Language Quizzes

 

Taking a quiz and learning English words at the same time is both fun and useful. 

So whether you are looking for a quick game or are browsing the internet for trending words,

 these quizzes will keep you entertained and in the know.

Try to say the sentences in this sheet at least in 4 different ways;
as if you were:
 frightened / happy / suspicious / patronizing /
elated / pitiful / astonished

BBC One-Minute World News

Watch clicking HERE

After watching this news update, I was wondering if you could pick up
one of those pieces of news , look into it , and share it with your
classmates in class next day.

TED TALK: The mathematics of love

 Watch this TED TALK clip on how love works for next day


The mathematics of love

NETSPEAK ( Web to help you with your WRITINGS)

Here's a new  website to check  the use of  the right collocations when doing a writing.

Sometimes when writing, we do hesitate a  lot if this is  the  right word that collocates with the other one. It seems to happen, we can't make sure if we are doing the right thing

So this is where this website comes in and I'm positive this is the  perfect website for you all.

The problem  is that a dictionary would be no help here as we are dealing with more complex issues. We are not talking about grammar or vocabulary meanings, we are dealing with how words collocate with some words, but not with others and this is just something that if you are not a native, you will have a hard time deciding whether it is correct or a bad translation from your native language. The problem, of course, is that to your non-native ears it might sound perfect.

For example, let’s take this simple sentence

Global warming is produced by…

Does it sound Ok to you?

For a Spanish speaker, this sounds just right.  But is it a natural collocation in English?

Doesn’t Global warming is caused by… sounds better?

What else can you do on Netspeak?Among other things:

1. If you have forgotten a specific word, type ?   Ex:  ? for granted
2. If you need to find many words, type …  Ex …granted
3. If you are not sure about two words or want to compare them [] Ex It sounds [good well.

Nouns and verbs with different pronunciations

Have a look at the list of verbs and nouns which are homonyms but have different pronunciation (stress shift). Do the activity that follows the list.

FRIENDSHIP-related phrases

 Read this Cambridge blog post to learn a few more expressions about friends.


Idioms on FRIENDSHIP

Some more extra idioms on FRIENDSHIP

HOMEWORK UPDATE

As part of your homework over the weekend, I'd like you to do some more homework:

 In section VOCABULARY( "Talking" verbs), exercise 1 and 2 from page 89. Also, I'd like you to do the reading (" The ethics of reality TV")on pages 90 and 91 and the corresponding questions about it (4 and 5)

PARTICIPLE CLAUSES: Grammar and exercises

 As mentioned in class, here's some extra practice on participle clauses.

Participle Clauses and exercises

PARTICIPLE CLAUSES KEY

IDIOMS on WAYS OF SPEAKING

 Hi lads,

Here's some interesting idioms  that may come in handy for you all.


Idioms on different ways of speaking

READING TEST (CERTIFICACION 2016)

.As promised the other day in class, here's  the READING TEST from Certificacion 2016, I'd like you to do over the coming days. Remember  not to exceed the time  given for the completion of the test (70 minutes).

I'll post the KEY with the answers by Wednesday


Reading test certificación 2016
KEY to Reading test

HAPPINESS Idioms

Idioms to express HAPPINESS

Verb Patterns

 Here's just a few links where to look at and revise some recurrent VERB PATTERNS  and some more exercises to get extra practice on them.

Verb + inf. or Verb + -ing?

Verb + that-clause.

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Verb pattern EXERCISES (plus KEY)

Añadir leyenda

WRITING: Letter of Proposal

Activity on THE PROPOSAL LETTER

Letter of Proposal TOPIC