SE REANUDAN LAS CLASES HOY, MARTES 29 DE NOVIEMBRE.

Os comunico que me encuentro plenamente restablecido, por lo que hoy habrá clase como de costumbre.

HOY JUEVES 24 NO HABRÁ CLASE POR ENFERMEDAD,

Hola: Os comunico que, debido a que estoy teniendo fiebre y afonía desde ayer, este jueves 24 no tendremos clase. Lamento las molestias.

Hasta pronto,

Antonio

Common mistakes

COMMON MISTAKES

1.- I must see the dentist yesterday.

2.- Look! It rains!

3.- Is ready my new office?

4.- Unfortunately, it’s a beach very dirty.

5.- The people in this town is really friendly.

6.- I came here for study English.

7.- I’ll phone you when I will arrive.

8.- This soup isn’t enough hot.

9.- I drove there without to stop.

10.- I have done a mistake.

11.- She couldn’t tell me where could I buy stamps.

12.- We are living here since April.

13.- She said me that she was Chinese.

14.- It can rain this evening.

15.- I use to play tennis at weekends.

16.- There’s a hotel in front of our house.  

17.- He has much money.

BOOKS TO READ

As I informed you the other day, the VOLUNTARY book is 

"The Railway Children", by Edith Nesbit (Oxford Bookworms).

As this one is voluntary, there will be no test, and you are 

invited to read it and do all the exercises starting in December

and finishing just before our classes are resumed after the 

Christmas holiday period.

COMPULSORY book:

"Teacher Man", by Frank McCourt (Pearson Longman - Penguin Readers)

There will be a test when the classes are resumed after our Easter

 holiday period, so you are encouraged to get it and start reading it by early March.

Use of English practice

Use of English Open Cloze Read the following extract from a brochure giving advice on taking an examination. For questions 1-12, type the word which best fits in each space. Use only one word in each space. (0) to

Exam Tips When the day comes give yourself plenty of time (0) ... do everything: have breakfast but don't drink (1) ... much; go to the toilet; arrive on time, but not too early or you will find yourself getting more and more nervous while you wait to start. Try not to talk (2) ... the exam before you go in. In the exam, calm (3) ... down by breathing deeply and thinking positively. Read (4) ... exam questions carefully and underline all of the key instruction words (5) ... indicate how the questions should (6) ... answered. If possible start with the ones (7) ... can do easily to give you confidence. Remember what you've learnt from practising questions and doing mock exams previously and plan your use of time. Don't panic (8) ... everyone around you seems to start writing furiously straight away and don't be tempted to follow their example. Finally, after the exam, don't join in a discussion about (9) ... everyone else did, (10) ... you want to frighten yourself, and drain your self-confidence for the next exam. Above (11) ..., remember that exams are not designed to catch you out, (12) ... to find out what you know, what you understand and what you can do.

Word Formation Read the text and then write the correct form of the word in CAPITALS to complete the gaps. There is an example at the beginning.

Food Production
In the not-too-distant past farm animals were able to
live (0) ... lives in what we would now term	NATURE
'free-range' conditions. Such farming methods however,
(were not able to supply the rapidly growing (1) ...	POPULATE
of the world and the increasing demands on food
(2) ... In order to cope with this rising demand, factory	CONSUME
farming methods were introduced along with the (3) ...	DEVELOP
of genetically engineered (4) ... hormones, which	GROW
resulted in a massive increase in food (5) ...	PRODUCE
However, these developments in the use of factory
farming and drug (6) ... have led to a widespread	TREAT
feeling that animals are being caused a lot of distress
and that the quality of the food itself suffers as a
consequence. Certainly, many people (7) ... with the idea	AGREE
of keeping animals in one building for their entire (8) ...	EXIST
and argue that more emphasis should be given to (9) ...	ALTERNATE
farming methods. A growing number of people are
choosing to eat organic food, supporting farmers who use
free-range methods, a system which has proved to be
both (10) ... and more humane.	ECONOMY

Adjectives are useful not only to describe people...