jueves, 30 de enero de 2014

Here you have our first term exam...

NAME: ________________________________       DATE: ________


YOUR POINTS: _____
TOTAL POINTS: 271
MARK: ________


SECTION I – LISTENING ( 44 points)

1. Write the missing words from this song. We are going to listen twice (12x2=24 points)

You can call me a 1. ______________ , you can call me a saint,
Celebrate me for who I am, dislike me for 2.______________ I ain't,
Put me up on a pedestal, or drag me down in the 3. ______________.
Sticks and 4. ______________ will break my bones
But your names will never 5. ______________.

I'll be the garden, you´ll be the 6. ______________,
All of my 7. ______________ is yours to take,
Better the devil that you 8. ______________.
Your love for me will grow 9. ______________ …

This is who I am, you can 10. ______________ it or not
You can 11. ______________  me or leave me,
´Cos I'm 12. ______________ gonna stop. No no.


2. Listen to the conversation and circle the correct answer. (5x4=20 points) - Challenge 2 / CD 2 / Track 40

  1. John is moving in the summer / winter.

  1. John´s new house is smaller / larger than his old house.

  1. John is getting a new desk / bed.

  1. Helen has got sisters / brothers.

  1. John´s new home has got / hasn´t got airconditioning.


SECTION II – VOCABULARY (40 points)


Dolor (pain)


Irse de vacaciones

De hecho
(in fact)

Cuidar

Sangre

Buscar


Ladrón (que entra en  casas)

Heredar

Descapotable

Probarse (ropa)


ChuchilloS

Alumno


Pertenecer

Recoger a alguien


Reservar

Culpable


Enamorarse de

Ratones


Dejar, abandonar una costumbre

Depender de



SECTION III – GRAMMAR  ( 102 points)

1. Complete the sentences with de past simple or the present perfect (you can find the verbs in brackets) according to the meaning (6x2=12 points)

1.1. We ___________________ (buy) his present and later we _______________ (meet) him in the street.
1.2. We ______________________ (go)  to the cinema because we _______________ (decide) it before.


2. Change these active sentences into the passive . (2x10=20 points)


2.1. The wonderful teacher explains the lesson very well.

_______________________________________________________

2.2. The terrific students understood the lesson in a minute.

_______________________________________________________


3. Express your agreement with the following statements. (3x5=15 points)

3.1. Yesterday I listened to the radio.
________________________________________________________

3.2. I am working very hard to improve my English.
________________________________________________________

3.3. I don´t like walking to my office.
________________________________________________________

4. Write two sentences telling two habits you had five years ago. Remember you have to use the right expression we have studied. (2x5=10)

4.1. _____________________________________________________

4.2. _____________________________________________________


5. Write a short explanation to show how could I go from Mecafast to the town hall in Azuqueca de Henares. (15 points)

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. Complete the sentences with the right preposition ON, AT or IN. (5x3=15 points)

6.1. We are having dinner with them _____ Sunday.
6.2. I don´t like driving _____ night.
6.3. My friends go shopping _____ the morning.
6.4. We could meet _____ the cinema.
6.5. The decoration is _____ roof, so everybody can see it.


7. Fill the spaces in the following sentences by using FOR or SINCE: (5x3=15 points)

7.1. They´ve been working ________ five or six hours.
7.2. Nobody has come to see us ________  we bought this small house.
7.3. She has been a doctor ________  1998
7.4. Nobody has seen her ________  then.
7.5. They have all been ill ________  the last week.


8. Change these direct speech sentences into reported. (5x4=20 points)

8.1. He said: “I don´t want to go”.
________________________________________________________

8.2. They said: “We will phone later”.
________________________________________________________

8.3. She said: “I haven´t broken that window”.
________________________________________________________
8.4. He said: “I can´t do it, I need some help”.
________________________________________________________


SECTION IV – PHONETICS (18 points)


Write the phonetic transcription for the following word (6x3=18)


-love
-car
-beautiful
-that
-cheap
-women



SECTION V – READING (32 points)

1. Read carefully the following text.

NEWS

The Minister was reading the newspaper as the nine o´clock news began on the radio. The newspapers were spread out on the table where the children´s breakfast bowls had been.
He read quickly, with little outward sign of annoyance or pleasure. It was said that only his closest fellow-ministers in Parliament could tell his moods at a time like this. But today´s selection of papers offered him little of interest. During his eighteen months as Minister for Northern Ireland, he had been kept out of the public eye. This morning he and his department weren´t mentioned.
The news was mostly foreign – South Africa and the mine strikes, changes in Spanish government. “In Belfast” – suddenly he was concentrating – “a city centre pub was destroyed by a car bomb. Two masked men had warned the customers to leave but the bomb went off before the area could be fully cleared. Three men were taken to hospital suffering from shock, but a witness said no-one was seriously hurt.”


2. True / False questions. (8x4=32 points)

2.1. The Prime Minister´s children were having breakfast while he was reading the newspaper.

2.2. The Minister was reading the newspaper because it was full of interesting news.

2.3. There was an article about a car bomb in South Africa.

2.4. Two men were serious hurt because of the car bomb.

2.5. It was easy to know the Prime Minister´s thoughts.

2.6. The Prime Ministers had two kids.

2.7. He had lived in Northern Ireland for eighteen months.

2.8. He had problems with his right eye when he had to talk in public.

  
SECTION VI – WRITING (35 points)

Write about 80-100 words on the following topic: is it useful to read newspapers nowadays?


27/01/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:
Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, concerning, convertible, clue, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, footstep, for, fork, FYI, get on/off, gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, inherit, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, new, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford,  to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to free, to give up, to go on holiday, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

 TODAY IN CLASS:
-Composiciones no corregidas…
-Fecha para el examen: 29/01/201: dudas y preguntas
-Phonetics: Corrección de la frase nº 3 que pusimos en el blog:
 3. Our chair is very comfortable, but it isn´t very cheap.
/
ˈaʊə ʧeə ɪz ˈverɪ ˈkʌmfətəbl bʌt ɪt (isnt) ˈverɪ ʧiːp/
-Corrección y LECTURA del reading: page 99, sección CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?, “Heart couple´s amazing coincidence”.
-Revisión del concepto de Reported Speech para corregir la fotocopia con frases.

HOMEWORK FOR NEXT 03/02/2014
-Ejercicios sobre REPORTED SPEECH de la sección 12B del GRAMMAR BANK, page 149.
-Traduce a inglés los siguientes tiempos verbales:

VERB TENSES

1. Habrán visto:          ________________________________________________
2. Habéis buscado:     ________________________________________________
3. Agitará:                  ________________________________________________
4. Fue:                        ________________________________________________
5. Dormiría:                ________________________________________________
6. Habíamos dicho:     ________________________________________________
7. Ella enciende:        ________________________________________________
8. Habríamos vendido: _________________________________________________
9. Había:                     ________________________________________________
10. Romperá:              ________________________________________________
11. Había sangrado:    ________________________________________________
12. Habrás encontrado (a alguien): _______________________________________

viernes, 24 de enero de 2014

22/01/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:
actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, concerning, convertible, clue, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, footstep, for, fork, FYI, get on/off, gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, new, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford,  to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to free, to give up, to go on holiday, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

 TODAY IN CLASS:
-Fecha para el examen: 29/01/201
-Acabamos la lectura de los textos de la page 92, con el ejercicio B de la section 1 READING AND SPEAKING, sobre los textos leídos.
-Corrección de page 92, ejercicio D de la section 2 GRAMMAR, sobre past perfect
-Corrección ejercicios sobre past perfect: BOOK,page 149, ejercicios A y B de la sección 12A
-Explicación del concepto de Reported Speech.
-Explicación de los cambios verbales en el Reported Speech tomando como referencia las frases de traducción de la fotocopia.
-Explicación del tema Reported Speech en el GRAMMAR BANK del libro, sección 12B, page 148.

HOMEWORK:
-Reading page 95, section 6 READING: “Here´s a secret” + ejercicio A + ejercicio C como redacción antes del domingo 26/01/2014  a mediodía por e-mail
-Fotocopia con frases para traducir sobre Reported Speech.
-Transcripción fonética de la frase siguiente: “Our chair is very comfortable, but it isn´t very cheap”.

martes, 21 de enero de 2014

20/01/2014, Monday

VOCABULARY:
actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, concerning, convertible, clue, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, footstep, for, fork, FYI, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, news, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford,  to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to book, to break into, to delete, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to give up, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,

 TODAY IN CLASS:
-Listening 5.13, page 91, sobre Rob, Jenny and Barbara:
*escuchar
*completar diálogo    
-Listening + video page 91, 5.15.
*page 87, sección 3 GRAMMAR , completamos el ejercicio B.
-Corrección pages 92 + 93: readings about “News round the world”, con lectura del texto + ejercicio A de la sección 1 READING AND SPEAKING 
-Análisis todas las frases que hemos elegido como opciones correctas para completar el texto del ejercicio anterior y llegamos a la conclusión de que:
*el texto está narrado en pasado
*la frase expresa una acción que ocurrió antes que el texto, en un pasado II
*usamos el past perfect: revisión de su formación
-Explicación de los HOMEWORK de las frases de preparación de REPORTED SPEECH

HOMEWORK:
-Page 92, ejercicio D de la section 2 GRAMMAR, sobre past perfect
-Traducción de frases de preparación de REPORTED SPEECH

FRASES PARA TRADUCCIÓN COMO PREPARACIÓN
PARA LA EXPLICACIÓN TEÓRICA DEL REPORTED SPEECH

1.Él dijo: “Estoy cansado”.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2.Tú dijiste: “Estaba cansado”.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4.Ellos dijeron: “Estamos esperando el autobús”
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3.Vosotros dijisteis: “Podemos estar cansados”
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4.Nosotros dijimos: “Hemos estado cansados”.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5.Ella dijo: “Había estado cansada
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6.Ellos dijeron: “Estaremos cansados”.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7.Yo dije: “Estaría cansado”.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

viernes, 17 de enero de 2014

15/01/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:
actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, chimney, choice, concerning, convertible, clue, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, footstep, for, fork, FYI, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford,  to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to book, to break into, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to give up, to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch,


TODAY IN CLASS:
-Corrección ejercicio B de la page 147, sección 11B 
-Corrección BOOK, page 147, los ejercicios A y B de la sección 11C sobre SO / NEITHER 
-Page 87, sección 4 PRONUNCIATION: pronunciación de las palabras cortas, que deben unirse de forma oral. Listening 5.4
-Pronunciación y fonética: BOOK, page 89, section 2, listening 5.7
-Phonetics: Corrección de la frase nº 2: That woman is very nice but those women aren´t.
-Práctica: cada alumno escribe una frase en simple past y la cambia con un compañero para que la complete con una acción anterior en past perfect.
-Explicación teórica del uso del past perfect: GRAMMAR BANK, page 148, section 12A

HOMEWORK:
-Ejercicios sobre past perfect: BOOK,page 149, ejercicios A y B de la sección 12A
-Reading: page 99, sección CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?, “Heart couple´s amazing coincidence”.

Contents for our exam (though we haven´t decided the date yet...)

-UNITS from the book:  9B, 9C,10A,10B,10C,11A, 11B,11C, 12A, 12B and 12C (¡espero que nos dé tiempo a ver las unidades 12B y 12C antes de la fecha del examen...!)

-SONGS: "Like it or not" (Madonna), "This is me" (Faith Hill) and "Santa Baby" (Kylie Minogue)
Remember that you can find those songs (listening and lyrics) in this blog.
En el examen habrá un ejercicio que consistirá en completar la letra de uno o varios fragmentos de una o varias de las canciones escuchadas en clase.

-VOCABULARY: All the words we are learning.

-GRAMMAR:
*Cuándo duplicamos consonante (big > bigger)
*Uso contrastado del Past Simple y del Present Perfecgt
*Voz pasiva
*Uso de las preposiciones AT, IN, ON
*For / since
*Cómo dar indicaciones de direcciones
*Used to / didn´t use to
*Might, may, could y can para indicar probabilidad
*Can y may para dar o pedir permiso
*Preposiciones de ubicación y movimiento
*Phrasal verbs
*So / neither
*Past perfect
*Reported speech (aún lo tenemos que ver en clase)
*Transcripción fonética de palabras o frases

-TEXTS: READING, LISTINING AND ERROR CORRECTION
*Listening que no hayamos escuchado en clase
*Reading de un texto que no hayamos leído en clase
*Corrección de errores ortográficos / gramaticales en un texto que sí hayamos leído en clase

-CONSEJOS:
*Para quienes se hayan incorporado más tarde al curso: no os preocupéis, se tendrá en cuenta ese hecho diferencial.
*Para quienes lleváis en el curso desde el comienzo: no temáis, estaréis sobradamente preparados para enfrentaros a este desafío.

martes, 14 de enero de 2014

13/01/2014, Monday

VOCABULARY:
actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, armchair, ASAP, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cave, chimney, choice, concerning, convertible, clue, curly, date, demonstration, earthquake, eve, faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, footstep, for, fork, FYI, go straight on, guilty, guy, ham, hammer, hill, huge, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, knife, lazy, leather, likely, loan, lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, once upon a time, owner, PE, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, selfish, shark, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, so, spoon, stage, stepmother, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford,  to argue, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to arrive in, to arrive at, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to book, to break into, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to give up, to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, turn left, turn right, umpire, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, yatch, 

 TODAY IN CLASS:
-Entrega de correcciones de composiciones.
-Corrección reading, page 88, text “I´m Jim” “So am I”, contestando a las preguntas del ejercicio B de la sección 1 GRARMMAR. -Page 88, Listening 5.5, ejercicio C: sin leer el texto.
-Page 88, Listening 5.5., completar las palabras que faltan en el ejercicio, sobre SO + NEITHER
-GRAMMAR BANK: explicación en page 146, section 11C:
*lectura de los ejemplos del cuadro blanco
*explicación de la teoría
*lectura de la tabla
-Práctica: cada uno piensa una frase en primera persona con los tiempos verbales siguientes:
*simple present: I live in Azqueca
*present continuous: I´m getting bored in class
*simple past: I went to Hawaii ten years ago
Cada uno dice una frase y el siguiente alumno tiene que mostrar acuerdo o desacuerdo con lo que ha dicho. Incluimos explicación de acuerdo positivo (=so) con lo dicho anteriormente por el interlocutor o acuerdo negativo (=neither) con lo dicho anteriormente por el interlocutor
-Page 88, Listening 5.5.: corrección y explicación de las respuestas.
-Corrección texto BOOK, page 89, section 4 VOCABULARY.

HOMEWORK:
-BOOK, page 147, los ejercicios A y B de la sección 11C
-Book, pages 92 + 93: readings about “News round the world” + ejercicio A de la sección 1 READING AND SPEAKING