Parts of the House

Rooms in a house vocabulary

Relative pronouns

Here is a post from a colleague's blog that you are sure to find useful.

Compound adjectives

• Compound adjective activities

Teaching through English Certification

Here's the link to the call for Teaching Through English Certification.
In Annex 8, point 13, they include the C1 Certification from the Official School of Languages

Vanessa Mae

THE MAKING OF ME (Science - BBC1) from John Holdsworth on Vimeo.

Cloze practice

 Here's a great site with lots of clozes to practise with:
Cloze practice

Verbs Followed by Gerunds or Infinitives

Verbs Followed by Gerunds or Infinitives
Game

Ideas as Food - metaphor

A video to practise the idioms we saw in this lesson:

Presentation language

Here is a link to signpost language, which
can be really useful when giving presentations

Linking words and phrases.

Here you can download a good pdf file for Linking words and phrases

- Exercise 1

- Exercise 2 

- Linking Expressions

Paris attacks

Here's the link to a short video .
This is a longer one:

Conditionals & I wish...

• Conditionals Game
• Conditionals Game 2
• Game 3

• exercise 1
• exercise 2

I wish ...

• Exercise 1 (PDF)
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3

Reports and Proposals

Some useful expressions for reports & proposals:

• Language 1
• language 2

 An example of proposal:

• Sample

Used to- be used to - get used to

Try this very useful activity on the BBC learning English site.

'Game of Thrones' inspiring a new generation of baby names

Refugees

Recommended sites for improving your vocabulary and listening skills

• Words in the news 
• Lingo hack 
• News Report 
• 6-minute English
• The English We Speak

Crime Never Pays - Oxford Bookworms Collection

Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? This collection contains a wide range of murder stories, from the astute detection of the famous Sherlock Holmes, to the chilling psychology of Ruth Rendell.

This collection contains stories by Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Graham Greene, Angela Noel, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Margery Allingham, and Patricia Highsmith.

Course book

This is our course book:
- Speakout Advanced Student's Book from Pearson Longman

Advanced Video Podcasts for Speakout Advanced

School calendar

Here's the link to download the class calendar

Tips to learn a language

Do you have any tips for learning a language?
A couple of geniuses have some for us:
Watch the video

Happy Summer!

To those of you who passed, congrats!
To those of who didn't, there's plenty you can do to keep practising.

• First of all, try some of these links here

There you can find exercises to practise listening, reading, writing & speaking.

• You can practise your monologue by choosing a topic and preparing some notes in 10 minutes and then speaking and recording it. You listen to your presentation and try to see what sounds good and what needs improvement. 

It's important to be organised: Introduction, ideas and conclusion. Use varied language and structures/tenses. Try not to repeat yourself. Try to give each point the same weight. Look up the pronunciation of words you're not sure about. You can listen to them on sites like www.thefreedictionary.com

• To practise the dialogue, why not meet a class mate or even skype if you can't make it in person?

• To improve your writing, you can try some of the Useful links in this blog or try Successful Writing by Virginia Evans, Express Publishing. There are different levels. Try the Upper-Intermediate one. 
• To improve your listening, try some of the Useful links in this blog or some podcasts from 

  BBC World Service or  BBC Radio 4, for example.

Curso de Perfeccionamiento hacia C1

If you're interested in taking this course, you can apply by following the link .

Unpretty

TLC: Tender Loving Care

Inversion

Negative inversion - practice exercises
Inversion exercise 2
Inversion exercise 3
Inversion exercise 4

Conversation exchange venues

Follow the link

Travelling around the world

This documentary series follows actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on a motorcycle trip around the world. The two friends will travel through such places as Siberia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Alaska, before finally ending the journey in New York. 

Tacky

You can learn some new expressions like:
plaid: a cloth made with a tartan pattern 
to drop names: To casually drop the name of a famous person who you, a friend or relative know, so as to appear cool vicariously because you know a famous person.
uggs & crocs are shoe brands. The former is best known for soft boots like these. 
Crocs are rubber clogs like these.
sequins:disk-shaped beads used for decorative purposes. Like these
resume: CV
YOLO: You Only Live Once

The noughties

Some very short videos connected to the topic:
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
Video 4
Video 5
Video 6
Video 7

Clothes

• Men's clothing
• Women's clothing
• Clothes vocab

Try this cloze

Money

A word, Timothy

From master comedians Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie (of "House" fame):

Phrasals

• Exercises

A couple of not-so-easy games for you: 

• Game 1
• Game 2

EOI Survey

If you'd like to participate, follow the link here

Germanwings flight 4U9525

 

Urban myths

Formal letters

• Writing job applications with examples 
• Another example
• Letters of complaint with examples
• Language for Formal letters
  
  

Passive

Review passive verbs here 
Do a quiz here 
Passive with two objects exercise here
Game 1
Game 2

Taking Turns in Conversations

• Taking Turns in Conversations
• Agreeing/Disagreeing  
• Agreeing
• Disagreeing
• Interrupting Expressions
• Conversation Time Fillers
• Asking for Opinions
• Giving Opinions

Verbs and Prepositions

Try these exercises:

• Link 1
• Link 2
• Play the game

Unit 4 Review Key

Unit 4 Review Key

Final exam

The final written exam will be on June 16th at 3.45pm.

Blackadder is Court-martialed

Captain Blackadder is court-martialed for killing a pigeon leaving George to provide counsel for the
 defence.



- carrier pigeon: a pigeon that has been trained to carry messages.  

MOCK EXAM

	Mon/Wed Class	Tu/Thu Class
READING & LISTENING	February 23rd	February 24th
WRITING	February 25th	February 26th
ORAL	Feb 25th & March 6th	Feb 26th, March 3rd & 5th