25 Jan 2012

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

24 Jan 2012

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

23 Jan 2012

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/