST

• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2

World Book and Copyright Day 2014

The history of the written word is the history of humanity. The power of books to advance individual fulfilment and to create social change is unequalled. Intimate and yet deeply social, books provide far-reaching forms of dialogue between individuals, within communities and across time. As Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for attending classes, said in her speech at the United Nations: Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons.
- See more at: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrations/international-days/world-book-and-copyright-day-2014#sthash.ko0bCl1k.dpuf

Belfast centre remembers Titanic 100 years on

Some vocab: 

• dungeon: A dark, often underground chamber or cell used to confine prisoners.
• poignant: sharply distressing or painful to the feelings 
• destitute: Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished. 
• shilling: a former British and Australian silver or cupronickel coin worth one twentieth of a pound, not minted in Britain since 1970
• dinner suit: formal suit for evening events and social functions.

Contrast linkers

Future exercises

• Future
• Future forms
• FUTURE TENSES 
• Game