QUESTIONS FOR ORAL TESTS

You can prepare your oral tests answering to questions like the ones below. There are lots more if you click on the link and really helpful tips if you are thinking to prepare FIRST CERTIFICATE EXAM.

Where You Live Now and Your Home Country

• Is it easy to meet new people where you live?
• What's the best place to spend a free afternoon in your town?
• How expensive is it to go out in the evening where you live?
• Could you tell me something about the area where you grew up?
• Could you describe your family home to me?
• What’s the most interesting place you’ve visited near ….?
• Is there anything you would like to learn about your country?
• Which area of your country would you like to get to know better?
• What do you like about living there?
• Tell us about a festival or celebration in [your home country].

https://www.fceexamtips.com/articles/first-certificate-speaking-questions-part-1

Passive voice. SPEAKING FILM: 300 BACH

YOU ARE GOING TO WATCH A VIDEO SEGMENT FROM THE FILM 300

http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com.es/search?q=300

BUT FIRST:

A. TALK TO A PARTNER ABOUT THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. IN A FEW CULTURES, COUPLES MUST HAVE ONLY ONE CHILD. DO YOU THINK IT’S FAIR? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWER.

 2. IF YOU COULD HAVE ONLY ONE CHILD, WOULD YOU STILL HAVE THE BABY KNOWING HE/SHE WOULD BE SICK FOREVER? EXPLAIN. 

3. IS IT POSSIBLE TO TRAIN SOMEONE TO BE A KING OR A HERO? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWER. 

4. IN ANCIENT GREECE, SPARTANS USED TO REJECT AND KILL ALL THE HANDICAPPED CHILDREN. THE WHOLE POPULATION CONSISTED OF HEALTHY, STRONG PEOPLE. WHAT’S YOUR OPINION ABOUT IT?

B. Before you view the segment, rewrite the following sentences using passive voice.

1. Spartans inspected the boy when he was born.

2. Spartans would have discarded him if he were too small or misshapen.

3. Spartans baptized him in the fire of combat.

4. They taught him not to retreat or surrender.

5. They taught him that death in the battlefield was the greatest glory.

6. Spartans took him from his mother and plunged him into a world of violence.

7. They called it the agoge.

8. Rod and lash punished the boy.

9. They taught the boy to show no pain or mercy

C. Watch the movie segment and check your answers.

The English of Everything - Describing pictures vocabulary

DESCRIBING A PICTURE

HAVE A LOOK AT THE VIDEO AND THE TIPS TO DESCRIBE A PICTURE

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/speaking-exams/describe-photo-or-picture

IF YOU WANT TO IMPROVE IT, GO ON READING

https://create.piktochart.com/output/5159053-untitled-infographic

WITH THE PICTURES GIVEN

Working in pairs, students  have a limited time (e.g. 30 seconds) to look at each picture. Student A takes the picture and asks questions to see how much Student B can remember. Repeat with a different picture, and this time Student B asks while student A answers.

MODAL VERBS 1 BACH

Watch the movie segment. Speculate about the reasons why the main character and her daughter are leaving everything behind in such a hurry. What might have happened?

BIG EYES

O TRABALLO AUDIOVISUAL DO ALUMNADO DE 4º ESO C NO FARO DE VIGO

O Faro de Vigo publica no día de hoxe o traballo audiovisual do alumnado de 4º ESO C 

http://www.farodevigo.es/portada-o-morrazo/2016/05/27/shakespeare-visto-moana/1468718.html

Feeling optimistic

Some of our students  have visited " El salón del libro " today so they have missed our lesson.

Here you have one of the activities we did. 

Amazing news: Flavia is getting married (wow!), Adrián is running a marathon, Laura is moving abroad, some feel bad... But all of them get positive responses from their classmates. 

That's the spirit!

1º bach. Speaking activity

PAIR WORK.

Choose one of the following photos and prepare a dialogue describing the photographs.

PET LESSON 1: SPEAKING | Preparación de Exámenes Cambridge

AT A RESTAURANT

2º BACH B
RELATIVE SENTENCES

WATCH THE MOVIE SEGMENT AND JOIN THE SENTENCES IN THE NEXT POST.
 TELL YOUR PARTNER ABOUT THE CHARACTERS IN THE FILM. WHAT IS THEIR RELATIONSHIP?


http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com.es/search/label/restrictive%20relative%20clauses

AFTER WATCHING THE SEGMENT
JOIN THE SENTENCES USING A RELATIVE
1. A man was shot
2. A couple was hugging each other on their bed
3. A beautiful blonde girl was putting on make up in the bathroom
4. Carolyn was carrying a gun in the rain
5. A man had blood stains on his white shirt
6. Jenny was his beloved daughterShe heard a gunshot
They were surprised by the loud sound of a gunshot
She hid the gun inside her closet
He took off his wet shirt as soon as he got home
His whole life flashed in front of his eyes
She used to wear fairy clothes when she was a child

• What do you think of the razor wire installed in Melilla?

Do you think it will stop the people from entering the country?

What would you say if you could talk to the politicians about this matter?

A razor wire has been installed on the Melilla fence. / ANTONIO RUIZ

Spain removed the wire in 2007 after numerous people were injured trying to scale the fence, but replaced it earlier this month after a wave of attempts over the summer, sometimes by hundreds of migrants at a time, to enter Spain.

The Interior Ministry says that it intends to keep the razor wire in place around a third of the 11-kilometer fence and has given Rajoy a report justifying the use of the measure by arguing that razor wire is used in many other locations, such as prisons and nuclear power plants.

The scale of pressure this year from migrants trying to enter Melilla, and to a lesser extent Spain's other territory in Morocco, Ceuta, has been similar to 2005, when former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ordered the razor wire to be installed. A year later, Zapatero promised to take it down because of the injuries being suffered by would-be immigrants. It was finally removed in 2007 and substituted with a three-dimensional structure, which is sometimes described as the "third wall."
RELATED ARTICLES

• Melilla authorities illegally returning immigrants to Morocco
• Attorney general orders probe into razor wire on Melilla border
• Ceuta and Melilla buckle under mass attempt to enter Spain
• Government makes no move to remove razor wire on Melilla fence

The government has so far refused to supply the media with a copy of the Interior Ministry's report. Sources say that it argues that razor wire produces only superficial wounds, noting that it is used in Spanish jails. The same sources say that there have been 46 escape attempts from jails where razor wire is used during which 16 people were injured, none of them seriously, and that the wire is a major factor in dissuading prisoners from trying to escape.

Human rights groups at home and abroad have protested the reintroduction of the measure, prompting Rajoy to say in a radio interview on Thursday that he was prepared to wait until the ministry had finished its report before making a decision. Government sources say that Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, who has insisted that the razor wire remain in place, will likely win out.

The Interior Ministry says that the government intends to install "exactly the same" razor wire that was placed atop the fence in 2005 and has "no intention" of "backing down." It also pointed out that razor wire is used in Brussels to prevent access to EU summits.

The wire was removed from the Melilla fence in 2007 after several injuries

Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría has evaded journalists' questions on the matter, saying only that the prime minister would study the "very detailed report from all angles." Observers say that the government is hoping that the controversy will die down in the coming days, allowing the Interior Ministry to press ahead with replacing the wire.

Socialist Party leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, who was an interior minister in the Zapatero administration, has called for the wire to be removed, highlighting the threat to safety. "Blades cut people. There is no need for a report on this; the government can learn from the experience of previous ministers. This is an inhumane measure," he said in a radio interview, suggesting that the prime minister save the money for a report on the razor wire by calling him that afternoon: "I can tell him free of charge."
Elena Valencia, the Socialist Party's number two, said she would be calling on the European Commission to make a ruling on the use of razor wire in Melilla and Ceuta.

The Roman Catholic Church's General Synod of Bishops has also opposed the reintroduction of razor wire to prevent would-be migrants entering Spanish territory from Morocco. José María Gil Tamayo, the body's new secretary general and spokesman, said: "This is no way to combat immigration; we call on the government to avoid this extreme measure. I am the son of Spanish immigrants to Germany; immigrants are not a danger to anybody."
Meanwhile, the State Prosecutor's office has called for an investigation into the matter. Eduardo Torres-Dulce, the Attorney General, said on Wednesday: "I have given instructions to open an investigation because this is not a procedure that has fully taken the law into account and raises questions about human treatment."

The razor wire remains in place on the lower part of the fence ringing Melilla, as well as around the entire perimeter of Ceuta. It will now be installed in the upper part of the Melilla fence, with work expected to be finished by the end of November.

I am pretty sure most of you don't like jazz. Well, I do. So I would like to share with you the lyrics and video of the following song by Madeleine Peyroux, who, by the way, is singing in Santiago de Compostela this week. What a shame we don't live there!

1. How many different verb tenses does she use?
2. Write the infinitive of the irregular verbs given in the past.
3. Write the past of the irregular verbs used in the present.
4. Have you learnt any new word?
5. How does the singer feel?



"I am all right" VIDEO

"I'm All Right"

He made me laugh
He made me cry
He smoked his stogies in bed
But I'm all right
I'm all right
I've been lonely before
I asked the boy for a few kind words
He gave me a novel instead
But I'm all right
I'm all right
I've been lonely before
It's fine, it's OK
It was wrong either way
I just wanted to say
There isn't much fun when you're drinking wine
He got drunk, he fell down
He threw a few of my things around
But I'm all right
I'm all right
I've been lonely before

I'd like to believe that it's easy to leave
But I have to conceive that wherever you are
You're still driving my car
Sticks and stones break my bones
But tears don't leave any scars
So I'm all alright
I'm all alright
I've been lonely before

Mmm...
I'm all alright
I'm all alright
I'm all alright
Yeah
He played solitaire in bed
Used to blow bubbles in bed
He sang Christmas songs in bed

Emmanuel Kelly
INSPIRATIONAL Melbourne teenager Emmanuel Kelly is on his way to Hollywood.
Kelly, 18, whose emotional performance of John Lennon's Imagine on The X Factor has been watched 11 million times on YouTube, has America in his sights after a successful trip to Los Angeles in January.
He will head back to the US later this year to follow up several successful leads, including an appearance on reality show The Glee Project.
If he's successful there, he could score a guest spot on the smash hit musical drama Glee.
Kelly, adopted son of Children First Foundation's Moira Kelly, filmed an audition with Glee casting director Robert J. Ulrich, who also welcomed him into his family home.
Watch Emmanuel sing Imagine on The X Factor

"I am very fortunate where I am right now," Kelly told the Sunday Herald Sun.
"I feel like I'm the luckiest teenager in the world. A lot of teenagers would be wishing for these opportunities to come up, but maybe it's all part of the plan.
"My dream is to change the world in some way and show that anyone can achieve if they put their minds to something."
While in Hollywood, Kelly recorded a song called Dream Big on a movie soundtrack for a film called Crooked Arrows.
Directed by Steve Rash, the story is about a native American lacrosse team.
On top of this, he has just released his own single on iTunes called Song For Edis, which was co-written with Moira and is now available.
But it's a future in the US that could very well happen for the charismatic singer.
Kelly was 17 when he met Ulrich in January when the Glee plans were discussed.
"He (Ulrich) said to me that when the executive producer saw me on X Factor he looked at me and said, 'We'd like to do something with you, whether we go on the show or whether you join The Glee Project itself'," he said.
"I think they are very keen so hopefully we can go somewhere with it."
Producers had wanted Kelly to be on the last season of The Glee Project, but he would have fallen foul of American labour laws because he was only 17 at the time.
Now, at 18, there's no stopping him.
Kelly and his brother, Ahmed, who has made the Australian Paralympics swimming team, were adopted from Iraq.
They had been abandoned as infants, both suffering limb deficiencies as a result of chemical warfare.
He has to have hip and possibly other surgeries this year, which will impact on when he returns to the US.

lost and found

WE HAVE ALL BEEN THERE

Read the activities and watch the  video in the link farther down. After that, answer the questions and tell me what happened.

• STOP AFTER THE FIRST 25 SECONDS AND PREDICT WHAT YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN.WRITE IT DOWN.

• STOP AGAIN WHEN THE SEGMENT SHOWS 5 MINUTES EXACTLY. PREDICT AGAIN WHAT YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN. WRITE IT DOWN. 

http://community.eflclassroom.com/video/we-ve-all-been-there

HOW DOES THE GIRL GET TO WORK?

HOW MANY DIFFERENT MEANS OF TRANSPORT ARE SHOWN IN THE VIDEO?

DESCRIBE THE DAY AS IF YOU WERE THE LADY.

“Yesterday afternoon  I was driving home from ….”

OR THE GIRL.

“Yesterday I went to work early because I needed to talk to the manager…”

 

The Flatmates episode 175 The kitchen is flooded

http://youtu.be/npPizJub0kQ

Watch the video about the explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes and answer the following questions.

http://gu.com/p/3e7d5

1.       How long has he been working on the project?

2.       How does R. Fiennes feel?

3.       What is the first aim of the project?

4.       What is the aim that is not going to be fulfilled?

5.       Who was going to carry it out?

6.       What are other aims? 
7.    What charity organization will benefit from the expedition?

3º ESO. Shakira's Speech at Oxford Union. She is also involved in a charity organization. Don't expect to see her moving her hips today though!!!