WHAT IF WE READ UNDER PRESSURE???

For Advanced level reading,  I thought time can add fun to the activity...or maybe is it pressure??? Anyway, try to do it. Click on the next link, choose a reading and you will have ten minutes for reading the text and doing the reading comprenhension activities.

READY, STEADY, GO!!!!!

MCER NIVELES DE INGLÉS

El Marco Común Europeo de Referencia de las lenguas es un estándar europeo que sirve para medir el nivel de comprensión y expresión oral y escrita en una determinada lengua.

Establece una escala en seis niveles para la organización del aprendizaje de las lenguas y la homologación de los distintos títulos.

Para conocer el nivel en el que se encuentra nuestro aprendizaje se utilizan los test de nivel. Aquí tenéis algunos enlaces en los que podéis realizar el test.

TEST SEGÚN CAMBRIDGE (Este test valora el nivel para presentarse a los exámenes y obtener el certificado, con lo cual parte de un nivel KET - PET)

TEST THAT'S ENGLISH

TEST NIVEL INGLÉS

WORLD BOOK DAY

World Book Day or International Day of the Book is a yearly event on April the 23rd, organized by the UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. World Book Day was celebrated for the first time on April 1995.

The connection between 23 April and books was first made in 1923 by booksellers in Catalonia, Spain. The original idea was of the Valencian writer Vicente Clavel Andrés as a way to honour the author Miguel de Cervantes who died on this date. In 1995 UNESCO decided that the World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on 23 April, as the date is also the anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, as well as that of the birth or death of several other prominent authors (in a historical coincidence, Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same date -23 April 1616- but not on the same day, as at the time, Spain used the Gregorian calendar and England used the Julian calendar; Cervantes actually died ten days before Shakespeare did)

For celebrating the Book Day we would like to share with you a poem written by the author Walt Whitman:

O Me! O Life!

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BY WALT WHITMAN

Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,

Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,

Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)

Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,

Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,

Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,

The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

                                       Answer.

That you are here—that life exists and identity,

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

FUTURE CONTINUOUS

• Use the future continuous to talk about an event that will already be in progress at a specified time in the future.
•  The future continuous can be used instead of the present continuous for future plans
• We can also use the future continuous to make a guess about something that is in progress at the moment.

Form:

You can make the future continuous with will or going to. Make the future continuous this way:

Positive and Negative

I you he / she it we they	will be won’t be	verb + ing
	am / are / is    going to be

Questions

Will Won’t	I you he / she it we they	be	verb + ing?
Am Is Are		going to be

Remember that some verbs are not used in continuous tenses.  These include verbs connected with possession: possess, own, belong, likes and dislikes: like, love, hate and other abstract verbs: seem, be, cost, want.

BOTH, EITHER, NEITHER

Both, neither y either nos permites hablar de binomios de personas, situaciones, etc., y de las diferentes combinaciones que pueden existir entre ellas: ambos, ninguno o cualquiera. En la lección de hoy analizaremos con detalle los contextos y las restricciones relacionadas con la utilización de estas expresiones. 

Aquí encontraréis un video explicativo de cómo y cuándo usar both, either y neither.

VIDEO

ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY

Utilizamos los adverbios de frecuencia para referirnos a las veces que realizamos algo.

Los adverbios generalmente se colocan después del pronombre y antes del verbo:

• I always go shopping on saturdays
• We never travel alone

Si el tiempo verbal se construye con un auxiliar, el adverbio se colocará entre el auxiliar y el verbo:

• She is always spending money
• They will never win the match

THERE IS/THERE ARE

Usamos THERE IS para nombres contables en singular (house, car, banana, book...) e incontables (some sugar, some milk, some water...)

Usamos THERE ARE para nombres contables en plural (houses, cars, bananas, books...)

THERE IS/THERE ARE + PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Cuando describimos una imagen además de enumerar lo que vemos debemos decir lo que está pasando. Por ejemplo: there is a girl playing the guitar, there are two children flying a kite....

There is a boy playing football, there are two children jumping, there is a girl running, there is a boy riding a bike....