PROE (NEW TIMETABLE)

Prácticas de Refuerzo Oral y Escrito

For all Intermediate students

Every Wednesday from 17.30 to 18.45

Room 2

Pronuciation of the -ed.

Play this game to practice the pronunciation of the -ed ending for the past simple. Highly recommended!!

The Haunted History of Halloween

I know it's hard to understand, but you should listen to authentic materials too, not always adapted one. So, don't panic, take it easy and enjoy!




You have the task, here, and the key in the comments section.

Moon over Bourbon Street

As you can see, this song is part of the soundtrack of Interview with the Vampire. Have you seen the film? Do you like vampires?

In Memoriam

Talking about sports...

What do you think of Paul the octopus?

The News: First patients welcome the 'paid factura' given to them in Andaucian hospitals.

Read more

Glossary:

invoice (n) - bill
to praise - to approve
to lauch - to start
scheme (n) - model
to issue - to publish

The News: Legionnaire's disease in Madrid

Two dead and 27 affected by outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease in Madrid. Read more. 

Do you eat healthily?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Try this quiz.

Are you a hypochondriac?

Here you have the quiz we have done in class.

Facebook

Have you got a Facebook/Tuenti/Twitter account? Do you use it to keep in touch with your friends? What do you think about the rising of social networks? Find out more on this issue in this reading exercise.

Have you seen the film about the founders of Facebook?

What were you doing when...?

Today in class we talked about a really exciting sports event you saw, and many of you chose to talk about this one. Go to the comments section and tell us what you were doing then and how you felt.

Did Alberto Contador cheat?

Alberto Contador was accused of dopping some weeks ago. Do you think he's innocent or he cheated?

1B Grammar: Past Tenses

Past perfect senteces

Past perfect: choose the correct answer

Past simple or past perfect?

Past simple or past continuous?

Past simple or past continuous (2)?

Learn something new everyday

Click on the picture below to learn something new every day (in English, of course)

1B Sports

Listen to these three people talking about different sports and try to identify what sport they are talking about. Then, listen to these other people talking about their favourite sports and answer the questions.

1B - Sports: Vocab

Sports

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Intermediate 2 Class Blog

My colleague Conchita, teaching at our school too, has just published a new blog for her Intermediate Level 2 students. Check it out, you'll probably find useful and interesting resources.

1A- Grammar: State Verbs

Pay attention to exceptions such as think or have. Here you can dowloand a more comprehensive list of state verbs.

Footbal, tennis & skiing vocab

If you are a big football fan, you may be interested in learning some new words related to this sport. You do not have to learn them all!

Still, man does not live by football alone... If you are more into tennis or skiing, here and here you have some more words, too.

Sports: Do, play or go?

Use play with any competitive game you can play, go with activities which can be done alone and do with groups of related activities. Choose do, play or go.

1A: Grammar and Vocab

Let's revise some vocab related to food first:

Fruits and vegetables

Meat, fish and others and here too



Now, let's practice the grammar in this unit:

Present simple or present continuous? (1)
Present simple of present continuous? (2)

Useful sites for NI1

Here you have this document where you can find plenty of websites to practise the four skills, read the newspaper, improve your pronunciation, etc. Hope you find it useful

A fun way to learn English

Here 's a website where you can learn in an easy and funy way, with subtitled songs and various gameplay exercises.

Subtitled songs Click here

Listen and type the word sounds (you must register to get your score) Click here

For example:

And HERE you can find the translation of the song

Introducing people

Look at the different ways you can introduce someone in English. By the way, do you like Friends?


Just for fun, find out which Friends character you are.

Correspondence between our textbook and English Grammar in Use

Here you have a table showing the correspondence between the units in our textbook and those in English Grammar in Use.

Revision: Question formation

Let's revise question formation in English, something you usually have problems with, with this couple of exercises

Question formation 1
Question formation 2
Question formation 3