My intermediate blog

NI2 WRITING A REVIEW

2012-02-10T22:33:00.001Z

Writing a review

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And do this exercise as practice for your review and the exam.

The passive voice

2012-02-02T11:31:00.002Z

Here you have the powerpoint presentation about the passive.

Passive Voice.Ppt

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and here the video we watched.

INTERMEDIO1 PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

2012-01-26T12:14:00.002Z

Here’s the Powerpoint of the Present Perfect Progressive that we looked at in class. Go to the links at the end of the presentation if you want to have more practice.

the Present Perfect Continuous tense

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NI1 and NI2 WRITING GUIDE

2012-01-13T08:02:00.003Z

Click on the picture to read a guide that will help you write better compositions.

INTERMEDIO1 WRITING A STORY

2012-01-12T10:48:00.002Z

Writing a story

Practise what you have learnt with this exercise where you have to write down the missing adjectives and adverbs and this one

INTERMEDIATE 2 Clauses of concession

2011-12-19T20:17:00.010Z

clauses of contrast

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More practice? click here

Evaluando pruebas de certificación

2011-12-15T13:52:00.002Z

Language of Complaining

2011-12-14T19:19:00.000Z

Now try this exercise:

Here you have more exercises about complaining. They are a little bit more difficult, but you'll be surprised at how much you can understand.

INT 2 REPORTED SPEECH

2011-12-13T09:08:00.004Z

Reported Speech Adapted From Carmen Torres

If you still have problems with the reported speech, have a look at this site and try to do these exercises:
Exercise 1 Exercise 2

NI2 STORY

2011-11-21T10:26:00.002Z

Click here to read the story (Lamb to Slaughter) we are going to work with next Friday.

INTERMEDIO1 HOMEWORK

2011-11-15T12:25:00.002Z

Click here and here to do the listening exercises on page 19.
And here to see the document on greetings.

This week's homework

2011-11-10T12:25:00.004Z

NI2: Remember to do the exercises on pages 82 and 83. Click here and here to do the listenings.
And this is the powerpoint presentation on articles.
Visit Dulce's blog to know more

The article

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Class listening IN1 and N12

2011-11-03T12:48:00.002Z

Click here if you want to listen the exercise we dit at Halloween (it's number 7).
NI2: here and here you have the listenings we did for the exam, and here the worksheet

INT 2 WRITING A FORMAL LETTER

2011-10-27T10:48:00.003+01:00

Click on the image for information and do the homework in our ning.

INT 1 HOW TO SAY DIFFERENT ENGLISH NUMBERS

2011-10-14T14:03:00.001+01:00

THIS IS THE VIDEO WE WATCHED IN CLASS.

IN2 GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

2011-10-14T09:36:00.004+01:00

Remember to have a look at the presentation and try to do the exercises below.

INT2 WRITING A BIOGRAPHY

2011-09-29T17:09:00.002+01:00

Dear students of Intermediate2 remember to write your biography in comments.

QUANTIFIERS INT2

2011-09-28T19:52:00.003+01:00

Here’s the Powerpoint of the grammar for quantifiers with the exercises and links to the audios that we looked at in class.

Quantifiers

A good read. Listening exercise

2011-09-20T12:02:00.002+01:00

This is the podcast (number 48 A good book) we heard in class with the transcript , worksheet and the vocabulary.

UNIT 0

2011-09-20T10:53:00.005+01:00

This is the powerpoint presensation we worked with our first day of class

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And for Intermediate2, go to podcast 58 in level 3 in this link if you want to listen to the podcast we listened to the first day.
Click here and here for the transcript and worksheet.

listening and exam

2011-05-14T08:27:00.007+01:00

Have a look at this video. The author gives useful advice on improving your listening.

Eva Suárez has published a post on preparing for your exams at EOI GUIA. Don't miss it, there are real "pruebas de certificación" exams from other communities.

Telling a story

2011-05-11T21:36:00.000+01:00

Writing a story

Practise what you have learnt with this exercise where you have to write down the missing adjectives and adverbs.

Stage fright

2011-05-09T08:45:00.003+01:00

Your classmate Miguel Torrado from Intermedio2-2 has shared these videos with me. Have a look, they may help you for your oral exam. He is giving a conference at CICCA today. http://ocio.laprovincia.es/agenda/noticias/nws-16461-angel-lafuente-visita-gabinete-literario.html

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

2011-05-01T18:33:00.003+01:00

I wrote this post two years ago, nothing has changed.
"Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death." -- Rebecca West

Some years ago I took part in a workship on Family Constellations. In these worships the person who wants to work on a personal problem chooses some people from the audience to play the role of a member of their family; everyone is intuitively placed in a position, including an individual that takes the place of yourself whereby the family constellation comes to life. Those who represent family members begin to feel the emotions, fears and desires of the persons concerned. It is very interesting.
In this particular workship there was a woman that had had serious problems with her mother. She chose some people from the audience to be her mother, her grandmothers, and her greatgrandmothers. They were on a line and you could feel the connection among those people who didn´t know each other, the wisdom that women pass on through her daughters, granddaughters..... But what really struck me was that she was there,alive, because of her mother, grandmothers and all her ancestors. And so are we.
So today I want to dedicate this post to my mother, my grandmother, my greatgrandmothers ....,my sister, my daughters and all the women that have helped us to be here(men will have another post)

Quotes on Mothers:

• "Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter." -- Betty Rollin

• "There was never a great man who had not a great mother -- it is hardly an exaggeration." -- Olive Schreiner

• "A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's." -- Diana, Princess of Wales

• "By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Mother's Day is celebrated at different times of the year in countries around the world. Although most countries celebrate Mother's Day in May.
Find out more here

Our last class

2011-04-27T22:54:00.011+01:00

Here is the presentation for materials and shapes we looked at in our last class.

Getting what you want

This is the song we worked with:

For those of you who asked about videos with English subtitles, here are two worthy websites:

My intermediate blog

NI2 WRITING A REVIEW

The passive voice

INTERMEDIO1 PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

the Present Perfect Continuous tense

NI1 and NI2 WRITING GUIDE

INTERMEDIO1 WRITING A STORY

INTERMEDIATE 2 Clauses of concession

clauses of contrast

Evaluando pruebas de certificación

Language of Complaining

INT 2 REPORTED SPEECH

NI2 STORY

INTERMEDIO1 HOMEWORK

This week's homework

Class listening IN1 and N12

INT 2 WRITING A FORMAL LETTER

INT 1 HOW TO SAY DIFFERENT ENGLISH NUMBERS

IN2 GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

gerunds and infinitives

INT2 WRITING A BIOGRAPHY

QUANTIFIERS INT2

A good read. Listening exercise

UNIT 0

listening and exam

Telling a story

Stage fright

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

Our last class