DO, PLAY, GO: COLLOCATIONS

Animal-Based Comparative Idioms

  

ENGLISH IDIOMS

Other Ways to Say "Just Kidding"

MODAL VERBS

ALCINE 2015

The cinema festival of Alcalá de Henares will take place from November 6th to November 13th You can check the complete programme HERE.

LANGUAGE IN SHORT FILMS

Short movies generally use a simple language, provoke debate, provide with topics suitable for reflection... The shorts are a good tool to be employed at the language teaching. During the days of the festival there will be projected German, French and Irish shorts. Here you have the programme of the films we are going to watch. I hope you enjoy!!

Let's watch the trailer of "DEADLY":

HERE you have the complete programme of the festival:

¿TE ATREVES A SOÑAR?

IMPROVE YOUR WRITING

Writing exams can sometimes be scary. You’re sitting down, the exam has started and you have the exam paper. Now what? The first thing is not to worry! You have some tips and advice below which will help you to plan, write and review your writing task in an exam.

When you are in a writing exam you shouldn't start writing immediately. You must think about the following questions and then plan your time carefully.
How much time do you have for the writing exam?
How many writing tasks do you have to do?

When you know the answer to these two questions you should divide your time into three parts:
Part 1 – Planning time
Part 2 – Writing time
Part 3 – Reviewing time

YOU HAVE A LOT OF INTERESTING TIPS AND PRACTICE HERE:

FINAL EXAM 4º ESO: REVIEW

EXAM REVIEW: 4º ESO

If you want to start revising for your final, this can be a good beginning:

LOTS OF REPHRASING EXERCISES on tenses, conditionals, reported speech, passive, suffixes...TO REVIEW FOR YOUR FINAL EXAM:

REMEMBER,,, It's on Tuesday 17th June!!!

GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO GET SOME PRACTICE ON THIS TOPIC

READING THIRD TERM

4º ESO

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (by R. Louis Stevenson)

What can a person do when he's pulled between the good and the bad inside him? Dr. Jekyll, a scientist, uses chemistry to divide himself into two different people, the good Dr. Jekyll and the evil Mr. Hyde. The conflict between the two sides of his personality becomes more abd more violent. Which side will win?

You can read it  and listen to the story HERE
AND REMEMBER!!:

-THESE ACTIVITIES must be handed in the 2nd of June.

- EXAM: Monday 2nd of June

"DRACULA": :Reading 2nd term, 4º ESO

"A través de un texto íntegramente en inglés, conoceremos la historia de Jonathan Harker, que viaja a Transilvania para conocer al conde Drácula, un misterioso cliente que quiere instalarse en Londres. Allí se sentirá inmediatamente atraído por Mina, prometida de Jonathan. Sólo el Dr. Van Helsing será capaz de enfrentarse a tan siniestro personaje."

On April 10th we are going to see the play, so we are going to read it beforehand. You can find here the play script , the lyrics of the songs and the activities you have to complete.

But before, you'll have to find out information about:

- the author, Bram Stocker

- the main characters

- Literary genre

ST. VALENTINE

Let's celebrate February 14th with a series of love-themed activities


 A VIDEO WEBQUEST

VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES

CONDITIONALS

Let's practice conditional sentences with songs!

- Listen to the songs and identify the conditional sentences in them:

1. ZERO CONDITIONAL: If + simple present / simple present

“If water freezes, it turns to ice.”

2. FIRST CONDITIONAL: If + simple present /  will + bare infinitive

“If it rains, I won’t go to the beach.”

3. SECOND CONDITIONAL: If + simple past / would + bare infinitive. (Note: “would” is often shortened to a contraction, such as I’d or she’d.)

"If I had a million dollars, I would buy you a house"

4. THIRD CONDITIONAL: If + had + past participle /  would  have + past participle. (Note: “would” and “have” are often shortened to a contraction, such as I would’ve.)

“If I had seen it, I would have told her.”

HERE you have more practice on Third Conditional.

And HERE you can practise them all.

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

WELCOME BACK!!
Let's practise the future tenses with our New Year Resolutions...

PAST PERFECT

Have a look at this infographic: it will help you  get the grasp of the PAST PERFECT. Then try the exercises below.

TIME TO PRACTISE...

AMD MORE...

LEARNING NEW WORDS

When you’re learning a new language it’s really important to keep learning new words to improve your vocabulary. When you learn new words you need to try and use them as soon as you can so they will become part of your active vocabulary. We need to see a new word at least five times before we are able to use it correctly. There are lots of opportunities on THIS WEBSITE to learn new words.

 Also, reading and listening to as much English as possible will help to improve your vocabulary.


When you come across a new word you must pay attention to the following:

• What does it mean?
• What form is it? (noun, verb, adjective...)
• How do you spell it?
• Does it have a prefix or a suffix?
• How do you pronounce it?
• Tips to remember words

WHY DO YOU WANT TO LEARN ENGLISH?

- Because I want to get a good job.

- To be able to communicate when I travel.

Can you add more reasons?

Now you are going to watch a video  in which you will see and hear three

students explaining why they are learning English. Try to understand each student’s reason for learning English.

The three learners in the video are asked a second question:

What do you want to after this course/in the future? Try to understand their answers. 

LET'S GO!: 

Now think about the following questions:

- How will your English have improved after this course?

- What will you be able to do with your English that you can’t do now? 

SNACK CULTURE: EATING HABITS

Let's learn something more about snack food and eating habits...

Read the texts HERE and do the exercises proposed 

READING FIRST TERM. 4º ESO

This is the book ou are gooing to read this term. 

TITLE: A Sense of Danger.

AUTHOR: Tracy Simmonds

PUBLISHER: Burlington Books.

LEVEL: 4º E.S.O

PLOT: TJody and Jonathan Kelly, 16, come to Spain because of their father's new job. Jonathan is telepathic and he has got a bad feeling about the change. At the airport, the tween meet Rafa and his sister, Blanca, and they become friends. Two suspicious men have revolvers on the plane. Jonathan has a sense of danger and it gets stronger in their new home. then mr. Kelly is falsely accused of sabotage. The twins must help him prove his innocence, but how?.

YOU CAN LISTEN TO THE STORY HERE