Thursday, 5 June 2014

Practise your vocabulary

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Spotlight 2 

In this link you can practise all the vocabulary studied according to your level.

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Relative Clauses


--> Relative Clauses: (remember the chart we explained in class):
Defining
No commas
That = who / which
(that, who, which) You can omit them.
Non-Defining
, ,
Who / which. That is not allowed.
Who, which: cannot be omitted.



Click on this link.
Try this one too.
 And this exercise.




Monday, 11 November 2013

Travel, trip and journey



Travel is used to mean the general activity of moving from one place to another. It is usually a verb.

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 the explanations and do the exercises here.

Try this  quiz

And this quiz too


Sunday, 28 October 2012

Someone LIKE you: LIKE and AS

I keep finding the same mistakes in your compositions: As or Like?
Remember that "like" (when it means "como") is always followed by a noun or a pronoun.

Key:
Like and as are often confused in English. They can both be used to talk about how things are similar.

Like is followed by a noun or pronoun. For example, "I'm like my sister", or "Like my sister, I have brown eyes."
As is followed by a subject and verb. For example, "She's a good student, as her brother was before her."

As is used with a preposition, such as, "As in the 1960's, the population explosion will cause some problems."
We can use as in certain expressions, such as "as you know", "as you requested", "as we agreed".
We also use as…..as to give comparisons. For example, "He's as clever as his sister."
You can practise them in this link.
And finally, if you learn the lyrics of this beautiful song, you will remember how to use LIKE.
Enjoy it!!


Sunday, 24 June 2012

Happy summer!

We have had a hard school year, so we deserve some relax now. Enjoy your summer!!!