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This blog has been designed to provide information about the activities held at the social studies bilingual sections in CPI Tino Grandío (Guntín,Spain). The English language and Social Studies teachers have elaborated most of the resources you can see but our "auxiliares de conversa" also have their own page and posts. Therefore everyone is invited to have a look .
Showing posts with label hot potatoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hot potatoes. Show all posts
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Revision tests for ESO-4 English language students
- Unit 1 (risks and dangers / future tenses)
- Unit 2 (royalty / films and television / relative clauses / some & any)
- Unit 3 (mysteries / present perfect / past simple / used to)
- Unit 4 (social interaction / city life / conditional sentences)
- Unit 5 (marketing & shopping / the passive)
- Unit 6 (environment / recycling / reported speech)
- Unit 7 (health / modals)
- Unit 8 (the senses / gerund & infinitives)
- Unit 9 (revision of units 1-8)
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
New Revision Tests for 3ºESO Students
Here are some revision tests for 3º ESO students to check their units:
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Revision of tenses for 3º ESO
Revision of tenses units 1 to 5:
Try this Hot Potatoes test to revise your tenses:
- present simple
- present continuous
- past simple
- past continuous
- present perfect
Try this Hot Potatoes test to revise your tenses:
- present simple
- present continuous
- past simple
- past continuous
- present perfect
- going to future
- future simple
Monday, February 23, 2015
Revision of already/just/never/ever/for/since
Hot Potatoes exercise. Practise using these adverbs correctly.
MORE ABOUT PRESENT PERFECT
FORM & USE

EXERCISES
TYPICAL ADVERBS
PAST SIMPLE & PRESENT PERFECT - CONTRAST
MORE ABOUT PRESENT PERFECT
FORM & USE

- Present Perfect is used for actions in the past which have a connection to the present. The time when these actions happened is not relevant so there is often no time complement.
- Present Perfect is used for recently completed actions. Actions that take place in a recent past.
- Present Perfect is also used for actions beginning in the past that continue up to the present.
EXERCISES
- BBC
- Present perfect man (www.isabelperez.com)
- Exercise 1 (www-englisch-hilfen.de)
- Exercise 2 (www.englisch-hilfen.de)
- English at home: grammar and exercises
- Hot Potatoes exercise
- Unit 3 final test
- Affirmative senteces in present perfect
- Negative sentences in present perfect (www.ego4u.com)
- Sentences with "never" in present perfect (www.ego4u.com)
- Questions in present perfect (www.ego4u.com)
- Exercise: affirmative, negative or question (Perfect English Grammar)
- Exercise 2 : affirmative, negative or question (Perfect English Grammar)
- Choose the right verb form (Using English)
- Choose the right verb (British Council)
- Put the sentences in order
TYPICAL ADVERBS
- ever / never / just / already / yet
- exercise from Grammar Bank
- exercise from Baladre Info
- exercise from To Learn English: yet/already/for/since
PAST SIMPLE & PRESENT PERFECT - CONTRAST
- past simple or present perfect (English Hilfen)
- past simple or present perfect (Study Zone)
- ESL lounge
- English Grammar Secrets
- Perfect English Grammar
- Perfect English Grammar 2
- Isabel Pérez -exercise 1
- Isabel Pérez -exercise 2
TEXTS
Friday, February 20, 2015
Monday, October 27, 2014
Political organisation: the European Union
Monday, October 13, 2014
States of the world
UNIT 2 - States of the world
- planet
GAMES
- Sheppard Software: world continents
- World Geography Games
- Jet Punk Quiz (all the countries in 12 minutes-English)
- Jet Punk Quiz (all the countries in 12 minutes -Spanish)
- Purpose Games: find the country
- The Guardian: How well do you know the world?
- Lizard Point Quizzes
- Trivia Plaza Quizzes
VIDEO: JUSTIN BIEBER VERSUS ARDEN HAYES
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Friday, September 19, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Song: Hey Brother
Listen to the song by AVICI and try to fill the blanks in the following activity.

Go to the ESL Video activity for this song
More songs in the Song Page of this blog.

Go to the ESL Video activity for this song
More songs in the Song Page of this blog.
Monday, March 17, 2014
CLIL Spain in the 19th century
These are all the resouces you'll find in our blog for this ESO-4 unit:
UNIT 8 - Spain in the 19th century
Sunday, March 2, 2014
"Treasure" by Bruno Mars
This gap-fill activity was designed for you to listen to the song and complete the lyrics with the missing words. So listen to it and click on the activity.
Now, click on the Hot Potatoes activity.
If you want to listen to more songs, try at our Song page in this blog.
Now, click on the Hot Potatoes activity.
If you want to listen to more songs, try at our Song page in this blog.
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Revision of present perfect
In this unit we are going to revise present perfect simple tense.
This is the sheet were the image was taken from.
If you want extra revision about how to form or use present perfect, I hope these links will help you:
This is the sheet were the image was taken from.
If you want extra revision about how to form or use present perfect, I hope these links will help you:
Saturday, November 30, 2013
ESO-3 The economy
Friday, November 8, 2013
Revision of present simple

More exercises from Isabel Pérez's website
This Hot Potatoes exercise will let you practise the form of
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
ESL / EFL prepositions of time: ON, IN, AT
On, in and at are the three most common prepostions of time. These are the rules for using them correctly:
ON
IN
AT
MORE PRACTICE:
ON
- days of the week: Sunday, Wednesday
- dates : 5th October 2015
- specific dates: Christmas day
- parts of a day: Sunday morning, Wednesday evening
IN
- months: July, December
- the four seasons: (the) spring, summer, autumn, winter
- years: 2014, 2053, 1833
- parts of the day: the morning, the afternoon, the evening
AT
- night
- the weekend
- Christmas, Easter
- times: 5 o'clock, 9:45
- the moment
- present
MORE PRACTICE:
Monday, December 3, 2012
ESO-4 subject and object questions
Most questions are object questions. They ask about an object.
Where do you live?
Who did you see?
And there are also subject questions. Questions we ask to find out about the subject. These questions are asked using 'who', 'what' and 'which'.
Who plays football in this class?
What happened?
Which machine did Marconi invent?
You can take a look at the following chart of question forms:
Now, try this Hot Potatoes exercise and choose the correct question.
Where do you live?
Who did you see?
And there are also subject questions. Questions we ask to find out about the subject. These questions are asked using 'who', 'what' and 'which'.
Who plays football in this class?
What happened?
Which machine did Marconi invent?
You can take a look at the following chart of question forms:
Form | Examples |
Object Questions wh- + auxiliary + subject + main verb | Where do you live? What will you do? When is she coming? |
Subject Questions
wh- (=subject) + auxiliary + main verb Notice that this structure is like affirmative sentence structure without the question word. |
Who loves you? Which car will arrive first? What type of food costs less? |
Now, try this Hot Potatoes exercise and choose the correct question.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
ESO-3 revision for your exam
This term our first exam paper will correspond to the first two units in our text book plus the additional activities carried out in other classes. So you have to revise:
Finally remember to revise last year's exam to get an idea of what you might expect this year.
- be
- have got
- present simple
- present continuous
- how to get personal information
- how to describe people
- how to compare people and things
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Happy Verby Gang-www.isabelperez.com |
Finally remember to revise last year's exam to get an idea of what you might expect this year.
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
ESL / EFL comparatives and superlatives
These last weeks we have been studying comparative and superlative structures in our classes. This chart summarizes the main points that you have to keep in mind:
If you want to download the worksheet used in class, click here and if you want to check if you already know this grammar structure, you may try this Hot Potatoes exercise.
If you want to download the worksheet used in class, click here and if you want to check if you already know this grammar structure, you may try this Hot Potatoes exercise.
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