Saint Patrick's Day

Today Saint Patrick's day is celebrated all around the world. It is said that there are Irish people in almost every country. It is a national day in Ireland and parades go along the streets and avenues of every city. The four leaves shamrock is the symbol to bring you love, good luck, fortune and everthing you can desire.  

Watch the video to know about the history of Saint Patrick.

Then you can practise with this treasure hunt.

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK!!

Unit 6: Films and Adjectives

Here you are some exercises to practise the comparison of adjectives:

• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3

Our PROJECT : A leaflet about your town, a guide to foreigners.

You are working in groups to prepare a leaflet in English about your town to explain everything to the students from abroad visiting us in May. Click on the photo about Alcalá de Guadaira to watch the example one.

Then, follow the link and do the activities your teacher ask you to do.

We will work in class with the task for several weeks and the deadline for the final project will be 2nd April 2014 to end your oral presentations in groups to the class. You will be given more than one simple worksheet to coevaluate your partners' work and this self-assessment one for you.

Victoria N., Ana P., Lucía P., Belén L. and José Manuel P.

Remember that this project will be evaluated in the third term. Also that we can record a video of your presentations to be uploaded to the blog.

Unit 5 Vocabulary and other skills: Sports

Here you can practise the vocabulary you have learnt in this unit.

• Football words
• Olympic sports

And now read the text and do the exercises:

• At the University sports club

Time for listening. Pay attention while listening to the interview to a swimmer and do the comprehension exercises below.

Time for writing. Here you are an email from Rob to Brett. 

• Read the mail and answer the True/False questions
• Read the tips for writing and check your understanding with this exercise.

Unit 4 Vocabulary: Places in a town

Click on the pictures and do the exercises to practise the vocabulary you are learning:

Now you can learn new words on the links from British Council for teens:

• Places in town.
• Around town.

Here you can watch and listen to the speaker showing you places in Smiling town.

Just to finish you can revise all the vocabulary with the help of this interactive book.

Our Christmas tree

Here you are your work of these days in the classroom. The messages on your Christmas cards can hardly be read here but...you did great job. Congratulations to María Caro, María Fernández and Alba Barroso for their collaboration with the tree.

Have a nice time at Christmas!! 

Just for fun at this long weekend: A popular song by Mika

Listen to the song, follow the lyrics and sing along!   Enjoy the video.