28 boring words (by Donna Norton)

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28 boring words

Conditional songs

Beyonce-If I were a boy(lyrics): https://youtu.be/Pd6FXOTapMM

Unreal conditional (hypothetical):
Cause If I were a boy
Result: I would roll out of bed

Activity: Make a comment and post a YouTube video of a song in English. Choose a line that includes a conditional. Explain what the conditional means. You can't repeat songs.

Conditionals

Conditionals

Grammar

Assessment criteria

General criteria         Very good 5  Good 4  All right 3  Weak 2  Poor 1

• Task fulfilment
• Fluency and interaction
• Grammatical competence
• Vocabulary
• Pronunciation

Resources:

Speaking: IELTS

Writing: IELTS

Unit 2 - To the Rescue

 Vocabulary
- First aid vocabulary (advanced) 
- Emergencies

  

 -ed /-ing adjectives:
The lesson is boring, so the students are bored.              
The lesson is interesting, so the students are interested.

CAUSES THE FEELING/EFFECT: -ing
RECEIVES/EXPERIENCES THE EFFECT/FEELING: -ed

- Matching
- Quiz1, 2, 3, 4
- British Council grammar reference

Grammar
- FEG Present Perfect Simple and Past Perfect Simple (ppt)

- Activities

Extra
- List of connectors
- List of common adjectives

Phrasal verbs

A phrasal verb is a verb that is followed by one or more particles. The meaning of a phrasal verb is different from the meaning of the verb alone.

Catapult game

Macmillan game

List

Unit 1 - Adventure Travel

 

Vocabulary
- Where should we go on holiday?
- Planning a trip
- Exercises
- Vocabulary list (from textbook)


Grammar

• Present Simple and Present Continuous (pdf)
• Past Simple / Past Continuous / Past Perfect Simple (pdf)

Watch this video: The Funny Honeymoon

1º Bachillerato Resources

CLASS TEXTBOOK

• Burlington Books Student's zone for Contrast
• Burlington Speech Trainer

FREE APPS

• Cambridge Phrasal Verbs Machine
• Cambridge English Monstruo
• My Word Book
• Phrasalstein
• Busuu

UNIT 1 (2º Bachillerato)

Vocabulary  The senses

Image from http://cliluva-p1-sc-esther.wikispaces.com/04.-+MEDIATORS

- Vocabulary of the senses (pdf)


Grammar     Tenses

Tenses from Shawn Toh



- Quiz game 
- Grammar and activities 
- Oxford Plus
 

Review for 2º Bachillerato (October 2013)

 Let's start...

- Grammar worksheets: Burlington Extra Practice
- Grammar, translation and rephrasing: Bon's tips Bachillerato
- PAU Exams
- Oxford Plus (register)

Grammar review for Bachillerato

- Grammar worksheets with self-check answers:  Burlington Extra Practice

- Grammar, translation and rephrasing: Bon's tips Bachillerato

Bye-bye...Steve Jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)  was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer.
In the late 1970s, Jobs — along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and others — designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until August 2011.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfim Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO.
On October 5, 2011, Jobs died in California at age 56 after struggling with pancreatic cancer for several years.     ^{(from Wikipedia)}

Tune in 2 Resources for 2º Bachillerato

Here you have the downloadable course material:

Tune in 2

Wordlists
Language reference
Exam tips for PAU

European Day of Languages

26 September

European Day of Languages

"© Council of Europe, Strasbourg www.coe.int/EDL".

26 September 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the European Day of Languages (EDL)

 celebrated at the Council of Europe and throughout its 47 member states.

Language Fun Activities

How to expand your vocabulary

VOCABULARY NOTEBOOK

You can download the following worksheets to keep a vocabulary notebook. It's a good idea to get an organised record of the new words you come across.

Vocabulary notebook template

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PAU 2011 Junio (Andalucía)

PAU 2011 Junio

Unit 1 (2º Bachillerato)

UNIT 1: Travel the World

- Vocabulary list

- Exam tips for PAU

- Grammar:

USED TO, BE USED TO, GET USED TO
* I used to smoke a lot but now I don´t smoke. (something that happened regularly in the past)
* I'm used to driving on the left because I´ve lived in England. (something is normal, not unusual)
* I didn't understand the teacher at the beginning but I got used to it. (the process of something becoming normal for us)

- Grammar and activities
- Activities: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

USED TO OR WOULD
- Grammar and activities
- Activities: 1, 2, 3

GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES
- Grammar
- Grammar and activities

- Writing: an informal letter
---> Example, example 2
---> Letter generator

Resources for 2º Bachillerato

2º Bachillerato

- Exams


- Verb tenses chart (pdf)

- Phrasal verbs (lists and exercises)


- Vocabulary

Relative Clauses

Relative clauses

GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS:
- Information about relative pronouns
- Clauses with who/which
- That/which in defining and non-defining clauses

ACTIVITIES:
- Who, which, whose (1)
- Who, which, whose (2)
- Relative pronouns 1, 2
- Pronouns matching
- Reading
- Quiz
- Matching
- Grammar and activities at ego4u

Sylvia Plath

Nicholas Hughes, Sylvia Plath’s son commits suicide

The son of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has taken his own life, 46 years after his mother gassed herself while he slept. He was only a baby when his mother died but she had already sketched out what he meant to her in one of her late poems. (In Nick and the Candlestick, published in her posthumous collection Ariel)

For further information: Times Online

Nick And The Candlestick I am a miner. The light burns blue. Waxy stalactites Drip and thicken, tears The earthen womb Exudes from its dead boredom. Black bat airs Wrap me, raggy shawls, Cold homicides. They weld to me like plums. Old cave of calcium Icicles, old echoer. Even the newts are white, Those holy Joes. And the fish, the fish---- Christ! They are panes of ice, A vice of knives, A piranha Religion, drinking

Its first communion out of my live toes. The candle Gulps and recovers its small altitude, Its yellows hearten. O love, how did you get here? O embryo Remembering, even in sleep, Your crossed position. The blood blooms clean In you, ruby. The pain You wake to is not yours. Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses. With soft rugs---- The last of Victoriana. Let the stars Plummet to their dark address, Let the mercuric Atoms that cripple drip Into the terrible well, You are the one Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.