REVIEWS

This is an example of people discussing books, taken from podcastsinenglish.com. The title is "A good book". Although not a review as such, it's got good examples of the "general comments on the book" part of the review.

Brookline book reviews offers you reviews by some students in public schools in Brookline. You can listen to them all, as they come in mp3 format. However... they're students who speak rather fast, which may be a bit too difficult for you, so take it as a challenge.

Canary News

Hi everyone!
       You have probably come across one or two free newspapers in English we have in Gran Canaria. One of them, The Canary News, can be read online here. You can also read News in the Sun. There's another one, but I can't recall its name, does anyone know? 
       Moreover, you might also have a look at Tenerifenews and Sur in English) and Round Town News to find out what's going on in the south of Spain.
       It's a great way of keeping up to date with local news while practising your English, isn't it?

ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE BLOG

Sorry about that, but they just appear! 
If anyone knows how to avoid them, please tell me! They are so annoying!

GENERAL STRIKE

OMG!
It's Wednesday night, the general strike has just started... but the BBC has nothing on its webpage, nor do "The Times", "The Independent" or "The Guardian"!!!  Well, at least "The Telegraph" mentions something, it focuses on the flight cancellations, but that's about it.


As regards the USA, nothing is mentioned in either the "The New York Times"or "USA Today".  However, the CNN does! Thanks God someone remembers us! You can read the article here (there's a video as well). And ... "The Washington Post" also devotes this article to our country, which offers quite a good general overview.


And all this makes me wonder, does the rest of the world really care about our situation? Will anyone help us out or is it up to us to get out of this crisis just by ourselves? Will the reform be implemented? Will the trade unions succeed? In what ways? What would you do if you were in power?  


Please leave a comment with your opinion on any of these topics; it'll be interesting and excellent writing practice for you! You can remain anonymous if you wish (but if you let me know which comment is yours, it'll count as one more writing task for this term)

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO....

Hello again!
To practise your listening, please watch Mery Streep's speech here (BBC)

These are the pictures of the celebrities described in the photocopy we saw in class, just match them and indicate who's who. This is the text, just in case. Answers will appear in a comment in a few days!

By the way, in this post from EOI Guía you will find an interesting link to the English blog where they give interesting information about leap years and a funny tradition in the British Isles.

JORNADAS CULTURALES 2011-12

Wednesday, February 15th
4:00 p.m.

• Musical "Grease" (basic level)
• Theatre workshop
• Taboo (intermediate)
• Film: "Le ballon rouge" (francés)

5:50: coffee and tea break
6:15

• The EOI Quiz; Karaoke (basic)
• Taboo (intermediate)
• Workshop: "Another language" (intermediate)
• Film en français: "Bienvenus chez les Ch'tis" (Bienvenidos al norte)

Thursday, February 16th
4:00 p.m.

• Musical "Grease" (basic level)
• Taboo (intermediate)
• Film en français: "Rien à déclarer". Seguido de forum.
• Charla sobre el turismo (por una guia alemana) y concurso sobre cultura alemana

5:30: CAKE COMPETITION!!!
6:30

• Bollywood
• The EOI Quiz (basic)
• Film en français: "Rien à déclarer". Seguido de forum.

PARTICIPA EN LAS ACTIVIDADES, CONCURSOS, TALLERES... HABRÁ PREMIOS!

JORNADAS CULTURALES 2012

That time of the year has finally arrived... those days when we learn and practise English in a different way. This year's JORNADAS CULTURALES will take place next week (February 15th & 16th)! 

There are competitions, workshops, games, musicals... you have to come and see it! Remember to write your poem or minisaga, make a nice bookmarker OR prepare a cake for the competition (please send us the recipe).
You can win interesting prizes! 
JOIN US AND...

PARTICIPATE!

Without you we can do nothing ;-)

THE PASSIVE

In the first place, you can watch this video, to revise what was explained in class and visit englisch-hilfen to revise everything and do some exercises.

If you want to practise this structure, you can visit this page.

Here you have a game, to make it more fun; choose the number of players and enjoy yourself while you learn

INFINITIVE OR GERUND?

If you want to practise this grammar point and have some fun meanwhile, why don't you play battleships here? This is another online game from ESL Fun Grammar Games and this other one from englishmedialab.
For exercises, visit ego4u.
Finally you can do some of these tests, if you like: 1, 2, 3, 4.
These three tutorials might also help: 1 -2 -3.

This video shows you parts of songs where the infinitive and gerund are used ;-)

Use and Omission of the Article

(Unit 5B)

When do we use THE and when do we omit it ?
Visit this LINK and do the exercise!

Once upon a time a boy met a girl in the centre of the city.

They had an ice cream together, and then they went to the cinema to see a film. The film was called Eleven Years.

Click HERE to see Powerpoint presentation



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