Conditional

Take a look at the Second conditional which will come in the exam

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/conditionals-1

Adjectives -ing

Link for some adjectives in participle form

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/adjectives/adjectives-ed-and-ing

Modals

Here's the link to the different modals

Relative pronouns to unite clauses

Information and exercise

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/pronouns/relative-pronouns

Phrasal verbs

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/phrasal-verbs

Talking about the past

Explanation on simple past and past habits (among others)

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/talking-about-past

Irregular verbs list

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/irregular-verbs

Wishes and hypotheses

Read the followig explanation concerning hyptotheses and wishes. Do the exercise at the bottom.

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/wishes-and-hypotheses

Countable and uncountable nouns

Check the following information about count and uncount nouns. Do the exercises to check your understanding.

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/nouns/uncount-nouns

A secret to life

Direct and indirect questions

Read the following explanation and complete de exercise (copy and paste the link in your browser)
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/reported-questions

Are New York's Pedestrians Living Dangerously? - Planet Green

Interesting article about pedestrians and city transportation in NYC

Are New York's Pedestrians Living Dangerously? - Planet Green

Continuous aspect of tenses in English

Find in the link below a clear explanation of when does English use the continuous forms.

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/continuous-aspect

A good explanation of the perfective tense

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/perfective-aspect

About Dan Barber

Read his bio as we'll watch a video from him tomorrow.

http://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_barber.html

Sentence structure

Go to the end of the page and do the exercises

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/clause-phrase-and-sentence/sentence-structure

The Flight From Conversation

Excellent article from a NY Times columnist, author of "Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other". If you prefer reading about this, let me know in the oral exam to talk about it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?_r=1

Wal-Mart bribery case in Mexico

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/business/at-wal-mart-in-mexico-a-bribe-inquiry-silenced.html?_r=1

English Cultural Week: Australia instructions

Remember you've got to log in Prezi (www.prezi.com)and go to the canvas I invited you to work together. In the space assigned by me, enter your info, images, video, whatever you wish to say in the 2-minute-time allotment you have. Monday we'll be going through your information and rehearse the presentation. Make sure you've made some progress!

Essential australian vocabulary

http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/nb/down_under/strine.html/

Sweet or savoury?

Find how people in Britain think about food

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/expressenglish/2012/03/120319_ee_sweetsavoury.shtml

On bilingualism

Check this article from the NY Times of why "bilinguals are smarter".

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general

Story of Stuff

Mexican chefs keeping kitchen traditions alive

A wonderful article on Mexican culinary traditions

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-17154583

English VI: Entrepreneurship

Do you want inspiration to become early entrepreneurs? Here are a few examples of below-21-lads who were entrepreneurs long before going to college. Sounds as though an easy thing to do, huh? Get inspired!

http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-money/2011/10/04/secrets-of-wealthy-whiz-kids-how-to-make-a-million-by-21/

inspirational quotes

www.thumbpress.com/sometimes-all-you-need-is-a-little-inspiration-to-keep-rolling/

ENGLISH VI: Subject / verb agreement

Take a look at today's grammar topic:

http://sana.tkk.fi/awe/grammar/agreement.htm

Meet Chef Gordon Ramsay

The Business Chef: Gordon Ramsay | VerticalResponse

The Business Chef: Gordon Ramsay | VerticalResponse

Now this is adrenaline

Song for today

Read the lyrics and ponder the message...if you consider it's got one.

Verb of the day

To coat

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/coat_2

What kind of things can you coat?

Article in the NY Times about Puebla's cuisine

Take a look at this article and find useful vocabulary and expressions

http://travel.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/travel/20T-PUEBLA.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

Global Food Disparity: A Photo Diary

Global Food Disparity: A Photo Diary

English VI activities

Hello guys,

We'll be reading a series of very interesting articles which will definitely spark your interest, the least to say is that it will give you new vocabulary.

Ever wanted to go living elsewhere? Here are but a few ideas:

The five best places to live in the world, and why

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/jan/20/five-best-places-to-live-in-world?fb=optOut

On planting ideas (Do you ever think through why your ideas do not sell? Here are some clues)

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2YK0Lt/lifehacker.com/5715912/how-to-plant-ideas-in-someones-mind?tag=manipulation/

The 12 Most Dangerous Tourist Attractions in the World according to this site:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/5hgNnI/sky-today.com/12-most-dangerous-tourist-attractions-in-the-world/

And to close our class see this inspirational talk on leadership by Simon Sinek:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html

Later!

Website for grammar

Hello guys,

I'm posting here a link from the Purdue University in the US where grammar is very clearly explained, if you wish to take a look whenever you have any doubt.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/5/

English V video on body language and vocabulary

Chaps,

Here's the vocabulary to find out about: make sure you grasp it finely for tomorrow's continuation of the documentary, which by the way is embedded below.

(To) bow

(To) nod

capable

speech

specie

prerogative

gesticulation

muscles

Reading for class

Learn some new expressions in this delightful column about McCartney

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/communicate/keeler/keeler_20071105.shtml

Congratulations chaps!

I must express my joy because all of you did a great job and got mostly excellent notes!

Today we're beginning our second period and so to start out in a wonderful mood I'm posting this video from a day just like today - January 30- but 42 years ago, when The Beatles appeared for the last time in public as a band in the rooftop of their recording studios, in London. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brXXmrAhxyA&feature=fvwrel

Mock exam English V

Gerunds

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs-ing-forms

Infinitives
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/verbs-followed-infinitive

Should, can, etc.
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/modal-verbs/ability-permission-requests-and-advice

Defining relative clauses
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=1238_defining_clause/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=146_clauses

Interesting article about Mexicans

We are not the only ones who think our legislators are lazy... take a look!


http://www.economist.com/node/21543172

English V

In spite of / despite / although

Today's topic can be found in the following links:

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/spite-despite-although

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv41.shtml

This is the link for the listening with the vocabulary building exercise we did today (go over it in order to understand vocabulary better)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/03/110311_witn_billionaires_page.shtml

ENGLISH VI

Hello guys!

I hope you spent a splendid weekend and have charged your batteries. Today we'll be discussing a thorny issue: beliefs. Please go to the website and start finding out what our topic for the next couple of days will be.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/

Fancy some cheese?

Here you have all about cheese...in a cheesy world :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/cheese

Radio stations

Good evening guys! If you get the chance listen to Radio 1 from the BBC available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ where you'll find a good array of choices. If you have an iphone or ipod with wi-fi or data plan, download the app iRadioUK, there are dozens of wonderful radio stations online. If you feel at ease with American English look for WFNX from Boston, it plays indie rock and rock pop music, among others. Have a good night, and rock it out!

Friday Activity

Hello guys,

Today we are watching a film about the food industry. Subtitles will be unavailable so tune up your listening and shut down your computers for today class so as to be undistracted.

See you in class!

English VI

Good morning guys!

Do this exercise to brush up your phrasal verbs...see you later!

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-exercises/multi-word-verbs

Oxford Dictionary Online

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

English V: Our topic for today

Hello guys,

Today we'll go through gerunds and noun clauses. Take a look in advance to the topic for today's class. See you in a bit!

-ing forms

English VI: Our topic for today

Phrasal Verbs

Take a look in advance to what our topic for today will be, see you in class!

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/phrasal-verbs

Browse Inside A Word In Your Shell-Like: 6000 Curious & Everyday Phrases Explained by Nigel Rees

Explanation of the origin of "some" widely used phrases in English

Browse Inside A Word In Your Shell-Like: 6000 Curious & Everyday Phrases Explained by Nigel Rees