Leap year

What's special about 29 February?

Find it out in this link

Modal Verbs

Here are some links practise modal verbs:

                                 http://www.clicknlearn.net/index2.html

http://www.autoenglish.org/modalverbs.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/hilfsverben.htm

Happy new year

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: