Monday 20 December 2010

Xmas Homework Básico e Intermedio

This is your homework for Xmas (Christmas).
You can download it if you click on these links:
Homework for Básico 1.
Homework for Intermedio 1:
I also left some copies at the school. Ask in the office.

Friday 17 December 2010

Merry Xmas

This is my way to wish you Merry Xmas and a really Happy New Year. I hope you get lots of present from the Three Wise Men.

If you have a favourite Christmas song, send me the link and I'll add it to this post.

This is one of my favourite carols: The Twelve Days of Christmas by Frank Sinatra. Click here to listen to it

This song is in Irish Gaelic. Do you like the way it sounds?
(Esta canción está en gaélico. ¿Os gusta cómo suena?


If you are a headbanger, you'd better listen to this:
(Si te va el heavy, mejor escucha esto)



And here's a classic:

Monday 13 December 2010

Básico 1. Homework key (soluciones)

Some possible answers to the exercise for 9th December "Make questions for these answers". If you have something different, ask me in class, please.



-    What car do they drive?  They drive a big car.
   Does she ...play golf / study / work in an office / live in Italy... (vale cualquier verbo menos am/is/are)?  No, she doesn’t.
-         How do you do?  Nice to meet you.
-         Where does he work?  He works outside.
-         What is this?  This is a purse.
-         How do you spell "United" / it?  U-N-I-T-E-D-.
-          How are you?  Very well, thank you, and you.
-         Where do you live?   We live in an old house.

Friday 10 December 2010

Homework Intermedio 1, 9th December

The lesson today dealt with "Holidays". You can download a vocabulary worksheet by clicking here.
There's also a reading activity about Australia you can also download if you click on the tab (pestaña) "Files Intermedio 1". You are given the answer on the second page. ¡Don't cheat!

Homework Básico 1, 9th December

El próximo día 13 corregiremos las preguntas que aparecen en la entrada del día 1 de diciembre.
En el reverso de la fotocopia que os di la semana pasada para practicar las horas hay unos dibujos. Haced frases del tipo: "It's an old house". ¡Cuidado! algunas de las frases van en plural, así que cuidado con el verbo y "a / an".
Recordad también que los adjetivos van antes del nombre y no tienen plural.

Thursday 2 December 2010

Homework Básico 1, 2nd December

Hoy hemos visto un vídeo que explica cómo decir la hora en inglés. Haz click aquí para verlo.
Lo repasaremos el jueves 9 pero si tienes mucho tiempo el fin de semana puedes practicar con esta fotocopia que corregiremos el jueves.
Hicimos el primer ejercicio en clase.La solución está abajo. ¡No copies!

Haz click aquí para descargar la fotocopia.

Solución al ejercicio 1.
2- It's five to four.
3- It's twenty-five past twelve.
4- It's quarter to two.
5- It's twenty to nine.
6- It's twenty past eleven.
7- It's twenty-five past four.
8- It's ten to ten.

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Homework Básico 1 - 1st December

Ya he subido el archivo de la canción y la clave de corrección. Podéis descargarlo pinchando aquí.

Homework for 2nd December: Write a small text about a famous person. Use the texts on page 29, exercise 5 as an example.

Homework for 9th December:

Translate into English:

Esta familia no es típica. No viven en un piso, tienen una casa muy grande pero no tiene jardín.
Les gustan los animales peligrosos porque trabajan en el zoo.
La madre conduce un coche muy rápido y el padre no conduce pero es un buen cocinero.
Leen el periódico por la mañana y por la noche escuchan la radio o ven la televisión con sus amigos.


This is not a typical family / This family is not typical. They don't live in a flat, they have a very big house but it doesn't have a garden.
They like dangerous animals because they work in the zoo.
The mother drives a very fast car and the father doesn't drive but he is a good cook.
They read the newspaper in the mornin and in the evening they listen to the radio or watch TV with their friends. 



Make questions for these answers



-          ____________________________?  They drive a big car.
-          ____________________________?  No, she doesn’t.
-          ____________________________?  Nice to meet you.
-          ____________________________?  He works outside.
-          ____________________________?  This is a purse.
-          ____________________________?  U-N-I-T-E-D-.
-          ____________________________?  Very well, thank you, and you.
-          ____________________________?   We live in an old house.