Oh, no! The heat is on... again!

 

We've got two-season years!!! There is no longer a transition between the winter and the summer, or between the summer and winter. Where are our springs and winters? So here we go again with the first heat wave. 

 

And our 2º Bachillerato students have been studying, working, preparing... for the Selectivity exams that start to day around the clock!!!  I wish them all the best of lucks!!

 

The English We Speak: Around the clock  (BBC Learning English)

Here's the English exam they have done:  June2025_Dollar princesses  

These are my proposed answers, although I haven't double-checked them....

A1- d  (lines 9-10)  A2- b  (line 14- who led....)   A3: True. Lines 6-7: "However,... mansions"   

A4: False. Lines 10-11: "Since the American ... nobility."   

A5: False. Lines 13-14: "Very often... heiresses,"

A6: True. Lines 21-22: "her great-granddaughter ... the British throne. "

A7.1: roots (line 17)   A7.2: mocked (line 16)    A8.1: remodeled (line 16)   A8.2: gambling (line 19) 

USE OF ENGLISH

B1: If I had been sure, I would have told you.
B2: The laundry isn’t dry enough to be taken off the clothesline.
B3: I’d/ I would rather not go on the field trip.
B4: They aren’t allowed to leave the class without the teacher ́s permission.
B5: I think it’s time they went home/ I think it ́s time for them to go home
B6: Manuel is considered to be an expert on manga.

B7: `Why is Lisa so curious about stick insects?’ he wondered.
B8: How about going to Scotland next summer for a vacation?
B9: Alice gave up smoking three months ago.
B10: Anna sometimes gets gardenia bouquets delivered by Urban Flora.
B11: Dimitri speaks/ can speak English better than Alina
B12: Unless Masha gets top marks in the exam, she will be disappointed.
 

 

 

 

 Here's my musical hint for today:  The heat is on by Glenn Frey. And now here's a version with the lyrics for you to sing along.

 

 

 

Here are some activities for my students:

 

1º ESO       Simple Past IRREGULAR VERBS  

3º ESO    Exercises on Reported Speech    

 

 

 Solution to the exercises in the previous post:

 

1.   Jane may/might visit Switzerland next year. 2. I may/might take Spanish lessons. 

3.   They must be home by now.   4. James can't be eighteen yet!  

5. The weather may/might be sunny tomorrow.   6. She must be at home. 

7. It can't be Janet - She's in America.   8. She must think I'm stupid. 

9.  I must look silly in this coat.   

10. They're always buying new cars. They must have a lot of money.  

 

 

 

 

Here are some more activities for my students:

• Learning English from the News:   North Korean secrets revealed by phone  (BBC Learning English)   
  

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

• Listening exercise for you to do: The male brain, the female brain  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) 

• Office English: How to deal with demanding clients  (BBC Learning English)  

Cameron's interview - CANADA - #HUMAN

 

English with Lucy providing us with some 25 Advanced English Grammar Test Practice Questions With Answers & Explanations  

 

 

 

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

Learn English with Spongebob    -   Best Scenes

 

 

 

 

 

 Roland Garros 2025 -  Jannik Sinner vs Andrey Rublev / vs Bublik and Carlos Álcaraz vs Tommy Paul / Ben Shelton       

 

 

June is the deadline for students

 

 

Time is running out!! Time for deadlines!! Our students will have handed in everything by 2nd June!!

 

Office English: Deadlines and logistics  (BBC Learning English)

 It is time for good students for the harvest of the hard work all along the year, but it is also the time for the bad students to rush and try to do all they haven't done in the past. Will they ever learn the lesson?

 

 

 

PSG win Champions League for first time with record 5-0 final hammering of Inter (The Guardian)

New-look PSG make history on emotional night for Luis Enrique (BBC News)

 

 

 Here's my musical hint for today:  I can't go for that by Daryl Hall & John Oates. And now here's a version with the lyrics for you to sing along.

 

 

Here are some activities for my students:

 

1º ESO       Simple Past REGULAR VERBS  

3º ESO    

Ask BBC Learning English: What's the passive voice?  (BBC Learning English)

 

 

 Rewrite these sentences using modal verbs.

 

1.   It’s possible that Jane will visit Switzerland next year. 

2.   I’m thinking about taking Spanish lessons. 

3.   I’m sure they’ll be home by now. 

4.   James definitely isn’t eighteen yet!  

5.   It’s possible the weather will be sunny tomorrow. 

6.   I'm sure she's at home. 

7.   I know that isn't Janet-She's in America. 

8.   I'm sure she thinks I'm stupid. 

9.   I bet I look silly in this coat.  

10.  They're always buying new cars. I'm certain they have a lot of money.  

 

 

Solution to the exercises in the previous post:

Describe these two objects. Which 3 questions do you have to answer to write a proper description?

What do they look like? What are they made of? What are they used for?

A torch is a long tube with batteries inside and a light at the front which is made of plastic and perhaps glass. This gadhet is used to see in the darkness.

Goggles are something like glasses. They are made of rubber and plastic and stick to your face not to let any air or water come in. They are used to see under water or just to protect your eyes when you are skiing or riding a motorbike.

Rewrite the following requests, offers, instructions and suggestions:

1. "Write 25 comments on my blog, please"  "Will you...? / Would you....?"

2. "Will you bring me a glass of milk? Would you,,,?"

3. "Let's have a barbecue at the beach.  /  Shall we....?"

4. "I'll buy you ....."

5. "Don't park here in front of the gate, please!"

6. "Let's not take this bus again!" 

7. "Will you answer the phone for me, please?"

 

 

 

Here are some more activities for my students:

• Real Easy English:   Talking about CHILDHOOD  (BBC Learning English)   
  

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

• Listening exercise for you to do: What's your favourite kind of noodle?  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) 

• The English We Speak:   Have in your locker  (BBC Learning English)  
  

Moussa's interview - SPAIN - #HUMAN

English with Lucy providing us with some English Grammar Practice For ALL Students and Exams  

 

 

 

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

Learn English with The Idea of You    -   Anne Hathaway

 

 

 

 

 

 Roland Garros 2025 -  Jannik Sinner vs Richard Gasquet  and Richard Gasquet's farewell     

 

 

 

Humankind never stops facing off!!

 

 

 

Watching the news is just a matter of watching how politicians, peoples, generations, parties, teams... never stop facing off and it seems they are never fed up. Well, I am and, surely, so are most sensible people!

 

Face/Off (1997) - Original Trailer

 

 

There are also times to bury the hatchet (look up words and idioms related to friendship) and accept the rules of competitions and who the winner is and who deserves the best of farewells, as it is the case of  these two legends of football.

 

 

 Two great legends say goodbye: Carlo Ancelotti (as a footballer) and Luka Modric  (tribute) La Décima 

 

Sometimes a friendship is for ever, like the one between the Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy...

Paul Newman , Robert Redford - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | "The Money stays, you go"

 

 

 

 

Office English: Asking for and offering help at work  (BBC Learning English)

 

 

Here are some activities for my students:

 

1º ESO    Unit 6   Simple Past TO BE  

3º ESO    Unit 8   REPORTED SPEECH  

 

Describe these two objects. Which 3 questions do you have to answer to write a proper description?

A torch and some goggles.

Rewrite the following requests, offers, instructions and suggestions:

1. Albert told his students to write 25 comments on his blog.   >>>  "...."

2. My father asked me to bring him a glass of milk.   >>>  "...."

3. The students suggested having a barbecue at the beach.  >>>  "..."

4. My uncle offered to buy me a strawberry ice-cream.   >>>  "....."

5. The police officer told us not to park there in front of the gate.   >>>  "..."

6. My mother suggested not taking that bus again.   >>>  "...." 

7. She asked me to answer the phone for her.   >>>  "...."

 

 

Road towards success in the new PAU (Selectivity exam)

 

Solution to the exercises in the previous post:

8. Fill in the blanks with SO, SUCH or SUCH A,and then put the verb in brackets in the correct tense:

1. The apples were such good ones that we ate them all.  >>  What good apples we ate!

2. I had so many things to do that I slept in my office.  >>>  How many things I had to do!

3. It was such a rainy day that I didn't go out.  >>> What a rainy day it was!

4. George was such a liar that we paid no attention to his words.  >>>  What a liar George was!

How would you rephrase these sentences?  Using exclamatory sentences.

 

9. RELATIVE CLAUSES . Insert the second clauses into the first ones :

1. The milkman who got married last week comes at ten o'clock every day. 

2. I went to that supermarket where your sister works.

3. Mr Smith works with that man, who I saw at your house.

4. She works with John, whose sister is my neighbour.

5. I've just bought the horse which won the Grand National eight months ago.

 

10. Put the following sentences into Indirect Speech :

1. He said he was going out then, but that he would be there by nine.

2. My mother asked me who had been using her typewriter.

3. The student asked the teacher if he wanted him/her to study that lesson.

4. We asked her not to come/go the next Tuesday.

5. She told you she was leaving the next day because her parents and yours would arrive that evening.

 

11. Put the following sentences into the ACTIVE VOICE :

1. People called out his name. 2. Nobody had delivered the message.  3. People will sing some songs.

 

 

Here are some more activities for my students:

• Prepositions with Georgie:   Prepositions for TRANSPORT  (BBC Learning English)  
  

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

• Listening exercise for you to do: Foods that go crunch  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)  

• Learn English from the News:   Human consciousness. Where is it in the brain?  (BBC Learning English)  
  

Jane Goodall's interview - United Kingdom - #HUMAN

 

 

 

English with Lucy warning us Never to add "A" or "AN"  to these 26 common words!!!

 

 

 

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

Learn English with The Handmaid's Tale