Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Exam Dates and Times
GROUP A (16-18)
Wednesday 1st Feb
16-17:15 Reading
Break
17:30-18 Listening
Monday 6th Feb
16-17:15 Writing
GROUP B (19-21)
Wednesday 1st Feb
19-20:15 Reading
Break
20:30-21 Listening
Monday 6th Feb
19-20:15 Writing
SPEAKING (Both groups)
See Calendar:
Wed 1st 18-18:30
Mon 6th 17:30-18:30 and 20:25-20:40
Wed 8th 16-20:45
Thu 9th 18:30-18:45
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Homework for 30th January
Student's book:
What do you remember?
(Page 50)
Workbook:
Finish Unit 3 (page 32)
Practical English (page 33)
Monday, January 23, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Modals of deduction
100% Yes: She is Meryl Streep.
90% Yes: Her house must be full of acting awards.
50% Yes: She could / may / might win an Oscar this year.
90 % No: She can't be a boxer.
100% No: She isn't a fire-fighter.
90% Yes: Her house must be full of acting awards.
50% Yes: She could / may / might win an Oscar this year.
90 % No: She can't be a boxer.
100% No: She isn't a fire-fighter.
Now, check this out:
(You can download it and print it HERE)
File 3 Grammar
MODALS of OBLIGATION, DEDUCTION, ABILITY and POSSIBILITY
Click HERE to revise the Grammar from File 3
Other exercises:
Worksheet Must vs have to
Complete the sentences
Must / should / have to
Click HERE to revise the Grammar from File 3
Other exercises:
Worksheet Must vs have to
Complete the sentences
Must / should / have to
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Homework for 23rd January
Student's book:
Read and prepare text
Exercise 6. "Never give up"
(Page 47)
Workbook 3C
Ex. 1, 2 & 3
(pages 30-31)
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
School trip to Berlin
El precio incluye:
- Vuelo+hotel AD (en pleno centro de Berlín) + traslados aeropuerto-hotel-aeropuerto
- Vuelo directo desde Alicante
- Plazas limitadas a 31 personas. (Por lo que si alguien está interesado que reserve plaza lo antes posible).
Hay que hacer un ingreso de 200€ especificando nombre completo, nivel y grupo (Alhama) en:
Caja de Arquitectos 3183-3000-45-0001055494
Cualquier duda y más info: mike@eoilorca.org / ainhoa@eoilorca.org
English Summer Course in Ireland
SUMMER COURSES IN IRELAND
DUBLIN and CORK
Summer 2012
Cursos de inglés en Cork y Dublín, verano 2012
*** Estancias en familias irlandesas, residencia universitaria o apartamentos
*** Menores acompañados de monitor desde Murcia
*** Cursos en el mes de Julio de 1 hasta 4 semanas
*** Cursos para todas las edades y todos los niveles con profesores nativos
*** Excursiones, salidas turísticas y visitas a los lugares más emblemáticos
Más información y teléfonos de contacto:
Lucía Barbudo 968 29 31 93/696 36 60 76
Más información y teléfonos de contacto:
Lucía Barbudo 968 29 31 93/696 36 60 76
luciawoolf@hotmail.com
Monday, January 16, 2012
Homework for 18th January
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Numbers
Here you have some links to revise NUMBERS:- Saying numbers and dates
- Saying large numbers
- Listening Quiz 1
- Listening Quiz 2
Friday, January 13, 2012
Japan's Sawa Soccer World Player of 2011
Japan's Sawa Soccer World Player of 2011
(11th January, 2011)
Remember: Soccer is how the Americans call European football.What do you know about women's soccer?
LANGUAGE – MULTIPLE CHOICE
FIFA, soccer's international governing body, has (1) ____ Japan’s captain Homare Sawa as the Women's World Player of the Year. The 33-year-old (2) ____ the award, known by the French term the Ballon d’Or, for leading her country to Japan’s first ever World Cup Finals (3) ____ in July last year. She won the best player and top scorer awards at that tournament. Ms Sawa wore a pale blue kimono at the prize-giving ceremony. She stood next to Lionel Messi, who won the men’s award for the third year in a (4) ____. An emotional Sawa told the (5) ____: “I feel very pleased to have been given this honor. I'd like to thank all those who have helped me to play soccer….I hope our football has given a (6) ____ for future players and children to dream."Sawa is the first Asian player to win the award. She (7) ____ Brazil’s Marta, who was best female player in the world for the five previous years. Japanese Aya Miyama came fourth. Sawa later (8) ____ tribute to the Brazilian ace at a news conference, saying: “I am proud to be sitting here today (9) ____ such legends as Marta.” Japan picked (10) ____ another two awards at the ceremony. Norio Sasaki, manager of the women’s team, was coach of the year, and the Japan Football Association was chosen for FIFA’s Fair Play award. Mr Sasaki thanked (11) ____ who supported Japan following the earthquake and tsunami that struck in March 2011. He said: "We provided excitement for Japanese people and (12) ____ their spirits.”
Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
| 1. | (a) | naming | (b) | names | (c) | name | (d) | named |
| 2. | (a) | scooped | (b) | dug | (c) | shoveled | (d) | excavated |
| 3. | (a) | tri-annual | (b) | triumvirate | (c) | triumph | (d) | trilogy |
| 4. | (a) | stand | (b) | row | (c) | header | (d) | column |
| 5. | (a) | fan | (b) | audience | (c) | pilgrims | (d) | congregation |
| 6. | (a) | perchance | (b) | chances | (c) | chance | (d) | chancing |
| 7. | (a) | beat | (b) | won | (c) | victory | (d) | lost |
| 8. | (a) | laid | (b) | said | (c) | maid | (d) | paid |
| 9. | (a) | sidled | (b) | side | (c) | siding | (d) | alongside |
| 10. | (a) | as | (b) | up | (c) | over | (d) | on |
| 11. | (a) | those | (b) | them | (c) | they | (d) | these |
| 12. | (a) | mooted | (b) | roasted | (c) | boosted | (d) | fastened |
Full text and other activities here.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Top New Year's Resolutions
The new year sees 28 million Britons vowing to be healthier or wealthier but how many really follow them through?
Friends: TOW All the resolutions
I hope you enjoyed watching Friends today.
Click on these links and watch extracts of the episode again.
Click here to watch all of the resolutions with English subtitles.
Click here to watch a video with a summary of Ross's little incident with his leather pants :)
Click here to watch Chandler's resolution... and how it went.
Click here to watch when Rachel finds out about Monica and Chandler... and she can't tell anyone.
You can find the full episode here but without subtitles.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Americans Give Up $34 Billion of Vacation (3rd December, 2011)
Complete this article from the news:
Workers in other countries don’t appear to have a problem taking vacations. French workers get an average 30 vacation days a year and (7) ____ use them all. In the UK, employees get 25 days and pretty (8) ____ take all of them. Asia is the only region where workers receive and take (9) ____ holidays than Americans. The average Japanese worker only gets 11 days a year and takes just five of them. Indians are also (10) ____ to take all of their vacation. Expedia found that 20 per cent of workers in India did not take all their holidays because they "may be perceived (11) ____ at work". In America, bosses believe it is important that workers use all their vacation so they can come back to work feeling (12) ____.
Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
You can find the full text here.
Americans Give Up $34 Billion of Vacation (3rd December, 2011)
U.S. workers are among the worst in the world (1) ____ not taking all their vacation days. Their bosses might say they are among the best in the world for working their holidays. (2) ____ way, Americans will give up $34.3 billion in paid vacation leave in 2012, which is the (3) ____ of 226 million days off. These figures come from an annual survey (4) ____ by Harris Interactive for Expedia. They questioned 7,083 employees in 20 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. The top reason for Americans not using (5) ____ their holidays was not being able to afford a holiday (34%). This was followed by lack of planning (15%), the statement "work is my life" (15%) and feeling bad about asking the boss for time (6) ____.
Workers in other countries don’t appear to have a problem taking vacations. French workers get an average 30 vacation days a year and (7) ____ use them all. In the UK, employees get 25 days and pretty (8) ____ take all of them. Asia is the only region where workers receive and take (9) ____ holidays than Americans. The average Japanese worker only gets 11 days a year and takes just five of them. Indians are also (10) ____ to take all of their vacation. Expedia found that 20 per cent of workers in India did not take all their holidays because they "may be perceived (11) ____ at work". In America, bosses believe it is important that workers use all their vacation so they can come back to work feeling (12) ____.
Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
| 1. | (a) | for | (b) | with | (c) | so | (d) | as |
| 2. | (a) | Even | (b) | Either | (c) | Every | (d) | Ever |
| 3. | (a) | prevalent | (b) | malevolent | (c) | equivalent | (d) | insolent |
| 4. | (a) | conduction | (b) | conducting | (c) | conductor | (d) | conducted |
| 5. | (a) | from | (b) | off | (c) | away | (d) | up |
| 6. | (a) | up | (b) | it | (c) | off | (d) | now |
| 7. | (a) | generally | (b) | genially | (c) | genuinely | (d) | generously |
| 8. | (a) | most | (b) | much | (c) | many | (d) | some |
| 9. | (a) | little | (b) | smaller | (c) | fewer | (d) | lesser |
| 10. | (a) | reluctant | (b) | reluctantly | (c) | reluctance | (d) | reliance |
| 11. | (a) | positively | (b) | normally | (c) | abnormally | (d) | negatively |
| 12. | (a) | refresher | (b) | refreshed | (c) | refreshingly | (d) | refreshing |
You can find the full text here.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Becas para prácticas laborales en Europa
Cartagena convoca 22 becas para realizar prácticas laborales en empresas europeas
La Agencia de Desarrollo Local y Empleo (ADLE) ha convocado por octavo año consecutivo el Programa de Movilidad Leonardo da Vinci. El plazo para presentar las solicitudes estará abierto hasta el 13 de enero. Este programa, conocido como Euroexperience-ADLE, enviará a veintidós personas a realizar prácticas profesionales en el extranjero a fin de completar su formación profesional e integrarles en el mundo laboral.
02/01/2012 | Portalparados.es
Más información aquí
Becas para cursos de inglés
Educación convoca 14.000 becas para cursos de inmersión en inglés para jóvenes
El Ministerio de Educación (actual Educación, Cultura y Deporte) ha publicado en el Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) la convocatoria de becas 2012 para participar en los Cursos de Inmersión en Lengua inglesa que organiza la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) entre el 5 de marzo y el 10 de diciembre en sus once sedes.
28/12/2011 | Portalparados.es
Más información pinchando aquí.
Homework for the 9th January
Workbook 3A
(pages 24-26)
Student's book 3B
Exercise 1 a) - e)
(page 40)
Vocabulary Bank:
Describing people
(page 149)
Happy 2012
How optimistic are you about the new year?
Here's an article that says that Americans believe 2012 will be better than 2011.
2012 To Be Better Than 2011 (30th December, 2011)
Click on the title to read the article and do some Listening and Reading Comprehension Exercises if you wish.
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