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Many of you stop me in the school corridors to ask me why the blog is not working anymore. The thing is that I've created a new blog for this school year. As requested, here you are the link. I hope you like it. Take care pals!

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Hi guys! Here you are the last practice resource I've found on the Internet so that you can practise at home or at work. It's a web page that is full of reading and listening stories - audiobooks, drama and songs. Make your choice and listen to what you like most. BITS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING Remember that the more you listen, the more you learn! C u soon!

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Hi everybody! How's your summer so far? Hope it goes perfectly well! Thanks a lot for all your kind comments on the blog entries since the school finished - they keep me alive and motivated to go on uploading resources for your own benefit! What I've prepared for this week is some grammar practice as the exams are now approaching. Exam English is a web page that provides extra and free&

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Hi everybody! This is my piece of advice for this week!!! Let's practise summarising!! I've just come across an incredible web page full of podcasts which are graded (beginner, intermediate or advanced). It's also a way to practise and achieve next year's goals in advance ;) It's English Lingq! You can download the podcast by clicking on the link "Click here to listen to....". If you want

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Hiya! I've found a web page www.audioenglish.net  with useful resources, especially dialogues and role-plays so that you can practise for oral exams. Each dialogue or role-play has an audio section, feel free to click on it and listen to each dialogue as many times as necessary. You can also check the This week's top resources section and choose the topic you want to revise, learn or

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Hi guys! Here I am again! Today I'm posting some links to useful Vaughan videos on Youtube. I'm posting just one but you can access the rest by clicking on them in the right hand list provided. The video I've chosen is about "Conditionals" but there are some about the future, ... all of them introduced by the word "cloverdale". You can access the Cloverdale's Corner as well!!! These are some

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Good afternoon pals!!!! Today I'm adding a new post to show you how to learn English through online videos. In Learning English Video Lectures there's a huge list of videos to improve your English knowledge. Click on them and... enjoy it!!! See you!

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Peek-a-boo! I know you're beating your brains out this summer and I'm part of it... but as a teacher, I'm trying to do my best for my students and I've got a new useful web page through which you can practise English. 365 Short Stories shows lots of short stories which are added weekly in order to read and listen in English and at the same time you can do exercises about the stories such as

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Hiya!!! How's it going? Look what I've found! U.S.A. learns is an excellent ESL Online software which is free and can help you improve your English skills. There you can practise all skills: reading, listening, writing and speaking (pronuntiation, in fact)!!!You need a webcam and a microphone, bear it in mind! It's totally free. Just click on "start now" and write a name (real o immaginary),

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Hi everybody! Here I am again! I've been surfing the net and I've just come across a useful web page to practise your listening skill. It's called TALK ENGLISH and lessons are graded into levels: basic, intermediate and advance. - Basic listening lessons - Intermediate listening lessons - Advanced listening lessons Click on any of the listening lessons, then on the dialogue. Listen to it

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Hi everybody! There's a pdf. doc in Docs section with all the information about the exams in September. Remember that you can also check these documents on the notice board at the School. Have a nice summer holiday and try to do your best in September so that you can pass! :) I trust you!! Best wishes!!!!!

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Hi everybody! I hope you are all well after doing the exams. I have already corrected your exam and that's the reason of thes entry. If you want to know and check your scores before the marks are officially published, here are the date and time to do so: - Basic Level 2 A: tomorrow 20th June Room 211 from 16:00 to 16:30. - Intermediate Level 1 D: tomorrow 20th June Room 211 from 18:00 to 18:30.

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Hi everyone! These last two weeks have been focused on the analysis and understanding of relative clauses, both defining and non-defining clauses. The context used for its explanation focused on the icon Che Guevara. We also listened to a radio contest in order to guess the names of some important and famous people sucha as Madonna or George Clooney. Sybil focused on phrasal verbs and taught

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Hiya everybody! During the last two weeks we've done plenty of things - the XX Anniversary party as well!!! We focused on quantifiers, too and enough through an article about how people's calendar age is not necessarily the same as their body age. The pronunciation focuses on pronouncing the new words correctly, such as enough. We also studied how to express quantity by means of containers. As

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Hiya everybody! We have done a lot of things this week in class. We revised and corrected some Present and Past passive voice exercises. We had a very quick look to the compound pronouns with some-, any- and no-, which at some point in this yeat have cause trouble to some of you. Although these words may be familiar to you, I thought it would be a good idea to remember the use of these compound

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Hi guys! We have used the context of television to revise and extending your knowledge on phrasal verbs. We first talked about our watching habits and then the grammar was presented through three newspapers extracts, which I considered quite amusing. We also paid attention to the pronunciation of common phrasal verbs, as well as some common sounds and sound linking to make our speech more

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Hi guys! How is it going? This week our lessons have been focused on the passive voice through the cinema. First of all, we read an article about film locations, which have inspired people to visit them. This provided the context to extend our knowledge about the passive voice in present, past and future tenses. As you know, the vocabulary about cinema is presented in the second half of the unit

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Hi everyone! This week we have focused learning on what people were like when they were at school and how they have changed now that they are adults. We studied used to through a news story about the famous rebel Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, and an interview with a school teacher. We also paid attention to the pronunciation of used to. Sybil commented on the 7-12 chapters from The USA

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Hi everyone! Here you are some crucial and useful information for the exams you are going to sit next month. It's worth reading it. It explains the instructions about each exam as well as the evaluation criteria to take into account. Download the Students' Guide to B1 Exam from the Official School of Languages web page. Hope this helps! Regards, Miriam

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Hiya guys!!! Ready for our new collaborative experience? First of all, let's summarize what we have done in class on Wednesday and Thursday. We corrected the exercises about modal verbs of possibility and advice and we focused on how to write a story. As homework, you have to hand in the story from the worksheet that you chose in class next day in class. But you also have to make a sentence in

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Hi everyone! This's been a very short week!!!! Anyway, we've had time to revise reported speech and indirect questions and we introduced and practised question tags. Therefore, exercise b, section 7B in the Grammar Bank and exercise b in the indirect questions worksheet on the B1 folder in Docs are homework for next week. Here you are a webpage where you can find 6 different exercises on

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Here I am again! As this is going to be a very long weekend, I thought you would like to practise modal verb should(n't) online. Click on the links below: - Exercises should1 - Exercises should2 As for revision of modal verbs, here you are some other online resources: modal verbs revision1 and modal verb revision2.

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Good morning guys! We finished unit 6 by presenting modal verb should(n't) to give advice. The context is a radio programme where people phone in with problems, and then listeners are asked to e-mail their advice. There is also a focuse on the pronunciation of -ould (as in should, could, would) and on sentence rhythm. We have also practised giving advice both orally and in written notes. As for

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Hi guys!!! Here you some links to practise Reported Speech online: - Simple statements - Statements with time expressions - Reported questions - Reported questions with time expressions As for indirect questions, here are some other online links: - Indirect questions1 - Indirect questions2

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