Listening Activities

Some links to practice your listening skills:

http://www.esl-lab.com

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening.php

http://esl.about.com/od/englishlistening/English_Listening_Skills_and_ActivitiesEffective_Listening_Practice.htm

http://listenaminute.com

http://www.5minuteenglish.com/listening.htm

http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Listening/

http://www.agendaweb.org/listening/intermediate.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com

http://eslcafe.com/search/Listening/

http://www.xtec.cat/centres/b7006733/calaix0809/pauangles/provespauanglesanysanteriors.htm

http://blocs.xtec.cat/bloglearn/2011/06/04/listening-pau-exams/

http://aitorninerola.es/blog/examens-pau/

Reading Comprehension Activities

If you want to improve your reading skills and practice your comprehension, check the links below:


http://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/intermediate.html

http://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/first+certificate+in+english.html

http://issuu.com/joeprofile/docs/paau_logse_tests_oxford

http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/comp/readcomp.htm

http://www.english-area.com/paginas/selectividad.htm

http://www.isabelperez.com/tests.htm

http://takethepen.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/examenes-de-ingles-para-selectividad/

http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/averroes/iesjosecaballero/ingles/RC/exer.htm

http://english.marylo.net/selectivity.php

Informal Letter

Here you have a presentation on Informal Letter.

Informal letter from Anabel Ponce

PRESENT TENSES

The first unit of Distinction covers present tenses. Here you can check a presentation about them

Present tenses from Anabel Ponce

FUTURE TENSES

1st btx gr_future

View more presentations from Anabel Ponce.

BERLIN

AS WRITTEN BY MY COLLEAGUE VICKY

For those lucky guys who are travelling to Berlin just in a few days, as well as for those of us who are staying here, here's a little bit of information about Berlin.

Remember that Berlin is a city full of HISTORY, where you'll be able to see and touch the great wall that divided Europe for so many years.

Have a nice trip!!!

Open publication - Free publishing - More berlin

MODAL VERBS

A presentation on Modal verbs you could find on this blog time ago. Hopefully, it would be very useful for you.

Modal Verbs

View more presentations from Anabel Ponce

THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS

During the following two weeks you're going to discover a lot of things about New York. You're going to do a powerpoint presentation following the instructions given to you BY YOUR TEACHER, based in the webquest called "A Trip to New York". To start the webquest click here

DESCRIPTION OF A PLACE - WRITING 1st BATXILLERAT

Writing describing places

View more presentations from Anabel Ponce.

NOTTING HILL

The first week of November, we have the exam on Notting Hill, a wonderful book about love and other issues. Make sure you read it before the exam. We are sure you will read better by listening to the soundtrack of the film with the same title starred by Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. Enjoy the songs!

AFTER WATCHING `THE KING'S SPEECH´

After watching the movie, why don't your write a moving speech and record it? Think about an interesting situation and some audience to address to:

...a Prime Minister addressing his/her country in times of crisis.

...an actor/actress making and Oscar acceptance speech.

... a civil rights leader asking people to react against injustice.

...a charity manager asking people to donate money for the Third world children.

... a doctor warning about the dangers of smoking cigarrettes.

... a best man on his friend's wedding day.

FOLLOW THE IDEAS ON THIS SPEECHWRITING PAGE

Agree on a deadline with your teacher and send it to him or to her

V FOR VENDETTA

Talking about a speech... not only kings, politicians or actors are the ones who can deliver a moving speech.
In this case it's an anarchist revolutionary, dressed in black and wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, trying to convice people to rule themselves and bring down the government.

You should listen carefully to what he says, maybe there are some similarities with the world wide revolution we're witnessing these days.

There are certain things, though, that you should know about. Read these questions and answer them before you watch the videoclip.

1- Who was Guy Fawkes?
2- "Remember, remember, the fifth of November..." What happened on 5th November 1605 ?
3- How do people celebrate that day in the UK?
4- Who says "a penny for the guy"?

Now, click here

THE KING'S SPEECH

On Friday 28th, We are going to watch a nice film, The King's Speech, with one of my favourite actors, Colin Firth. If you go to the nice and brand new site for Cinema per a estudiants, you can do several interactive activites and learn more about the King, his therapist and how he influenced his people with his first war speech.

MY BLACKBERRY IS NOT WORKING!

Blackberry has been failing and life's stopped for you, my dearest students. This would mean peace and no chats in the classroom. Have a look at this video, from a comedy programme in BBC. We'll work with it in class, but meanwhile, let's relax with all these silent blackberries.



Click here if you want to read in another blog what a nice person, Eduardo Mosqueira, has written in order to understand better the jokes in English.

THE LAZY SONG by Bruno Mars

We're starting a new year, but we still think about our holidays. Bruno Mars as well. Listen to the song and try to answer the questions on the video. What activities do you do in a lazy day?

"SWING VOTE" FORUM

Following the links you can have access to the Swing Vote Forum. Remember you have to participate in two of the three posts.

Opinion

Topics

Characters

"NOTTING HILL" FORUM

Following the links you can have access to the Notting Hill Forum. Remember you have to participate in two of the three posts.

Characters

Topics

Opinion

VOCABULARY 1st TERM

photo taken by J. Dalmau

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

photo taken by E.Deitg