Family

We'll continue talking about this in class next week. Watch the video and complete the gaps, in case you were not in class today.


 

Christmas ads

Hey brother

Listen again and sing along

Mystery story

Listen again to this beautiful Enlgish accent and pay attention to the pronunciation of -ed endings.

Unit 2 Final Writing: an informal email

Here's the task.

Deadline: 14th December

Video activity: how to make friends

Watch the video and choose the correct answer.

Click here for the multiple choice questions, transcript and answers

Narrative tenses

Narrative tenses 

Past simple, past continuous or past perfect?

Past perfect senteces

Past perfect: choose the correct answer

Past simple or past perfect?

Past simple or past continuous?

Past simple or past continuous (2)?

Obama's last turkey pardon

This is the video about another Thanksgiving tradition we didn't have time to watch with Rina. Answers in comments.

1.    What tradition has Obama established for the past 7 years?

2.    What problem did his daughters have this year?

3.    Who is with him now?

4.    What don’t his daughters know yet? 

Useful language to speak about friends

Listen to these people talking about their friends. The listening task is quite easy but it's full of useful expressions you should learnd and use!!

Click here

What do you look for in a friend?

A friend is someone who...

-          doesn’t judge you, you can be yourself with

-          never lies to you (only white lies)

-          keeps in touch w you

-          I can be myself with

-          I can rely on

-          gives you a hand (to help) when you need it

-          listens to you, is sympathetic

-          makes you feel comfortable

-          loyal, sincere

-          supports you no matter what

-          has sense of humour and the same interests as you

-          respects you

-          is with you through thick and thin

Friends

These are the videos we watched in class lol

TECHNOLOGY: PROS AND CONS

Click here

Unit 2 review and extension

Click here to check your answers to page 30

HORARIO DE PRÁCTICAS DE REFUERZO ORAL Y ESCRITO (PROES)

CURSO 2018-19

  

INGLÉS

MARTES	MIÉRCOLES	JUEVES	VIERNES
		PROE B1 Ana Fuster 12 :45 a 13 :45 Aula 14	PROE B1 María Mateos 10:00 a 11:00 Aula 7
PROE C1 Pablo Nicolás 19:00 a 20:00 Aula 4	PROE B2 Diego Corbalán 17:00 a 18:00 Aula 12		PROE B1 Asun Sánchez 11:00 a 12 :00 Aula 12

Did I get the job?

This is the job interview activity we did in class.

Writing unit 1

Here you have a good example of how to organize your writing

Present perfect simple and continuous

Present perfect simple and continuous 

For or since? (revision)

Just, yet, already (revision)
Present perfect simple or continuous?  2 & 3
More exercises

Work-life balance

Watch the video at home and answer the questions

Me too, me neither

Click here to practice

Odd jobs

•What qualifications do you need?

•What does this job involve?

•How do you like it?

•What are the good points?

•What are the disadvantages?

•If you didn’t have this job, what would you do for a living?

•Can you see yourself doing this for the rest of your professional life?

You can read about the human bed warmer position here, in case you are interested in applying.

Homework for Wednesday November 7th

Think about these questions and be ready to talk about them in class.

WORK-LIFE BALANCE

Tell your classmates about a normal day in your life.

-          Hours of work/studying

-          Tasks you have to do

-          People you spend your day with

-          Problems and challenges

-          How you relax

-          The best part of your day

Elecciones al Consejo Escolar

Toda la información aquí

Halloween

I'm not a big fan of this festivity, but in case you are...

Thanks to my colleague Brittany Gray for this ppt.

In case you wanna go treat or treating, here's how to do it properly:
How To Trick Or Treat (Halloween Games)

Here you have a great song by Sting inspired in the life of a vampire. You can read the lyrics here. As you can see, this song is part of the soundtrack of Interview with the Vampire. Have you seen the film? Do you like vampires?


Enjoy the long weekend!

Present perfect and past simple

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
More exercises

Jobs + extreme adjectives

I have just found this extra listening about jobs and an activity to review extreme adjectives.

Jobs

Watch the video and take notes about the questions below.


What do they do?
What did they dream of doing when you were younger?
Is your job a dream job?

This site is full of activities and quizzes to build on your knowledge of career-related vocabulary and offer some tips on things like how to put together a good CV or come across well in an interview.

More vocabulary about work

Writing an opinion essay

Click here
Deadline: Monday 5th or Wednesday 7h

Which job is the most...

This is the speaking activity we have done in class.

Clocks go back this weekend

Don't forget to turn your clocks back one hour this weekend! Long dark winter evenings make me feel miserable!

Extreme adjectives

Exercise 1
Exercise 2 
Exercise 3

The best job ever

We'll check the answers next week

Unit 1 Review and extension

Click here to find the answers to exercises on p. 18

Talking about work

This is the video we watched with Sandra in class, with lots of interesting vocabulary.



These are the notes I took:

I work shfts
I work day/night shift
I am on morning shift
I am on days/afternoons/nights

to call in sick

to do overtime (OT). I'm doing overtime
to work like a dog 
to work your ass off (vulgar)

to have to stay late, to come in early
time off, to take a day off  

 Test your understanding of this lesson here

Word order in questions

Exercise 1
Exercise 2

Mistakes happiest day from torrepacheco

Extra copies

Here's some extra copies taken from the teacher's book for you to print, bind them somehow and bring them to class every day, as we will use them throughout the year. Thanks!

Learning languages

We've been speaking in class about learning languages. This is the ppt we saw in class.

Here you have some more questions for you to reflect on.

Does your accent really matter?

This is the arcticle about speaking with an accent that I mentioned in class. I find it really interesting.

Información de principio de curso

Welcome to b2.1 de torrepacheco

What do you remember?

To get the ball rolling, you can check what you remember from the old Intermedio 2.

Initial evaluation writing

Welcome!

Hello everyone,

Welcome to our B2.1 class blog. Here you'll have the chance to practise and expand what we do in class this year and, hopefully, to have some fun to!

Hope you find it useful and you enjoy the course as much as I do.

See you in class!