Origen del Idioma Inglés

El inglés es un idioma originario del norte de Europa, de raíz germánica, que se desarrolló en Inglaterra, difundido desde su origen por todas las Islas Británicas y en muchas de sus antiguas colonias de ultramar. El inglés es el tercer idioma más hablado del mundo, por detrás del chino y del español.

sábado, 5 de diciembre de 2009

Final exams in December 2009

1st Term: Units 1, 2 and 3
2nd Term: Unit 4, 5 and 6
3rd Term: Units 7

Final exams in December 2009

1st Term: Units 1, 2 and 3
2nd Term: Unit 4
3rd Term: Units 5, 6 and 7

sábado, 12 de septiembre de 2009

Activities

2nd Week of November

• Workbook: P.97
• Student’s book: P.112, exercise 10A
P.113, exercise 11A
• Special assignment
• Assignments Make up


1st week of November

• P.108: Music in the air (Reading comprehension)
• P.109: Indirect questions and making comparisons stronger
• P. 110, exercise 5: listening comprehension “Instruments”
• Workbook: p. 94-95 (making comparisons stronger)-96 (embedded questions)-99 (Unit check)
• P.110, exercise 6 (Listening to Music)
• P.111: Indirect questions


4th Week of October

• Lost in Translation (2nd Part)
• Written assignment about the film


3rd week of October

• Test on Common Errors (units 17 to 24)
• Common Errors 26
• Lost in Translation (1st Part)


2nd week of October

• Bank holiday
• Common Errors, exercise 25
• P.114, exercise 1d-e
• P.115, exercise 2b (referents)
• P.107

1st Week of October

• Common errors 23-24
• P.103, exercise 3 (Result clauses with SO/SUCH THAT
• P.104: Reading and listening comprehension (Film Therapy)
• P.105: Reacting to Films
• Workbook: p.89-90 (so/such- reacting to films)
• P.93: Unit check


5th week of September

• Common errors nº 22
• P.102 (Unit 15)
• Expressing purpose
• P. 103
• WB: p.88, ex.1a-b-c


4th Week of September

• HAPPY STUDENT’S DAY!!!!
• First Term Test

3rd Week of September

• Common errors: exercises 19-20-21
• Pages 98-99-100-101: didn’t need to/ needn’t have – travel verbs – round the world (listening comprehension) and everyday English.
• Workbook: pages 83-84-87 (Revision unit 14)

2nd Week of September

* Adverbial phrases and adverbs (page 95). Workbook: pages 80-81
* Common errors: units 17 and 18
* Page 96 (reading comprehension)
* Page 97(geographical features and participle clauses)
* Page 98, exercise 5 (Listening comprehension "What goes down").

Tests

16-11-09: 2nd Term 2nd Test

19-10-09: Test on Common errors (units 17 to 24)

22-09-09: 2nd Term 1st Test

Activities

1st week of November

• Workbook: pp.44-45
• P.52: Peacemakers (reading comprensión)
• P.53: passive voice (past perfect)
• Homework: WB: p.46


4th Week of October

• P.49: Modal verbs
• Pp.: 50-51 (Traditional birthdays
• Homework: WB: pp.42-43


3rd Week of October

• Lost in Translation (2nd Part)
• Questionnaire about the movie


2nd Week of october

• P.47: Dummy IT – Making an effort
• P.48: listening comprehension
• Film: Lost in Translation (1st Part)

1st Week of October

• Project: We watched and corrected the videos
• P.46: Hit and Run Kindness
• English culture
• Homework: p.46, exercises b-c


5th Week of Sepember - 1st week of October

• Everyday English
• 30/9/09: Test on Unit 6
• Project: Videos


4th Week of September

• Project filming
• Revision activities

3rd Week of September

• Pages 35-36: as…as, adverbial phrases and exercises for practice


2nd week of September

* Flash mobs (listening comprehension). Page 43.
* Adverbial phrases
* Grammar games on the internet

Project

Hand it in on September, 24th

Activities

2nd week of November

• Test: Unit 7
• P.52: Peacemakers
• P.53, exercises C-D


1st week of November

• P.48: Listening comprehension (Possessions)
• P.49: Modal verbs
• P.50-51: Birthday Traditions
• Workbook: p.44 (listening)- 42 (modal verbs) – 45 (unit check)


4th Week of October

• Unit 6: Test
• P.46: Hit and run kindness (reading comprehension)
• P.47: Dummy IT and vocabulary on Making an effort
• Workbook: p.40-41
• P.59, exercise 2b: vocabulary on Making an effort
• Homework: WB: p.43


3rd Week of October

• The Golden Compass (2nd Part) and question guide
• Workbook: p.39
• Classbook: p.44


2nd Week of October

• Bank holiday
• Project: Videos (watching and correcting last details)

1st Week of October

• Project: We watched and corrected the videos
• The Golden Compass (1st part) and thirteen questions


5th Week of September

• p.41 : Would – used to
• p.42: Flash MOBS (Listening comprehension)
• p.43: Adverbs and adverbial phrases
• WB: p.34, exercise 1a-d
• WB: p.35, exercise 2
• HOMEWORK: WB: p.35, ex 3a-b. p.36, ex 4- 5a-b


4th Week of September

• HAPPY STUDENT’S DAY!!!!
• Monitoring of the Project

3rd Week of September

• Test on unit 5
• Page 40: “In and Out of Fashion” reading comprehension and activities


2nd week of September

*Workbook: pages 31-33- Revision
*Project check

Project

* Hand it in on September, 22nd

Project

*These are some pictures of one of the groups. Good job!!!









* Hand it in on Sepetmber, 23rd.

Activities

2nd week of November

• Test: unit 7
• P.52: Record Holders
• P.53: Present Perfect
• P.108-109, exercise 3A


1st week of November

• First conditional exercises
• Unit 7: Test


5th week of October

• The Goleen Com`pass (2nd Part)
• P.49: Sports vocabulary
• Pp.: 50-51: Dave´s risks and exercises
• Pp.: 105-107: practice
• Homework: p.106, exercise 7


4th Week of October

• P.58, exercise 1d
• P.59, exercise 2b
• Practice exercises
• The Golden Compass (1st Part) and a question guide


3rd week of October

• Pgs 102-103: First Conditional – when/if
• P. 48, exercise 6: adjectives of feeling
• Homework: p.103, exercise F. P.104

2nd Week of October

• Project: Videos (we watched and corrected them)
• P. 46: Face to face with a gorilla and exercises
• P. 47: 1st conditional and exercises
• Homework: p.47, exercise d.



4th Week of September - 1st week of October

• P.100: Reading comprehension
• P.101: Unit Check
• P.99: exercise 6: Everyday English
• Extra exercises for practice
• P. 44-45: Tips for Tourists
• 30/9: Test on unit 6


3rd Week of September

• Page 43: What+to be+subject+like?
• Page 43: Adjectives for expressing opinion
• Page 98: Adjectives for expressing opinion
• Page 99: adjectives, prefixes and suffixes


2nd week of September

* Video: "writing an exam" and questionnaire about it
* should /shouldn't (pages 40-41-42). Homework: pages 96-97.

Activities

2nd Week of November

• Revision exercises
• P.50-51, exercise 9
• P.105, exercise 5
• P.51
• Test: unit 7


1st Week of November

• P.48: IF or WHEN – adjectives of feeling
• P.49: Sports vocabulary
• P.103, exercise e
• P.104: Adjectives of feeling
• P.105, exercise 4c
• P.58, exercise 1d
• First Conditional exercises


5th Week of October

• P.46: reading comprensión “Gorillas”
• P.47: First Condicional
• P.102, exercise 2a-b-c


4th Week of October

• Test on Unit 6
• Question guide about The Golden Compass


3rd week of October

• Bank holiday
• Practice exercises for the test


2nd Week of October

• The Golden Compass (2nd Part) and study guide
• Should and shouldn’t revision


5th Week of September - 1st Week of October

• We watched videos from the Project made by the students
• P.44: Tips for Tourists.
• P. 45: Letter from a penfriend
• P.99: Prefixes and suffixes
• P101:: Unit Check
• Homework: p.100, ex. 8

4th Week of September

• HAPPY STUDENT’S DAY!!!!
• We watch the movies made by the students for the Project

3rd Week of September

• Pages 40-41: Should/shouldn’t
• Page 42: personality adjectives
• Pages 96-97 (workbook)
• Page 43: What+to be+subject+like?
• Page 58, exercise 1C: should/shouldn’t
• HOMEWORK: Page 98, exercises 4 A-B, 5 A-B.


2nd Week of September

Revision on unit 5

sábado, 22 de agosto de 2009

Programa

• Comparative and superlative adjectives
• Adjectives and opposites
• Present continuous for the future
• Holidays vocabulary
• Verb patterns
• Simple future
• State verbs
• Everyday English
• Adjectives and adverbs
• Too vs very
• The weather / weather adjectives
• Countable and uncountable nouns
• Phrasal verbs
• Adverbs
• Must / mustn’t
• Going to
• Should / shouldn’t
• What … like?
• Personality adjectives
• If vs when
• Adjectives ending in –ed or –ing
• Occupations
• 1st conditional
• Present perfect simple
• Time adverbs
• Animals
• Descriptions

Programa

• Comparative and superlative adjectives
• Adjectives and opposites
• Present continuous for the future
• Holidays vocabulary
• Verb patterns
• Simple future
• State verbs
• Everyday English
• Adjectives and adverbs
• Too vs very
• The weather / weather adjectives
• Countable and uncountable nouns
• Phrasal verbs
• Adverbs
• Must / mustn’t
• Going to
• Should / shouldn’t
• What … like?
• Personality adjectives
• If vs when
• Adjectives ending in –ed or –ing
• Occupations
• 1st conditional
• Present perfect simple
• Time adverbs
• Animals
• Descriptions

Programa

OBJETIVOS:

1) Adquirir conocimientos firmes sobre gramática y fonología.
2) Desarrollar las cuatro habilidades fundamentales en la lengua extranjera (lectura, escritura, audición y producción del habla).
3) Entender consignas, pautas y diálogos.
4) Desarrollar interés por la lectura d historias y cuentos en la lengua extranjera.
5) Ser capaz de manejarse en la lengua extranjera en situaciones habituales.

PROGRAMA A DESARROLLAR:

MODULE 1: THE WONDERS OF THE MIND

Unit I: SUPER BRAINS

• Tense revision: present tense forms
• Tense revision: past tense forms
• Expressions with MIND
• Expressions with BRAIN

Relative clauses review: defining and non-defining
Sports equipment / places

Unit II: MIND OVER MATTER

• Passive review
• Passive continuous tenses
• Health and medicine
• Feelings

Unit III: BRAINWAVES

• Relative clauses review: defining and non-defining
• Sports equipment / places

MODULE 2: THE WAY WE ARE

Unit IV: TIME TRAVELLERS

• Reported speech review
• Reporting verbs review
• Expressions with TIME

Unit V: PERSONALITIES

• What clauses
• Verbs+gerund / infinitive review
• Try+infinitive vs try+gerund

Unit VI: IN AND OUT OF FASHION

• Used to (review)+would
• Adverbs and adverbial phrases
• Common adverbial phrasal

Unit VII: KINDNESS MATTERS

• Dummy IT
• Modal verbs review
• Making an effort

Unit VIII: PEACEMAKERS

• Past perfect passive
• Past perfect continuous
• Conflicts and solutions

BIBLIOGRAFÍA OBLIGATORIA:

• English in Mind 4 (students’ and activity book)

Programa

OBJETIVOS:

1) Adquirir conocimientos firmes sobre gramática y fonología.
2) Desarrollar las cuatro habilidades fundamentales en la lengua extranjera (lectura, escritura, audición y producción del habla).
3) Entender consignas, pautas y diálogos.
4) Desarrollar interés por la lectura d historias y cuentos en la lengua extranjera.
5) Ser capaz de manejarse en la lengua extranjera en situaciones habituales.

PROGRAMA A DESARROLLAR:

MODULE 1: THE WONDERS OF THE MIND

Unit I: SUPER BRAINS

• Tense revision: present tense forms
• Tense revision: past tense forms
• Expressions with MIND
• Expressions with BRAIN

Relative clauses review: defining and non-defining
Sports equipment / places

Unit II: MIND OVER MATTER

• Passive review
• Passive continuous tenses
• Health and medicine
• Feelings

Unit III: BRAINWAVES

• Relative clauses review: defining and non-defining
• Sports equipment / places

MODULE 2: THE WAY WE ARE

Unit IV: TIME TRAVELLERS

• Reported speech review
• Reporting verbs review
• Expressions with TIME

Unit V: PERSONALITIES

• What clauses
• Verbs+gerund / infinitive review
• Try+infinitive vs try+gerund

Unit VI: IN AND OUT OF FASHION

• Used to (review)+would
• Adverbs and adverbial phrases
• Common adverbial phrasal

Unit VII: KINDNESS MATTERS

• Dummy IT
• Modal verbs review
• Making an effort

Unit VIII: PEACEMAKERS

• Past perfect passive
• Past perfect continuous
• Conflicts and solutions

BIBLIOGRAFÍA OBLIGATORIA:

• English in Mind 4 (students’ and activity book)

miércoles, 15 de julio de 2009

viernes, 19 de junio de 2009

Programa

OBJETIVOS:

1) Adquirir conocimientos firmes sobre gramática y fonología.
2) Desarrollar las cuatro habilidades fundamentales en la lengua extranjera (lectura, escritura, audición y producción del habla).
3) Entender consignas, pautas y diálogos.
4) Desarrollar interés por la lectura d historias y cuentos en la lengua extranjera.
5) Ser capaz de manejarse en la lengua extranjera en situaciones habituales.

PROGRAMA A DESARROLLAR:

MODULE 3: MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Unit IX: Get involved

• Conditionals review
• Mixed conditionals
• Third conditional
• Vocabulary: Ways of getting involved

Unit X: SOS Earth

• Future continuous
• Future perfect
• Future time expressions
• Vocabulary: global issues
• Vocabulary: conserving energy

Unit XI: when stars step in

• Reduced relative clauses
• Omission of relative pronouns
• Question tags review
• Expressing opinion
• Vocabulary: fame

Unit XII: The global village

• Phrasal verbs review
• Approximate numbers

MODULE 3: ROUND THE WORLD

Unit XIII: Language

• Passive report structures
• Verbs for describing noises people make
• Understanding language

Unit XIV: The wonders of the world

• Participle clauses
• Didn’t need to vs needn’t have
• Vocabulary: natural wonders
• Travel verbs

Unit XV: Movie magic

• Clauses of purpose: to / in order to / so as to
• Result clauses with so / such (that)
• Vocabulary: reacting to films

Unit XVI: Music in the air

• Indirect questions review
• Verbs+wh- clauses
• Making comparisons stronger
• Vocabulary: Listening to music

BIBLIOGRAFÍA OBLIGATORIA:

• English in Mind “4”, Cambridge
• Common errors (Oxford)

Tests

Make up test (Third Term): 23-11-09

Unit 7 (12-11-09)

Unit 6 (19-10-09)

Unit 5 (10-9-09)

Unit 4 (13/8/09)

Adjectives and adverbs
Too vs very
The weather / weather adjectives

Tests

Unit 5 (27/8/09)

What clauses
Verbs+gerund / infinitive review
Try+infinitive vs try+gerund

Tests

Unit 5 (14-09-09)

Unit 4 (31/8/09)

What clauses
Verbs+gerund / infinitive review
Try+infinitive vs try+gerund

Tests

Unit 7 (16/9/09)

Unit 6 (30/9/09)

Unit 5 (26/8/09)

Adjectives and adverbs
Too vs very
The weather / weather adjectives