Mog's Christmas

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Just for all of you 2nd BAC and ESO

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Connectors

Some practice:

Cause, consecquence,  contrast, cause-contrast,  mixed 1, mixed 2, 

multiple choice 1, multiple choice 2

Christmas

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Desolation of Smaug

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Protecting Sudan's Hidden Pyramids

Internet Acronyms

Monty the penguin

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Oral Tests for B1

If you want to prepare for oral test for B1, try some exam guides from EOI in Seville:

Presentation and Dialogue on Housing

Presentation and Dialogue on Money/Shopping

Presentation on Holidays

Presentation on Healthy Lifestyle

Dialogue on Physical Appearance

Dialogue on Sports

Other oral exams: 

Cambridge FCE,   Cambridge First Speaking 2015,  First Certificate Speaking Questions,  UK Student Life,  ESL FCE Quick Links 

Thanksgiving with Friends

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Buster's Holiday Wish

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Hermitage Museum Cats

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Doubts with -ed Ending?

If you have some doubts try two games thanks to Woodward English:

• Game 1, 20 questions
• Game 2, 50 questions

Trouble with Mr. Bean

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Jack o'Lanterns

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Halloween

How Mission Control Saved the Apollo 13 Crew

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William Shakespeare Biography

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Belle Mt: Hollow

View Hollow Lyrics by Belle Mt at Musixmatch

Steve Jobs talks about Managing People

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Keep Kids Safe Online

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Nobel Prize for Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro

As I've told you this week, Kazuo Ishiguro has written two wonderful book which were adapted to the cinema, Never let me go and The remains of the day. Enjoy with the first one and try to see the whole film, it's worth.

Doubts with Tenses?

Apostrophes-('s)

Useful Classroom Expressions

Can I see your exercises, please? Can you read this word? Can you speak louder? Can you spell it, please? Can you write it on the board, please? Could you repeat that, please? Do you understand? First listen, and then repeat. Give me some more examples, please. Has anyone got a spare pen/pencil/rubber? How do you spell … , please? I’m sorry, I don’t understand. Is this correct/right? Keep going.

Let’s practise that again. Please do the following exercises. Put your hand up if you don’t understand. Put your hand up if you know the answer. Say it in English, please! Say it more slowly. Say it with me. Say the whole sentence, please. Shall I go on? Show me your work. Tell me the answer. What does …. mean? What page are we on? What’s the English word for … ? Who has finished?

You can find a good list in this link.

Cambridge English: First (FCE) and Cambridge English: First for Schools (FCE)

As I told you in class, this year is a good moment to get an English Certification before going to university, and FCE is an option.

An upper-intermediate qualification which covers use of English in real-life situations and study environments. Learners are expected to understand the main ideas of complex texts taken from a range of sources (such as magazines, news articles and fiction), demonstrate different writing styles (such as emails, essays, letters or short stories), follow a range of spoken materials (such as news programmes and public announcements), and keep up in conversations on a wide range of topics, expressing opinions, presenting arguments and producing spontaneous spoken language.

You can visit the oficial webpage to know about the exams, dates, places and even test your level.

Million Reasons. It's a pity we couldn't see you in Barcelona last week

2017 EuroBasket: Spain capture Bronze medals with win over Russia

Spain overcame a gallant Russia 93-85 to win bronze and send retiring captain Juan Carlos Navarro off in style. 

Turning point: After trailing by 17 points midway through the third, Russia fought back gamely and capitalized on Spain's sloppiness with the ball. Russia continued their fight deep into the fourth, trailing 83-79 with under two minutes left with Spain without Ricky Rubio who earlier in the quarter was ejected after receiving his second unsportsmanlike foul.  However, Vitaly Fridzon badly missed a three-pointer that would have cut the deficit to one and Spain scored on the other end to restore their momentum. 

Stats-don't-lie: Russia dominated from deep, which kept them in the contest, but Spain's size and domination inside proved too much - as highlighted by a convincing 38-27 edge in rebounds. 

Game hero: In possibly his final FIBA EuroBasket game, Pau Gasol was brilliant for Spain. He dominated the second quarter when his brother Marc was injured and stepped up when Spain was challenged in the last quarter, where he scored 12 of his 26 points. He also had 10 rebounds and 3 blocks. 

They said: "I am really proud of my team after losing in the Semi-Finals to get this success. I am proud of finishing my career with a medal. (I feel) both sadness and happiness. How it finished makes me happy. Maybe the 2006 World Cup is the proudest moment but every year is important and you learn something." - Spain captain Juan Carlos Navarro after his final international game.  

Exploring New York City's 5 Boroughs

See you in September

How to Learn Faster

Phrasal Verbs Doubts: Phrasalstein

Are you afraid of phrasal verbs or do you dare to face them up? Try this Cambridge University Press app to solve your doubts, Phrasalstein. You can use the language English or Spanish at the right top of the page.

For example you know the meaning of go and the preposition off separatedly but what is the meaning of the verb go off? here you can see the meaning from the context:

'The bomb wet off at noon'

'Exploit' is not the only meaning, whe some food is in bad condition, when you split up with some friend....

At the beginning you can choose to have a look on the phrasal verbs meaning or to start with the exercises, each definition is shown with some kind of funny sketches in which Dr Phrasalstein appears with some witches, monsters...

This app is terrific!

Preparing your Select Exam: Essays

You have worked a lot all year round but now it is time to make the last effort.

It could be useful to have a watch on essay models to recognize your own mistakes, 

so click the image.

Thanks to Aaron Vincent.

Amy Tan, writer: Where does creativity hide?

Remember to select English subtitles if you need, this way you won't miss anything.

Big City Small World

Big City Small World is an audio soap opera. Soap opera is a term used to describe a fictional radio or television programme that often follows the lives of a group of people. 

The storyline for the soap often spans several episodes and each show ends with a promise that the storyline will be continued in the next episode.

The characters are purely fictional. However, you will be able to interact directly with the characters through the Learn English website. Each of the characters has a profile page and you will be able to leave messages for them. Behind each character is a real person, who will respond to you.

For each episode there will be some comprehension questions, vocabulary and grammar exercises, and of course a complete transcript of the episode.

Via Learning English at British Council

Johnny Grammar's Word Challenge

We have a new section on the right column about apps to learn English with your tablet or other mobile devices and I'd like to present you Johnny Grammar's Word Challenge this time.

Beat the clock and answer as many spelling, vocabulary and grammar questions as you can in this 60-second quiz! Earn Grammar Guru, Word Wizard and Supreme Speller badges by completing all levels. Beat your score to earn the ultimate Johnny’s Gold badge!

Johnny Grammar’s Word Challenge is a quiz for English learners to test common vocabulary, spelling and grammar that appears in everyday English.

The game features:

• 3 quiz categories – Words, Grammar, Spelling
• 3 levels - Easy, Medium, Hard
• 10 common topics to practise vocabulary – Food & Restaurants, Travel, Small Talk, Hobbies etc.
• 12 grammar topics – Prepositions, Irregular verbs, Conjunctions etc. 
• Earn badges as you play and share with others
• Compete with other players on a global leaderboard
• Share your badges with other players on a leaderboard
• Read the feedback on wrong answers to learn how to improve

Managing stress. Brainsmart

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Nikola Tesla

Perhaps you know something about Nikola Tesla's life if not try 

this comic about his visions of the future thanks to Zen pencils

English Monster

"English Monster" is a funny app for Spanish learners of English to correct their most common mistakes.

And how does Cambridge know which mistakes learners make? The answer is their “Cambridge English Corpus” a database where they compile all mistakes from their official exams.
English Monster consists on a series of exercises in which two monsters will show you two possible answers about:

• Spelling
• False Friends
• Writing correctly
• Verb tenses

Tsunami

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Gerund or Infinitive?

Have a look to this list with some verbs with change of meaning and after that try some tests with answers.

Quiz one, quiz two, quiz three, quiz four, quiz five, quiz six, quiz seven,

  quiz eight, quiz nine, quiz ten, quiz eleven, quiz twelve, quiz thirteen,

Mind the Gap, Please

In this Day...

And you? What are you using the language for?

The Truth about McDonald´s

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London Blue Plaques

Blue plaques are found right across Greater London, showing us where important people in history have lived and worked, and linking the past and the present.

Do you want to see the map with all of them?

UK Parliament Tour

Preparing our visit to Westminster Palace

The Natural History Museum is changing...

See the map about the new temporary entrance.

But now you can enter the Hinze Hall thanks to Google.

How much do you know about dinosaurs?

Visit the Natural History Museum in London and discover.

How Were Mummies Made?

Steve Lee Mummification 6 F from Mr. Hurst

Learning History through Objects

If you are interested in History, try this map of England and 

learn its history through some of the objects 

you can see inside the British Museum.

And really you can enter the Museum with google!

See the Museum floor map too.

The History of the Smurfs

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Preparing our Trip to London

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Mother's Day

In the United States, Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May. In some countries it was changed to dates that were significant to the majority religion, or to historical dates.

And in the UK? Sunday 26th March. This year, Mother's Day in the United Kingdom including England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and all others regions of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is on Sunday 26th March. Mothering Sunday is always on the fourth Sunday in Lent.

Climate Change: What would happen If The World Warms Up By 2°C?

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Saint Patrick´s Day

Human Trafficking

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The Origin of OK

The Food Waste Fighter

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Canada vs USA

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The Ancient Silk Road

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Pink: Perfect

The Definition of 'Sexy' in Some Cultures

Look up from your Phone

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How to do London: The Basics - London Travel Guide

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Conditionals' Review Game

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Irregular Verbs Game

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Complete list

10 Strangely Cool British Traditions

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Spanish ‘Smart’ City Project

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Donald Trump Sworn in as America's 45th President

"...I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear...”

Donald Trump took the oath of office Friday to become the 45th president of the United States. He vowed to transfer power from Washington, D.C. to “the American people.”

Outgoing President Barack Obama stood nearby as the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John G. Roberts, Jr., administered the oath of office to Trump.

At his side for the ceremony was his wife Melania and his five children. Mike Pence had been sworn in as Vice-President moments before.

It is the scene that has been repeated every four years since 1789.

Patriotic music was played. And canons were fired.

The Capitol building was decorated with flags. Hundreds of thousands of people came to the Capitol grounds to see the new president sworn in. They wore red white and blue clothing with Trump’s name on it. Some wrapped themselves in flags. Many cheered the man they had elected to the office....

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The history of William Shakespeare

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Top 10 Facts about the UK

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Just give me a reason

President Barack Obama Presents Michael Jordan With Medal of Freedom...

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The Lord of the Rings - ''You Have No Power Here''

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Doubts in Prepositions?