Year 1: Revision

Revision Elementary Grammar

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Year 4: Defining and non-defining relative clauses

Revise your relative sentences with the following exercises:

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Do you want to find out what the best tennis players like to read? Watch the following video. Leave a comment telling us about your favourite reading material.

Year 4: Inventions

Today is the 164th anniversary of Thomas Edison's birth. He was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

Below you can read an article about the 10 top inventions that changed the world. If you want to vote for one of them as the best invention ever, you can do so by leaving a comment.

Top 10 Inventions

Year 1: Can/Can't

Check the following websites for more exercises on Can / Can't
Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Vocabulary

More Verb Phrases

Year 1: Revision Unit 3

If you need to revise some of the grammar points we've seen in Unit 3, you can take a look at the following websites:

Adverbs of frequency
Exercise 1

Prepositions of Time (in, at, on)
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Dates
Exercise 1

Connectors (and, but, or)
Exercise 1
Exercise 2

Films in English at the Universidad Popular

Tuesday 15 February: Tamara Drewe

At 18.00 and 20.30. Price: 2.10 euros

Tuesday 22 February: Exit Through the Gift Shop

At 18.00 and 20.30. Price: 2.10 euros

Year 4: Groundhog day

Groundhog Day is a holiday celebrated on February 2 in the United States and Canada. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, it will leave the burrow, signifying that winter-like weather will soon end. If it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and the winter weather will continue for six more weeks.


And this is a clip from the comedy film Groundhog day.

Year 4: Mixed conditionals / Love in the first degree

I'm sure you want to find out more about mixed conditionals. Read this information, and then do the exercises.

Now you do this exercise and then watch the video. This song compares being in love to being in prison, so I'm sure you'll find lots of interesting legal expressions. I hope you enjoy it.

Year 1: Daily routine / Telling the time / Adjectives

If you feel you need more practice on some of the latest topics we've seen in class, you can do the following exercises:

Daily routine
Exercise 1

Listening exercise

Telling the time
Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Listening exercise

Adjectives:
Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

After all those exercise, you should play this game.

Year 4: Optimism and Pessimism / Third conditional

Do you think you are an optimist or a pessimist? Read the following text which features contrasting feelings of optimism and pessimism in the face of current economic, political, social and environmental issues.

Reasons to be cheerful_Text

Reasons to be cheerful_Glossary

Reasons to be cheerful_Answers

Now, take a look at the following sites:

- The website The Optimist, which specialises in ‘daily good news headlines’.

- A BBC article (2000) on medical research in the United States that suggested people with an optimistic outlook live longer.

If you want to revise conditional sentences, go through this Power Point presentation...

Conditionals

...now you are ready to do these exercises:

Theory

Exercise 1

Exercise 2