LINKS TO PREPARE CAMBRIDGE EXAMS

Activities for my stuidents of 4º ESO- Here you have some links to practice the Cambridge Exams. Remember you have to work hard and be responsible:

For the Key English Test:

http://www.examenglish.com/KET/KET_grammar.htm

http://www.englishaula.com/en/ket-exam-listening-cambridge-Key-english-test-video-lessons-practice-tests-exercises.php

http://www.englishaula.com/en/ket-exam-listening-cambridge-Key-english-test-video-lessons-practice-tests-exercises.php

For the Preliminary Test:

http://www.englishaula.com/en/pet-exam-writing-cambridge-preliminary-english-test-video-lessons-practice-tests-exercises.php

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/preliminaryenglish/index.htm

For both:

http://jesvasar.weebly.com/ket-pet-free-online-practice.html

For the First Certificate:

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/

CHRISTMAS STORY

This is my favourite Xmas story. It is written by Paul Auster, the great American writer and it appears in the film Smoke, in which Auster wrote the script. I wanted to share it with my 4ESO E students, as I promise you:

http://www.xtec.cat/~dsanz4/materiales/auggie_wren.pdf

And this is the scene in the film. Superb story, magnificent actors (Harvey Keitel and William Hurt), lovely music:

And this is the song Innocent when you dream by Tom Waits:

I hope you liked it.
And, at last HAPPY XMAS, my dear students!!!!!!

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

This is the PDF I recommend 4º ESO Programa:
https://www.ego4u.com/download/pdf/canterville-ghost_easy.en.pdf

LINKS TO CAMBRIDGE EXAMS

Activities for my stuidents of 4º ESO- Here you have some links to practice the Cambridge Exams. Remember you have to work hard and be responsible:

For the Key English Test:

http://www.examenglish.com/KET/KET_grammar.htm

http://www.englishaula.com/en/ket-exam-listening-cambridge-Key-english-test-video-lessons-practice-tests-exercises.php

http://www.englishaula.com/en/ket-exam-listening-cambridge-Key-english-test-video-lessons-practice-tests-exercises.php

For the Preliminary Test:

http://www.englishaula.com/en/pet-exam-writing-cambridge-preliminary-english-test-video-lessons-practice-tests-exercises.php

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/preliminaryenglish/index.htm

For both:

http://jesvasar.weebly.com/ket-pet-free-online-practice.html

For the First Certificate:

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/

WILL or GOING TO

ACTIVITY FOR MY STUDENTS OF 4º ESO and Bachillerato:
In these links you can do exercises to practice the use of THE FUTURE with WILL or GOING TO.
Remember

• We use WILL for long term predictions and sudden decisions
• We use GOING TO for plans and scientific predictions.

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/339.html


http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/will_going_to_future.htm

PAST SIMPLE & PAST CONTINUOUS

Activity for my  students of 4º ESO & Bachillerato:.
We have been dealing with the differences between Past Simple & Past Continuous in English:

• Past Simple is used to express actions finished at a concrete moment.
• Past Continuous is used to emphasize that an action has been happening for some time or has been repeated.

Here are some links you can have a look to practice the difference between both tenses:

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/pastpastcont.html

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs3.htm

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=734

PRESENT SIMPLE & PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Activity for my students OF 4º ESO and Bachillerato:
We have dealt with both present Simple and Continuous tenses. I have done a chart for you to download at this link:
https://app.box.com/s/pgwp63uk1w4b7z6shn9p

You can also do several interactive activities in these links:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_present_progressive2.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs1.htm
Here there is a text where you have to write the verbs in the correct tense:
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-12052.php
 And this is a fantastic blog I have found called My English Desk:
http://myenglishdesk.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/present-simple-vs-present-continuous.html

Enough, I think.

PRESENT SIMPLE

Activity for my students of 4º ESO & Bachillerato:
We have worked the Simple Present Tense
Remember that we use this tense to express HABITUAL ACTIONS.
The AFFIRMATIVE FORM is: I work.... he works....
The NEGATIVE FORM is: I don't work...he doesn't work....
The INTERROGATIVE FORM is: Do you work?...Does he work?...
The SHORT ANSWER is: Yes, I do/ No, I don't...Yes, he does/No, he doesn't
TIME EXPRESSIONS which go with this tense are: Every day, once a month, on Mondays, at the weekend and the FREQUENCY ADVERBS: always, usually, often, sometimes, never.
You can practice if you click these links:
http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/present_simple.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/simple-present-1
http://www.really-learn-english.com/simple-present-exercises.html
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=714
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2975

LEARNING PRESENT CONTINUOUS THROUGH MOVIES

Activity for 4ºD  ESO
Francesca, our Teaching Assistant found this interesting seletion of movie scenes in Youtube where the Present Continuous Tense is used. Let's watch it again

CONDITIONAL CLAUSES

Activity for my ACCESO students.
We dealt with Conditional Clauses at last! As you could see, they are not so difficult: Using the 1st, 2nd or 3rd Conditional depends on the POSSIBITITY of the fulfilment of the condition. You just have to use the VERBS correctly:
- 1st Conditional: If  Clause + Present Simple, Main Clause + Future.
- 2nd Conditional:  If  Clause + Past Simple, Main Clause + Conditional.
- 3rd Conditional:  If  Clause + Past Perfect, Main Clause + Perfect Conditional.
Be careful since the sentences can also start with the Main Clause and remember that there are other LINKS: whether, unless, in case...
You can do more exercises if you click this link:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences

THE PASSIVE VOICE

Activity for my ACCESO students

We have been dealing with the Passive Voice in English this week. Remember that the difference between active and passive sentences is THE CHANGE OF THE POINT OF VIEW. We emphasize the DEED rather than the AGENT. We need a transitive sentence to change it to the passive voice. The OBJECT becomes the PASSIVE SUBJECT and the SUBJECT becomes the BY AGENT, which can be ommited if it is unnecessary or unknown.

There is a good explanation and lots of exercises in these links:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/english_lessons/interactive-passive-voice