THIS IS THE END...

Yes, I'm afraid it is...

But before saying goodbye, let me leave you this link with all the certification exams we did in the Canaries last year.

Revise all the skills in the blog, specially the formats for the written tasks and follow the advice I gave you in this other post. don't forget to organise your writing and your speaking!!

See you around!!!!

WRITING: SOME EXAMPLES

Here you have a few examples, but if you want a clearer analysis, visit this post and have a look at your coursebooks (writing section)

Writing Formatos 

THE TOWN WHERE I LIVE

Hello again!
This is an example of a composition which one of you wrote (I've made very few changes). You can see it's not so difficult, you can do something like this. The only thing you must do is control basic mistakes from previous levels and use new structures and vocabulary.
REMEMBER:

• you must always use the subject
• normal sentence order is: SUBJECT + VERB + OBJECT + COMPLEMENTS
• adjectives go BEFORE nouns: There's a wonderful church and they DO NOT have plural (I saw three tall men)
• don't forget the final -s in plurals and for the 3rd person singular in the Present Simple
• we only use capital letters at the beginning of sentences, with "I", days of the week, months, names of people/places...
• avoid repetitions using pronouns: I live in Valleseco, it's a nice small town
• and please... DO NOT MAKE MISTAKES FROM NB1 (like+ing, a/an, present and past tenses, pronouns...)
• revise your spelling

Model Composition NB2 

QUANTIFIERS

Look at these tables to see the different quantifiers we use in English:

Uncountable nouns	Countable nous	Other
HOW MUCH water do you drink?	HOW MANY people were there?
A LITTLE (and that's OK, I don't need more)	A FEW (and that was enough)
I drink LITTLE water (not enough, I think I should drink more)	There were FEW people (not enough, e.g. the party was boring)
I drink ENOUGH water (sufficient)	There were ENOUGH people (sufficient, just the right number)	I'm tall ENOUGH to play basketball
I don't drink MUCH water (negative sentence)	There weren't MANY people (negative sentence)
I drink A LOT OF water	There were A LOT OF people	He eats A LOT.
I drink TOO MUCH water (more than necessary)	There were TOO MANY people (more than necessary)	I'm TOO tired I'm going to bed.

To practise a little more, please visit tolearnenglish (lots of links here), grammar.ccc or esl-lounge. For longer sentences go to grammarbank.

unit 5- those cities...

In unit 5B we'll be looking at the superlative adjectives and we'll learn how to write and speak about a city or town.
This is an amazing video on the ten most beatiful cities on earth.

Do you agree?

UNIT 4

Hello again!
If you want to revise this unit, please read these old posts of ours: present perfect, some/any/no, revision, yet/already/just.

For the different adjectives ending in -ing or -ed, go to clafoti.com. Then you can do the exercises at the end.

HOW TO WRITE A COMPOSITION

I hope this helps you with your exams.

writing a composition in 3 steps by

UNIT 4C

Complete with some/any/no/every + where/body(one)/thing

1. There’s _______________in this envelope. It’s empty.
2. There’s _________________waiting for you at the door.
3. They’ve got ___________________ to live. They are homeless.
4. There’s _________________watching TV at the moment; I’ll switch it off.
5. It’s a secret. _________________ knows about it.
6. Would you like _______________to eat?
7. Why don’t we go out ________________ for dinner tonight?
8. Eric lives __________________in Argentina.
9. Are you doing _________________ tonight?
10. Do you know ________________ from Cuba?
11. I met _________________ really interesting last night at a party…
12. Look! There’s _______________ strange in your soup!

EVERY

13. He lost ________________ in the fire: his house and all his possessions.
14. Matt is the only one at the office. __________________else went home.
15. Have you seen my glasses. I’ve looked _________________ but I can’t find them ___________________.

ARRANGEMENTS

Hello everybody!!!                                                                     .      . Well, I imagine you are all preparing for your orals next week... If you want to hear an example of two people arranging to meet, I've just found this post from EOI Guía. Listen to the conversation between two of the teachers, Michael and Pina, and see how they use some of the expressions we have seen in class this week. GOOD LUCK!

This Is The Life…

This is the song (end of unit 3A) that we could not  listen to in class, but which you can enjoy right now here (as promised) !!!
  

Lyrics

This Is The Life 
 (by Amy MacDonald)

Oh the wind whistles down
The cold dark street tonight
And the people they were dancing to the music vibe
And the boys chase the girls with the curls in their hair
While the shy tormented youth sit way over there
And the songs they get louder
Each one better than before

And you're singing the songs
Thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs
Thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?

So your heading down the road in your taxi for four
And you're waiting outside Jimmy's front door
But nobody's in and nobody's home 'til four
So you're sitting there with nothing to do
Talking about Robert Riger and his motley crew
And where you're gonna go and where you're gonna sleep tonight
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/a/amy_macdonald/this_is_the_life.html ]
And you're singing the songs
Thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs
Thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs
Thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs
Thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs
Thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs
Thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?

Where you gonna sleep tonight?

D. 
;-)