Friday 30 October 2020

Thursday 29 October 2020

C2 US Elections 2020 Vocabulary (BBC Learning English)

This is our main area to help you understand the language used in the US Elections. There will be an A-Z of US Election vocabulary that covers the key election vocabulary.

If you are interested in American English or the US Elections 2020, just click here.

On Monday 2nd Nov. (together with a bit about Halloween, see Aula Virtual, we'll be chatting with Wesley about the US (and Spain) politics and politicians. Get your questions (and explanations) ready for 11.30!

Thursday 22 October 2020

Ways of Looking



You can also have a LOOK at: Instead of Look

Ways of walking

Everyone should do some exercise... shall we amble, saunter, wander, ramble, mooch, meander, stride, dash, dart, scamper, sprint, jog, scurry, skip, lope, rush, hop, trip, hike, trek, paddle, wade ...?

Wednesday 21 October 2020

The six-month positivity plan to get you through a winter lockdown

Read The Telegraph article here.


Which plan suits you best? Why?

Tuesday 20 October 2020

C2 Bring 3 holiday snaps!!! for next Monday

For next Monday 26th you will have to bring 2 or 3 photos (from different holidays) to describe them to the rest of the class (1 min. each).
If you email them to me before, we'll see them on the class screen! (not compulsory)

Friday 16 October 2020

Practise and Learn 20 New Words

Anything below 50% for C1 and 70% for C2 needs revising!

Thursday 15 October 2020

C1 Last Thursday's Activity Done

Negative Personality Adjectives Activity

One Woman 17 British Accents

Listen and try to distinguish British accents...

Wednesday 14 October 2020

The importance of where stress falls in pronunciatin

 /kʃ / become /g'ʒ/ because of change of stress:

Check too: exact, exam, except, exhibition, exit, exhausted, exhilaration, extra ... and classify them:

/ks/ -->

/gz/ --> 

Personality adjectives

How about doing a small fill-in-the-blanks activity to review personality vocabulary? Right! First here and then here.

Monday 12 October 2020

Guess the Lyrics Activity


Try to guess the lyrics of this Queen's famous song by interpreting the mimic. 

If you enjoyed the activity, try this one! (a bit more difficult!)

Friday 9 October 2020

The Telegraph Today 

Synonym Quiz

Thursday 8 October 2020

Activity with negative personality adjectives

 

Which of these adjectives could be applied to yourself?

Choose 9 adjectives you did not know fron the list above and match them with people you know (family / friends / celebrities...) making a sentence with each, e.g.: Spanish citizens felt utterly bewildered by Juan Carlos I's past behaviour. To be done in class next Tuesday 13th.

Monday 5 October 2020

Enseñanza Mixta

Infografía casos COVID-19 

Friday 2 October 2020

Thursday 1 October 2020