Merry Christmas!

IMPORTANT NEWS

There will be NO CLASS tomorrow, Monday 29th November, at EOI Arucas because of the bad weather.

There will probably be class as usual on Tuesday 30th November, but watch this space to make sure.

Take advantage of your "free" afternoon and do some extra revision!

Important News: Diane's Classes

Please note that Básico 2 (Diane's classes only) will NOT have class on Thursday 18th or Friday 19th November. We will do our end of Unit test on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th. Study hard!

Holidays...(unit 2A)

In Unit 2 our topic is HOLIDAYS, here you have some vocabulary to start practising!

to go on holiday (GB), on vacation (US) to go abroad to go camping to go climbing to go hiking to go mountaineering to go sightseeing to go skiing to go swimming to go to the beach to have a good time to have a bad time to make a to rent a car  to sunbathe to fly	Accommodation to book reservar agency  travel agent camping site hotel camping site youth hostel inn posada double room double room with twin beds _____________ high season low  season
flight cruise one-way/ single ticket return ticket car rental (US) car hire (GB) car park	sightseeing sun lotion sunglasses sunburn quemadura de sol  guide

Halloween

 

Halloween is celebrated on the 31st of October.

Halloween has its origins in the ancient Samhain festival celebrated by the Celts to signify the end of summer.

Many of today’s Halloween customs can be traced back to Celtic times.

Halloween is also known as All Saint’s Day. The Roman Catholic Church created this name to celebrate saints without their own specific days during the rest of the year.

Bonfires are often lit in Ireland on October 31st. This tradition dates back to the Celts, who used fire to ward off evil spirits. The Celts also dressed in animal skins on Halloween, and believed that the dead returned to earth disguised as various creatures. One of these creatures was a black cat, which remains a familiar symbol of Halloween...

 

>Watch these easy videos and practice further:

VOCABULARY

1D Relative Clauses

Relative Clauses NB2

Vocabulary FAMILY

Unit 1B

Who  is your sister's husband?
Who is your cousins father?
Who is your mother's father?

brother in law, niece, stepfather

 uncle. aunt, grandchildren,

grandfather...

Click HERE and practice Vocabulary for family members!

NOW watch, listen, read and REPEAT! 

with this video:

Clothes vocabulary

FILE 6

Maybe you would like to revise some of the topics we're studying in this file; if so, click here for all the grammar points in English File.
To revise modals, watch this presentation first, then look at these pages:
- MAY: explanation, exercise,
- MIGHT: explanation,difference may/might,
- SHOULD: explanation, quiz, 

 Try to complete this text with the appropriate modals and choose the best modal here , here and here.

For a complete list of animals (translated and with pronunciation), click here. Obviously they're too many, but just in case you're interested.... Then you can try these pastimes. For an extra listening on animals, go here. Please do not read the text until you have heard it at least twice and do the activities online (on the right).

What would you say if you had to ask for a medicine? Check it here.

FILE 6: CONDITIONALS

For further explanation of the FIRST CONDITIONAL ("probable"), click here. There are exercises at the end. For the SECOND CONDITIONAL ("hypothetical") click here. 
Let's now check if you can tell the difference: do this exercise. this one and this text.

Remember that in hypothetical conditionals with TO BE, we use WERE for all persons. Now let's see if you'd survive these situations... I told you about the conditionals being used in songs. This is the song we heard in class and these are just two more examples. Enjoy them!


What would you do if you were rich?  This man has it very clear!


Beyoncé tells you what she would do... if she were a boy!

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