Monday, April 18, 2011

Have you ever been jealous?

Listen while you read these "Express English" interviews about jealousy.


If you had three wishes, what would they be?

What did people in London answer when the BBC asked them these questions? Listen and read this "Express English" round of interviews.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Wouldn't it be nice?

Watch while you read and sing the lyrics! What other songs with conditionals do you know? Send me the link -or simply the name- and I'll post it!

"Essential Grammar in Use", 3ª Edición en español

Here's the list of contents from the Cambridge grammar book that you should go over. Take some time during the Easter break to check which ones you have done, and which ones you still have to do -some of them correspond to things we haven't seen in class yet, though.

What would you do if ...?

... if you won 10,000 dollars, pounds, euros, pesetas, yens...? Watch these interviews and get some inspiration, in case it happens! (You never know!). Well, now seriously, copy down all of the things the people on the video would do, and bring the list to class on Monday.



Second chance for First Conditionals!

If you missed the classes on conditionals and/or if you want to reinforce it, check with Jennifer, not our Jennifer at the EOI, but the online teacher who will send me to the dole queue ;)



Thursday, April 07, 2011

If I were a boy ...

Watch this song by Beyoncé to believe you can really say "If I were ..."

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Vocabulary on "Education"

After today's class with the language assistant, you may want to extend your vocabulary on education. Click here and here to get what you want.

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

If something can go wrong, it will

Would you like to read the Murphy's Laws you wrote in class yesterday? Click on the t-shirt above.

Trying to remember

Read (and try to memorize) this story. A student from your class wrote it, using all the verbs in your list which are followed by to-infinitive. He made it up (=invented it) to try to remember the list of verbs: A story to remember

Question: have you noticed there are other uses of to-infinitive in the story? Send a comment with the 2 examples and explain why you use to-infinitive.
 Challenge: can you write a story using the verbs which are followed by "-ing"? E-mail it to me.