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If you want to know more about structures after wish, click on the picture below and have a look at the presentation.

In lesson 4b you are going to learn how to use modal verbs to make deductions about the past. Carmen Torres, a teacher of English, has created an excellent ppt  which will help you revise modal verbs and learn how to use them in the past. Click on the following link to view the presentation.

MODAL VERBS

Last Academic Year I posted the ‘Real English’ lesson on conditionals . If you want to watch the videoclip and do the exercises again, type ‘conditionals’ into the search engine in order to find them.

I’m posting a ppt on conditionals, thanks to an English teacher who has kindly shared his presentation. Thank you very much.

You will also find a clear summary of conditional forms on English Page.

I hope you enjoy the sites and find everything useful.

Unreal Conditionals ppt

I promised I would post new activities during this week while you are taking the oral exam.

Since we are going to talk about the weather, I am posting a listening comprehension task on this topic.

• Before you start watching the video, take a piece of paper to take notes.
• First you will see the regular version, then the version with Closed Captions (English subtitles).

• Watch the video clip and write down the names of the people interviewed and the adjectives they use to describe the weather.
• Watch the regular version as many times as necessary before you check your answers.

Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Flash video.

More links about ‘The Weather’

BBC Weather News

Stormy Weather (a song sung by Sinatra). I have to thank Mª Jesús, a teacher from EOI Mérida, for this link.

Report and predict the weather (interactive activity)

Useful vocabulary with a recording of the words (a lesson proposed by Randall S. Davis )

Friday’s weather report (another listening from esl-lab)

See you next week

Thanks to Russell Stannard, I’ve found a fantastic website which provides videos with subtitles and then you can record yourselves saying the same thing and it gives feedback on performance. And…  it is FREE!!

I am also posting  key to the exercises I gave you in class.

Key to Linkers

Be good and study hard for the exams

See you on Monday!

Hi everybody,

If you want to practise your grammar and pronunciation skills, I strongly recommend you  visit  Jennifer’s site and watch any of the lessons displayed. Lessons 7-16 are devoted to Reported Speech, so you can revise what we have learnt in class. I hope you find it useful.

You will find an excellent explanation  at  BBC Learning English. You can either read it, or if you prefer, you can listen to the answer.

When you finish,  try the following  practice exercises  :

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

If you need extra practice, visit Caroline and Pearson Brown’s site, read the language reference and do the exercises.

Remember, practice makes perfect!

Another great presentation to learn about verbs followed by the gerund or infinitive and verbs that can be followed by either gerund or infinitive with a change of meaning.

I hope you find it useful.