THIRD TERM SPEAKING AND WRITING TOPICS

Speaking and writing topics for the third term are also available on this link. Please remember your next weeks' tests will be based on these topics. 

PASSIVE VOICE

Grammar notes on passive voice are already available in the following two links:

1.Passive Voice 1

2. Passive Voice 2

GRAMMAR NOTES ON CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

Grammar notes on conditional sentences are available here. Below these lines you will also find a simple but useful chart to understand the main verb tenses used in conditional sentences.

FATHER TED: A SONG FOR EUROPE

Now you can watch the complete episode of this famous Irish sitcom 

A BAD TRANSLATION?

He encontrado este pequeño recorte en el que la prensa española hace una ¿mala? interpretación de un artículo aparecido en el New York Times.
Do you think it is a good or a bad translation?

POEMS: EA TOLEDO

1ºC BACHILLERATO

1ºB BACHILLERATO

FUTURE TENSES EXERCISES AND ANSWER KEY

Click here and you will find a PDF file with a lot of different web links to prepare your Monday's grammar test.
Besides, you can find an Answer Key for yesterday's grammar and vocabulary exercises.
I hope you find them useful!

REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS

Grammar notes on reflexive pronouns are already available in the following link:

1. Reflexive Pronouns

WHAT A JOURNEY! WRITING

The following pictures are messy, but you can write your own story. Have a look at them and try to make an interesting story. You just need a little bit of  imagination!

FUTURE TENSES, GRAMMAR FILES

Grammar notes are already available in the following links.

1. Future tenses

2. Future Continuous and Future Perfect

I hope you find them useful!

A SONG WITH A (FUNNY) STORY

An amusing explanation for a great song

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY EXERCISES

You can prepare next Monday's test with these exercises. Here you can find some additional grammar exercises and their Answer Key. Besides, you can find some vocabulary exercises here and their Answer Key. 
Finally, I also include an Answer Key for yesterday's grammar and reading exercises.
I hope you find them useful!

THE STORY OF EVERYONE, SOMEONE, ANYONE AND NO-ONE

There was an important job to be done and Everyone was sure that Someone would do it.

Anyone  could have done it, but No-one did it.

Someone got angry about that because he thought that it was Everyone’s job.

Everyone thought that Anyone could do it, but No-one realised that Everyone wouldn’t do it.

It ended up that Everyone was angry with Someone because No-one did what Anyone could have done!

This is a different way to explain and understand indefinite pronouns. Here you will find some grammar notes if you prefer a traditional explanation. 

WRITING A GUIDED POEM

You can write a five-line poem easily. Just follow these instructions.

1. On the first line write a noun of your choice

2. On the second line write two adjectives joined by and to describe this noun

3. On the third line write a verb and an adverb to describe this noun in action

4. Start the fourth line with like or as followed by a comparison

5. Start the final line with if only followed by a wish

Below there are two examples of such poems 

Home

Warm and Sweet

Keeping me safe

Like fire in a cold snowed day

If only I could be there forever

Pain

Scary and horrible

Hurting quickly your hearth

Like claws in your arms

If only pain doesn't exist

AN OPTIMISTIC OR A PESSIMISTIC SONG?

Do you think it is an optimistic or a pessimistic song? Why? 

INTENSIFICADORES DE ADJETIVOS

Utilizamos los intensificadores (+ + +) para añadir fuerza, para intensificar el significado de los adjetivos. 

Por otra parte, podemos utilizar lo que conocemos como mitigadores (+/++)  para reducir, disminuir o moderar el significado del adjetivo al que se refieren.

Uso y significados

+ (un poco)	­­+ + (bastante)	+ + + (muy)
A little	Rather	very,
slightly	pretty	really
a bit	quite	extremely
	fairly

- You must be a little crazy to do such a thing.

- The film was quite funny and I enjoyed it. 

- I am really interested in politics.

Intensificador	Significado
a little	Un poco
slightly	Un poco. ligeramente
a bit	Un poco, algo
rather	Bastante
pretty	Bastante
quite	Bastante
fairly	Bastante
very,	Muy
really	Muy,  (-ísimo)
extremely	Sumamente,  (-ísimo)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Best wishes to everybody!