Monthly Archives: March 2010

Uncountable nouns

Do you need to know more about uncountable nouns and the use of a / an, no, some and any? If so, click on the following link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv259.shtml

Now click on the picture and do the online quizz:

EVEN IF or EVEN THOUGH?

Even if or even though? These expressions might be confusing for you. If so, click on the following link to learn more:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv122.shtml

MAKE or DO?

Read about the difference between MAKE and DO and test your knowledge online:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv2.shtml

Credit cards

Click on the picture to practice your listening skill and to learn some vocabulary related to credit cards:

ANSWER KEYS

1 Reply

I didn’t give you the answers to the quicktest 4, so here you go!

QUICKTEST 4 ANSWER KEY + REVISE & CHECK EXERCISES UNIT 4 (Student’s Book pp 66-67)

CNN Student News: February 11, 2010

Practice your listening skill

1) Click here to download the worksheet and go through the questions.

2) Watch the video the whole way through:

`[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/A6FT_gUgO54" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]`

3) Try to answer as many questions as possible.

4) Watch the video again pausing after each one of the news and answer the rest of the questions.

5) Then, click here and check your answers.

6) Finally, watch the video again and read the transcript so you can see exactly what you understood and what you didn’t understand. Click on this link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/studentnews/02/10/transcript.thu/index.html

TIP: look up any new words or phrases in the dictionary 😉

A/AN, THE, zero article + gerunds and infinitives

Click here to download extra exercises on the use of articles, gerunds and infinitives. You don’t really need to print them, just write the answers down on your notebook and then click here to check your answers. Good luck!

Article or no article?

If you are still having problems with the use of articles in English click on the following link to learn more:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv349.shtml

Improving your listening skills

Listening is one of the hardest skills to develop when learning a language. Click on the following link for some useful tips to improve your listening skill:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/askaboutenglish/2010/01/100216_aae_listening_page.shtml

Clever Cupid

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THE THEATRE PLAY ‘CLEVER CUPID’ IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE ON MARCH 15th IN IES SALVADOR VILA-SECA (SALA D’ACTES). ONLY FOR STUDENTS WHO SIGNED UP!

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– FROM 16.30 TO 17.30
– FROM 18 TO 19
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