The intermediate level exams are now marked and the results have been very good. Only one or two people have failed the test, which I think is very good news; and there was even a 10!! The average result was 6.9. Congratulations!

The easy level tests for the end of the first term are now marked. This time, the penalised wrong answers with -1/2 and, as a consequence, results are lower than for unit 2. The average result? 5.03, which is not bad (for an easy level exam).

Julius Caesar said ‘alea iacta est’ upon crossing the Rubicon in 49 BC, according to Suetonius. It is used when you cross the point of no return, usually in risky situtations when the outcome is not very clear.

Of course, we’re talking about the end of the 1st term. All the examinations have been taken and now we have to wait for the results.

Wow! Imagine him as a teacher!!

For those of you who have trouble with the list of activities and the vocabulary, follow these quick links.

• Unitat 1
• Unitat 2
• Unitat 3

I didn’t have time to give you enough information about the exact contents of the exam, so here it goes:

Difficult test ***

• True/false (listening)
• Listen again and answer some questions.
• Read a text and and correct the sentences (about the text, of course)
• Complete sentences with a verb in the correct form.
• Complete sentences with a word (not a verb)
• Match two columns and write 5 public activities.
• Find and correct the mistakes in 10 sentences (past simple, used to, present perfect, past continuous…)
• Complete a dialogue with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
• Complete a dialogue with the correct form f the verbs in the box.
• Write questions with ‘ever’ and answer them.

Standard test **

• Listening with true/false sentences
• Choose one of the three options (based on a text)
• Circle the correct option (eg. 1. play, 2. do, 3. make a practical joke)
• Complete the expressions with the words in the box.
• Put the letters in order (eg. derro = order)
• Complete sentences with the correct form of ‘used to’.
• Complete the sentences with the past continuous form of the verbs in brackets.
• Write the words in the correct order (present perfect sentences with yet, already…)
• Write time expressions with ‘for’ and ‘since’.
• Complete a dialogue with past simple or present perfect forms.

IMPORTANT! Questions in blue include a penalization of -0.5 in case of wrong answers.

Please, send me your compositions before 2nd December. Remember: indent, justify, double space and absolutely no COMIC SANS.

Thank you!!

This morning I had to spend some time with some 2nd batx. students. They were reading a text about Lin Yang, a Chinaman who learnt English by shouting sentences in a park. The idea is crazy, but he became very succesful and did learn a lot of English. Now, he wants to teach his method to his fellow countrymen.

Watch it and… think.