These are the bare facts

 

 

 

Facts are facts, and you cannot disguise them. We see it everyday in our lives. Countries attack other countries and they say it is on behalf of the freedom of the other country's citizens. Nonsense! 

 

Some articles for you to read about the issue: 

• US and Israel strike Iran as Netanyahu says ‘many signs’ Khamenei ‘no longer alive’ (The Guardian)

• What we know so far about the US-Israel attacks and Iran's retaliation (BBC News)

• Attacks on Iran trigger global Shiite protests (DW News)

 

 

It is said that there are different types of English teachers, some better than the others, but the bare facts are that there is only one English language and that at the end of the road you will have the same control for every student in our secondary schools. And that will the moment when we will learn what we have really learned.

 

My congratulations to our student Martín Toledo (4º ESO A) for having just passed his B1 in English (Cambridge) obtaining excellent results in certain skills (he even got a B2 level in the Reading skill). Facts are facts!!!

 

🔊FULL EPISODE: Bubblevicious/The Bare Facts | Powerpuff Girls | Cartoon Network

 

 

The English We Speak:   Go through a rough patch  (BBC Learning English)  

 

 

 

Beating Speaking Anxiety:   I'm scared I won't forget the joke  (BBC Learning English)   >>>>  How to show your funny side in English     

 

Learning English from the News:   Violence after Mexican drug leader killed  (BBC Learning English) 

 

 

  Here's my musical hint for today:    Riding with the King by BB King & Eric Clapton. And here's a version with the lyrics for you to sing along.

 

 

Learning English Grammar (I was thinking..., Let's not..., Might I suggest...):   Making suggestions  (BBC Learning English) 

 

Here are some more activities for my students:

• Listening exercise for you to do:   Dreaming of being a chef  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)  

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  Real Easy English: Talking about BIRTHDAYS  (BBC Learning English) 

  
  

• Office English: Do you always follow the rules?  (BBC Learning English) 

• English in a Minute: Phrases with HIT  (BBC Learning English) 

     

English with Lucy: If you laugh, you are fluent  

 

 

 

"All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl"

Learning English with  SUITS   -  Rachel discovers Mike's secrets

 

 

 

Old stories about Nadal:

Nadal vs Wawrinka  - Full Match Nadal vs Wawrinka 2017 Men's final | Roland-Garros

 

 

Teenagers' bedrooms: the key to success?

 

 

Are our teenagers' bedrooms suitable for what they have to do? Can they study properly? Can they sleep well? I'm afraid not. And that is the main cause of the problems they have nowadays to concentrate, to rest, to study... What is your bedroom like?

 

Work in the future:   Does office design affect your work?  (BBC Learning English)

 

Don't take my word for it and read some articles about the issue:

• These teens turned their rooms into tech-free zones. This was the result (BBC News)

• Teenagers' sleep quality and mental health at risk over late-night mobile phone use (The Guardian)

• Teen Sleep: What Is It Good For? Absolutely Everything (TED talk)

•  Get out of my room! The truth about a teenager's bedroom (BBC Radio Four)

 

Learning English from the News:   Iran protesters killed  (BBC Learning English)  

 

 

 

The Reading Room:   Britain celebrates 200-year anniversary of passenger trains   (BBC Learning English) 

 

 

  It's been a long day without our great master and we all hope to see him in a better place one day:    See You Again by Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth. And here's a version with the lyrics for you to sing along.

 

  

 

Learning English Grammar (ask someone out, had been broken into, get on with someone, hit it off):   First dates  (BBC Learning English) 

Here are some more activities for my students:

• Listening exercise for you to do:   Is social media dead?  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)  

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  Real Easy English: Talking about DRINKS  (BBC Learning English)  

  
  

• The Listening Room: Can people be freed from peanut allergy?  (BBC Learning English) 

• English in a Minute: Phrases with 'grass'  (BBC Learning English) 

     

Extra activities for my students in...

....1º ESO

5.- Translate into English :

 1) ¿Cómo es la señora Harrison? Es gorda y fea.

 2) Tengo mucha sed.   

 3) Aquellos vasos están en la estantería,¿dónde está el vino?

 4) Hay carne en el plato,pero no hay leche en el vaso.

 5) ¿Tienes buen vino? Sí,tenemos un vino muy bueno.

 

19. TENSES. Put in the verbs into their correct tenses.

"I (write) ______ a book about voodoo," she (say) ________. "Everyone here (talk) ________ about you. They all (say) ______ you (be) ________ the best houngan in Haiti. They (say) _____ you (be) ______ a very strong and good houngan, and that you always (help) ________ people." he (say) ________. "(come) ______ into the house, Dr Jackson. Let me get you a drink and we can talk."

41. Make sentences in the PRESENT SIMPLE (routines) or the PRESENT CONTINUOUS (actions happening now)with the clues given:

1. How often / your brother / play / basketball ?   

2. He / play / basketball / twice a week    

3. you / study / English / now ? No, I / not study / English / now.

4. Teenagers / not get up / early / on Sundays.   

...2º ESO 

45. Fill in the gaps with the comparative forms of superiority or the superlatives of the adjectives in brackets:

1. Mike is (old) .......................... than Pete. In fact he is (old) ............................... of the four.

2. Pete is (slim) .......................... than Mike, but Kate is (slim) .............................. of the four.

3. Kate is (tall) ........................... than Pete and Trig is (short) ............................... of the four.

4. I think Kate is (intelligent) ...................................... than the boys. In fact Pete is (silly) ........................................... of the four.

5. Trig looks (happy) .............................. of the four, but it isn't (happy) ........................ than me.

22. Fill in the gaps with one of these words:  dangerous, best,  worse, most,  than, more, longer

1. Big cities are ______________ polluted ___________ small towns.

2. Rock music is the ____________ exciting music in the world.

3. Snakes are more  ______________ and ______________ than cows.

4. I think Ronaldinho is the _______________ footballer in the world.                         

42. Fill in the gaps with: TOO  ,   SO   ,   ENOUGH  and then add exclamatory sentences using the information given.

1. That book is ____________ high. You are not tall _____________.

2. Mbappe is __________ fast, but he hasn't got ______________ golden balls!

3. Albert is ___________ strict and he is not kind ____________, but he plays tennis _________ well.

4. There is __________ ice-cream for all my cousins and it is ________ hot today.

5. Those trousers are _________ long for you, I need some shorter ones.    

43. Complete the sentences with the comparative form or the superlative of the adjectives in brackets.

 

1. My mother is usually the _______________ person of my family when I don't make my bed, but I am often _________________ than her when she tidies my bedroom. (angry)

2. Asensio was not the ______________ player in the Olympics, but I’m sure I am not _______________ than him. (fast)

3. My holidays this summer are _______________ than when we went to Honolulu, but I think next year our holidays will not be the _______________ holidays in our lives.(boring)

4. Bob is ___________ than Corvax, but who is the __________________ student in your class? (brave)

5. The Queen is _______________ than the Princess, but Muzzy is ___________________ creature in this cartoon. (fat)

 

52. Write sentences with the words below using the COMPARATIVE OF EQUALITY and INFERIORITY.

1. Pete is 1m60 tall. Frank is 1m60 tall  _____________________________

Joe is 1m55 tall   _________________________________________

2. Ann got a 9 in the exam and Jane a 7.

(lazy) __________________________________________________

(hardworking)   _________________________________________          

53. Complete the sentences with the adverbs that come from the adjectives in brackets.

1. Did you sing (bad) _________________ ?

2. I rode my bike (careful)   ___________________ because it was raining (heavy) ________________ .

3. We are doing quite (good) _______________ in the test because we studied (hard)   _______________________ at the weekend.                               

 

 

 

English with Lucy: If you can understand this FAST English,   your English is ADVANCED (C1-C2 Listening Test)  

   

 

 

"All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl"

Learn English with    Zootopia   

 

 

John McEnroe vs Jim Courier  Iconic Full Match | 1992 US Open Round 4  

 

 

 

Project on A Christmas Carol by Martín Toledo (4º ESO A)

 

 

The Australian Open has just started!!! 

And here's Álcaraz winning his first match.

Carlos Alcaraz vs Adam Walton | Round One | Australian Open 2026 Extended Highlights 🇦🇺

The importance of a hundredth

 

Unfortunately just by a hundredth our 2º Bachillerato student Fran Toledo, who got a 13,675 in the Selectivity exams, wasn't able to be among the 30 best students in the province of Granada. What a pity!!! He deserved it.

 

Congratulations, anyway!!!

 

 

 

 

 

This experience should show our students the right way to face the coming school years. 

 

Real Easy English:  Talking about WORRIES  (BBC Learning English)

 

Talking about worries, here are some articles about the conflict in the Middle East: 

How effective was the US attack on Iran’s nuclear sites? A visual guide (The Guardian)

US asks China to stop Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz (BBC News)

How Trump quietly made the historic decision to launch strikes in Iran (CNN) 

US attacks Iran with strikes on 3 nuclear sites (DW)

 

Road towards success in the new PAU (Selectivity exam)

 

Solution to the exercises in the previous post:

Rewrite... 

a) If only I had started working on the project last month. (if only)
b) Playing football makes me feel very happy. (makes)
c) Nick refused to go to that boring party.
d) After writing his mother an email, David apologised for his behaviour. After David had written... 

Complete the following sentences to report what was said.
 

e) Sue asked me what he was going to do to relax.

Rephrase the sentence beginning with the words given.
 

f) A new high-technology hospital is being built in my town.

 

 

 

 

 

 Here's my musical hint for today:  She loved me that way by Michael DuBois. And now here's a version with the lyrics for you to sing along.

 

 

 

Here are some more activities for my students:

• The English We Speak:   Step into the shoes  (BBC Learning English)  
  

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  English in a MINUTE: Verbs to use with NETWORK  (BBC Learning English)  

• Listening exercise for you to do: How do babies communicate?  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) 

• Learning English from the News: Israel-Iran strikes  (BBC Learning English)  

Clip #13: Love from the most unlikely place - #HUMAN

 

 

English with Lucy providing us with the 10 Easy English words with ADVANCED meanings  

 

 

 

"All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl"

Learn English with The Chronicles of Narnia — Father Christmas    

 

Let's watch Wallace and Gromit in    The Wrong Trousers    

  

 

 

 

 

 Queen's FINAL Lehecka vs Álcaraz  (Highlights)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can dream about...

 

Sometimes dreams come true and that is the case of these 17 new recruits, two of whom are Spanish engineers.

ESA (the European Space Agency) presents new generation of astronauts

 

Some related articles for you to read about the issue:

• Paralympic athlete from UK in latest intake of ESA astronauts (The Guardian)
  

• 'Potentially, space is for everyone' says Esa para-astronaut (BBC News)
  

 

European Space Agency selects two Spanish astronauts (La Moncloa)

 

   

Here's my musical hint for you have dreams and encourage you to fulfill them: I can dream about you by Dan Hartman (another version). Here's a version with the lyrics for you to sing along!!

 

 

Some activities for you to do and to enable you to see your dreams come true one day: 

• English in a Minute: 4 ways to use 'draw'  (BBC Learning English)

• A listening exercise about inflation for you to do:  Why are prices going up? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)   

• Learn about  HOW TO TALK ABOUT CHANGE in the past and now (BBC Learning English)

• News Review about dreams in Iran:  Iran protests  (BBC Learning English)

• The English We Speak: Bite your tongue  (BBC Learning English)

   

   

   

 

 

Tennis: How good was Pete Sampras actually?