MODAL VERBS

Dear students, here is a chart of modal verbs. Please, download it and bring it to class, as we will be studying them soon.

See you.

INDIRECT QUESTIONS

Dear students,

here is a worksheet on indirect questions. Please, download it and do the exercise, as we will be revising it in class soon.

Indirect Questions Sheet


Bye!

EXAM PRACTICE

Dear students,

Here is a worksheet you can use to practise for the grammar and vocabulary test. If you have any doubts, please ask me in class.

PRACTICE TEST


See you.

DESCRIBING PICTURES

Dear students,
Click on the link to get some tips on how to describe a picure.

DESCRIBING A PICTURE

Now, here are some photographs (well, one is actually a drawing) which you can use to practise describing pictures. Before you attempt to describe them, read the "picture description tips" in the link above.


Remember that you can ask me anything you need about this in class at anytime.

REPORTING VERBS: ALTERNATIVE VERSION + EXERCISES

Dear students,
Here are alternative notes on the most commonly used reporting verbs. Insttead of arranging them according to the verb pattern, I have arranged them according to the function they perform.

REPORTING VERBS (alternative version)

And here is a VERY USEFUL exercise that you all should do to practise using them.

REPORTING VERBS EXERCISE

I hope you find all this useful.

VERB PATTERNS IN REPORTED SPEECH.

Dear Students, here is a chart with the most important reporting verbs and their patterns. Please download it and keep it for reference.

Verb Patterns in Reported Speech

And now here are some exercises to practise.

Exercises

Bye!

NOTES AND EXERCISES ON REPORTED SPEECH.

Dear students, here are some notes on Reporrted Speech. Please, keep them as reference and ask me anything you may not understand.


REPORTED SPEECH NOTES

Now, here are some links to the exercises you need to do. Please, do them and tell me in a post how many answers you got right in the first place, just like in the example:

Name: Jose Angel Ballesteros
Score: Statements, 20/20;   Questions: 20/20;   Requests & orders: 20/20;    Mixed Exercise: 20/20

STATEMENTS

QUESTIONS

REQUESTS AND ORDERS

MIXED EXERCISE

REPORTED SPEECH FLIPPED LESSON

Dear students.
We will be working with flipped lessons. You need to attend this lesson on "reported speech" at home, anytime it suits you before the deadline. Of course you have to watch and listen carefully, as it is an important lesson. You should even take notes!

Please,  click on the link below and have a close look at the video. We will then revise any possible doubts in class.

 Reported Speech


Now, click on the following link and do the activity on reported speech to practise the lesson.

Exercise

STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS

Dear students. Here is a lyrics game. Do you remember the expression "To stand up for your rights" which we came across in class? Well, here is the song I mentioned, but you need to play the lyrics game. Just click on the link, then click on "Pulse aquí para iniciar el juego", now click on "quizás en otro momento". then play the video and try to fill in the missing words.

Have fun!!

GET UP, STAND UP

LISTENING: The Filter Bubble

Dear students,
Here is a listening about how websites and social media work. Here are the instructions:
- The listenign has three exercises:
           Preparation (before you listen),
           TRUEvs.FALSE  (listening)
           Matching. (listening)
- When you answer each exercise, click on "FINISH" to get your score.
- Once you have finished the exercises, post a comment here with your name and your score, for example:
Name: Jose Angel Ballesteros
Score: Preparation: 8 out of 8 (100%)
           TRUEvs. FALSE: 8 out of 8 (100%)
           Matching: 6 out of 6 (100%)

Click on the image below to go to the listening.

IRREGULAR VERBS

Dear students, here is the list of the basic irregular verbs.


LIST OF IRREGULAR VERBS

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CORRECTION KEY BTO2

Dear students, here are the correction keys to the exercises in the book and workbook.

VOCABULARY (BOOK & WORKBOOK)

TENSES (WORKBOOK PAGE 11)

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Bto2. Workbook correction key

Dear students,

Here is the key to correct the exercises in page 11 in the workbook (just click on the link below). If you have any questions or doubts, please don't hesitate to ask me in class.

workbook key


See you in class.

Gerund or Infinitive? (II)

And now, let's keep working on those gerunds and infinitives. Here is another exercise for you to practise.


EXERCISE GERUND VS. INFINITIVE

Gerund or Infinitive?

My dear students, here you have some notes about the uses of the infinitive and the gerund. We will discuss themn in class, but you can download them from this entry if you want.


  GERUND VS. INFINITIVE

Daily Life over the World

Dear students, here is a worksheet about what some students like you do everyday in different countries. Please, download it, as we will be working on it in class soon. Bye!

English Tenses Booklet

Dear students, I am sure you already know everything in this "English Tenses Booklet", and that you probably have a lot of material on tenses. Anyway, I think this may be useful for some of you, so here it is in case you need it.


ENGLISH TENSES


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The Wine Merchant

Dear Students, here is the worksheet, Please, downloadit, print it and bring it to class.

 THE DEATH OF THE WINE MERCHANT


See you.

EXERCISES ON RELATIVES

Dear students, here are the exercises on relatives.

Update: I have uploaded a new set of exercises below the first one. Now you sould be ready to do all exercises on both sets. Please, work on them and bring them to class so we can correct them and clarify any possible doubts.


RELATIVES EXERCISES.

RELATIVE EXERCISES II


RELATIVE EXERCISES CORRECTION KEY


RELATIVE EXERCISES II CORRECTION KEY

Bye!

PEvAU Test

Dear students,

As I said, here is a PEvAU test. Choose one of the options, and complete all exercises in 90 minutes, as indicated (including the writing). Then, feel free to ask any questions in class.


PEVAU TEST

CORRECTION KEY

See you.

RELATIVE CLAUSES

Dear students. This is the last grammar we are going to study this year, so please, download and bring these notes to class so we can work on them.


RELATIVE CLAUSES NOTES


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PASSIVE WITH NOUN CLAUSES EXERCISES

Dear students, here are the exercises I promised. Please, do as many of them as you can. We will finish them in class tomorrow.


PASSIVE WITH NOUN CLAUSES EXERCISES


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SPEAKING: A TV COMMERCIAL

Dear students, here is a link to the information you need in order to make your T.V. commercials. Please, read them carefully and feel free to ask any questions about it.

TV COMMERCIAL

Bye.

PASSIVE VOICE WITH NOUN CLAUSES

Dear students,

here are the notes on how to make passive sentences from active ones containing a subordinate noun clause. Please, download them and bring them to class so that we can discuss them.


PASSIVE VOICE WITH NOUN CLAUSES

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PASSIVE VOICE EXERCISES II

Dear students,

Here is the second set of exercises on the passive voice. Please, do them thoroughly, as we will correct them in class as soon as possible.


PASSIVE EXERCISES II


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PASSIVE VOICE EXERCISES

Dear Students,

Here are the exercises on the passive voice.


PASSIVE EXERCISES

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PEvAU PRACTICE: "VIRTUAL REALITY"

Dear students,

It is time to intensify our practice of PEvAU tests. Here is a test from 2017. Please, do it at home (Remember you have 90 minutes altogether). I will post the KEY with the answers next week, so you can check your performance.


PEvAU VIRTUAL REALITY


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PASSIVE VOICE

Dear students, here are the notes on the passive voice. Please, download them and bring them to class.

PASSIVE VOICE


Bye.

"INMERSIÓN LINGÜÍSTICA" GRANTS

Dear students, here is the information about the grants I told you about in class. Please, feel gree to ask me any questions about it.

The requirements to apply are:

• Date of birth between 1 January 1999 and 31 December 2002.
• Have been given a grant in the academic year 2018/19 by the Ministry of Education.
• Must be a student in:
  • Bachillerato
  • Enseñanzas profesionales de música y danza
  • Grado medio de Formación Profesional
  • Grado medio de artes plásticas y diseño
  • Grado medio de enseñanzas deportivas
  • Enseñanzas de idiomas de nivel intermedio o avanzado
• Must have passed all subjects in the previous academic year and must have a grade of  7,50 in English.
• Applicants with a higher grade in English will be given preference. 1.5 points will be added to new applicants.
• Deadline: 10 April.

Applications will be done online. After filling the form, applicants will get a template or certificate which they will have to print and teke to their school, so that their acadeic information can be filled in. Once they have this certificate, they will scan it and attach it to their application using the same site. Only then the application process will completed. Consequently, it is importatant that all paperwork is started in time, so that the whole process can be completed before the deadline.

To go to the site of the Ministry click here 

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COMPILED "USE OF ENGLISH" EXERCISES

Dear students, here is the worksheet you can work on in case it is necessary.


WORKSHEET

CORRECTION KEY

See you.

RIOTINTO ACTIVITIES

Dear 1st ESO students,

here are the activities that you have to do IF YOU DIDN'T COME TO THE EXCURSION. Those who came don't have to do it because you already did the activities while in Riotinto.

ACTIVITIES

Good Bye

EXERCISES ON CONDITIONALS

Dear students,

As I said in class, here are some exercises to practise conditional sentences. Please, start doing them and bring them to class so we can correct your work and keep going ahead.


CONDITIONALS EXERCISES



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NEGATIVE PREFIXES

Dear students, here are the exercises about negative prefixes. Do them online to practice and don’t forget to click on the “check” button once you’re done.


Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

CONDITIONALS

Dear students, here are the notes on conditional sentences. Please, bring them to class tomorrow.


CONDITIONAL NOTES

KEY TO EXERCISES

My dear students,

Since we haven't had the time to correct all the exercises in unit 3, I am posting here the key to the ones we didn't correct. Of course, it is obligatory to do the exercises before you look at the key.

KEY TO EXERCISES

Bye!

NARRATIVE STRUCTURE

Dear students, here is the diagram showing the structure of narrative texts. Click on the link below to watch the Coca-Cola spot, then fill the write the corresponding events of the story in the different sections of the narrative structure.

And here is the link to the Coca-Cola commercial.

Finally, I think it is interesting to pay attention to the soundtrack of the spot. Here are the lyrics of the spot version and of the original song.

LYRICS

See you in class.

PEvAU TEST

Dear students,
here is a PEvAU test that we will work on in class next week. Please, print it and bring it to class on Tuesday 5th of February.

PEvAU TEST

Bye!

LISTENING: unusual British Festivals

Dear students, here is an activity for you to practise your listening skill. It is OBLIGATORY to do it and then post a comment with your results. Please be aware that if you don’t post your results due note will be taken. You have to do the “preparation” exercise before you listen, and then the two comprehension exercises (“check your understanding”).

Here is the link:
FESTIVALS

MODAL PERFECTS MADE EASY

My dearest 2nd bachillerato students,

here is an easy explanation of modal perfects that may help you understand what we studied in class. I strongly advise you to read it carefully and even to download it and keep it for reference.


MODAL PERFECTS MADE EASY

Bye bye!

MODAL VERBS EXERCISES

My dearest 2nd Bachillerato students,

Here are some exercises for you to practise the use of modal verbs and perfect modals. Please, print these worksheets and bring them to class.

EXERCISE 1


EXERCISE 2


I'll see you in class.

CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME

"Cant Find My Way Home" is a song written by Steve Winwood and first published in 1969. Eric Clapton was in those days the "God" of guitar playing and had just split up with the "supergroup" CREAM because of fights among its members. Clapton met Steve Winwood and they started writing songs, so Winwood dissolved his band, TRAFFIC, to form together BLIND FAITH. They recorded just one album, also called "Blind Faith", which is - just like everything Clapton and Winwood were doing in those times - key to the introduction of blues-based music in Europe (and in America for that matter), and to the development of modern music. Not as well known to the general public (at least in Spain) as the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton is a key figure in the history of modern music, as he has always been in love with American "roots" music, especially Blues, and has used it as the basis for his own musical production, making a huge contribution to the development of Rock and Blues throughout his life.
In this live version you can see Winwood and Clapton reunited for a performance of this beautiful song at the "Crossroads" festival in 2007. A the back you'll be able to see two guitar heroes of more recent times: Derek Trucks, a master of slide guitar, and Doyle Bramhall. Enjoy it.

KEY TO EXERCISES FOR BACHILLERATO 2

Dear students, here is the key to the exercises in the book and workbook. Please, don't hesitate to ask me any questions regarding these exercises (or anything else).

CLICK HERE FOR THE KEY

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MODAL VERBS

Dear students, here is a chart of modal verbs. Please, download and print it so we can study it in class.

See you.