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VOCABULARY 1st TERM

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Click here to open a document with the vocabulary for the 1st term. Leave a comment if you have any doubt.

Click here to open vocabulary related to a description of a place.

Click here to open the vocabulary from Unit 3

Click here to open the vocabulary from Notting Hill

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WEEKEND ACTIVITIES

Click here to open the vocabulary and the listening page.

Do activities 1 and 3 from the Vocabulary Section.
Do exercise 4, 5, 6 and 7 from the Listening and Reading Section.



Here you have the listening from the page to do it. Make sure you write the answers in your notebook before we correct.

SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

A good site to practise school vocabulary


http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-topics-school.htm

PAST SIMPLE & PAST CONTINUOUS

Click on the sites to practise on past simple & past continuous


http://english.baladre.org/sedaviwebfront/pastSimpCont.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises?ex02
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises?ex03
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises?ex04
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises?ex05
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises?ex06
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises?ex07
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises?ex08

SOME, ANY, MUCH, MANY...

Some exercises on these quantifiers


http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/mengen.htm
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/CET/flashactivities/much_many01.html

WELCOME BACK!

It's not as if I had left the blog alone, because I looked for things to bring you during the summer, but for those who know the blog and for those who arrive for the very first time: Welcome!!

A new course has started and new challenges will appear during the year. For me, a new school -though I worked there before- and new students, new levels. Time to work quite hard!
Hope you have a nice year, too!!

WORDMAP

A new tool for creating vocabulary wordmaps, as suggested by Ken Beare. Its name is Wordle and you can create things like these:

WALTZING MATILDA

One mobile phone company in our country is using a choir of children singing the song "Waltzing Matilda". Asked by my mother about the song, I looked for it on the google. As a good freak, I discovered a different story from what I'd expected. Because of the title, I thought about a dance and a girl. But the truth is that the song talks about carrying your goods in a bag while travelling on food. This song is considered as one of the unofficial Australian anthems and is used in many sporting events, especially those related to rugby. I found the following video on youtube, which talks about the plot and mentions vocabulary which is specifically Australian, and some of these wordsa are old-fashioned, too. There are some typical symbols from Australia as well.

Some of the vocabulary you can find:
swagman: Swag is a bed roll which bundle the belongings of a man, the swagman, who travelled the country looking for a job
Waltzing means to travel while working as a craftsman
Matilda is the swag, in a metaphoric way, giving it the name of a woman, since it was the only companion of the swagman.
billabong: a pool of deep water
billy: a little tin for boiling water.
Jumbuck: a sheep
tucker bag: a bag for carrying tucker, which means food.
squatter: big land owner
troopers: policemen

Can you tell me what's the plot of the song?

FIRST MOON LANDING

In 1969, the NASA achieved a dream: the first human beings arrived to the Moon. A competition against Russian government that was fulfilled with Armstrong's famous sentence: "One small step...". Can you complete it by listening to the video?? be honest and do not look for it on google!