Year 1: Present Simple

Do you want to revise what we've seen about the Present simple? Check out these exercises:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Now you can watch this video and do the exercise.

Year 4: Remembrance Day

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the guns of Europe fell silent. After four years of terrible fighting, The First World War ended. This moment is still commemorated by millions of people in Britain every year.

Find out more about Remembrance Day.

Now you are ready to do the crossword.

Year 1: Bonfire night

Bonfire Night is celebrated across the UK on 5 November. The date marks the failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament by Guy Fawkes along with a group of co-conspirators in London in 1605.

Find out more about...

Guy Fawkes and Bonfire night

Bonfire Night Traditions in the UK

Year 4: Guy Fawkes

Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot...

This November 5th is Guy Fawkes' Night and it will be celebrated by people across the UK. This year is the 405th anniversary of Guy Fawkes' failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament, King James I and the entire English government.

Luckily, the plot failed but why do people in the UK continue to celebrate such a violent event more than 400 years after the actual attempt?

If you want to know more about the gunpowder plot, you can watch this BBC documentary:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

Then do the crossword and play this game.

Do you want to know more about the history of the nursery rhyme? Check out this website.

Year 4: Halloween

Happy Halloween, everyone!

Do you know where the tradition of Halloween comes from? Watch this video and answer the questions.



Now you are ready to read a classic horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven (with a useful glossary) and watch the Simpsons version of this classic tale.

On this website, you'll find many more horror short stories. Enjoy!!!

Year 1: Halloween

A powerpoint presentation to help you revise some of the Halloween vocabulary we saw in class.

Halloween[1]

And if you want, you can test yourself with this Halloween crossword.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Year 4: Question Tags / verbs + to INF / ING

Hello!!!

If you feel like revising the grammar points we've already studied, have a look at these websites:

Stative verbs
Listen to this episode of The Flatmates
Read the Language Point
Do the Quiz

Question tags
Theory
Exercise 1
Exercise 2

Verbs + to INF / ING
First of all, read this very interesting document.
If you want to find out more about changes in meaning, read this chart.
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5

Year 1: Extra Grammar

Hello everyone!

In case you need more grammar exercises, here is a selection of interesting websites you can check out:

A/an

Theory

Exercise 1

This, that, these, those

Theory

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Regular Plurals

Theory

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Possessive adjectives

Theory

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

If you have problems with any other grammar points, don't hesitate to tell me.

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!

Film Festival "Cines del Sur"

The film festival "Cines del Sur" is taking place in Granada. You can see films from different countries of the South. All the films are available in original version with Spanish subtitles.

The festival will be celebrated from the 12 to the 18 June 2010. If you want more information, visit the Festival Website.