You don’t know when to use ‘have’ or ‘has’?

Don’t worry, this exercise will let you practise .

If you want more exercises on the present perfect, just follow this link. There are 234 of them!!!

Who does not know what ‘Tetris‘ means? This game, created in the old Soviet Union more than 20 years ago, has versions for every console or computer imaginable. There are even i-pod Tetris and special programmes that run on calculators!This is an interview with the creator of the game. It’s short, in English with Catalan subtitles.

You can now download the list of exercises for unit 5 here:

unit-5.pdf

Another article from ‘Diari d’ Escola’ in English. Strongly recommended for 2nd grade Batx students, as the topic and format resembles that of the PAU tests.

‘The day in pictures’ is one of the most popular sections of the ‘BBC world service‘ on the web. It contains 8 new pictures everyday that illustrate what has happened all around the globe.

This is my favourite today, it shows a pair of Kenian students who return to school after days of violence. More than 600 people have died there in the last weeks.

Isn’t our planet too big?

‘The day in pictures’ is one of the most popular sections of the ‘BBC world service‘ on the web. It contains 8 new pictures everyday that illustrate what has happened all around the globe.

This is my favourite today, it shows a pair of Kenian students who return to school after days of violence. More than 600 people have died there in the last weeks.

Isn’t our planet too big?

Those of you who listen to my comments in the classroom know that I tend to be rather critical about translations. I found this very interesting recording on the web. It tries to answer some questions about translators:

What skills -abilities- do you need to translate well? Are there any words that are unstranslatable? How can you spot a bad translation?

Listen to the webcast here cast and, if you want, read the transcript. It’s good practice for the selectivitat test.

Oh, and if you think your English is good, why don’t you try to see why these translations sound horrible in English?

Follow this link for lots of exercises. The exam will contain exercises from these pages, so…

Past simple – Past continuous

IT SEEMS THAT THE AGENDAWEB.ORG SERVER IS TEMPORARILY DOWN. TRY LATER

Follow this link for lots of exercises on modal verbs

SORRY BUT IT SEEMS THAT AGENDAWEB.ORG IS TEMPORARILY DOWN. TRY LATER

Entre ahir dilluns i avui dimarts, els dos grups de 3r d’ ESO (A i C) han tingut l’ examen de lectura del llibre ‘A Pair of Ghostly Hands’.

Aquest llibre, d’ un nivell adequat per alumnes de 3r d’ ESO, es va demanar ja a principis d’ avaluació, però a causa del ritme de les classes i del calendari de sortides es va haver d’ endarrerir-ne l’ examen fins després del primer trimestre.

Després d’ haver corregit els controls de lectura, els resultats demostren que ningú va llegir-se’l en la seva totalitat i que, una gran majoria ni tan sols van passar de la primera pàgina.

Molts alumnes però s’ han queixat del nivell del llibre i que és necessari tenir un diccionari al costat per a buscar les paraules que no es coneixen: pràcticament totes.  Malgrat aquestes afirmacions, un anàl·lisi de qualsevol pàgina a l’ atzar del llibre demostra que aproximadament dos terços dels verbs que hi apareixen són verbs irregulars, verbs que van haver d’ estudiar a 2n d’ ESO i dels quals s’ han examinat fins a tres vegades durant el primer trimestre de 3r. A més a més, els verbs que no pertanyen a aquest grup són verbs bàsics com ara: look, walk, talk…

Voldria animar a pares i alumnes a què deixin el seu comentari al respecte