Best wishes for all my students

Here is an interesting link to learn how to pronounce English words. Now when you are not sure about how to pronounce a word, you have no excuses!
How to pronounce words and use them (by EmbedPlus)

I hope it's useful for you.
Enjoy it!!

Merry Christmas!!!!

Travel, journey and trip.

Travel is used to mean the general activity of moving from one place to another.

Journey refers to travelling a long distance, or travelling regularly, emphasizing on the idea of travelling itself.

Trip refers to travelling a short distance, or an unusual journey, emphasizing on the place or the reason of travelling.

• travel
  Air travel is faster than rail travel.
  His job involves a lot of travelling.
  
  
• journey
  We had a long journey through the mountains.
  He usually reads the paper during the train journey to work.
  
  
• trip
  His job involves a lot of business trips.
  Our trip to Las Vegas was great.

Read more explanations and do more exercises here.

Try this  quiz

And this quiz too

Comparatives and Superlatives. 1º Bachillerato

Read the explanation here:
 http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/adjektive_steig.htm

You can practise comparatives and superlatives in the following links:

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/242.html

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/45.html

http://english-zone.com/grammar/compare1.html

http://www.1-language.com/eslquizzes/comparatives.htm


http://youronlinenglishclass.com.pt/Quiz/comparative.htm

Purpose in English: For, To or So That?

Remember: To talk about purpose, or the reason why we do things, we can use for + verb-ing,  
the infinitive with to
so that + subject + verb.

Examples:
Action or event 'for' + verb-ing 
I'm bringing some pots and pans for cooking.
I've got special glasses for reading small print.
A thermos flask is for keeping hot food hot.

Action or event Infinitive with 'to'
We've got some water to make tea.
I went to the shops to buy some milk.
I worked very hard to get a promotion.

Action or event 'so that' + subject + verb
I'm taking some extra blankets so that we don't get cold.
I chained my bicycle to the fence so that it wouldn't get stolen.
I worked very hard so that I would do well in the exam.

Practise in these quizzes: Quiz 1 quiz 2

This is how I feel today

at, on, in !!!???

Practise in this link and do the exercises REMEMBER.... In: months	in July; in September
year	in 1985; in 1999
seasons	in summer; in the summer of 69
part of the day	in the morning; in the afternoon; in the evening
duration	in a minute; in two weeks
At: part of the day	at night
time of day	at 6 o'clock; at midnight
celebrations	at Christmas; at Easter
fixed phrases	at the same time
On: days of the week	on Sunday; on Friday
date	on the 25th of December*
special holidays	on Good Friday; on Easter Sunday; on my birthday
a special part of a day	on the morning of September

Summer holidays

Have a nice summer.
Practise English as much as you can.
And congratulations to all my students who had such good marks in Selectividad.
You have done a great job this year!!!

A, an, some or any?

A, an, some or any?

Try this link.

And this one too.

Any problem now?

Cry, cry, cry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm_nZOgi54A

Will or going to? 4º ESO

Practise in these exercises, in this link too and another good link.

Now watch this video to learn a bit more:

10 Common Expressions in English

Idioms in English - Music

If the world were a village, ...

Now read some facts:
http://users.gazinter.net/melan/Warn/Warnenu.htm

Article or no article?

Practise the use of the articles in these links:





Now practise in these other links:
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=71#a


http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/art-4.html

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bl_articles1.htm

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/50.html

Comparatives and superlatives. 4º ESO

You can practise comparatives and superlatives in the following links:

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/242.html

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/45.html

http://english-zone.com/grammar/compare1.html

http://www.1-language.com/eslquizzes/comparatives.htm

http://youronlinenglishclass.com.pt/Quiz/comparative.htm

So or such?

http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.such.i.htm

http://www.clafoti.com/imagenes12/so_such.htm

The miserables

Missing Madrid?
Here is a "present for you to remember those wonderful two days:





Here you can see the lyrics
Fantine - I Dreamed a Dream lyrics

Personality Test

What colour are you?
We can know your personality depending on the colour you choose.
Try this test:

gerund or infinitive?

New Works by 4º ESO

You can see the new works by students in 4º A and B about the following topics:
Present Perfect
Past Simple
Question Words

Here is the link:

Unwritten

Past Simple. 3º Diver

Try this exercise:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/simple-past-1

Past Simple or Present Perfect? 4º ESO

Practise these tenses in the following link,
Do this exercise
And study the rules and take some quizes here

Now revise FOR and SINCE

Remember:
FOR indicates a PERIOD of time. It means DURANTE
"I've been a student for ten years"
"I've known my teacher for eight months"

SINCE points a specific MOMENT in time. It means DESDE.
"I've been a student since I was three years old"
"I've known my teacher since I was three years old"

Now practise in this website

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Happy Saint Valentine!!

Make Love Notes at Wishafriend.com

Let's celebrate LOVE with three of my favourite songs.

Conditional sentences

If.....

What would you do if you found $400.000 in a bag in the street?

What would you do if you knew your best friend's boyfriend/girlfriend had a secret lover?

Complete these sentences:

• If I were a bird...
• If I had magic powers.....
• If I could speak perfect English...
• If my parents hadn't met.....
• If I were invisible.........
• If the world ends tomorrow.........
• If aliens land on the Earth....
• If I were an English teacher.......
• If I could change sex for a day.........

At the doctor's.
Learn vocabulary here

The new smoking law coins a new verb: Smirting

Smirting: (smoke + flirting) To go outside of a bar or restaurant where you can't smoke and hang out with other fellow smokers while you flirt with them.

Smirting was first identified in New York in 2003,and spread to the Republic of Ireland in 2004 when an aggressive smoking ban in public places was enacted.

Smirting has been so successful that non-smokers try to mingle with the smirters. The non-smokers may then start to smoke too and so this is a health risk

Sociologist and sexologist Pepper Schwartz states that the smirters are "defiant and angry, they don't buy the second-hand smoke argument, and want to share this grudge with someone else." When they are forced outside, smirters form strong bonds in what is essentially an exile community.
But this exile community has its rewards. One study found that 25% of Irish couples who had started a relationship during 2007 or 2008 had met while smoking outside.
(Taken from Wikipedia)

Apart from smirting, what positive and negative aspects can you see in this law?

welcome back to school

I wish you the best for the 2nd term