Thank you!

Martin: this year has been a bit difficult for a number of reasons, and 100 hours at the EOI is quite a lot (not to mention our homework). But you turn learning English into an interesting and really enjoyable activity. It was a great pleasure to attend your lessons.

Dinner

Thanks, everyone, for a really fun night out yesterday. It was a shame to have to go home relatively early, but with the bug I've got I'm sure I did the right thing.
Did the rest of you make a night of it? Go on, make me jealous...!
And how about posting some potos, those of you who took them?
Hope you all have a great summer, whether here, in the UK or wherever, and I hope to see you all with fresh energy in September.

Thursday 23/5/2013

Well, that's it, guys... Today was the last day of our course for this year (though who knows what the future may bring?)
Today we went through Tuesday's test - with relatively few "we'll-have-to-agree-to-disagree moments" - and Marga gave us an interesting presentation on how to encourage healthy habits in children (SEE VIDEO IN NEXT POST BELOW).

It just remains for me to encourage you to do as much as you can over the summer to keep up your English (read and listen in English, speak if you can, and why not write contributions to this blog?) - and to say THANK YOU once again for being a lovely group that it was a real pleasure to teach! See you all, I hope, for the meal next Friday.

2'FIT - BODY & MIND (playlist)

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Thurs 9/5

Due to the strike we had people missing, so we just did general revisión/skills work (interrupting, guessing occupations, including - bizarrely - prisoner and werewolf...). I also gave out another photocopy of a register-based exercise for homework.

Tuesday 7/5

Today we heard an interesting presentation by Chus on the European Qualifications Framework. We also did some work on register, transferring informal to formal English

Interesting link

The teacher Jesús Ángel González (Universidad de Cantabria) has compiled several european documents in this link.

Tues 30/4 & Thurs 2/5

We heard María's interesting presentation on a series of school activities. We also looked at expressions for cause and effect, watched a DVD extract on the "Noughties" and wrestled with cleft sentences.

Tues 23 & Thurs 25

We heard Carmen's interesting presentation on the Temple Church in London, and basically finished everything in the book up to unit 6.3 ex 4. We also revised crime vocabulary and did some video listening on the same topic.

Os váis a echar unas risas a costa de ellos.
Me ha costado encontrarlo con subtítulos porque sin ellos imposible de entender...

Thurs 18/4/13

Today we heard Marta's interesting presentation on Asian animés. We also did more work on concession clauses (unit 6.2) and some expressions related to trends (6.1)

Tues 26/7/13

Today we heard an interesting presentation by Marisa on maths in the media, and then we corrected the cloze test together (and no, Marta, "imagined" is NOT a correct answer!!).
We read a story as a model for the holiday homework and watched an excerpt from a UK drama series (North and South).

Thurs 21/03/2013

Today we listened to a discussion about Wikileaks and practised expressions to use in a discussion with others (U5.3 in the book)

Tues 19/3/13

Today we heard Sylvia's interesting presentation on mind maps. We also corrected a lette with sundry mistakes, and finished section 5.2 in the book

Tuesday 12/3/13

Today we talked, listened and practised the weak "have" in expressions like "should have"

Thursday 7/3/13

Today we did the podcast listening from Unit 3 (places). We also introduced the topic of "Secrets" from Unit 5.1

Stay tuned !

A good way to learn english is to focus on the latest news. In this respect, I'd like to share these to links with you:

The first one is 'Words in the news':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2013/03/130301_witn_wikileaks.shtml

...and the second one is 'six-minute english'. I find this one specially interesting for my students:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/

    Both resources come from the BBC.

Thursday 28/2/13

Today we discussed dilemmas and ways of expressing what we would do/have done in certain circumstances. We also looked at the correct ways to use "whether". In terms of the book, we covered most of Unit 4.3 (all except section 7).

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".