27 ene 2016

Video : People´s lifestyle


                                    Hi!
Here you have a nice video about people´s routines, perfect for your ear training ;) . I also include some questions about the info that people say. I hope you like it... Have a nice day!

QUESTIONS
 *How many jobs do people say?
 
0´52: What does she have for breakfast?
1´04: Why doesn´t he have breakfast?
1´18: What time does she get home?
1´25: What does he do at 3.30 p.m?
                                    1´42: What does he do every morning?
                                     1´54 : From what time to what time does he work ?
 

26 ene 2016

Saxon Genitive & Who´s who?


Morning!!
 
We start the day with a series of exercises about the saxon genitive (our last  English wonder!!) We can also see a video to revise the members of the family... in this case, of  Alice´s family!! 

  http://www.mansioningles.com/gram08.htm
   http://suz.digitaleschulebayern.de/english/grammar/saxong3.htm


11 ene 2016

Reading Comprehension

1. Read the following text:

A Special Christmas Present

a Christmas treeDavid wants to buy a Christmas present for a very special person, his mother. David's father gives him $5.00 a week pocket money and David puts $2.00 a week into his bank account. After three months David takes $20.00 out of his bank account and goes to the shopping mall. He looks and looks for a perfect gift.

Suddenly he sees a beautiful brooch in the shape of his favourite pet. He says to himself, "My mother loves jewelry, and the brooch costs only $17.00." He buys the brooch and takes it home. He wraps the present in Christmas paper and places it under the tree. He is very excited and he is looking forward to Christmas morning to see the joy on his mother's face.a spider

But when his mother opens the present she screams with fright because she sees a spider.
  Exercises:
 1.What´s the meaning of the  verbs in yellow?
 2.Click on the following link to do some exercises about the text ! ;) Good luck
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/reading/xmas1.htm
             
Pronunciation: * brooch /brəʊtʃ/   *jewelry /ˈdʒuːəlrɪ/