Hello everyone, FILE 1 1.T EXERCISE 2. 1. competitors FILE 2 1.E EXERCISE 2. 1. T We will comment the texts in class anyway!
As I told you, here are the answers of the exercises in the EXTRA READINGS I gave you last week:
EXERCISE 1.(TRUE/FALSE)
2 ?
3.T
4.T
5.T
6.F
7.?
8.T
2. fairly
3. coaches
4.defeat
5.match
6.exhausting
7.blame
EXERCISE 1.(Matching titles and paragraphs)
2.A
3.B
4.C
5.D
2.F
3.F
4.T
5.T
6.?
7.?
8.T
9.T
10.T
See you Later!
Hello guys, Read the following sentences that describe two people, places or things. Rewrite 1 Carla is an intermediate diver. Gina is an advanced diver and has three medals from diving competitions. (good) 2 Charlie was a great footballer, and scored at least two goals every match. (talented) 3 Robert really wants to go to university to study medicine to be a hospital doctor. Rosie wants to travel round Europe and then see what happens. (ambitious) 4 It rained heavily today, but only for a few hours. The rain yesterday was so bad (bad) 5 Euan is always smiling and having fun. Bobbie often looks sad and lonely. (happy) 6 The lecture this week was fantastic - so full of information. Last week’s lecture (interesting) 7 It’s so quiet living in the country. The city is a very noisy place to live. (noisy) 8 I couldn’t carry on up the mountain - it was too scary looking down. Jemma (brave) Happy Weekend!
This is an activity for students in BASICO 2:
Comparisons
each sentence changing the adjective given to a comparative.
Jamie was a good footballer and scored a lot of goals, but not every match.
that it caused floods.
was quite dull.
carried on and felt absolutely fine
A page with an exercise to form comparatives.
When you finish the exercise,click on CHECK, to see your grade...
http://www.better-english.com/grammar/comparatives.htm
And here you can find a short explanation:
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/ADJECTIVES5.cfm
See you in class!!!
Good evening guys:
Have a look at these two exercises from ENGLISH PAGE and do them. You will see better the differences between present perfect simple and continuous:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs7.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs8.htm
Happy Weekend!!!
Hello everyone, I hope you're having a great "puente"...
Hello guys,
How are you? I am sure you feel great like me since today is Friday...and The weekend has landed!!!
I want you to have a look at this exercise for you to practice the expression of things in common with other people by using SO/NEITHER
Have a look at this page in the website USINGENGLISH.
And also:
http://www.learn-english-today.com/free-english-lessons/free-english-lesson_contents/so_neither-ex.htm
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/preint/a_grammar/file08/grammar08_d01/
Happy Weekend!!!
And some exercises:
We have studied present perfect, and I just found this page in which you have a very good explanation of the situations in which we use this tense followed by plenty of activities. But for now you just have to do Verb tense exercises 5 and 6.
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html
Good evening everyone,
after today's class with my group of Basico 2 I want you guys to listen to Cockney accent, so listen to this boy:
And also have a look at this website:
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/
It is a RHYMING SLANG/ENGLISH ENGLISH RHYMING SLANG dictionary.
For a definition(better than the definition I gave today) go to:
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/cockney_rhyming_slang
Hello Students at BASICO 2!!! SIMPLE PAST... And I found this website with readings and exercises to work with the simple past. You just have to click on the text that you find interesting and do the activities. They are all biographies, the perfect text type to practice with the simple past, the perfect tense to talk about finished and completed actions. In Isabel Perez's website you have also one section dedicated to SIMPLE PAST:
We will start unit 2 next week, in this Unit we are going to review
ENGLISHWORKS
http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/past_simple.htm
Sorry Guys, I forgot:
This week I have mentioned a nice way of learning and classifying new vocabulary, MIND MAPS, and I have also mentioned who created this method, Tony Buzan.
Have a look at this website to see some examples of mind maps and how they work:
http://www.nlpmind.com/mind_mapping.htm
Good morning everyone,
We have finished now UNIT 1. And Maybe some people want to do extra practice on the tenses we have studied this week....
Here you have some links that you will probably find interesting:
Exercises 1 and 2 in:http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html
An explanation of the tenses in:
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses.htm
And an excellent page from Isabel Perez's Website, with a grammar summary and activities to review the tenses:
http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses.htm
And some listening practice in Randall's Listening Lab(do the EASY ones):
www.esl-lab.com
Happy Weekend!
Hello Guys!!!
How are you? I don't know if anyone at Goya or San Blas is reading my blog, however, I will keep it until September, when I start the one corresponding to my new groups...
I want you to have a look at the trailer that you can find in the YOU TUBE VIDEOS section, from the French movie "L'Auberge Spagnole" (Titled Una Casa de Locos in Spanish, showing how exciting life can be for an Erasmus Student in his/her year abroad:-))It is one of my favourites, a must see for all those students who are planning to live or have lived in a foreign country...which I strongly recommend, since it is one of the most enriching experiences one can go through.
Hope you like it:)
Hello Everybody!!! Let me post here a wonderful composition written by one of my students in 2F, Julian. He writes amazingly well, I hope you enjoy his composition as much as I did! It was a rainy evening. I was standing by the window, looking through it, how the drops were hitting against the glasses. I had lived this experience many times. In the street,two boys were jumping over puddles while another one was staring at them. They were completely soaked. Suddenly I felt that all turned around me like in a merry go round.
Just a quick note to tell you that It was great to teach at EOI Goya these months, and that I am glad that so many people passed in June. Those of you who have to try again in September, do not worry, you are capable of passing, I am sure!!!
I want to wish you a wonderful summer, happy holidays, and enjoy these two months a lot before the new course starts!!!WHAT HAPPENED?
When I woke up, I couldn't hear the monotonous sound of the rain, actually I couldn't hear anything. Well, the sadness of the silence. I had a bad feeling. I didn't know where I was. It was a white room without furniture or windows. I didn't understand what was happening.
Few seconds later, when I noticed there wasn't any door either, the panic invaded me. I went towards the walls to see if I would be able to break them to escape. But it was impossible, I couldn't reach them.
"How is it possible? It has to exist some secret door or hole to enter here". I thought. I tried to keep calm, since it could only be a nightmare. I breathed deeply and closed my eyes.
When I woke up again I was lying on the floor, in my old living room. I heard that it wasn't raining. All around me seemed to be right. I stood up slowly and I went to the kitchen to have a glass of water, because I was thirsty. I remembered the children in the street so I came back to the window to see if they were still playing.
Oh my God! I shouted. I was absolutely terrified. From there, I could only see the white room with me inside.
Hello Students,
Let me post a new website where you can find lots of readings in simple English. There are many stories so that you have fun while you improve your reading skills...I hope you enjoy it:
http://towerofenglish.com/reading.html
Hello Students, NOTE: Some of the activities cannot be done by first year students because we have not seen in class some tenses that I have seen with second year students... By the way, I was having a look at the handouts I have given you and there is one mistake in one photocopy I gave to SECOND YEAR STUDENTS: In the PHOTOCOPY "Compound nouns made with SOME, ANY AND NO" you can find these sentences: Well, there is a mistake: please change the word ANYTHING for ANYWHERE. OK?
This is a post to give you a link to a very good explanation of present perfect...We use "pretérito perfecto" in a slightly different way, so I hope that this explanation and the exercises that you will find at the bottom of the page will help you a bit...all right?
And please have a look at the left side of the page:-)It is a help with tenses
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html
e. He doesn 't have to stay anything to stay tonight
f. I wouldn't eat anything except at Maxim's
Hello Students: Have a look at this website http://www.usingenglish.com/handouts/.You can find there different tests for the aspects of grammar and/or vocabulary that you want to reinforce...
Please have a look at it, It is very interesting and complete!!!You can find extra practice for lots of things that we have seen in class!
Remember also that we will use these two days to revise, so I would like you to have a look at the books and make a note of your doubts and those things that you need to ask, all right?
Ok, Enjoy the new website!
Patricia
Hello Students, Go to: http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html Just click on the story that interests you,and clicking on STORY you can listen to it while you read the text if you press CNN Listenings.
I have just found another great website where you can practise your listening...
It's the CNN story archive. 
or watch the CNN video if you press
...
Besides you have vocabulary and comprehension questions on the LEFT which you can do to check that you have understood the text, ok?
I hope you enjoy it, it is a wonderful way to practise your listening, and it is American Accent!I will also include it in the links section as 
Second Year!!!! http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html You will find phrasal verbs explained and also links to lots of different PHRASAL VERBS organised alphabetically and examples.
This is a short(and clear)explanation of what PHRASAL VERBS are... Go to the link below:
Hello Students, today someone from first year asked me how one can improve listening...My answer is getting to know NATIVE SPEAKERS!!! In my opinion, it's the funniest and fastest way...so let me pass on this message to you... Hello, this is a quick message to remind you about our weekly International
Evening every Wednesday night.
The idea is to give our virtual community a chance to meet in person, practise
languages, socialise, and generally get together for a few beers on a Wednesday
night (...the drinks are really cheap too, which is a nice change in Madrid!)
It's on at "Rocket" Bar (calle Larra 21, metro Bilbao) from 9pm to 1am.
Come with friends, or just yourself: we have our lingobongo host Miguel to make
sure everyone meets each other.
For a map (you actually need this as it's in a side street...) and more details
go to our website… http://www.lingobongo.com/madrid/
Hello Students, ELEMENTARY LEVEL: http://www.english-test.net/esl/english-grammar-test.html (IN FACT, I WILL PUT IT IN THE LINKS SECTION) And here there is one for Second Year Students:http://www.mitsuba.co.uk/english/pre-internediate.asp
Someone asked me yesterday to bring a test to revise for the exam...well I have thought that maybe you would like to have a look at this website:
Please start studying, don't be lazy!!!:-)
Hello students, I thought that some of you might need and want to do some more extra practice... FIRST YEAR STUDENTS: http://www.nonstopenglish.com/allexercises/elementary-006.asp SECOND YEAR STUDENTShttp://www.nonstopenglish.com/allexercises/pre_intermediate.asp
Here you'll find links to a number of exercises to review the grammar points we have seen in class...
Hi students, below you can find a link to different recordings to listen and practise for the listening part of the exam: First Year Students Second Year Students
LISTENINGS
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The link to those listenings can be found in a wonderful website from the EOI Zaragoza 2 where you will find more practice for all the skills.
For example, I found this in one of the clozes for practicing reading comprehension: TIPS ON HOW TO COMPLETE CLOZE TESTS•
First, slowly read all the text without filling any of the gaps. Read it two or three times until you have a clear understanding of what the text is about.
• Then only complete the gaps you are absolutely sure of.
• Next try and find out what the missing words in the remaining gaps are. See which
part of speech may fit in each gap (article?, pronoun?, noun?, adverb?, adjective?,
preposition?, conjunction?, verb?) and pay special attention to the grammar around
the words in each gap.
Many of the gaps may include the following:
- preposition following a noun, adjective or verb. (Example: good at languages)
- prepositional phrase. (Example: in spite of)
- adverb. (Example: He moved to Zaragoza two years ago)
- connector. (Example: First, he arrives; then he sits down; finally, he leaves.)
- conjunction. (Example: Although he is five, he can speak five languages.
- auxiliary verb. (Example: He has won 2 matches)
- an article or some other kind of determiner. (Example: I have no time)
- a relative. (Example: Juan, who I met two years ago, is my best friend)
- a pronoun, either subject or object. (Example: it is difficult to know)
- is there a comparative or superlative involved? (Example: she's taller than me)
• Some sentences may seem to be complete and contain gaps that appear to be
unnecessary. If you find gaps like this, you will probably need the following:
- an adverb. (Example: He is always late)
- a modal verb. (Example: They can swim very well)
- a word to change the emphasis of the sentence: She's good enough to be queen;The problems are too difficult
• A few gaps may demand a vocabulary item consistent with the topic of the text; or a
word which is part of an idiomatic expression (example: Good heavens!); or a word
which collocates with another one (example: do a job); or a word which is part of a
phrasal verb (example: I was held up by traffic).
• If after putting into practice the techniques above you still have some gaps left, make a wild guess (adivínalo a ojo). Some teachers may award you a full mark or half a mark if they understand that your suggested word shows a good command of English grammar and vocabulary although the word you wrote in the gap is not the correct one or doesn't fully fit in the overall meaning of the text.
• Never leave a gap blank and never fill in a gap with a word you know for sure is wrong.
Hello First Year Students, 
Hello Second Year students
Hi Second Year Students. Today we completed a text with the compounds in SOME-, ANY- AND NO-. In the link you can find a good explanation of when we use each...read it...
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/Determiners7d.cfm
Hello Second Year Students. I haven't forgotten you, of course not!!! Here is a wonderful website with many links to texts at your level, for improving your reading skills...Just click on: 
Good Morning everyone! 
FIRST YEAR STUDENTS: SECOND YEAR STUDENTS:
I have just found another useful link apart from that at the University of Iowa...
One where you can have a look at those grammatical points which are most difficult for you...You can find it in the link Grammar Online from http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/TOC.CFM Another link to practice your Phonetics: Pronunciation Help And finally, for those with a deep curiosity, British Accents, a link for you to listen to the huge variety of Accents of English scattered throughout the UK.
Hello,
Click on the following link from the website esl.about.com, a very complete page to practice your English...You should visit it from time to time...
In this link you have a series of recordings to practice your listening skills, and there are some questions to check that you have understood the text...; of course you can find other sections to practice grammar, vocabulary, etc.
Enjoy!
patrix_dom@hotmail.com
