Peace Day: January,30th

January 30th is the day on which Mahatma Gandhi was killed, we will read some biographicla hints about his life in class.

Jobs

The following sheets include vocabulary and expressions which have to do with the topic: jobs and professions. It can help you both for the writing and the speaking task you should print them all!!!

Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2 

Here you have some samples of CVs, jobs vacancies and cover letters(cartas de presentación). All this can be useful for the preapration of the writing task: make up a job ad ( half o f the group) and reply it( the other half).

 Lifeguard CV sample 
Secondary School CV sample
Part-time Job cover letter sample
Summer job cover letter sample
Job ad: volunteer in Maldives
Job ad: internship
Job ad: photographer

The final task of the topic dealt with in unit 3 regarding to the speaking and interacting skills is a role play (interviewer and interviewee). The following video can help you to  the performance.

How to attend an interview

The following link is useful for the preparation of the role play

Role play questions and answers

Finally, I have included a sample of a job interview for you to take into account:
 

Sample of a job interview from Liliana Díaz Pérez

Good luck and work on it!!!! 

CHRISTMAS

It´s time for Christmas!!!!!!! Here are some activities and Christmas songs for you to listen and work on!!

This listening activity has to do with presents.

listening

Happy Crhistmas -War is Over by john Lennon 

PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

unit 2 also has to do with the past continuous tense and its diferrences with the past simple tense. by means of this powerpoint presentatnion you can broaden the notes taken in class.

Past continuous from lilianadiazperez

Present Perfect Tense

This presentation is really useful to undersand how to form, when to use the present perfect tense and the time expressions we use with it, as well as the differences between this tense and the past simple tense. 
 

these online activities will help work on this tense: 

activity 1
this song by James Blunt shows one of the uses of the presnt perfect tense: we use it to describe expereiences which are not specified in the past. What is the topic about???
Cry

Present simple and present continuous for 4ºESO

Present simple-present-continuous from Liliana Díaz Pérez

Passive voice (all tenses)

Passive voice-different-tenses-transformation from Liliana Díaz Pérez

Asking the right question practice

Making questions-all-tenses1 from Liliana Díaz Pérez

Review activities for Bachillerato

These online activities help to revise some  the grammar contents for 1º Bach.

Present simple and Present continuous1
Present simple and Present continuous2
Present simple and Present Continuous3
Present simple and Present continuous4
Past simple and Past continuous1
Past simple and Past continuous2
Past simple and past continuous3
Past simple and Past continuous4
Past simple and past perfect
Past simple and past perfect2
Present perfect and past perfect
Past perfect
Present perfect
Present perfect progressive
Future perfect
Will and going to
All future forms
Future progressive
Relatives1
Relatives2
Relatives3
Relatives4
Relatives5
Relatives6 
Reportedspeech1
Reportedspeech2 
Reportedspeech3 
Reportedspeech4 
Reportedspeech5 
Reportedspeech6
Reportedspeech7
Reportedspeech8
Reportedspeech9

Reported Speech

The following presentation is very very useful to understand Reported Speech, its changes(backshifts) and patterns.

Reported speech powerpoint presentation for Bachillerato

Thanksgiving Day

Next Thursday 24th, the Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day, this video can help you understand what it means to them. It is very easy though the song is a bit weird.

Thanksgiving

Halloween night is tonight!!!

Michael Jackson´s thrilller song is my favourite to portray this gloomy and scary environmet. Enjoy the video which is said to be the best ever recorded. Subtitles are in Sapnish for you to understand the song better.

Present Continuous Concept Map

As I am taking a course on Cmap tools, I decided to design one to deal with our next grammar point: the Present Continuous tense. It will help both PPA students and ESO students.

Pc map

You can also print it from here:
MAP