St Patrick's Day

March 17 is St. Patrick's Day, an annual feast which celebrates Saint Patrick, one of the patron saints of Ireland.

If you want to learn about the history of St. Patrick and some other Irish traditions, watch the following video.

Pancake Day

Dear Students,

Today is Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday, which is a special day celebrated in many countries around the world. On this day many people eat pancakes. If you want to know more about Pancake Day, and learn how to make pancakes, visit the following websites:

• Reading and recipe
• Reading and listening exercises
• More exercises

Intermedio: First Conditional and Future Time Clauses

Hi everyone!

If you want more information on the First Conditional, listen to this episode of "The Flatmates". Then, read this information on the First Conditional, and finally, try this quiz.

And here are some more exercises:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

You can visit the following websites in case you want to learn more about Future Time Clauses.
Theory
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Finally, here is a fantastic song by Leonard Cohen. If you listen carefully, you will find a lot of examples of the First Conditional.


If you want to read the lyrics, click here.

Year 3: Halloween

Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).
The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death.
Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes.

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If you want to find out more about Halloween, you can visit this website.
You can do the following reading exercise. It might be very useful if you are thinking of buying a house.

Happy Halloween!

Third Conditional / Ironic

Some extra information and exercises on the Third Conditional:

Theory
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Also, I would like you to watch this video and do the exercises.

Second Conditional / If I were a boy

If you still want to do some extra exercises on the second conditional, check out these websites:

Theory
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Now listen to the song If I were a boy by Beyoncé, and try to do this exercise. You will find many examples of the second conditional. Good luck!

Year 3: Present Perfect Continuous

Hi everyone!

In case you need extra practice on the Present Perfect Continuous, here are a few websites that you might find interesting:

Theory
Since and for
Present Perfect Continuous
Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous 1
Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous 2
Quiz

You can find a lot of examples of the Present Perfect Continuous in this song by The Rasmus. Listen to the song and then do this exercise. You can check your answers here.

Passive / Reported Speech / Relative Clauses

Try to find examples of passive sentences in the song Amazing, by George Michael.

Now read the rules and do the exercises.

Passive voice:Theory
Passive (various tenses)
Active or passive

Revise your relative sentences with the following exercises:

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Reported speech: Rules
More rules
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Here's a revision of all the grammar points of lesson 6.

Good luck!

Year 3: Present Perfect - Past Simple / Maths

Hi everyone!

Did you have a good weekend? If you want, you can do a few extra exercises on the difference between the Present Perfect and the Past Simple.

Theory
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Theory and exercise

If you like numbers, here are some interesting websites I would like to recommend.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/
http://math.pppst.com/
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/maths.htm

Good luck with everything!

Math Trivia

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Year 3: The Future

Would you like to revise future forms? To start with, you can read the theory and do the following exercises:

Theory
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Then listen to this song by a man who is wondering what his life is going to be like when he's 64. You can click on the highlighted words to read a definition.

Enjoy it!!!


When I get older losing my hair,
Many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?

If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four?

You'll be older too, (ah ah ah ah ah)
And if you say the word,
I could stay with you.

I could be handy mending a fuse
When your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride.

Doing the garden, digging the weeds,
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four?

Every summer we can rent a cottage
In the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck, and Dave

Send me a postcard, drop me a line,
Stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, Wasting Away.

Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four? Whoo!

Things to do this summer

Hi, everyone!

Summer holidays are already here. Remember that it is very important to revise what you have learned this year. Here are a few tips on things that you can do this summer.

- Download some audiobooks and listen to them while you are sunbathing on the beach.

Openculture
Librivox

- Alternatively, if you prefer traditional books, you could get hold of some graded readers.

• Penguin Readers. Level 4. Ed Pearson Longman
• Oxford Bookworms. Level 4. Ed. OUP
• Black Cat. Reading and Training. Step Three (B1.2). Ed Vicens Vives

- Finally, Spain is full of English-speaking people at this time of year, so don't be shy and talk to them (in English, of course).

Have a fantastic summer!

TO+INF or GERUND ? / Work

If you want more practice on TO+INF / GERUND, read the explanation and then do the quiz and the exercises:

Theory
A quiz
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

In this website, you'll find a lot of interesting words related to jobs and work.

Now watch this funny video by Belle and Sebastian. The song is called Step Into My Office Baby, you can read the lyrics and the glossary here.

Generation Gap

What do you think? Are there significant differences in outlook and attitudes between the different generations in Spain? Are there any aspects of one generation’s lifestyle that another generation finds difficult to understand? Do you believe there are any ways in which young people today behave worse, or better, than older people did at their age? Can you think of any examples of one generation having mistaken beliefs or assumptions about another?

I would like you to read a text on the views of three people about the differences between the generations in contemporary Britain.

Generation Gap_Text

Generation Gap_Glossary

Generation Gap_Answers

If you want to find out more about the Generation Gap, watch this video. In this report we look at the growing gap between analogue values and digital values. And between digital natives and digital immigrants. It's in English with subtitles.

St George's Day

The 23rd of April is England’s national day, St George’s Day.

Can you answer this question: According to legend, which mythical creature did St George kill or 'slay'?

a) a unicorn
b) a dragon
c) a griffin

Listen to this programme on St George's Day and don't forget to listen out for the answer at the end of the programme.

If you want to find out more about England, you can read the following text and browse through some of the websites I have listed below:

England_Text

England_Glossary

The England entry in Simple English Wikipedia.

The website of the English national tourism organization.

A page on St George’s Day from an excellent online project on Britain created by teachers and students at a school in England. There are numerous other pages with information about England.

A page on the red deer, England’s largest wild animal, from the website of the British Deer Society.

The Tube

The Tube_Text

The Tube_Glossary

The Tube_Answers

These days we've been talking about the underground in Granada and "the tube" in London. If you want to find out more about this form of transport, you can read the following text and do the activities.

What do you think? Is the tube a place where you can meet new friends? Why aren't people friendly on the tube?

Listen to this programme and find out more about this interesting subject.

Exam samples

Hi everyone!

If you want to practise for your final exam, you can have a look at some exam samples from other Autonomous Communities in Spain. They might be a little bit different from the one you'll do, but I think you might find these samples interesting. Good luck!

EEOOII de Cataluña

EEOOII de Euskadi

EEOOII de Madrid

EEOOII de Aragón

EEOOII de Baleares

EEOOII de Asturias

EOI de Valencia

EOI de Santander

EOI de Utiel

Landmarks

The world's tallest building opened in the Gulf emirate of Dubai in January 2010. The Burj Khalifa was revealed to be 828m (2,716ft) high, far taller than the previous record holder, Taipei 101.

If you want to find out more about this building and other landmarks in the world, read this text and do the exercises:

Landmarks_Text

Landmarks_Answers

IWD

International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated around the world on March 8 every year. It is an important day to highlight the economic, political and social contributions women have made to our world.

I would like you to do this exercise about the disappearance of Women's Studies from British universities. First of all, listen to this story (without reading the text, please) and then try this comprehension quiz. Later you can read the text and do these reading exercises.

A final question: What do you think is possible for women and girls in the next decade?



Good luck!

Avatar

Today I would like you to read about a recently-released film that has already broken cinema box-office records: James Cameron’s Avatar.

Avatar_Text

Avatar_Glossary

Avatar_Answers

Now you can watch the trailer of the film. Good luck!

The ‘noughties’

The first decade of the 21st century, the ‘noughties’, is over. It is a time to look back, at both the highs and the lows. How has the world changed in the last ten years?

The noughties

The noughties_Answers