Merry Christmas

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I'll see you again on 8th January 2014.
Best regards,
Alejandro Ramírez

Homework week 13

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2nd Year Basic Level

• Page 129, activities a and b, section 2B.

1st Year Advanced Level

• Groups A and B: Page 69, activities 5, 7, 8 and 9.
• CAL Group: No homework this week. 

Do not miss this!
On Wednesday at 6.00 pm, we will watch the cartoon movie "The Croods", so there will be no classes that day at 7pm.  Only those students from group A will attend classes until 5.45 pm. 
For more information about the movie, please click here. 

On Thursday I will not attend the classes, so the last day before Christmas holidays for groups 2º CAL and 1st Year Advanced level CAL is Tuesday, 17th December.

Homework week 12

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2nd Year Basic Level

• Photocopy given in class.
• We will do a listening and a writing activity on Tuesday.

 
1st Year Advanced Level

• Pages 68 and 69, activities 1, 3, 4 and 5.
• Next week, we will do more speaking practise (monologue/dialogue). Please, revise previous units.

Homework week 11

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2nd Year Basic Level

• Page 27, listen and practise the dialogue.
• Page 154, Housework + Make or do? 

 

1st Year Advanced Level

• Page 63, activity 7: prepare this speaking activity at home. (Look for new vocabulary and  pronunciation in a dictionary)
• Photocopy given in class.
• Have a look to this website to learn vocabulary: Quizlet
• Visit this website to watch monologues regarding different interesting topics.  I like this one regarding the topic of this unit. Where is home? by Pico Iyer. 

Homework week 10

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2nd Year Basic Level

• Page 113, activity c

1st Year Advanced Level

• Do the activities of the photocopy given in class about "Infinitive vs. Gerund". Check the key here.

Homework week 9

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2nd Year Basic Level

• Page 153 part 2, Verbs + prepositions.
• Practise the present continuous here.
• What are your plans for next week? Choose 3 days and write 1 plan to do in the evening like here.

1st Year Advanced Level

• Page 55, activities 9 and 11.
• Page 54, activities 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Do them and check your answers here.
• Only groups B and C: Write sentences about your work experience using the examples of the photocopy given in class.

Homework week 8

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2nd Year Basic Level

• Photocopy given in class to practise "Be going to"
• Unit 3A. Reading activity about different airports.

1st Year Advanced Level

• Pages 52 and 53, activities 1, 2, 3 and 4.
• Watch one of these videos and explain it to the class.

Homowork week 7

 

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2nd Year Basic Level

• Revise and Check on pages 18 and 19 (except listening activity 1.53)

1st Year Advanced Level

• Activities 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 on pages 46 and 47.

Homework week 6

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2nd Year Basic Level

• Practise the Past progressive with the following links:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/past_progressive.htm
http://www.xtec.cat/~festeba1/activitats/nivell2/PAST_SIMPLE_PAST_CONTINUOUS.htm

• Read section 2C (time sequencers) page 128. Then, do activities a and b on page 129.

• Bring one of your favourite photographs to class.

1st Year Advanced Level

• Textbook page 36, activity 9

Photocopy given in class, activity 4.

Homework week 5

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2nd Year Basic Level

• Revise Grammar rules for Past simple on page 128.
• Activities a and b of section 2A, page 129. 

1st Year Advanced Level

• Prepare a 3 minutes monologue to deliver in front of the class using the information of activity 3, page 29  from the student book. 
• Download and check the activities from the Workbook here. 
• Check the answer key for the activities on page 26 and 32 here. 
• Recommended film to watch this weekend in original version with subtitles: Sense and Sensibility. 

 

• I think it's hard to be happy sometimes, even if it's after a hard day of work... but, don't you think she is right?  Please, do not miss this short video! 

Homework week 4

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This week homework is:
All the groups:

• Watch these videos and practise the following sounds: /z/ , /s/ /sh/

2nd Year Basic Level

• Revise the grammar regarding the use of Present continuous in English (page 126) and do activities a and b in section 1C on page 127. 
• Practise with the photocopy given in class.
• Write an email about a person you know. Read how to do it on page 111

1st Year Advanced Level

• Do activities 6, 7 and 8 on page 33.

Homework week 3

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2nd Year Basic Level:

• Photocopy given in class to practise the structures and vocabulary learnt in Unit 1B.

1st Year Advanced Level:

• Solution for activity 4a on page 20 of the book: 1-G, 2-E, 3-H, 4-B, 5-D, 6-F, 7-C, 8-A
• Do these extra activities to practise English determiners and correct them at home. Click here for the solution.
• Written task for Unit 1 (140 - 150 words): Write an email to your penfriend. He has just recently written to you saying that he/she is very unhappy with school and home life. You have decided to write a letter of advice offering your support. Write your email making various suggestions and saying what results you expect if he/she follows your advice.

Theatre in Lucena

For those of you who love going to the theatre and for those who don't usually go, this is a great opportunity to see a good play in your city. See the list of plays and buy the tickets here.

Homework week 2

2nd Year Basic Level

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• Page 150, exercises 1 and 2.
• Revise the alphabet and numbers.
• Remember to revise the structures learnt last year with the Entry-checker. To correct its activities download the key here.

1st Year Advanced Level

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• Page 14, exercise 2.
• Page 16, exercises 1, 3 and 4. Check grammar points on pages 196-198.

Week 23rd-29th September

2nd Year Basic Level
For Thursday you have to revise how to make questions in English on page 126, section 1A. Then, do the activities 1A a and b on page 127.

1st Year Advanced Level
Homework for today and Thursday: Exercise 3 on page 10 and Exercises 5, 6, 7 and 8 on page 11.
If you haven't already found the textbook, download the first unit here.

This week class

Let's review what we have done this first week of class at the Eoi Lucena

2nd Year Basic Level:

• Some communicative activities to get to know our classmates.
• For next week, we don't have any homework. We'll start Unit 1 of the book. Please, bring it to class!

1st Year Advanced Level: 

• A communicative activity to get to know our old and new classmates.
• Activities 1 and 2 from page 7.
• Homework for next week: activities 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 from pages 8 and 9

1st Year Advanced Level: Scanned pages from the textbook

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For those of you who haven't bought the textbook yet, you can download and print the following document to do your homework for next week. Click here.

Textbooks

The book that we will use and follow this academic year for the 1st year of Advanced Level is: 
Upstream 
Upper-Intermediate B2+
ISBN 978-1-84862-082-7 

Readers: Not available yet

And the one for the 2nd year of Basic level is:
English File
Pre-Intermediate 3rd Edition
ISBN: 978-0-19-459893-4.

Readers: Not available yet

EOI Welcome

Hi everyone!

I'm pleased to tell you that from now on you'll have a site here to find some information about the classes at The Official School of Languages.

I hope it's useful for you!

I'll see you around! ;)