Homework Básico 1, 10th January

El miércoles empezaremos a corregir la tarea de vacaciones. Podéis descargarla pinchando aquí.
Write a letter or e-mail similar to the e-mail on page 25 in the student's book. Use the questions below to help you. You can e-mail it to me or give it in in class.
Escribid una carta o correo electrónico similar al de la página 25 del libro. Podéis mandármelo por correo electrónico o entregármelo en clase. Hacedlo en media hora, sin usar diccionarios ni otro tipo de ayuda, como si fuera un examen. Utilizad las preguntas para que el texto tenga estructura.
El orden de las preguntas es:
What's your name?                                   Where are you from?
What do you do?                                     What languages do you speak?
Why do you want to learn English?           Do you have a big family?
What do the people in your family do?      How old are your brothers and sisters?
How old are you?                                    What are your interests?

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.