EXAMS - SEPTEMBER

El día 3 de septiembre estaré en el salón de actos o en el departamento de inglés para que os podáis apuntar al oral del 7 de septiembre. 

FINAL EXAM INFO

Unit 10 Cities (Comparison)

Comparative I
Comparative II
Comparative III (Try only a couple of exercises)

Unit 10 On holiday

1. 

I enjoy travelling and it's difficult for me to choose a holiday destination because I love them all. I'd like to explore the Maldives, USA, Peru, China and lots of different places. So let's pack and travel!

Watch this video about a woman working as a holiday representative in Spain. Then answer the questions. The video is from the popular comedy "Little Britain". You can check your answers clicking on comments.

1. What's the holiday representative's name?

2. What do tourists see on the left?

3. What do tourists see on the right?

4. She wants to make sure ...

5. Why does the old Englishman get off the bus?

6. What happens to them after getting off the bus?

So, which holiday is better in your opinion: a summer holiday or a winter holiday? An adventure holiday or a package holiday? Why? You can write your answers on the chat below.

And what about your typical holidays? Complete these questionnaire and check your answers clicking on comments. Then think about the questions and write your answers on the chat below.

What do you usually do on holiday?

1. Where do you go on holiday? 

2. How do you ......... there?

3. ......... do you go with?

4. What  ........ you take with you?

5. ......... do you get up on holiday?

6. What do you .......... in the day?

7. ............ do you do in the evening?

8. What .............. do you ........... to bed?

Try these activities about BE GOING TO to talk about future plans as intentions.

Be going to I
Be going to II
Be going to III
Be going to IV
Be going to GAMES

Now you're ready to answer. Think about your holiday plans and answer these questions:

- Are you going to go abroad next summer or are you going to stay in?
- Are you going to go to concerts next summer?

Unit 9 Food

Are you hungry? Let's go to the restaurant. Listen to the dialogue and repeat. Then do the activities.

Buying a coffee (activity)
In a cafe (activity and video)
Ordering a meal (activity)

Now have a look at this menu from the famous chain of English pubs Whetherspoon. You can find cheap and delicious food there.Try to order food from this menu (customer) and try to offer food (waiter).

Menu (you can explore all the dishes available or even book a table)

To finish this entry, go back to your childhood (period of your life when you were a child) and enjoy watching this Sesame Street scene. Then get this information after watching it twice:

- The address for the pizza delivery.
- The two ingredients of the pizza.
- When the pizza will be ready.

Speedy Pizza (SCRIPT)

Unit 9 What's in your fridge?

Unit 9 Food

Les Reines Prochaines are a Swiss group formed only by women. Their lyrics are always feminist.

Listen to the first song of the video called "The Lady Is Hungry". While you listen to the song, write as many words related to food as possible. Later you can check your answers by clicking on lyrics.

The Lady is Hungry (lyrics)

Unit 9 Food

Food is important in our life, because it gives us energy. A good diet can keep us healthy. In this picture you can find lots of healthy food. Can you name it in English? How often do you eat food? Do you like eating this food?

Now try to classify this food into the right grammatical category: countable or uncountable nouns. Can you add extra countable or uncountable nouns? To check this activity, click on comments. Then do the activities below.

Food I
Food III
Food IV
Food V
Food VI
Food GAME
Countability and Quantifiers I
Countability and Quantifiers II
Countability and Quantifiers III
Countability and Quantifiers IV
More countability and quantifiers

Unit 8 My city

This is my town. I live in Cartagena near the coast, in the south of Spain. In Cartagena there are a lot of things to do. For example, do you like archaeology? Then, you can visit its beautiful Roman theatre. Do you like shopping? There are lots of shops in the city centre. Do you like tapas? There are some tapas bars near the port. There is only one problem. There is a lot of traffic. Well, and Cartagena can be a noisy and polluted town.

What about your town? Do you live in a town or in a village? Are there a lot of activities to do there?

Now read this tale and answer the question at the end of the story.

Around my neighbourhood

Try now these activities about use of English.


In town 
There is/ are 
There was/ were I
There was/ were II

Finally, enjoy this video and practise your pronunciation. After that, you can talk about your place and write your answers on the chat below.

Unit 8 The Apartment

There is a popular building in New York. It is near Central Park. In this building a group of good friends met and lots of funny stories took place.

Have a look at the pwp presentation with information about Monica's apartment and do the exercises.

Vocabulary:
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3

Grammar:
There is/are 1
There is/are 2


Listening:
A big house

Well, interested in the boys' apartment. Have a look at the photo and give information about Joey's apartment on the left.

Unit 8 Revision past tenses

Unit 8 Simple Past Revision

Ready for the revision of the past simple? Watch this video about Gulliver in Lilliput and do the activities below. Enjoy it.

Activity 1

Watch the video twice and answer these questions (Click on coments to check your answers).

1) What did Gulliver do when he arrived on the island?

2) What did the little men do to Gulliver when he woke up?

3) What did Gulliver have for dinner?

Activity 2
Click on the link below and follow the instructions. (Click on coments to check your answers)

Gulliver's follow-up Activity

Now a video where  people talk about the things they did last weekend.  Listen carefully. When you finish watching video answer the same question on the chat below: what did you do last weekend?

To finish the lesson, I would like you to enjoy a popular song  by Nancy Sinatra called BANG BANG. Click on the link below and do the activities watching the video. (Click on comments to check your answers)

Bang Bang by Nancy Sinatra Activity

Unit 8 Simple Past Revision

Travelleres usually look for different experiences when they go on a journey. Some of them want to lie on a beach, others are ready to enjoy their all-inclusive package holidays and some others are only interested in experiencing.

In this last group are included the three short films by the independent director Rick Mereki. Read the information about the short films and answer the questions below.

Move, Eat, Learn Short Films

- How long was their journey?

- How many countries did they visit?

- How many flights did they take?

- How many miles did they travel?

- Did they experience any inconveniences during their journey?

- How many cameras did they take with them?

- How does the director describe the journey?

Now lounge on your chair and enjoy this short film that summarizes the beuty of travelling.

What do you think about this project? Which countries could you see in the video? Which experience did you like the most? You can write your opinion clicking on comments.

Listen to this recording and do the activities. It's a bit difficult for your level, so clik on script when you have real problems.

Tips for when to visit the USA
Tips for when to visit the USA script

Unit 7 A Window to the Past

Here is the video where John Travolta talks about dancing with Lady Di.

Unit 7 A Window to the Past

Historypin is a digital compilation of history. Users choose a location and date to pin a historic event including photos, videos and recordings. Have a look at the powerpoint presentation based on this amazing intiative.

Do you remember how to form the past in English? To help you remember, try these activities about regular and irregular past simple.

Past Simple I (Read the information and do the activities on this website)
Past Simple II
Past Simple III
Past Simple IV
Past Simple V
Past Simple VI
Past Simple VII
Game

And what about pronunciation? Practise your pronunciation of regular and irregular past simple with the videos below.

To relax, read this story and answer the questions.

Two sisters and a cat

Finally try these listening activity where a woman talks about her wedding day.

My wedding day

Unit 7 Famous Portraits

Ernesto "Che" Guevera was born on 14th June, 1928. He was born in Rosario, Argentina. He was a doctor and a famous guerrilla leader. As a guerrilla leader, he was hope for poor people in South America and Cuba. After his death, this picture was very famous worlwide. There are some good films about his life.

Now click on the link below, choose some famous people from the list and answer these questions with the information from the text:

- When were they born?
- Where were they born?
- What were they famous for?

Famous people

Now you're ready to do some activities about the verb to BE in the past.

Was/ were I
Was/ were II
Was/ were III
Was/ were IV

Unit 6 Music

El Sistema is a project for poor children in Venezuela. It started in 1975 and their young conductor Gustavo Dudamel is an icon in Venezuela and around the world.

Watch this video in Spanish about El Sistema and read the script in English. Do you know other projects to help people with music?

Now you're ready to revise the auxiliary be and do.

BE vs DO I

BE vs DO II

BE vs DO III

Unit 6 Like doing/ would like to do

"Oh, I would like to thank the Academy from the bottom of my heart! I would like to thank Emily Watson and Fernanda Montenegro, and my friend Cate Blanchett for their help and patience".

This is Gwyneth Paltrow's speech at the Oscar Awards Ceremony. The speech has the structure "would like to + infinitive". Imagine you have to prepare a speech for the Oscar Awards ceremony. Write a simple speech on the chat below using  the "would like to + infinitive" structure. We can vote for the best speech.


Now try these activities with like + ing (general) and would like to + inf (particular, specific).

Would like to vs Like I
Would like to vs Like II
Would like to vs Like III

I hope to read your speeches on the chat.

Unit 6 An email

Unit 6 Likes and Dislikes

The Simpsons are a typical American family. Homer loves drinking beer, Marge works at home, Bart doesn't like studying and Lisa loves playing the saxo. Maggie the baby really likes dancing, but she can't stand up yet. However, they have something in common: they love watching TV on the sofa.

Now it's your turn. Do the activities and then talk about your hobbies.

Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II

-ING form I
-ING form II

Listening: Favourite colour
Listening: Claudia's likes and dislikes

What do you like doing in your free time? Write your answers on the chat below.

Unit 6 Dates

Most invitations in English include the "Save the Date" phrase. What kind of events to save the date can you say?

In English there are different ways of expressing the date. For example 02/10 in American English means February 10th, but in British English it means October 2nd. Click on the links below and practise (for more dates click on "get a new randomized date").

The Date I
Writing the date
Telling the date



Have a look at the photos above and ask and answer questions about them. For example, "When is Victoria and Bradley's wedding? It's on 17th September.

Now click on the link below and read the information about the holidays or festivities clicking on the month. Then answer the questions. Alternatively, you can ask questions about festivals on the chat below.



British Calendar 

1. When's New Year's Day? It's on 1st January (the first of January).
2. When's Ash Wednesday?
3. When's Good Friday?
4. When's St David's Day?
5. When's St Patrick's Day?
6. When's St George's Day?
7. When's Father's Day?
8. When's St Andrew's Day?
9. When's Halloween?
10. When's Boxing Day?

Unit 6 Object Pronouns

"Talk to Her" is a famous drama film by Pedro Almodovar. In it, Pedro Almodovar tells us the story of Benigno. Benigno is a male nurse and from his window he looks at Alicia. With the passing of time Benigno is in love with her. When Alicia suffers a car accident and Benigno finds her in his hospital, he spends his days taking care of her, but she can't say to him, "Thank you".

In the text there are some object pronouns in bold. Who do they refer to? (Benigno, Alicia, Almodovar, the viewers or the film)

Now you can try these activities, but remember we use object pronouns after transitive verbs or after prepositions.

Object Pronouns I
Object Pronouns II
Object Pronouns III

Unit 5 Shopping for Clothes

Practice your practical English with these two videos from New English File. 

Unit 5 Shopping for clothes

Most women love shopping for clothes. In fact women usually spend more time going shopping than men. And we prefer different shops too. For example, women absolutely love clothes shops and shoe shops, but men prefer spending their euros on music, sports and electronics.

Try these activities about vocabulary, listening, situations and finally try the video activity (sketch from a popular British comedy called "Little Britain")

Vocabulary

Clothes 1 (Click on pronunciation)
Clothes 2

Listening

1. Activity 1

2. Activity 2 (a bit difficult)

3. Activity 3 (a bit difficult)

4. At the shop (watch the video below)

5. At the toy shop. Watch the video below and fill in the gaps. It is really difficult:

1. The customer is looking for a pirate memory game ages ..........

2. The shop assistant's wife is called ..........

3. There are no specialized pirate-memory-game shops. So the man decides to ..........

4. They show the customer another toy, but he decides to have ....... at the other one.

5. They toy costs ...............
6. The man wants to spend ..............

Unit 5 What are you doing now?

Naomi Campbell is the best top model on the catwalk.

In the photo she's modelling casual clothes by Calvin Klein. Naomi's wearing a brown jacket and matching grey top. She's wearing jeans too. For a perfect look, she's wearing a golden belt and some bracelets.

But Naomi is sophisticated. She never wears casual clothes when she isn't working. She prefers dresses and high-heeled sandals.

In the text there are verbs in red and verbs in purple. Which verb forms are these? When do we use the verb in the red form? When do we use them in the purple form?

Try these activities about present continuous.

Present continuous I
Present continuous II
Present continuous III
Present continuous IV

Now try this webquest and the listening activities below. The listening activities are difficult for you. Have a go, and read the script later.

Listening What are you wearing today?

So, what are you wearing today? What's your style? You can write your answers on the chat below.

Unit 5 The Weather

This is a basic weather forecast for the next four days. Do the activities below. You can write your answers clicking on comments.

A) What's the weather like on Tuesday/ Wednesday/ Thursday/ Friday?

B) Imagine you are on holiday. What activities would you do on those days?


Now watch the video and practise the pronunciation of the words. 

OUP

Unit 5 What are you doing?

Unit 5 Abilities

Do you know this man? Who's he? Well, he's very famous and his name's Tony Hawk. Would you like to get more information about him? Then, click on the link below and  say  what he can do.
 
Tony Hawk

Now try these activities where you can practice the modal verb CAN.

Can I
Can II
Can III
Can IV

Unit 5 Abilities

Unit 4 Daily Routine

Before talking about your daily routine and how often you do some things, do these activities.Enjoy them!!

Frequency I
Frequency II
Frequency III
Frequency IV (Listen to the conversation and then do the activities clicking on the icon above)

Frequency V

Ready for further practice? Answer these questions about you. You can write your answers on the chat below.

How often do you ...?

go out with your friends/ come to English class/ go to the shopping centre/ tidy up your bedroom/ go to the beach?


Finally, this is the board game we did in class.

Unit 4 Prepositions

Prepositions I

Prepositions II

Prepositions III

Prepositions IV

Unit 4 Daily Routine

During the week I am busy because I work a lot. I go to bed late and in the morning I am tired. Watch these videos for children. Practise your pronunciation.

Learn these daily routine expressions Vocabulary

Now watch this video and complete the table with information. Click on comments for the key.

*Once = when

What time do you wake up?
What do you do after that?
What do you have for breakfast?
What do you do after breakfast?
What do you do after the shower?
What time do you leave home?
What time do you have lunch?
What do you have for lunch?
What do you drink for lunch?
What time do you finish work?
How do you get home?
How far is that?
What do you do *once you get home?
What time do you have dinner?
What do you do after dinner?
What time do you go to bed?

Answer these questions now:

What do you do in the morning?
What do you do in the afternoon?
What do you do in the evening?