Good news for me!

Dear students,

I´ve just signed the contract to continue teaching at EOI León for the whole course.

So I´ll be with you after Xmas! I´m extremely happy.

Best wishes for the New Year,

Mónica  

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Dear students,

I just write you to wish you all the best for this Christmas time and the New Year!

I hope to see you all after the holidays.

AND THE WINNER IS......

Dear students, there has been a draw in the competition:

Verónica Llamera (1B1) and Seila García (1B1)  have got six votes each so BOTH ARE THE WINNERS!!!!!
A prize will be given to you tomorrow afternoon, CONGRATULATIONS.
Thank you to all the participants, It has been great to read your stories.

As far as I know, most of the students have read the stories but not everybody has voted so please let me know if you have found any problem while voting.

Best wishes,
Mónica

Way to vote in the competition

Hi students,
please do not send the vote to my email. Post it directly in the blog, at the end of the entry where you read the stories. It says COMENTARIOS (click on the word and make your comment).Don´t forget to leave your name as well.
Remember that today is the last day to vote.

Thanks

Vote for the best story in the competition!!!!

Dear don´t forget to vote for the story you think is the best!

Facebook group

Dear students,
have a look at a post left by one of your classmates to join  a group in Facebook.
Enjoy the weekend!

Hi boys and girls!!

This is our group in Facebook “EOI León 1B1”; it has been created for us to be in contact out of class. Some people said that, although Christmas dinner is not possible now, we could go for a drink to a pub or go clubbing, etc., so you can join this group in Facebook and we can speak about it.

Regards!!     

"It was just a holiday, but it changed my life..."

Dear students,

here you are the stories that take part in the competition.

You are all part of the jury, so read the stories and send a short comment with the one you like the most, (if you prefer you can send the name of the person). You can vote only once, and the last day to vote is next Tuesday so prizes will be given next Wednesday or Thursday in the time of the lesson.

I hope you enjoy the stories as much as I did. I will also vote my favourite.

"It was just a holiday, but it changed my life..."

My name is Sara, I am 52, but my true life story began twenty years ago, here in Argentina. I was on a trip with Olivia and Ana, two of my best friends .We were travelling across the country during a month, I had just broken with my engaged and I was sad and lost. Two days before we had to take our flight, we met Mario, who was a well-known tango dancer, incredibly handsome and charm and we got on very well at first sight.

Anyway, we came back to Spain, but I couldn´t take him out of my mind and my previous life didn´t exist anymore ,so after a few months I finally decided to get back to Buenos Aires and look for him.

Although I found Mario and we had a short romantic story, with Ariel, my son, as the result, I had to understand that he wasn´t a one-woman man; but despite all, we became a successful couple of tango dancers with international fame around the world.

Finally I found my place far away from my country and I love it.

Sara Fernández Fernández,1º B1

In the past, I was a very important business man in my country, England. I had worked hardly to get my own discography, one of the most important discographies in the world.

Five years ago, I decided to go to India on holiday. I was exhausted and much stressed .Therefore I needed some time to think about my life. Although I had been successful in my work I was unhappy.

Then, I travelled to India by plane and alone. When I arrived in this country I discovered a different world. The people were poorer than me but they were happier than I had ever been. So I decided to find out the reason about the difference between my situation and people who hadn´t got as many things as I had. I sold my discography and moved to India definitely. I began to work in a hospital and I have been working there since then.

On the other hand, I got married with an Indian nurse.  In the end, I don´t know why, but I feel better now.

Javier de Prado Santos, 1 B1

When I was a nursing student yet, we were offered a University grant to go to a children camp in Saharan Africa to collaborate with other students from different degrees.

At first, it was very hard because we hadn´t got the resources that we used in our daily lives in Spain. Besides, the food was very different. To make things worse, to get some water, we had to travel some kilometres and what was harder for me, my daily hygiene. Then we began to understand what is really necessary to live and how those people that had not got any material things were really happy and offered us all they had.

After this experience I decided that I would finish my degree in Spain and then I would come back to Africa. So I did, I have been working in different NGOs since then and I can´t imagine my life in another way.

Silvia García 1B1

Last year, my best friend gave me a very special present: a round-trip ticket to Hawaii!!!

I was sad, because I had split up with my boyfriend, and she wanted to cheer me up.

She though that a change of scene, would be good for me. I only thought about him...

Suddenly, I was boarding in a plain. I had never flown alone; therefore I was very nervous and a little worried. Then, I looked to my side, and I saw a nice woman, who began to talk with me, and I got more relaxed. After a long flight, my plane landed in Oahu; and I listened "ALOHA" for the first time.

At first sight, the light covered everything, it was sunny, and I perceived a gentle breeze... a sea breeze. It looked like a paradise. Afterwards, I felt calm. Later, I was in my room, into the hotel, and I decided to go for a walk along the seashore. I was alone, and I was far from my country, however, I felt as if I were at home. The next morning, after having a typical American breakfast, I went to The Waikiki Beach, where an instructor would teach me to how to surf. It was a funny morning, and the instructor was very nice and... very handsome too; so we became us good friends.He showed me the South of the island. He was the best guide you could have. And that night, he invited me to have dinner at a restaurant on the beach.It was love at first sight. I had never felt anything like that. The next day, he asked for a the day off to celebrate my birthday. He took me to snorkell to Hanauma Bay, then we ate at the hotel, and in the afternoon, we went to visit Pearl Harbor. Finally, in the evening we ended with a surprise party on the beach.It was a great day!!! The following days we continued seeing each other, knowing the island, and above all,  we were together every minute.

 Unfortunately, the day to say goodbye had arrived. None of us wanted to be separated. So, he invited me to go to the beach for the last time. And we were there near the sea, where it all began. He asked me if I would like to stay with him. I said yes... and then I cancelled my trip home.

Now, I live in Hawaii, and I am with somebody who loves me and makes me happy!!!

Covadonga  González 2B1

Some years ago, when I was in my twenties, I didn’t know what I could do with my life. I was extremely sad and depressed and I didn’t feel like doing anything.

Fortunately, a day I met a friend who I hadn’t seen for ages. We were talking for a long time about our lives and she ended up inviting me to stay at her home in Mallorca. She told me that her parents had a big house near the beach and they went there every summer. I was really shy and at first I said her no, but she encouraged me and in the end I decided to go the following July.

Those holidays changed my life. I knew a lot of people and I enjoyed the wonderful landscapes in the island. On the other hand, I fell in love with a handsome guy and…few days later I started looking for a job and a house to live there. To be honest, I have to admit that it seemed crazy. Everything had happened too fast, but I quickly realized I felt very happy. 

 When I said it to my family, they couldn’t believe what I was doing! Anyway, I think it was the best decision of my life because I never felt so good.

Ever since, I’m living there with my husband and my two children and I’m still working as a waitress in a nice hotel.

If I hadn’t gone to Mallorca with my friend, I wouldn’t have been so happy.

Rosa Malagón 2B1

My 4 best friends and I, were working all the summer to pay us the trip that we had always dreamed about since we were children: a trip across all the country of U.S.A.

We took the plane in Madrid without problems and after almost ten hours of flight, we finally landed in New York. Our plan was to visit the city and after, to rent a car to begin our long journey.

We crossed different States, such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, we visited all of them and we bought a lot of souvenirs. When we arrived to Kansas, we discovered that we had spent most of our money! We managed to arrive to the state of Nevada; we were driving on the desert when the car ran out of petrol! We were in the middle of a desert, with not enough money and no idea about what to do. Suddenly, we looked at the horizon and we saw a beam of light, and later we screamed: “Las Vegas”!!!!

We were walking for one hour and there it was: the city of Las Vegas, I had never seen so many lights in my life. We had a crazy idea: to enter in the Casino and bet all the money that we had. We had never bet before, so we stopped in the first table that we found, we chose to bet all the money on red colour, number five. After five seconds of heart attack, the people who were around us started to scream: we had won!!!! One million dollars!!!! I couldn´t believe it.

All the people congratulated us and a group of guys invited us to a party in their suite of the hotel and we accepted. The suite was enormous and luxurious, and there were millions of bottles of expensive champagne everywhere.

I woke up next morning, and I thought that it had all been a dream, but when I tried to get up, I had a big headache, maybe a hangover, but the most important was that there was a big diamond ring in my finger, I thought: “we were in Las Vegas, I have a ring on my finger; Oh my God!!! I got married!!!!! But, who with???

I looked for my friends, they didn´t know who my husband was, so we decided to come back to the church to ask someone. Finally I found my “husband” there; he apologized because the idea of the wedding had been his. When we divorced a few days later, I discovered that he was a famous baseball player, I didn´t know it, most of his fortune was for me!! A week later, my friends and I decided to take a plane back home.

We didn´t go to California, the last state that we wanted to visit, but nowadays I am a rich divorced woman, I can visit California whenever I want, I can say that this trip changed my whole life!!!!

Seila García González 1B1

The holiday took place in March of my last year at university and it changed my life forever .

A lot of my classmates and me went to Tunisia to the end of studies trip. It had been planned for five days but in the end it was for some days more. In the first three days we went across the country from the coast to the desert. We were happy and funny because we wanted to enjoy every second of our last time together, but the happiness didn´t stay much time. Two days before that we caught the plain to Spain a revolt broke out in the capital and other important cities. Young people were shouting for a change in the government.

We couldn´t go out from the hotel as a way of precaution. Our families were worried about us. Some of my friends were frightened, “in that moment we didn´t know when we could fly to Spain”. The manager of the hotel had just told us that we couldn´t catch the plain because it was dangerous.

Amir, one young boy that worked there, told us what was happening and the reason. While we were listening to him the fear assailed us but it wasn´t the only I felt. I was seeing him telling about the liberty and justice, about a better future for him and his sisters and family when I could watch a shine in his eyes. A tear ran down my face because I had sawn the same shine in my grandfather´s eyes when he told us about the Spanish Civil Guard and how the Spanish continued fighting to become our Country in a liberty and democratic State. He saw me and he knew that I had understood him.

Before Amir went home he was looking for me to ask if I wanted to go with him home and meet his family the following day if it wasn´t dangerous. He was going to meet his friends in the city centre that night. If the revolt was more calmed I would go his home in the morning. I accepted and he was happy.

He told me about his family. His old sister was married and she had just finished her teaching job in a school to look for her new family. His young sister, that was only twelve years, had to work like a seamstress because her mother was seriously ill. Their mother couldn´t afford the best medicines for her pathology because they were very poor. Amir was very angry, he wanted to help much but he couldn´t find a second job, her mother was very ill, his little sister didn´t go to the high school because they needed her salary and his other sister had shut up in her home because of Muslim traditions.

The next morning I was waiting for him but I couldn’t speak to Amir until the afternoon. He told me that his father didn´t want that he started a friendship with me. The staff of the hotel had forbidden it and he could lost the job. I told him that I wouldn´t see him while I was in the Hotel but when I got home in Spain I´d send him an email to keep in contact. He accepted my proposal and I didn´t know anything about him until this.

When I arrived in León and could meet my family I told about this story and Amir. I couldn´t forget that I wanted to help them and other people in the same circumstances so I sent an email to Amir as I had promised him.

I found an NGO with activity in the Arabian countries, Tunisia is one of this. They work with women principally in new created schools for them. There, they learn some medicine aspects as what is the best way to help in home birth, in the domestic accidents, or to use the typical plants to relieve some common illnesses, I´m a volunteer of this organization now. Twice a year I go with them to these countries and I work in the medical care activities.

When I travelled to Tunisia I met Amir and I knew his family. His little sister has been going to one of this organization schools and has improved her life a lot. All of them are delighted with me now

Verónica Llamera Arias 1 B1

September 19, 2011 a trip, that I knew it was going to be special, began. But I had never imagined that it would be so incredible.

We travelled by plane for twelve hours to a fascinating country: Argentina. The journey lasted for seventeen marvellous days when we went around the country from the South to the North.

It was a trip full of contrasts and unforgettable experiences. We visited full of magic places with spectacular nature phenomena: from the striking Perito Moreno glacier to the deafening Iguazu falls. We were left speechless although we need to speak only we wanted to look.

We have always liked much the animals and there we saw many animals such as whales, penguins, sea lions…We had never seen these animals so close.

We loved the country. When we returned home we only had an idea in our minds: living in Argentina. So when we arrived to Spain we sold all our possessions and we left our jobs. One month later we went back to Argentina, in particular to Ushuaia. Now we have a company which organizes trips for tourists. We love our new job because every day we can go to enjoy the landscape and animals. We are very happy living in a little cottage surrounded by nature.

Nuria Pérez, 2 B1

Last summer, my family and me went on holidays to Costa Rica because my parents needed some relaxing days. They had been working very hard last year.

We went by plane and it was the first time for me and my little brother that we travelled by plane, it was very exciting but not for my parents because they were arguing all the time. They told us that they had been under a lot of stress but I didn`t think so.

When we arrived at the hotel we had to wait for the check-in and suddenly my little brother disappeared. Nobody saw him, then we started to look for him but no one could tell us anything. When it got dark we hadn´t found him yet and my mother couldn´t stop crying but in this moment my father held my mother tight an said “don’t worry mum, we´re going to find our little child, don´t cry please you´re the most important for me and I need you here so stop crying and calm down yourself, Okey? It was the first time that I saw them so affectionate in months, in fact many times I thoght that their marriage was broken.

Then a policeman arrived with my brother, he had found him playing with other children in a park completely carefree. My parents told him off for leaving the hotel but that incident was the best thing that I have had in my live because my parents started paying more attention to us so I remember this journey as a new starting point for my family that changed our lives.

Eduardo Blanco 1B1

2B1 Future practice

Dear Tuesays and Thursdays students,
to do the exercises about the future you can use the search bar at the very backpart of the blog and write the word "future", Press to search and have a look at the exercises.
I hope you find them easier than this evening.

Last days for the competition

Dear students,
just to remind you that at the end of this week I will upload all the stories that will take part in the competition. Therefore, students, whose stories have been selected to take part ,have to send their checked stories before Friday.
The last step is that you vote the best story, I will tell you how when I upload the stories.
Take care

New Deadline for the competition

Write  your story before   9th December and win a fantastic prize!
(see entry below 23rd November).
Take part!

Homework for 3th-4th December

Hi there,
how are you doing? I guess some of you doing plans for the long bank holidays (Tuesdays and Thursdays groups).
 For the people that couldn´t go away this bank holiday, just to tell you that Christmas time is very near, so cheer up!

For this weekend I have different proposals depending on whether you have to come to class next week or not.

Mondays & Wednesdays groups

1B1: Vocabulary bank Travel and transport, page 148.

2B1: Write a "For and Against" Composition on ONE of the topics on page 34 or " Advantages and Disadvantages of the use of new technologies"(150-180 words).

Tuesdays & Thursdays groups

1B1:

•  Page  34-35 , and
•  Write a story following the guidelines on page 33. The topic is "It was just a holiday but it changed my life" (120-150 words). Don´t forget to send it to my e-mail before next Friday 9th  so that I have time to check it and give it back the 13th.
• We will also review the  Vocabulary bank about  Travel and transport, page 148.

2B1: 

• Write a "For and Against" Composition on  ONE of the topics on page 33 or " Advantages and Disadvantages of the use of new technologies"(150-180 words).
• Reading Are you a Perfectionist? (page 31),  an please do exercise 7 (page 30)

• We will also check your previous homework on the future and conditional sentences.

                                                              Have a nice weekend! 

Homework for the weekend 26th-27th

Dear students,
have you checked the previous entry? there´s an amazing prize waiting for you! so.... take part in the competition!!!

As for the homework:
1-B1 Worksheet about Present Perfect Simple & Continuous
Workbook: You should do 2A and 2B sections

2-B1. page 27 ex 5
page 148, vocabulary bank; Science and computers

Have a nice weekend!

THANKSGIVING FOR B1 STUDENTS

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/thanksgiving/elementary-thanksgiving-reading.html
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/thanksgiving/elementary-thanksgiving-gap-fill.html

http://www.eslholidaylessons.com/11/thanksgiving.html

1B1-2B1 COMPETITION " IT WAS A HOLIDAY BUT, IT CHANGED MY LIFE"

All my students are welcome to take part in the competition
IT WAS A HOLIDAY BUT, IT CHANGED MY LIFE ..

Win a fantastic prize Writing about a  holiday that changed your life (120-150 words)

All your stories will be published!

Deadline 7th December. Your votes will decide which is the best story! 
I´m looking forward to receiving your stories in my e-mail.

   

 

                                                                                       

IF YOU´VE EVER DREAMT OF BEING AN ACTOR....

IF YOU´VE  EVER DREAMT OF BEING AN ACTOR....

Break a leg!

Join the theatre group of the school, there´s a meeting on 30th November at the Salón de Actos of the School.

It´s a great opportunity to practice your English, meeting friends and make a dream come true!

2B1 Practice on the future

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/future.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs27.htm

State Verbs used in continuous forms

Some verbs used in the simple form can also be used in the continuous form. That's typically when they have an active meaning or emphasize change. Very often these sentences have a completely different meaning:

Some verbs used in the simple form can also be used in the continuous form. That's typically when they have an active meaning or emphasize change. Very often these sentences have a completely different meaning:

Verb Form	Verb	Example	Meaning
Simple	to think	I think you should see a doctor	opinion
Continuous	to be thinking	I'm thinking of changing my flat	trying to reach a decision
Simple	to  love	I love going to the cinema	feeling
Continuous	to be loving	You look great in this hat. I'm loving it, man!	emphasis or gradual process
Simple	to smell	I smell something burning	sense
Continuous	to be smelling	My baby was smelling a flower	activity
Simple	to have	He's really rich — he has 3 cars	possession
Continuous	to be having	When you called me, I was having a bath	activity
Simple	to see	I can see you have a big garden	sense
Continuous	to be seeing	I'm seeing him later	appointment
Simple	to taste	I could taste a lot of sugar in the wine	sense
Continuous	to be tasting	He was tasting the cake and said it was OK	activity

Keep in mind there is a group of verbs that can be used in both the continuous and simple forms with no difference. These are, for example, the verbs "to hurt" and "to feel":

• How is Mary feeling after the accident?
• How does she feel after the accident?

2B1--YOU CAN BE; SUPERYOUNG; ETERNAL YOUTH: THE LIFESTYLE CHANGE THAT COULD MAKE YOU LOOK AND FEEL HALF YOUR AGE.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/YOU+CAN+BE%3B+SUPERYOUNG%3B+ETERNAL+YOUTH%3A+THE+LIFESTYLE+CHANGE+THAT...-a060567045

2B1 future perfect and continuous

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/futureperfect.html
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs26.htm

1B1 Present Perfect Continuous

Dear students,
have a look at this exercises, do it to reinforce the structure, you didn´t get it very well this afternoon,
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfectcontinuous.html
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs7.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs8.htm

The Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.

Dear students,

listen about a wonderful place in Ireland,

 hide the audioscript the 1st time you listen to it and

 for the second time read and listen at the same time.

http://www.elllo.org/english/0551/581-Marion-Cliffs.html

Practice on mixed verbal tenses

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs15.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs14.htm
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/tenses1/index.php
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/tenses1/index.php

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST HALLOWEEN

Dear students,

remember that it would be great that you take part in the Short Story Competition of the EOI writing about a terrifying experience on last Halloween (maximum  200 words). You have all the details on the noticeboard in the classroom.

Be creative I´m sure you can write incredibly good stories.

Enjoy Sunday evening! 

Homework for the weekend, 19th-20th

Dear students,
have a look at my proposal for homework.
1B1-page 132-133, Grammar Bank 2B, part a.
page 26 Reading, ex 5, 6

2B1  worksheets about conditionals and page 25, ex 3

Enjoy!

2 B1 Non-separable phrasal verbs

Dear students,
you asked me for a rule to know when a phrasal verb is separable or not. I could only find a list of the ones that cannot be separated. It´s quite difficult to learn the list by heart but have a look.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/630/03/

BEYONCE

Hi there,
Have a look at this listening about Beyonce´s biography, listen without the script and then do the exercises (listening gap fill, choose the correct word, spelling and scrambled sentences) and check.  http://www.famouspeoplelessons.com/b/beyonce_knowles.html

To end with, watch the video of her famous song If I were a boy 

 Have a nice day!

1 B1- 1B2 LISTENING ABOUT MEDICINE

Dear students,
here you are a short listening about medicine. The first time you listen to it don´t read the script. The second you complete the gaps and then you check and do the spelling and unjumbe the words exercises
http://www.listenaminute.com/m/medicine.html

Enjoy!

1B1 Practice on numbers

http://esl.about.com/library/intermediatecourse/blintermediate_course_numbers2.htm

http://esl.about.com/library/intermediatecourse/blintermediate_course_numbers1.htm

Students´ frightening stories

One Halloween my friends and I were going trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. Down the street from us was and old deserted house that everyone thought was haunted. My mother said “Do not you dare go near that house!". Naturally, her warning made us even more curious. We went to the house and rang the bell. There was no answer. We tried the door. It was unlocked, so we entered the house. The door slammed behind us and…..

• When we went into the dining room, the TV was on. And there were cookies on the table. We ate one. We continued examining the house. We went to the attic, and... Guess WHAT? Bats were flying around us...We heard a noise: “What are you doing here? Bu!" And we ran out of the house. Our hearts started beating faster and faster... And who was the person who told us that? It was my mother, she was laughing a lot, "Lol(laugh out loud), What did I tell you?" She said, “Next time, don't disobey me! Or you will have a bad experience!”

        Daniel Perigali Guerrero, 1B1

• ….we started to walk along the different rooms of the house. When my friend Pedro listened to a strange noise, we started to run. Suddenly, I saw a ghost at the end of the corridor. We were extremely frightened and we did not know what do to so we started running to the other part of the house when, all of a sudden, I saw a door that was in the garden. When me and my friends were in the garden we thought that the best option was to phone our parents, but, at that moment we saw a witch, a vampire, a ghost and a pirate in front of us and we started to cry.When the time past we knew that the different people that we had seen in the house and in the garden were our parents because the wanted to frighten us.

         Sandra Casado Nava, 2B1

• …we came in. We couldn't see anything. It was dark. Suddenly we heard a noise on the second floor. We were afraid but we decided to go upstairs. When we came in the first room, we couldn't believe it. There was a big black cat with yellow eyes, and  there were a lot of broomsticks. Then we ran downstairs quickly and we went out from the house. We thought that a lot of witches were living there.  

        Mª José González González, 1B1

   

• It was very dark. I could see nothing. Everything was black. I came back to the door but the door wasn’t there. I tried to touch with my hand but there was nothing. I couldn’t find my friends and I couldn’t find the door. I was alone in the middle of the darkness and I was frightened. Suddenly I heard footsteps and I started to walk. Somebody or something started to run. I was scared so I started to run too. I heard people crying and screaming. I was losing my mind. I didn’t know what to do. Then I felt a terrible hit on my face and I fell into a big hole. Then I woke up on my bed. It had been a nightmare.

          Elena Martín Centeno, 2B1

•  …suddenly, a strange woman with a very big hat appeared beside us. She was staring at us and she started to laugh. We thought she was crazy, and we ran to the door, but the door was closed. The woman approached us and said: ‘’Do you want an apple?’’ We didn’t answer because we were trying to open the windows. The girl was disappointed, and we didn’t know why, so we asked her and she told us: ‘’do you really think I’m so ugly? Are you really scared of me? ’We answered her that we thought she was a ghost, but no so ugly so she opened the door. When we were out we started to run to our houses and we promised not to return to that house. The next morning our parents went to the haunted house to investigate, but they couldn’t find anything! We couldn’t believe it.

          Marina Fidalgo, 1B1

• …We decided to explore the house. It was very dirty; we could even see several bats and a lot of spiders. We tried to turn on the light, but we couldn´t, it didn´t work. Then we heard a noise in the living-room. We went there and we saw a person near an opened window. A little of light came in through the window, and we could see that the person had a mask and a tunic. That person said: "What are you doing here?" with a horrible voice. We were extremely frightened. Suddenly, he went towards the light and turned it on, and then he started to laugh. He took off the mask and... She was my mother!!!  "I told you not to come here!"  

         Ana Reyero Reguero, 2B1

• …We tried to turn on the lights but they didn´t work, suddenly we heard a noise beside us, but nobody saw anything, and we asked “who is there?" “Who has locked the door?" of course nobody answered us. We tried to open the door or the windows but we couldn´t so we started to be afraid and in this moment we heard a laughter beside us, it was my mother saying us "trick or treat?", she was wearing an alien costume.

 

        Eduardo Blanco González, 1 B1

.... Then, we could listen the shout, we were very scared but we continued exploring the house. When we were in the kitchen, we listened to a strong noise in the main door, we ran quickly, but it was closed, we tried to open it but it was impossible. At this moment, a ghost appeared in the living room, it was a girl, and she asked us why we were in her house, she said that, if we returned here, she would kill us. Then she disappeared an we could open the door, we ran out and returned to our houses. My friends and I never spoke about this again, but we know this is true, and we are too scared, because in neighbourhood there´s a real haunted house, an it isn´t very funny.

Pablo Arias, 1 B1

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HORARIO DE ATENCIÓN AL ALUMNO CURSO 2011-2012

HORARIO DE ATENCIÓN AL ALUMNO CURSO 2011-2012
 Mónica Otero,
 martes, de 15.30 a 16.00 y de 20.15 a 20.40 hrs.

1B1 Ka ching! by Shania Twain

2B1 Practice on adverbs

Dear students,
as using adverbs correctly is causing you some problems, here you are some more practice on them.

 http://www.esldesk.com/grammar/practice/identify-adverb
http://www.myenglishlessons.net/quizzes/adverbsp1.htm
http://www.grammaruntied.com/adverbs/advpractice.html

Homework for the weekend

2B1 -- Studen´t´s book: page 19
(Remember that we are also going to check pages 14-15 with all the exercises)
As we have finished with the first unit, you can do all the exercises on the workbook, use the key to check them.

1B1---Studen´t´s book: pages 18- 19

As we have finished with the first unit, you can do all the exercises on the workbook, use the key to check them.



Have a nice weekend!

Life in the Uk, Brighton

Here you are some pictures of Brighton,

 you can watch a video about this wonderful place in the link below.

 

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/lifeintheuk/brighton/brighton-tourism-video-quiz.html

2 B1 Jokes

1-An English teacher wrote these words on the whiteboard: "woman without her man is nothing". The teacher then asked the students to punctuate the words correctly.

The men wrote: "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
The women wrote: "Woman! Without her, man is nothing."


2-Why can't a man living in Paris be buried in the South of France?

Because he's still living!


3-Man:"God, why did you make woman so beautiful?"

God:"So you would love her."

Man:"But God, why did you make her so dumb?"

God:"So she would love you."

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

History of Halloween

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/autumn-festivals/halloween/history-of-halloween-listening.html

Halloween in the USA
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/autumn-festivals/halloween/halloween-in-the-usa-listening.html

Read a scary story about Halloween!
http://www.isabelperez.com/hotpot/horror_halloween.htm

2 B1 Question Formation

Dear students,
 here you are some links to practice on Question Formation.
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/questform.html
http://www.vivquarry.com/wkshts/questex.html

1 B1 Extra practice on the future simple

Hi there,
here you are extra practice on the future simple

http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/will.htm

http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/going.htm

http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/present_cont.htm

Enjoy the weekend!

BYE BYE MY DEAR STUDENTS

Dear students,

I´m writing to say goodbye to all of you, I´ve been called to teach in the Official School in León, my home town. Therefore I go, I´m in a mixture of sadness and delight because on the one hand, it´s the best thing I could wait for but, on the other hand I have to leave all of you, students and workmates from Toledo. I´ve really enjoyed the time I´ve spent here and the things I´ve  learned from you.

I wish you all the best and good luck for the future!

Keep enjoying your English!!!

Mónica

1B2 PLACE FOR THE WRITTEN EXAM

Dear students,
I won´t be with you tomorrow in the exam. You´ll take it with Soraya in classroom number 4.
Good luck!

1B2 Written and Oral Exams

Dear students,

How are you doing? Did you enjoy the summer? I hope so.

I´m writing to remind you the days of the exams in September.

Written Exam: Thursday 8th
Reading: 16.00-17.00
Listening : 17.00
Writing: The time of this exam depends on the listening so it would be good that you arrive at 17.30 even if you have to wait for a while.

Oral Exam: Friday 9th

9 SEPTEMBER ORAL EXAM

TIME	STUDENT´S NAME	STUDENT´S NAME
14.30-14.50	Cano Rodríguez Gregorio	Gómez Martínez Mª Sagrario
14.50-15.10	Jiménez Ibáñez Beatriz	Martín Valencia Mª Asunción
15.10-15.20	Pérez Sánchez, Ángel Alberto	Moreno Esteban Mª Jesús
15.20-15.40	Mora Carbajal Encarnación	Ruiz Martín Mª Luisa
15.20-15.40	Suárez Casero María	Martín Rivera Roberto

PLEASE ARRIVE 20 MINUTES BEFORE THE TIME OF THE EXAM

If you are not coming to the exam, please let me know the day of the written exam to arrange the timetable. It´s extremely important because I have to finish your oral exam at 15.50 to take part in other exams of the Department.