On your marks!!

 

 

We are getting ready for the final school rush, especially those students in 2º Bachillerato. Have a look in my site (2º Bachillerato) as I have just prepared for you the last fourteen 2020 Selectivity exams we haven't done so far and that we will be doing in the next two/three weeks in class.

 

 

Some activities for you to do:  

 

• British Chat:  What is the biggest mistake you've ever made?  (BBC Learning English) 

• English in a Minute:    How to use WISH (BBC Learning English)

• A listening exercise for you to do: Compassion fatigue   (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) 

• English in the News: DR Congo: Thousands flee after volcano eruption warning   (BBC Learning English)

 

 

And... Belarus accused of hijacking (News Review) & Talking about CAUSE AND EFFECT (BBC Learning English)

 

Here are also some further practice on the Reported Speech:

60. Put the following sentences into REPORTED SPEECH:

1. "I'm going out now", he said.

2. "I'll be home by nine", he said.   

3. "My young brother wants to be a football player", said Mary.   

4. "Who has been using my typewriter?", said my mother.   

5. "Don't do anything dangerous", said his wife.  

6. "Do you want to see the cathedral?", said the guide.

7. "Close the door", said Albert to Nick.

8. "Take these dictionaries to the English Department", said the teacher to the student.

61. REPORTED SPEECH. Put this dialogue into reported speech:

Arthur‑ What's the matter? Don't cry. Do you want to borrow my handckerchief?

Mary ‑ I'm sorry to be so boring. I haven't seen Bruce for the whole weekend. Did you see him?

Arthur ‑ Yes, I did.

Mary ‑ Where did you see him?

Arthur ‑ I saw him at the dentist's last Thursday.

Mary ‑ He didn't come for me on Thursday. There must be quite a simple explanation.

 

Arthur ...... and told her ..... . Finally he asked her .....

Mary ......  , but  ....    and asked him .....

Arthur answered .....

Then Mary asked him ....

And Arthur said ......

Mary said .... , but that .....

 

However, this is not only a school matter, but also in the world of sport it is time for finals. In football we have two new champions in Europe: Villarreal & Chelsea, being both Manchester United and Manchester city the losers.

 

I wish you have the best results possible!!!

 

 

 

Football legends - Zinedine Zidane   and...   Zinedine Zidane Top 15 Crazy Goals \ Top 15 Super Skills ( The Zinedine Zidane Story | Full Documentary )

 

 

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 210526 / 26 May 2021    >>>  What we've learned from the children of the 90s -    Language related to 'studies'.  Need-to-know language: privileged, beneficial, meticulously, journals & contributing.

 

 

 On your marks, get set, GO!!

Damned 2020 is finally coming to an end!!!

As I said last year, it is a Good time to take stock of the situation!! after this damned leap year (2020, a leap year) . Could you tell me the best things that have happened, if any, this past year and the worst things, which are a lot and quite obvious?

 

Something is for certain, we are much better as a society and as human beings, and we have realised how important little things are. Meeting your friends and relatives, hugging and kissing them, hanging out with them, going to school, breathing fresh air, playing with our friends, attending sport events, attending musical events.... or just going to the cinema are some of the many things we have had real problems to carry out. Or just the freedom to go out or move from one town to another when we were locked down.

We always have to thank whoever for having such facilities and think that perhaps in little hamlets in Africa they are used to have the lack of all these comforts or the lack of water and food.

 

The top 10 words of 2020! Do you know them all?

 

Which ones do you think they are? Try to guess them before watching the video. In the next post I will give you the solution, anyway.

 

Some other activities for you to do: 

• English with Lucy:  20 Weird things ONLY British people do!   (BBC Learning English) 
  

• English in a Minute:   LOOK vs LOOK LIKE   (BBC Learning English)

• Talking about HUMAN EMOTIONS:   Why are young people so lonely?  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 201230 / 30 December 2020    >>>  Bookshop in 'fairy-tale' tweet -    Language related to 'the unusual'.  Need-to-know language: quaint, quirky, forlorn & weird.

 

Stories for Christmas

This term we have read in the level of 4º ESO the fabulous story of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. There are so many touching stories around this issue.

 

 

 

Have a look at this video and tell the story behind using PAST TENSES  >>>

An emotional Christmas ad that will move you to tears (2020 DocMorris)

 

 

 

and.... The Best Most Touching Christmas Adverts That Will Melt Your Heart   &   LOVE IS A GIFT - Christmas Short Film  

 

 

Here's a nice Christmas story I have come across  >>   White Christmas  by Eric Clapton (with lyrics)

 

Some activities for you to do: 

• Listening exercise:  99-year-old man raises millions   (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

• English Grammar Lesson with examples & quizz:  USED TO / USE TO / BE USED TO / GET USED TO / WOULD DO   (English with Lucy) 
  

• English in a Minute:   'My own' vs 'On my own'  //  If vs Whether (BBC Learning English)

• A listening exercise for you to do: Dealing with mass unemployment   (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

 

 

 

Football  >>  30 CRAZY Goals in Football 2020 

 

 

 

In your comments you can tell me what the best goal is for you or a Christmas story, or just try to tell me about one of the Christmas stories told above in the adverts.