SPEAKING

Reported Speech

1. The spokesman said: “I can’t understand why billiards has been prohibited.”
2. Gihan exclaimed: “We have had too many prohibitions.”
3. The young lady said: “I did not make such a mistake.”
4. She said: “We’ll go and get some food.”
5. Winston Churchill said: “I wake up at six every day”
6. A company representative said: “This probably won’t happen.”
7. A farmer said: “If the situation goes on like this, we will lose the consumers’ confidence for ever”.
8. He added: “We need someone who will realise that celibacy has to be a personal choice”.
9. She said: “I think the amount of immigrants right now is OK, but I don’t think we need any more”.
10. He said: “In Japan paper-folding was valued for its decorative function”.
11. “If I don’t win this game, I will retire,” Kasparov said.
12. The police said: “Youssef planned the World Trade Centre bombing”.
13. She said: “As a woman, my life will change with the new millennium”.
14. “I watched a documentary about dolphins on TV yesterday,” said John.
15. “I’m living the adventure of my life,” Banderas said.
16. Al Gore said: “As a teenager, one of the books that I read was Silent Spring.”
17. “I was taught information technology in this course,” she said.
18. My aunt said: “Single men should drive slowly if they want to live longer”
19. He said: “We are here today to reach consensus”
20. Last week Julia said: “We will meet our new instructor tomorrow”
21. He said to one of them: “Let me see the streets once more before I die. I’ll be back in five minutes.”
22. “Please, don’t say anything to him”, he said.
23. “Don’t talk to me like that,” said his mother.
24. She said: “Don’t smoke if you want to save money.”
25. “Buy me the paper if you’re going out”, Alice asked her brother.
26. He asked: “Do you often play rugby?”
27. The doctor asked: “Do you ever feel this pain in your stomach before meals?”
28. Michael asked her: “Where did you find these trainers?
29. Michael wondered: “Why do I do this every day?”
30. “What time did the film start?” she asked.
31. Her parents asked her: “Why do you want to become a bullfighter?”
32. They asked her mother: “Does he often come home late from school?”
33. The judge asked Karl: “How long have you known the accused? “

PASSIVE VOICE

PUT THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE

     1.     Someone stole my wallet.

2.     Thousands of people visit the museum during the exhibition.

3.     A hurricane has destroyed those small fishing villages.

4.     They make these shoes in Inca.

5.     Lord Byron wrote that love poem.

6.     Squatters are organizing campaigns against the eviction.

7.     The theatre company performs that play every day.

8.     People must not leave bicycles in the hall.

9.     The famous Italian designer has created a new hat.

10.   They are going to offer Paul a better job.

11.   The Egyptians used papyrus as writing material.

12.   Translators have translated the book into many languages.

13.   The Maths teacher is correcting our exams at the department.

14.   Someone broke the glass case on purpose.

15.   James Joyce wrote Ulysses and The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.

16.   They will give her an explanation tonight.

17.   Xavi had scored the winning goal.

18.   They are restoring that façade.

19.   People should not criticize politicians.

20.  We will give all the children a present.

21.   Will they imprison her?

22.  They asked Pamela a lot of difficult questions.

23.  In the end they could find the corpses.

24.  They gave Sandra some flowers.

25.  They don’t sell stamps in bookshops.

26.  They were building a new hospital in the town centre.

27.  They offered Jane a very well-paid job.

28.  Mrs Puig teaches us French.

29.  Nobody has read the messages.

30.  Somebody sent me a strange letter.

31.   Alexander McQueen is going to create a new fragrance.

32.  They will pay Mrs Jenkins over five hundred pounds.

33.  The hurricane had destroyed the fishing village.

34.  The directors are considering your application.

35.  Her parents have promised Ann a bicycle for her birthday.

36.  Liverpool beat Manchester 3-0 yesterday.

37.  Somebody must tell him where to go.

38.  They gave Madame Curie the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911.

39.  They didn’t tell us the truth.

40.  He looks at your throat.

41.   He tests your hearing.

42.  He listened to your heart.

43.  We export eighty per cent of what we produce.

44.  We expect trainee pilots to land an aircraft.

45.  We will send you the papers immediately.

46.  The waiter is just adding up your bill.

47.  Someone had already opened all your letters.

48.  The firm promised us our money back.

49.  The travel agent told them that the hotel was near the sea.

50.  The other children were always calling Harriet stupid.

51.   The box office had sold the last tickets.

52.  Passport control should have stopped her.

53.  They elected him president.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!

ESSAY 3: STORY (Part 3 PET)

Your English teacher has asked you to write a story.
Your story must begin with this sentence:  
I felt nervous when the game began.

         Computer-printed

   Double-spaced

   Standard margins on each side

   Bookman Old Style or Arial

   Size 12

   100 words (+/-)

Evaluation: 20% of the final mark (WRITING)
DATE: 13th December


You will post them here corrected. 
You can ask here as doubts as you have.

DEFINING AND NON-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES

DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES
We use defining relative clauses to give essential information about someone or something

Examples: The doctor who gave me the medicine is my cousin. The relative clause underlined tells us which doctor we are talking about.


NON-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES
We use non-defining relative clauses to add extra information about someone or something.
Use commas.

Example: My doctor, who belongs to the same tennis club as you, gave me the medicine yesterday. We already know which doctor (It's my doctor); the relative clause is just telling us extra information.

RELATIVE PRONOUNS

We use:

1. THAT and WHO for people
2. THAT and WHICH for things
3. WHEN for time
4. WHERE for places
5. WHOSE for possession

Example: The man who phoned you is a doctor.

SPORTS

This is the vocabulary that appear in our classbook:  

GO: paragliding, climbing, cycling, surfing, running, swimming, jogging, skiing...
DO: gymnastics, boxing, athletics, aerobics...
PLAY: basketball, ice hockey, volleyball, football, squash, tennis, golf, baseball...
 
Places where you can play sports: court, gym, picth, ring, stadium or track.
Other vocabulary: beat, score, draw, lose or win.

ILLNESSES AND ACCIDENTS

This is the vocabulary that appear in our classbook:  

ACCIDENTS: injury, cut, bruise, wound, sprain and fracture
ILLNESSES: flu, disease, high temperature and earache
TREATMENTS: medicine, pill, plaster, tablet, bandage, aspirin, X-ray and plaster cast

WHEN, IF, UNLESS + present, future

We can use when, if or unless to talk about the possibility of things happening in the future:

1. We use when for things we are sure will happen: When I get home, I'll watch TV. (I'm sure I'll get home today,)

2. We use if for things that may happen: If I get home before 8 pm, I'll watch the film. (I'm not sure if I'll get home before 8 pm but it is possible.)

3. Unless can generally replace if... not and means except if: I'll watch the film unless I get home too late. (=I'll watch the film if I don't get home too late.)

PUNCTUATION

Here you are going to read an extract from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary about punctuation:

1. CAPITAL LETTER:
      a) the first letter of a sentence: Football is very popular in Britain.
      b) for countries, nationalities, languages, religions, names of people, places, events, organisations, trademarks, days, months, titles: Portugal, Africa...
      c) for titles of books, films...: Matrix.
      d) for abbreviations: AVE, AIDS...

2. FULL STOP:
      a) the end of a sentence: I'm going for a walk.
      b) sometimes after an abbreviation: Mr. Potter ,  Dr. White
     
3. COMMA:
      a) between items in a list: I need some peas, butter, sugar and eggs.
      b) to show a pause in a long sentence: They didn't want to eat before I'd arrive, but I was an hour late.
      c) when you want to add extra information: The woman, who I'd met last week, waved as she went past.

4. APOSTROPHE:
      a) for missing letters: don't, I'll, it's...
      b) for possessives: Paul's bike.
      c) Note: words ending in S don't need another S added: James' house

5. HYPHEN:
      a) to join two words together: blue-black

ESSAY 2: EMAIL (Part 2 PET)

You are going to meet your cousin Myra at the station but you have never met her before. You must write an email to Myra. In your email, you should:


      - Describe yourself
      - Ask Myra to describe herself
      - Suggest a place to meet in the station

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   Double-spaced

   Standard margins on each side

   Bookman Old Style or Arial

   Size 12

   35-45 words (+/-)

Evaluation: 20% of the final mark (WRITING)
DATE: 29th November 


You will post them here corrected. 
You can ask here as doubts as you have.
 

ZERO, FIRST AND SECOND CONDITIONALS

We use conditional sentences to talk about a possible situation or action (If...) and the possible result of this situation or action:

Example:      If it rains,           I will get wet.
             (possible situation) (possible result)

We can also say the result first. If the situation comes first, a comma is used. If the result comes first, no comma is used.

Example:  I'll get wet if it rains.

Types of conditionals:

ZERO CONDITIONAL

It is used to talk about things which are always or generally true.
(If + Present + , + Present )

Examples:
1. If our team wins a match, our coach is happy.
2. If you want to be an actor, you have to start your training at an early age.

FIRST CONDITIONAL

It is used to talk about a real possibility in the future.
(If + Present + , + Future)

Examples:
1. If our team wins the match, we will win the competition.
2. I will need my parents' permission if I want to go to drama school.
3. If I stay at school until I am eighteen, it will be too late.

SECOND CONDITIONAL

It is used when the speaker is imagining a situation that will probably not happen.
(If + Past+ , + would + infinitive)

Examples:
1. If our team won all the matches, we would be the champions.
2. If the drama club met on Wednesdays, I could go with you.

FAMILY

ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

Here you have the order of adjectives:
number + opinion + size + shape + age + colour + pattern + origin + material + purpose + NOUN

Example: one elegant, large, square, new, brown, English, tweed overcoat

DESCRIBING PEOPLE VOCABULARY

This is the vocabulary that appear in our classbook: attractive, bald, beard, beautiful, blonde, broad shoulders, curly, dark, fair, good-looking, grey, long, medium-height, moustache, pale, plain, red, scar, short, slim, straight, wavy, hard-working, smart, noisy, mean, rude, calm, confident, warm, (un)friendly, (un)pleasant, (im)patient, (dis)honest, (un)reliable, wonderful, beautiful, cheerful, hopeful and hopeless.

And this is the vocabulary that we added in class: dimple, thin, slim, plump, fat, clever = bright, excitable = highly-strung, fair = even handed, forgetful = absent-minded, frank = direct, glum = miserable, good-natured = kind, jolly = cheerful, self-confident, grumpy, two-faced, bald patch......

PHRASAL VERBS

These are the phrasal verbs that appear in our classbook: bring up, find out, get on with, grow up, make up, set up and take up.

EXAMPLE ACTIVITY: Match the phrasal verbs with their own definion.

1. To become older or an adult
2. To say or write something that is not true.
3. To start a company or organisation.

 

This is Halloween

 

Last day in class we watched this topic-led video about British culture.
It was time for Halloween!

LEMON TREE

Last day in class we worked a Fool's Garden song called Lemon Tree.

Fill in the gaps while listening the song:

LEMON TREE

I'm sitting here in the boring ___________

It's just another ___________ Sunday afternoon

I'm wasting my time

I got ___________ to do

I'm hanging around

I'm ___________ for you

But nothing ever ___________ and I ___________

I'm ___________ around in my ___________

I'm driving too fast

I'm driving too far

I'd like to ___________ my point of view

I feel so lonely

I'm ___________ for you

But nothing ever ___________and I ___________

I wonder ___________

I wonder ___________

Yesterday you ___________me 'bout the blue blue sky

And all that I can see is ___________ a yellow lemon-tree

I'm turning my ___________up and down

I'm turning turning turning turning turning around

And all that I can see is ___________ another lemon-tree

I'm sitting here

I ___________the power

I'd like to go out taking a shower

But there's a heavy cloud ___________ my head

I feel so ___________

Put myself into bed

Well, nothing ever ___________and I ___________

___________ is not good for me

___________ I don't want to sit on the lemon-tree

I'm steppin' around in the ___________ of joy

Baby anyhow I'll get another ___________

And everything will ___________and you ___________

I wonder ___________

I wonder ___________

Yesterday you ___________me 'bout the blue blue sky

And all that I can see is ___________ a lemon-tree

I'm turning my ___________up and down

I'm turning turning turning turning turning around

And all that I can see is ___________ a yellow lemon-tree

And I wonder, wonder

I wonder ___________

I wonder ___________

Yesterday you ___________me 'bout the blue blue sky

And all that I can see, and all that I can see, and all that I can see

Is ___________a yellow lemon-tree

ESSAY 1: PERSONAL DESCRIPTION

You must write a description of yourself taking into account the new vocabulary you have learnt in class, trying to be as descriptive as possible thinking that the reader – who does not know you – will have a perfect image of you once he / she has read your description.

Computer-printed

Double-spaced

Standard margins on each side

Bookman Old Style or Arial

Size 12

250 words (+/-)

Evaluation: 20% of the final mark (WRITING)
DATE: 3rd November 

In the following link you will see a checklist of ways to improve your descriptions: Descriptive detail, and in this other you will read one example: Am I like this?


You will post them here corrected. 
You can ask here as doubts as you have.
 

COMPOUND WORDS

This is the vocabulary that appear in our classbook: suitcase, sightseeing, backpack, crossroads, guesthouse, guidebook, signpost, hitchhike, overnight and railroad.

WEATHER

This is the vocabulary that appear in our classbook: blowing, centigrade, cold, degrees, foggy, freezing, frost, gale, get wet, hot, lightning, showers, snowfall, temperature and thunderstorm.

Here you can see some interesting information that I have found in a webpage:

 

And finally here you can do this activity. Look at the map and fill in the gaps. You have to use the following words: 

Four, Sunny spells, Two, Dry, Snowing, Raining, Cloudy, Zero, Overcast, Sunshine, Weather, South, Warm and Temperatures.