Tues 26/2/13

First of all, my apologies for not keeping this blog up-to-date; some people ended up not knowing about the homework to be done last weekend. So before I go any further - there's an essay to be written (see Homework tab).
We had an interesting talk by Alfonso on ancient music, and we all tried to get our heads round the "perfect aspect". The biggest problem seemed to be the difference between "Have you....before?" and "Had you ..... before?". The conclusion was that the former is used in a present context (i.e. "before" = "before now", whereas the latter is used in the context of a past-tense narrative (i.e. "before" = "before then").
Finally, we looked at a model text for a problem-solution essay and the use of "parallelism".

Tuesday 19th February

Today we heard an interesting presentation by Sandra on Italy. We then did some revision and fitness exercises, followed by a brainstorm on types of crime.
Esther kindly brought some crime novels in to lend to anyone who was interested - which prompts me to remind you that we should all be reading, viewing and listening in English as much as possible...

The wrong man

The other day we spent some time in class talking about this film. I haven't seen it, but I found this trailer interesting, with Hitchcock himself speaking to the audience:

How hard it is to speak Spanish!

Hi!!!


I recommed you this video about "How hard it is to speak spanish!"

It's in Spanish with English Subtitles, I didn't find it only in English, but I promised Martin to put it on the blog!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LjDe4sLER0

Speak English as an English man

Today we don't have class, but I'm sure you'll enjoy this English Lesson with Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington.

Thurs 7/02/2013

This week we heard Felipe's interesting presentation on Switzerland, then prepared and presented proposals for a one-million-pound improvement project. The worthy winner was one which proposed a kindergarten-cum-training centre.
Enjoy the Carnivals, everyone, and remember: there are no prizes for turning up next Tuesday and finding the school closed! See you on Thursday.

An interesting application

I found this game for english students who want to practice their pronunciation skills with Google's speech recognition service.

Use it with Google Chrome

What would Martin think about it?

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