Revision of first type conditional sentences

The first conditional is also called the "real" conditional because it is used for real, or possible, situations. These situations take place if a certain condition is met.
In the first conditional we can salso use unless, which means "if... not". In other words, "... unless he hurries up" could also be written, "... if he doesn't hurry up."

• If it rains, we will stay at home.
• He will arrive late unless he hurries up.
• Sophie will buy a new car, if he gets his raise.

The first conditional is formed by the use of the present simple in the if clause followed by a comma and a future simple verb (will + infinitive) in the result clause. You can also put the result clause first without using a comma between the clauses.

• If he finishes on time, we will go to the movies.

OR

• We will go to the movies if he finishes on time.

Next year we are going to study the second conditional structure.

If you want to do some more exercises you might try these ones:

• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3
• exercise 4
• exercise 5
• exercise 6

These sheet contains a summary of first, second and third type conditional sentences.

Future tenses: will & going to

These are some interesting websites to revise future tenses in English at lower intermediate level:

• Isabel Pérez: tenses website

GOING TO:

• Isabel Pérez: Going to boy
• Englisch Hilfen exercise
• 
  

WILL:

• Isabel Pérez: Mister Will
• Englisch Hilfen exercise

Mixed tenses:

• Exercise 1_ My English Pages
• Exercise 2: Grammar Bank
• Exercise 3: Ego4u
• Exercise 4: English Exercises
• Exercise 5: Englisch Hilfen
• Exercise 6: Better English
• Exercise 7: Using English 
• Exercise 8 : English Page

Adolfo Suárez has died

picture from Wikipedia

Adolfo Suárez, Spain's first Prime Minister following Franco's dictatorship, the man who led a successful transition to democracy, died on Sunday afternoon.

Why was he so relevant?

• He was King Juan Carlos closest collaborator during Transición (1976-1981).
• He engineered the process that led to the Referendum to pass the Constitución of 1978 and the first democratic elections.
• During his term most of the laws from the former Dictatorship were changed and made democratic.
• The Communist party became legal.
• He defended democracy during the coup d'état lead that took place on February 23, 1981, when guard Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero and a group of the armed men stormed into Congress the day lawmakers were voting on the prime minister’s successor, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo.

Read this news in English

• El Pais
• BBC
• NY Times

Hilarious students' mistakes

Before giving in your exam to your teacher, PLEASE, check your answers, just in case something like this might happen:

from http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/photos/hilarious-funny-test-answers

from http://www.kulfoto.com/funny-pictures/41718/an-example-of-a-risk

from http://www.gagful.com/8696/what-is-the-strongest-force-on-earth.html

from http://www.gagbay.com/gag/hcoona_appended_with_matata_on_chemistry_exam-96642/

from http://ramonacreel.com/you-gotta-have-some-fun/funny-exam-answers/

from http://www.pinterest.com/sewcraftyangel/kids-excuse-notes/

from http://mozey.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/funny-exam-answers/

from http://joyreactor.com/post/389780

from http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/07/funny-exam-answers-gcse-a-levels_n_3401507.html#slide=2542844

from http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/photos/hilarious-funny-test-answers

from http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/03/01/pupils-hilarious-exam-answers-funnyexam-com/

from http://www.drheckle.net/2012/05/where-was-american-declaration-of.html

"Too" versus "Enough"

Too and Enough

Too and enough indicate degree. They are used with adjectives.

• Too means more than what is needed.
• Enough means sufficient.

Examples

• You are too young to vote.
• Jim is intelligent enough to do the right thing.
• You're not driving fast enough .
• I don't have enough money. 
• He has too many friends.
• They have got too much patience.

Use of too and enough

1. Enough precedes adjectives and adverbs:
1. He isn't old enough to watch that film. 
2. We're not running quickly enough.
2. Enough may also precede nouns:
1. We have enough time. 
2. I don't have enough money to buy this computer.
3. Too comes before adjectives and adverbs:
1. It's too hot to wear that coat. 
2. I was driving too fast.
4. Too may also come before nouns when it is used with the expressions too much and too many.
1. Too much is used before uncountable nouns.
• There is too much vinegar in this salad.
2. Too many is used before countable nouns
• There are too many desks in this classroom.

Online exercises

• Grammarbank
• To Learn English
• My English Pages

Revision of 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:

• more detailed grammar rules 
• written exercise (printable sheet)
• exercise sheet
• this Hot Potatoes exercise.
• geography quizz
• crosswords from the BBC Learning English website
• English at home: grammar summary
• English at home: online exercise
• Englisch-hilfen comparatives 1
• Englisch-hilfen comparatives 2
• Englisch-hilfen superlatives 1
• Englisch-hilfen superlatives 2
• Englisch-hilfen as...as
• Compare these two pictures by Luana Fischer:

St Patrick's day by Taylor Matherly

This is the presentation that Taylor has made for you to learn about St. Patrick's day:

St Patrick's day from Ana Arias Castro

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

- unit 8

- presentation 8

- glossary 8

- additional text from Wikipedia-Goya

- additional text from Wikipedia-Spanish monarchs

- additional text from Wikipedia-The 19th century
- revision test
- match the names
- match the people
- match the dates
- match the periods
- crosswords
- fill the gaps

- audio1

- audio2

- audio3

- audio4

- audio5

New video activities for history classes

ESL video

These are the latest ESL video activities for our CLIL history classes in 4º ESO:

• UNIT 2: Schoolhouse Rock: No More Kings
• UNIT 2: The Yellow Rose of Texas
• UNIT 3: The French Revolution in a Nutshell
• UNIT 4: Napoleon: the Spanish Ulcer
• UNIT 5: The Industrial Revolution
• UNIT 6: Scramble for Africa
• UNIT 7: The Unification of Italy

Presentation about The Philippines

This is Sheila Souto's presentation about the Philippines. It is part of our project about English-speaking countries.

Philippines from Ana Arias Castro

You can see the rest of the presentations in our project at our blog page.

Explorers Henry Stanley and David Livingstone

If you want to learn about these two famous explorers, the following presentations by Ana Seijas (Livingstone) and Noelia Vigo (Stanley) will let you learn a lot about them:

David Livingstone from NoeliaVigo

This presentation was made by Ana Seijas (4º ESO)


This  presentation about Stanley was made by Noelia Vigo (4º ESO)

"Happy" by Pharrell Williams

This activity at ESL Video will let you listen to Happy and understand it better. There is a gap-fill activity with missing words in the song and you can also read the whole transcript of the song.

ESL Video "Happy" activity

You can enjoy more songs and their EFL activities in our "Song for EFL students" page in this blog.


More songs and activities for English as a Foreign Language students.

"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.

ESO-4 Modal Verbs

These are the main modal verbs that we have been studying in class:

If you need to revise this chart or do some extra exercises, click on the following links:

• Basic verbs and written exercise (printable)
• Hot Potatoes exercise 
• Mustn't / don't-doesn't have to - exercise
• Should / shouldn't - exercise
• Grammar for ESO-3
• Grammar for ESO-4 and BAC-1