Just a few words...

to say thank you all for being such good students. I had a really good time in class and I hope you did too! :-D This is the list of classmates in case you want to contact each other. If you need anything, you have my email address too.

All the best for the future!

Bea

Relative clauses

Info

Informació exàmens

Dimecres 27/07 - Prova d'expressió escrita de 12.30 a 13.30

Dijous 28/07 - Proves de comprensió oral, escrita i gramàtica i vocabulari, de 9.30 a 11 aprox.

L'assistència mínima per rebre qualsevol certificat és del 80%, és a dir, mínim 16 dies dels 20 lectius. Si un alumne no arriba al nombre mínim d'hores d'assistència no rebrà cap tipus de certificat. Si un alumne suspèn el curs, rebrà un certificat d'assistència sense nota.

Passive

Handout from today
Solutions

Additional online exercises
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5

Expressing opinions

Useful expressions

Quantifiers - class docs & exercises

Quantifiers - explanation

Exercises
Answer key

Adjective order - Practice

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Mixed conditionals - more online exercises

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Reported speech - practice

Exercise a & b
Solutions ex a
Solutions ex b

Online exercises

# Exercise 1: General
# Exercise 2: Statements
# Exercise 3: Questions
# Exercise 4: General

Class docs (Thursday 21st July) - Reported speech

REPORTED SPEECH reference changes

REPORTED SPEECH tense changes

Questions, commands and notes

Mixed conditionals

Three links to online exercises with all conditionals

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Regular past forms - pronunciation

Brief explanation and some examples

Collective nouns

Handout from today's class

Collective nouns

Homework from 20/07- Narrative tenses

Answer key

Homework from 18/07- Phrasal verbs & Obligation modals

Please read a further explanation about the use of must & have to and do some exercises with the rest of the modal verbs we have seen in class today
Explanation and exercises

Phrasal verbs - answer key

Note: Correction - for exercise 31.1, sentence 8, it's "had to", not "have to".

-ed / -ing adjectives

If you want to practice a little bit more, check out these links:

BBC World Service

Exercise

Composition 2

Write a letter (approx. 125-150 words) – To be handed in by Tuesday 19th July

Write a letter to a friend to explain that you have met somebody special, to talk about the dates you have had together, etc. Make sure you use some of the phrasal verbs that we saw on Thursday in class.

Narrative composition - general mistakes

Take a look at some common mistakes

Third conditional

Some extra exercises online for you to practise:

Exercise
Exercise 1-5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7

Homophones

This is the list of homophones we have seen in class today.

And here you can find some extra activities with more homophones.

The origin of my name

Please find the link to my own presentation



Have you ever wondered what your name means? Do some research and prepare an oral presentation asking the following questions:

Do you know what it means?
Do you know why your parents gave you that name?
Does it go with my personality?
Do you like your name?

Second conditional

Complete explanation about the second conditional

Additional exercises online
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4

Activities done in class
Activity 1
Activity 2

Homework “Review of future forms” (book) – answer key

Solutions

Gradable/ungradable adjectives

Activity done in class

Class docs (Monday 11th July)

Future forms

Families/parenting

Situational role plays: going to; present continuous vs. going to

Fun bits: The English Study Group

Some English students meet at the cafeteria. Each one has a particular problem with the language: grammar, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary or stressing words correctly. Watch the video and see the hilarious results.

And here is the script if you want to look at it.

More mini sagas

If you fancy reading and listening to more mini sagas, you can find some here:

Little Red Riding Hood - The true story

True love story

An over-talkative little child

Mini saga collection

Homework “Adverbs and adverbial phrases” (handout) – answer key

Answer key

Composition 1

Choose one of the following options and write a story of approx. 125 words (to be handed in by Tuesday 12th July):

Option A
Write a story and use this sentence to begin: "What a strange dream that was!"

Option B
Write about an adventurous or interesting time you had on a vacation.

Option C
Write about an interesting animal story you saw or heard about.

Class docs (Friday 8th July)

Discussion about news

Adverbs and adverbial phrases

Agreement/disagreement tags

Homework - Answer key

HW from Monday 4th: Unit 3, lesson A, Language Workout p. 16
HW from Thursday 7th: Handout “How to talk about your achievements” 3B (present perfect, past simple)
Answer key

Class docs (Thursday 7th July)

These links will take you to a couple of docs we have seen today:

Discussion about Facebook

Interview questions

Present perfect

If you want to practice a little bit more, you can check these sites where you can do some exercises online:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Watching the news

If you want to improve your listening skills you can use this site run by CNN based on their own news stories. The site allows you to read, listen and view video and do a series of interactive activities to test comprehension. The listening and comprehension activities are aimed at learners at intermediate level and above.
Let's get started!
Story archives

Agreement/disagreement tags

A couple of exercises to practice "Me Neither! Me Too! I Don’t Either! Neither Do I"

Exercise 1
Exercise 2

More about body language

Are you good at picking up body language signals? Watch the video and find out more about this other way of communication.

Power of body language

Welcome on board!

Hello!! This blog is meant to be a useful tool for all my 3rd level students at EOI Viladecans. Here you will find resources, activities, links, videos and much more that will be an extra help for our daily lessons. Enjoy!! :-)
Bea