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3º E A Better World

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/vocabulary-lesson-environment.php

Relative Pronouns

who which where

http://www.mansioningles.com/gram24.htm

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/free/news/printmatchrelatives.php

http://elblogdelingles.blogspot.com.es/2007/02/lesson-48-relative-pronouns-who-which.html

Relative Pronouns exercises

Used to exercises

1º F Unit 9 Computer World

Computers Vocabulary

Technology Vocabulary

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-practice/will-future-predictions

Will uses, exercises, songs

Conditional chain game

1º F Unit 8 On Holiday

Geographical Features exercises

http://www.englishpedia.net/my-grammar/present-continuous-tense/present-continuous-time-expressions.html

Present Continuous

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4291

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-13478.php

Be going to

3º E Unit 7

https://www.englishclub.com/english-for-work/police-crime.htm

https://www.engvid.com/english-resource/vocabulary-crime-criminals/

https://www.englishclub.com/english-for-work/police-vocabulary-quiz.htm

https://www.englishclub.com/english-for-work/police-crime-quiz.htm

http://englishcollocation.blogspot.com.es/2015/03/common-collocations-that-go-with-crime.html

Present Simple Passive

Present and Past Simple Passive

Lear English: Passive

Agreeing and Disagreeing

Agreeing and Disagreeing II

BACHILLERATO

http://valenciaenglish.netfirms.com/relative.htm

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses/exercises?04

http://www.agendaweb.org/grammar/relative-clauses-english-exercises.html

http://www.englishvocabularyexercises.com/eve-exercises/EngVocEx_crime_law_1-3.htm

https://www.englishclub.com/english-for-work/police-crime-quiz.htm

http://www.agendaweb.org/grammar/relative-pronouns-exercises.html

ESO 1º F

Unit 7 At home

Parts of the house and furniture

Explicación del pasado continuo

Past Continuous exercises

Past Continuous and Past Simple

More exercises ; )

Linking words, conjunctions; because, and, but ...

ESO 3º E

Unit 6

Covering Letter

Applying for a job

Modals of obligation

Modals British Council

Jobs and occupations

Describing people

https://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/vocabulary/cloze-jobs.htm

ESO 1º F

Unir 6 Then and Now

jobs and occupations

Jobs British Council

Past Simple rules and exercises

Past Simple Irregular Verbs

Past simple exercises

Collocations exercise

Connectors of sequence - Writing

ESO 1º F

Unit 5 Is it Real?

Adjectives game

Adjectives to describe movies

types of films, vocabulary, film vocabulary

Comparative and superlative adjectives- games - games 2 -

writing a film review

making suggestions

ESO 3º E

Unit 5 Blue Planet

Environment vocabulary (Read it + related pages/exercises at the bottom)

Pollution vocabulary, text and quiz (follow instructions at the end of each article)

Global Warming exercise

Conditionals British Council

Conditionals BC Teens

Conditional clauses; description and exercises

1st conditional

Conditional exercises more exercises ; )

Talking about the news in English

BACHILLERATO

Unit 3 Travel and Adventure

Inversion description

Future in the past exercise

Future in the past

Future in the past

3 ESO

Unit 4 Future Tenses

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos/future-forms

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/talking-about-future

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/will_fut.htm

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/future.htm

Exercises

http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/future-simple-exercises.html

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/zeitformen.htm#will_future

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs18.htm

Game

http://www.engames.eu/future/will_going_to/will_goingto_ontarget.swf

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/future-forms-review-spin/

Bachillerato

Units 1 & 2

UNIT 1 Adverbs and the Perfect Aspect

- http://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/gramatica/gramatica-britanica/adverbs-and-adverb-phrases-position

- https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/word-order/exercises?09

- http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/adjectives_adverbs/adverb_position.htm

- http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/adjectives_adverbs/adverbs_of_frequency.htm

- http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/adjectives_adverbs/adverbs_of_frequency1.htm

- http://englishadvanced2.blogspot.com.es/2013/11/speakout-advanced-p-47-perfect-aspect.html

- https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/english-grammar/verbs/perfective-aspect

- http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs14.htm

- https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/english-grammar/verbs/perfective-aspect

http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/perfect_aspect.htm

http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/perfectterm.htm

- http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/verbs/aspect.htm

- http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-exercise-4.html

- http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-perfect-exercise-1.html

- http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/future-perfect-exercise-4.html

- http://englishadvanced2.blogspot.com.es/2013/11/speakout-advanced-p-47-perfect-aspect.html

- http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs14.htm

UNIT 2 Comparison

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos/comparative-and-superlative-adjectives

http://anasenglishactivities.blogspot.com.es/2010/08/comparison.html

http://www.english-at-home.com/grammar/comparisons/

https://www.ejerciciosinglesonline.com/exercises-and-theory/grammar-exercises-and-theory/english-comparative-superlative/

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/comp.htm

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/english-grammar/adjectives/comparative-and-superlative-adjectives

http://www.eslbase.com/grammar/comparative-superlative

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/adjectives-comparative-and-superlative.html

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-grammar-comparatives-superlatives.php

Unit 2 Intentions and Arrangements

http://www.really-learn-english.com/intentions-arrangements-future.html

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/future.htm

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/decisions.htm

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/english-grammar/verbs/talking-about-future

http://www.grammaring.com/the-difference-between-will-be-going-to-and-the-present-continuous-for-future-events

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-future-plan.php

https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/advanced/a_grammar/file06/nef_int_grammar_6_01?cc=us&selLanguage=en

Unit 2 Linking Contrast and Concession

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/linking-words-contrast.html

http://random-idea-english.blogspot.com.es/2014/08/exploring-concession-and-contrast.html

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-lesson-concessions.php

https://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/89.html

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-107625.php

Unit 2 Multi-word verbs, verbs of movement

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/quick-grammar/multi-word-verbs

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-100834.php

http://www.english-at-home.com/vocabulary/english-verbs-body-movement/

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/vocabulary/1v61-elementary-verbs-of-movement-gap-fill-quiz.php

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Bachillerato Projects

3rd Term B1 English Literature Projects

Project 1 (in groups of 4/5) oral presentation + 10 minutes video including main scenes of the story. Short oral presentation including:

- Context and biography

- Summary

- Analysis of Major Characters

- Themes and Symbols

Each group must choose one of the following authors and novels:

1922 - James Joyce, Ulysses

1924 - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

1925 — Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway or A Room of One’s Own (1929)

1932 - Aldous Huxley , A Brave New World

1951 — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1952 — Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

1955 — Vladmir Nabokov, Lolita

1957 — Jack Kerouac, On the Road

1958 — Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

1961 — Iris Murdock, A Severed Head

1962 -- Doris Lessing,The Golden Notebook

1969 — Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1978 – And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou

1981 — Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children or the Satanic Verses

1994 ___ William Trevor Felicia's Journey

Project 2 Compulsory reading 1984 by George Orwell

AFTER READING THE NOVEL (May, 4th) Oral presentations in groups

1. Context and Setting: Setting: Place the book on a historical time line. What happened before the book was published? What has happened since? Discuss: Which of Orwell’s predictions have become a part of history, not only in communist countries but in the free world?

Put together a collection of photographs of current scenes that capture the tone of 1984. A slide show with narration would also be a good idea.

2. Plot: Watch a video production of 1984. How is the book different from the movie? Was it easier to understand or more difficult? Were scenes left out or changed, and if so, how did those omissions or changes affect the way you interpret the book?

3. Analysis of Major Characters

4. Themes and symbols, and how does Orwell use them? Debate/Discuss “Can history be rewritten? Should it be?”

5. Point of View Analysis & Hold a debate between Party members and revolutionaries or between Inner and outer Party members.

6. George Orwell’s Animal Farm, compare and contrast to 1984. Debate the following topics: (a) Can men forget they are human? (b) Can men create a perfect society? (c) The greatest deterrent to achieving goals is hopelessness.

Project 3 Research and Writing Task;

The 20^th Century literary periods:

Victorian Literature

Realism

Naturalism

Modernism

Bloomsbury Group

Existentialism

Beat Generation

. Provide an introduction, brief description, main characteristics, major writers for each period and bibliography. (Digital format is compulsory)

Non-compulsory actitivities (individual or in groups)

- 1984 Make a video depicting sections from the book

- Extra oral presentation on one of the remaining authors and novels above

- May Festival: Volunteer performance, please confirm your participation ASAP. You can either say a 20^th Century poem or depict an excerpt of one of the novels. No papers allowed.

Useful links

Speaking practice https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/speaking-exams/talk-about-yourself

Giving an oral presentation https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/speaking-exams/oral-presentation

Writing

Real English Videos

From Basic to advanced English pages

http://www.inglessencillo.com/can

http://www.elabueloeduca.com/aprender/ingles/verbos/verbosing.html

http://www.mansioningles.com/index.ht

http://www.aprenderinglesfacil.es/2008/03/presente-simple-simple-present-tense.html

http://a4esl.org/

http://www.better-english.com/

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/

http://esl.about.com/

https://www.ego4u.com/

http://www.agendaweb.org/

https://elt.oup.com/student/practicegrammar/cc=ro&selLanguage=en

http://www.myenglishpages.com/

- http://www.blairenglish.com/

-ttp://www.easyworldofenglish.com/Grammar/sGrammar.aspx?c=86794645427a1b3e&l=69a33990d0c36cb8

- http://www.eslgamesplus.com/past-simple-irregular-verbs-esl-grammar-interactive-activity-online/

- http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/

- http://inenglish.pe/e-learning/aula/socializing-introducing-yourself-expressions.htm

- http://a4esl.org/

- http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/games/verb-machine

- http://www.macmillandictionary.com/verb_wheel/

http://www.englishpage.com/vocabulary/vocabulary.html

- English Vocabulary Training

GAMES

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/games

http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/english-language-games/

http://pbskids.org/wordgirl/games/powerwords/

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/fun-games

http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/

https://www.duolingo.com/

http://pbskids.org/

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