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 connectors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label connectors. Show all posts

Monday, November 26, 2018

How to improve your essays

Compare these two texts:


TEXT 1: TOBY

Toby got up at 6 o’clock.
Toby had a bone for breakfast.
Toby was happy.
Toby jumped and ran.
Toby played with Ron and Pastor.
Toby went to the river.
Toby swam.
Toby liked the river.
Toby went back home.
Toby had dog food for dinner.
Toby barked at a cat.
Toby went into his shed.
Toby slept at 11 o’clock.

Monday, October 29, 2018

Writing a text about everyday life

Every day I get up at 7:00 and I go downstairs for breakfast. I usually have a glass of orange juice and a large cup of tea and toast. I don't usually have coffee, just sometimes at the weekend. I always read the newspaper while I'm having breakfast.

Later I go upstairs, have a shower and get dressed. Then I pack my books for school and go to school by car. I drive to school in my car because I live 10 km away from school. After that I am at school for about 4-6 hours. I sometimes have lunch at school, a sandwich and some fruit but I don't like having lunch at school because it is rather stressful.

After school, at 4.30 I go back home and rest for about half an hour. Then I have another cup of tea and prepare my classes for the following day: check my students' work, prepare exams, etc.
At about 7,00 I often go for a walk or walk on a treadmill for one hour because I like to do exercise.
After that I have dinner, usually fruit or yoghurt but never meat or fish.

In the evening I always read for over an hour and I often watch TV or surf the net before I go to bed. However, I don't watch TV if I don't like the programmes they are showing.
On weekdays I go to bed at about 11:00 and fall asleep very quickly.
  • RED: frequency and time expressions
  • BLACK: frequency adverbs
  • BLUE: sequencing
  • ORANGE: sentence linking

Monday, November 6, 2017

Basic connectors

These are the basic connectors for writing or telling a story in the past:

  • First,
  • Second,
  • Then,
  • Next,
  • After that,
  • Later (on),
  • Finally,

EXAMPLE:

Yesterday I had a great day. First, I woke up at 7 o'clock in the morning and then I had breakfast. Next, I read a book for about two hours. Later on I did some exercises and watched TV for one hour.

At 1 my sister and I cooked lunch and then all the family had lunch together. Then, we went for a walk and returned home at 6.

After that, I studied for two hours but I didn't study French or English.  At 9 o'clock we had dinner and finally we went to bed at 11.

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Revision for 4ºESO exam

EXAM
  1. Choose the correct tense of the verbs in each of the sentences given:
    1. present simple
    2. present continuous
    3. past simple
    4. past continuous
    5. present perfect
    6. future simple (will)
    7. going to
    8. conditional (would)
  2. Use the right conditional form
  3. Compare elements from a group of elements given
  4. Writing topics (choose 2 out of 4 or 5)
    1. used to
    2. modal verbs
    3. conditionals
    4. tenses (present, past and future)
GRAMMAR