Present Perfect vs Past Perfect

Click on PERFECT to view the explanation.

Sophie Calle

Click on SOPHIE to view her full interview, although you only need the first 2 minutes.

Describing pictures/photographs

Click on EXPRESSIONS to look at them
Click on POSITION to revise prepositions
Click on AUDIO to listen to a short but very effective description

Figures of speech

Click on THEORY to read detailed explanation of the figures of speech.
Click on SNAP to view a man explaining the figures of speech.
Click on SONGS to view some examples in music.

SMALL TALK

Click on CHIT CHAT to view some tips about it.

Being BILINGUAL

Click on BENEFITS of speaking two languages or more to find out about them.

KEY aspects of PRONUNCIATION

Click on OLI to view this explanation as many times as you wish to know everything about English pronunciation

LEARNING LANGUAGES

Click on AUDIO to listen to Simon's experience in learning languages

Types of TV programmes/shows

Click on the following links to revise the different types of programmes. Besides, you should think about their impact on society and how we could improve TV channels.
TV GENRES, MACMILLAN, WIKIPEDIA

Extra for RECOMMENDATIONS

MAKING recommendations

I recommend going/ visiting…

I recommend you to visit/ go…

I really recommend the western Andalusian beaches

You must see…

You should go to…

You might like/ want to  visit…

You could try going to …

What I would do is go to…

If I were you, I would go to…

Maybe you should visit…

You could perhaps see…

Participle clauses

Click on BC video to watch a fun explanation
Click on BRIT COUNCIL to view a useful explanation

Click on EXERCISE 1 to practise.
Click on EXERCISE 2 for further practice!

You can read the theory about using participle clauses instead of relative clauses by clicking on EXTRA

Crime news

Terrible news:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35687710

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35725415

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/world/americas/mexico-city-comedians-punish-scofflaws-supercivicos.html?mwrsm=Email

http://globalnews.ca/news/2557677/man-charged-with-manslaughter-in-texas-wrong-way-crash-that-killed-4-from-ontario/

Listening about news

Click on NEWS to hear the audio again.

Remember you can look for more exam samples online typing the key words "pruebas de certificación eoi" in the web browser/ search engine. In this blog you only need to type "pruebas".

Listening homework

Click on DOUBLE for the listening task corresponding to the copy you were given in class and assigned for homework.

Information about study trip

On Thursday 28th January there will be an informative meeting about the proposal for a trip. It will take place in classroom 7 from 18:15 until 18:45. If you are interested, you must attend this meeting as we will make a decision then

Presentation about understanding languages

On Tuesday 26th January, Prf.Dr. Ruslan Mitkov is going to give a presentation from 18:00 until 19:00 in the Salón de Actos. The title is Understanding & Translating Languages; the real pain in the neck for computers and even humans. The presentation will be easy-to-follow and entertaining; in particular, it will finish with a few entertaining slides representing multiword expressions in English which is expected to enhance the knowledge of English of the audience, so I strongly recommend you to attend!!

Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov has been working in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Machine Translation, Translation Technology. He has written several books for Oxford University Press and is a professor at The University of Wolverhampton. Besides, he is an outstanding researcher, so as a Marie Curie Fellow, Dr. Mitkov is currently completing an EC-funded project on Computational Phraseology (LATEST) at the University of Malaga.