September grades

Click here to know your official grades

Bye bye!

Oral exams hours

Dear all,

here is the list (the definitive one) for those of you having to take the Septembre oral exams.

From now on, no changes are allowed. Exam room is 2.4. and waiting room will be 2.3.

See you tomorrow

16.00
Patricia Vallecillo
Jose Luis Gallardo Martin
Nuria Ortega García
16.30
Esperanza Castro
Iván Martín Muñoz
Ana Isabel García Alvarez
17.00
Cristina Belmonte
Fernando Hernández
Vanesa Castillo

Exams review

The revision has been fixed on Septembre, 14th, room 2.4. from 17 pm on

C U around

September partial marks

Dear all,

I inform you that I will publish your September written exams' marks downstairs next Monday in the late afternoon.

If you've failed some of the parts of the written exam, it is up to you to sit the oral exam, but I strongly recommend you to try (altough you may consider it a waste of time, in fact it is not)

Nice weekend!!!

September oral exams

As you know, it will be held on room 2.4, on september the 9th.

To make it easy to you, I've created a goole doc, so you can decide the hour you want to do your exam and your partner.

Click here, write your name in the hour you prefer. Then, close and save changes.

Please, reopen it again right before coming to the exam, since I can do some readjustments and last-hour changes.

September exams

For those of you having to sit some of the parts of the exam in september, I inform you that it will be held on September the 1st in room 2.2, and the parts will be sequenced as follows:

READING 17:00 -18:15

LISTENING 18:15 -18:45

WRITING 18:45 -20:00

ORAL EXAM September, 9, room 2.4 from 16.00 on

You only have to come to the parts you failed

Have a nice summer holidays!!!

June's exams marks

Your marks have already been published!!!

Click here to know

Review day changed for group from 7 to 9 pm (NA1E)

If you want to come and see your exams and you belong to group NA1E (from 7 to 9 pm) you must know that the final day has been moved to next Thursday, 10, from 3 to 4 pm in the assembly room.

Excuse me for any inconveniences this last-minute change may have caused you.

See you

Farewell

Wish you all best of lucks in your exams.

I also hope you have a good time in your summer holidays!!!

Bye bye

Whatever works

It was impossible for me to upload the rest of the movie, so the only thing I can offer you is the ending. (Anyway, you can find the movie in the library)

Click here to watch it.

Modal verbs

This week, we analised very quicky some of the uses of modal verbs in the past (could, be able to, manage to)

Click here for more grammar explanations as well as some more exercises

Atletic beat Fulham 2-1. Congratulations!!!

To read reactions on The Guardian click here.

Do you consider this article to be objective?

Writing a letter of complaint

Next week, you will be writing a letter of complaint as the one shown in this unit. The deadline will expire on May, 14.

For doing so, here you have some useful tips to add to the expressions we saw in class.

Videos from Friends

As some people suggested, here you have the two videos from "Friends" we've been watching in class. Hope you enjoy them!!!

There is no class tomorrow

I regret to inform you that, due to personal issues, I won't be able to attend tomorrow's class. We move the oral practise for next week.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Have a nice weekend!!!

Talk on India

Next Monday the 26th, at 7.30 pm the school will be holding a talk about India.

I know you don't have to come to class, but anyway, if you are interested in the topic, you can join the conference in the assembly room.

Photo competition

If you are good at taking photos and want to take part in the school competition, take note:

Deadline: April the 30th

Format: 2 photos, free format

Topic: Any, as long as it is related to English

Prizes: Books and school material that will be given on the final school party.

Guided tour to Madrid

As I told you in class, the school is organising a guided tour around Madrid that will take place next Friday at 18.oo. The tour will last 1 and 1/2 hours and the cost is 2 € per person and the meeting point will be Plaza de Santa Ana, opposite the Spanish Theatre.

Tell me next day if you are interested in coming.

Happy mouth-watering Easter

Hi folks,

For those of you having time these holidays and wanting to cook some famous British or American dishes, here you have some interesting links that may help you surprise your guests if you have people over for dinner. Let me know if you try it!!!

Recipes from the program You are what you eat
Classical British ones
Let the famous British Chef teach you
The most typical American ones

Seasonal Easter dessert. Learn how to make our famous Spanish bread pudding (TORRIJAS)

Obama's speech on health reform bill passage

Dear all,

Click here to have access to the entire text of Obama's speech

March's exams

Dear all,

This is just to inform you in case you still don't know.

We'll be doing written exams next week on Tuesday the 16th.

Oral exams will start this week, Friday the 12th for half the class and will continue for the rest of the class on Thursday the 18th. It will take 2 hours per lesson to do all the oral exams, so if you are supposed to do the oral exam on Friday, you are not supposed to come to class on Thursday the 18th.

In order to know the exact hour and day in which you are to do your oral exam, you just have to look the list that I'll post on the board outside next Thursday.

You know I'm normally flexible when it comes to punctuality, but this time and because it is the case of an exam, I ask you to arrive on time. Otherwise, I'm afraid you won't be able to sit your exam.

More about modals

Here you have further practise on modals. Click on the mouse for online tests and on the pdf icon to print the exercises out:


www.autoenglish.org/modalverbs.htm

Linking words

Here you can find a brief explanation of linking words with really useful examples. It is worth paying a look to

And here you have some exercises for practising contrast linkers

Instructions for your speeches

I came across today with a wonderful site where you can find really good advice on how to improve your presentations. Click on this link and read carefully the instructions of the tutorial:

http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/presentations-intro.htm

To have a laugh

This week we are working with vocabulary related to journeys and means of transport

Here you have a funny video of an amazing flight attendant and his particular way of announcing the safety regulations aboard.

It is a different way to take something that everyone hates and make it into something everyone can enjoy.

2010

Here you have the recommendation of the National Association of Good Grammar on how to pronounce correctly the current year:

http://www.blippitt.com/tag/national-association-of-good-grammar

So now, we have the answer!

Trip to London

Welcome back!

This new year the English department is organising a trip to London in February.

You have more information on the English department board (price, exact dates...)

The deadline to join the trip is next week, Wednesday the 20th.