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miércoles, 22 de abril de 2020

INCREDIBLE, BUT TRUE (QUARANTINE: DAY 38)

Apart from more dictations for our IES Mediterraneo students, here are two incredible, but true pieces of news: First, do you know that the price of petrol is so low that sellers have to pay buyers!!!! Secondly, an elderly man (he is almost a century years old!!!) is raising millions of pounds to help the NHS (National Health System) in United Kingdon!!!!

Negative oil price: what changes for petrol and consumers (News 1)

Coronavirus: oil price collapses as demand falls further - BBC News

NEWS REVIEW >>>> CORONAVIRUS: 99-year-old man raises millions (BBC Learning English)

Coronavirus: Army veteran Tom Moore, 99, raises £4m for NHS (BBC News)

Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded: 25

Students participating: about 85 out of 110 (77%)

Comments written and corrected: about 500

Emails exchanged: more than 1600

PASEN announcements & messages: more than 1600

Things handed in and corrected: more than 900

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: about 9,000 (Average of 300 visits per day)

Video lectures (ONLINE CLASSES): 6

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE

Wednesday, 22^nd April

And today you will do just 3 things:

Dictation for my 1º ESO students >>> DICTATION 02 Next week I will give you the answers for you to correct it. Translate the sentences into Spanish.
Do exercises on page 76 and read about the superlatives on top of page 77.
Comparatives and superlatives: exercise for you to do 02

Today's homework:

Dictation for my 4º ESO students. You can correct it yourself (page 7) >>> DICTATION 02
Unit 8 (Smart Planet 4) , page 86

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2003)

Dʀ. Jᴇᴋʏʟʟ ᴀɴᴅ Mʀ. Hʏᴅᴇ (2008)

Students don't have to do anything as we don't have any classes on Wednesdays, but here's a link to a dictation to do tomorrow. You can correct it yourself (page 67) >>>>

Dictation for my 1º Bachillerato students >>> DICTATION 02

Learn English With Queen

domingo, 8 de enero de 2017

Petrol crisis in Mexico and learning how to pronounce English

Here are two articles about a problem they have in Mexico because of the rise in the price of petrol. Find examples of passive voice and differences between British English and American English:

Mexico gasoline protests: president insists there's no alternative to price hike (The Guardian)
Mexico: 20% gas price hike fuels looting, protests (CNN)

U.S. refiners cash in on Mexico's record fuel imports (Reuters)

Let's watch this video (English with Papa) about how to pronounce 'would' correctly:

Furthermore, here we have got Lucy talking about an amazing resource that can help us learn to pronounce any word in English!! >>> English with Lucy

Oxford Learner's Dictionaries | Find definitions, translations, and grammar explanations at Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

WORD FORMATION. Complete these sentences with a suitable word formed from the word in CAPITALS.
1.      Have you got any ______________ experience? SECRETARY
2.      I'm not very ______________ .   MUSIC
3.      There are many ______________ benefits besides this.    ADDITION
4.      What are your ______________ qualifications?     PROFESSION
5.      Do you know the boss ______________ ?    PERSON
6.      The office is _________ located.   CENTRE
7.      It is a very ______________ company.   FRIEND
8.      You will have a share of the ______________ profits.     YEAR
9.      What is your ______________ salary?      MONTH
10. Do you get a ______________ newspaper?      DAY

SOLUTIONS to the Use of English exercise in the previous post:
1. in/ near    2. had    3. one    4. At/four     5. what   6. whether      7. else    8. by   9. to 10. very/ totally/completely/really/quite... 11. least 12. on     13. were   14. as    15. at/round/over   16. very/ quite/obviously/clearly      17. by      18. clear/definite   19. led     20. else/different

miércoles, 20 de enero de 2016

The economic situation in China is becoming worse and worse as petrol is cheaper and cheaper

The economy of China used to be so prosperous, but now....

China growth slows (listening exercise to do) & China economic growth slowest in 25 years (article to read)

And here's an article to read about the fall of the petrol prices:

Oil price falls to 11-year low with global glut expected to deepen in 2016 (The Guardian)

Taking advantage that we are analysing some aspects of the comparatives, superlatives and so on in the level of 4º ESO, here are some notes to study (for further information about the issue have a look into NOTES ON GRAMMATICAL ISSUES - 2º Bachillerato):

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

We use more.... for adverbs that end in -ly: more slowly, more quietly
You can use -er or more... with some two-syllable adjectives, especially: quiet, clever, narrow, shallow, simple
IRREGULAR COMPARATIVES: good/well > better, bad/badly > worse, far > further/farther
FURTHER & FURTHEST meaning 'more' or 'additional': Let me know if you hear any further news
Before comparatives you can use QUANTIFIERS such as: much, a lot, far, a bit, a little, slightly (He's much / slightly taller than his sister).
You can use any, no + adjective in the comparative form. Ex. I'm not waiting any longer.
Two comparatives of superiority connected by and meaning 'CADA VEZ MÁS'. Ex. The situation is becoming harder and harder.
COMPARATIVE OF EQUALITY: so, as....as.... Fernando Alsonso is as fast as the wind.
COMPARATIVE OF INFERIORITY: less....than... My cousin is less intelligent than my sister.
Difference between LESS & FEWER. Examples: I've got less money than you. A bicycle has got fewer wheels than a bus.
Some interesting collocations: the same as, different from, similar to
After superlatives we use in with places (the longest river in the world) and of for a period of time (the happiest day of my life)
ABSOLUTE SUPERLATIVE meaning 'very'. The book you lent me was most interesting.

You've got all this information, plus the difference between USED TO, BE USED TO & GET USED TO in my site: 4º ESO

BEING A TEACHER....