EOI Nivel Básico 2

Bye, bye!

2009-03-23T15:12:00.000+01:00

Well, this is all, folks! It's time for me to say goodbye and I just want to thank you all. It's been a real pleasure!

Thanks to all,
Mariluz

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

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Do the activity below while you watch this video:

(See transcript here)

UNIT 6B. Roles people play

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Grammar: Superlative adjectives. Game
Superlatives (1)
Superlatives (2)

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

2009-03-17T10:17:00.002+01:00

Today is St Patrick's Day, the patron saint of Ireland. Learn about its legend and do the quiz below.

If you have time try the Ireland quiz!

Unit 6. Life with teenagers

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Grammar:
Comparative adjectives. Grouping game
Comparatives: as...as, less than (1)
Comparatives: as...as, less than (2)
Comparatives: as...as, more than, -er than

Vocabulary:
Personality adjectives crossword

Unit 5. REQUESTS, OFFERS AND SUGGESTIONS

2009-03-10T13:44:00.002+01:00

Hi,

Check this website to learn how to make requests and do the exercises.
Check this website to learn how to make offers and suggestions and do the exercises.

Listening:
Could you do me a favour? (See transcript here.)
Pick Up Places. Jonathan and Jeff talk about places to meet women. (See transcript here.)

UNIT 5 B. NEVER TOO OLD

2009-03-03T11:47:00.005+01:00

GRAMMAR:
The Future with "Will"
The future with "Be Going To"
Going to & Will 1
Going to & Will 2
Will or Going to?

Verb patterns
Gerund after prepositions
Verbs with prepositions

LISTENING:
What are your plans for tonight?
Wish list Quiz (See transcript here)

SONG: LEAN ON ME + PENELOPE CRUZ'S SPEECH AT THE OSCARS

2009-02-26T13:06:00.008+01:00

Lean on me by Bill Withers

Michael Bolton (Karaoke version). Sing along!

This is taken from Self-learning EOI Coruña:

And the Oscar goes to ... Penélope Cruz

This is not going to be 45 seconds, I can say that right now. Has anybody ever fainted here? Because I might be the first one. Thank you so much to the Academy. I want to share this with my fellow nominees and with the amazing ensemble of actors that I had the privilege to work with in this movie. Thank you, Woody, for trusting me with this beautiful character. Thank for you having written over all these years some of the greatest characters for women. And I cannot talk about great female characters without thanking my friend Pedro Almodóvar for having made me part of so many of his adventures. Thank you, Bigas Luna, Fernando Trueba, for giving me my first movies. Thank you, Harvey Weinstein. I wanted to dedicate this to my parents and to my brother and sister, to my friend Robert Garlock, who is not with us anymore, and to everyone who has helped me from the beginning and you know who you are and I thank you from my heart.

I grew up in a place called Alcobendas, where this was not a very realistic dream. And I, always on the night of the Academy Awards, I stayed up to watch the show and I always felt that this was, this ceremony was a moment of unity for the world because art, in any form, is and has been and will always be our universal language and we should do everything we can, everything we can, to protect its survival. So I thank you so much and I have to say something in Spanish, because everyone: Todos los que desde España ahora estén compartiendo este momento conmigo y sientan que esto también es de ellos, se los dedico. Y a todos los actores de mi país. Muchisimas gracias.Thank you so much.

UNIT 5. Into the future

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Grammar:
will / won't for predictions (1)
will / won't for predictions (2)
will / won't for promises, offers, decisions (1)
will / won't for promises, offers, decisions (2)
might for possibility
present, past and future of can
review of tenses (1)
review of tenses (2)

Listening:
Cars of the future quiz (See transcript here)
Future talk and kids (See transcript here)

CONFUSING WORDS

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ANOTHER/THE OTHER
OTHER, ANOTHER, OTHERS, THE OTHERS 1
OTHER, ANOTHER, OTHERS, THE OTHERS 2

TRIP, VOYAGE, EXPEDITION, JOURNEY, TRAVEL

SAY/TELL 1
SAY/TELL 2

FINISH/END 1
FINISH/END 2

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

2009-02-12T12:45:00.007+01:00

As you all know, next Saturday is Saint Valentine's Day, so here you have some links and activities related to the festivity of love. Enjoy!

Article: The language of Love
Listening: Valentine's Day around the World
Quiz activity
Valentine Cards
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE by the Beatles (with subtitles in English and Spanish)

Karaoke on line

2009-02-11T10:37:00.001+01:00

Singing songs is an excellent way of improving your pronunciation. So I have found this excellent karaoke site . It is called Karaoke Party

and the great thing is that if you register you can actually get a score for your singing when you hit the right notes! but if you don't have a microphone you can still sing the songs!

No excuses . Get singing right now!

Blog entry taken from Blog de Cristina

January Exam

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Aquí tenéis los archivos que contienen el examen que realizasteis en enero con las respuestas y las transcripciones de los archivos de audio. Poned el cursor encima del archivo que deseéis guardar, haced click en el botón derecho del ratón y elegid la opción "download" para poder guardar los archivos en vuestro ordenador.

Extra practice:
Listening about jobs with a different exercise
Listening about Santa Claus with a different exercise. See transcript here.

SONG: YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE

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Diana Ross and the Supremes

Phil Collins version

Karaoke version. Sing along!

ORAL EXAM: example of a task

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Hi,
Here is an example of an official oral task. It's task 2, an interaction among students, and this is just what you'll be tested about. Have a look at it and good luck!

Extra listenings for the exam

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Click on the images to print the activities. There you can check the answers to the questions and read the transcripts.

UNIT 4. TV or not TV?

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TV addiction quiz
Listen to a girl talking about how much TV she watches and answer the questions. You can read the transcript by clicking SHOW TEXT/HIDE TEXT.
Listen to another girl talkig about TV preferences and answer the questions. You can read the transcript by clicking ON while you listen.
Listen to a man talking about films and answer the questions. You can read the transcript by clicking on TRANSCRIPT.
Vocabulary: -ed/ing adjectives 1 | 2| 3

Recursos: yappr.com

2009-01-23T23:25:00.003+01:00

Practica y aprende inglés de la manera divertida con entretenidos videos en www.yappr.com.

No hace falta registrarse, aunque es gratis e interesante. Con darle al botón 'videos', elegís el nivel (fácil), y véis los videos con subtítulos en inglés y en español.

¡Recomendado!

Blog entry taken from Sergio Viñals's blog

EXAM MATERIAL

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Sorry to keep you waiting, I've been having problems with my Internet connection. Here are some activities to practice for the exam. All of them have the key for you to check your answers. Just click on the images and print them. Best of luck!

Reading
Part 1: Headings

Part 2: Multiple choice

Part 3: Gap filling

Listening
Part 1: Headings

Part 2: Multiple choice

Part 3: Gap filling

UNIT 4. Present perfect and simple past

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Present perfect or past simple? 1, 2, 3, 4

More exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4

Game: Past participles

Dictation quiz

UNIT 4. That's entertainment!

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Game: Types of films

Listening: Which is better, watching a movie at home or at the cinema?

Test: Are you a Star Wars freak?

Watch the Clone Wars movie trailer at Subtitled movie trailers!

Unit 3. I'm really sorry

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Hi!

Here's a link to an excellent website to review and expand all you learnt in class about apologies.
Now, practise with some exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4

Finally, listen to the song Apologize by One Republic

Here you can read the lyrics and learn about the general meaning of the song

Unit 3. Strange jobs

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Read about some strange jobs
Listen to people talking about cool jobs and bad jobs and do the quizzes 1 , 2 (intermediate)
Suffixes games 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Unit 3. Job hunting

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Reading comprehension: applying for a job
Grammar:
Action and state verbs
Present continuous
Present simple or continuous?1, 2, 3

Do versus Doing Exercise 1, 2, 3

Unit 3. Extra exercises

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Grammar:
Have to and don't have to
Have to and have got to
Have got to

Vocabulary:
Work and working conditions
Office jobs, relationships
Life events, professions

Unit 3. The World of Work.

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Vocabulary: Job families Can you find your job?
Listening: Listen to this girl talking about her first job and complete the sentences.

Grammar:
Have to/Don't have to/Must/Mustn't 1, 2
Had to/didn't have to/ did you have to
Can/can't/have to/don't have to

Unit 2. Song: I Got You Babe (by Sonny and Cher) with Karaoke

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UB40 & Chrissie Hynde I Got You version with karaoke

Britney Spears & Frank Skinner I Got You version

Unit 2. Video: Are you married? (+ other questions)

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Watch the video and notice how the interviewer asks about marital status and other extra information in English:

Use a dictionary to guess the meaning of these difficult words and expressions from the video:

By the way - How dare you ask me? - Not any more - Heck, no!

Marital Status exercise

Unit 2. Extra practice: past simple or continuous?

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Grammar:
Past simple or continuous (sentences)
Past simple or continuous (text)

Vocabulary:
Marriage and weddings in the UK
The Wedding Feast Part 1 (dictation)
The Wedding Feast Part2 (dictation)

US Election 2008

2008-11-04T10:44:00.003+01:00

Listening about Obama: PDF and audio (the one we did in class)

Electing a US President in plain English (with subtitles)

Song: Thriller

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Halloween is on Friday, the 31st of October. Have a look at this page to know about this festivity!

A song to sing and dance in Halloween: Thriller, by Michael Jackson (with Spanish subtitles).

Karaoke version. Sing along!

Unit 2. First meetings.

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Past continuous extra practice:1, 2,3,4,5,6,7

Vocabulary: marry, be married, get married

I'm a Believer

Unit 2. Beginnings

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Starting small: KFC McDonalds Ben&Jerry (Make your own ice-cream)

Listening: Joe's Hamburger restaurant (easy)
Listening: Snack time (easy)
Listening: A healthy lifestyle (medium)
Video: Dina did 6 things yesterday

Past simple (regular and irregular)
Past simple (regular and irregular 2)
Pronunciation of -ed exercise

Unit 1. Speed dating

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Speed dating web pages: 1, 2, 3

Listen to this girl expressing her opinion on speed dating and complete the sentences.

Agreeing and disagreeing: so do I, neither do I

So/Neither quizzes: 1, 2, 3, 4

(You can find extra practice in unit 43 of Essential Grammar in Use)

Auxiliary verbs quiz: do, does, is, are, did, was & were

Unit 1. Time to relax

2008-10-17T10:16:00.013+02:00

British life and culture

Free time activities

Frequency adverbs game

Adverbs of frequency exercise

Vocabulary: Sports

Click here to find a sport you don't know much about. What can you find about it?

Unit 1. Super commuters

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Articles on super commuters:
The rise of the super commuter
The new commuter belt

Vocabulary: jobs

Subject and object questions quiz

Unit 1. Work, rest and play

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Hi everybody!

Here you have some useful links connected with verb tenses and question words:

To be-simple present

To have-simple present

Simple present-agreement exercise

Yes/no questions

Information questions

Question words 1

Question words 2

Question words 3

And don't forget to visit Jamie Oliver's site!

Materiales y recursos para la clase (NB2)

2008-10-13T09:11:00.000+02:00

Hola a tod@s

Los libros que usaremos durante el curso serán los siguientes:

face2face Pre-intermediate (Cambridge)
Student's Book + Workbook with key

Por último, y a modo de sugerencia, existen diversos libros para el refuerzo de la gramática. Como sugerencia, aquellos alumnos interesados pueden adquirir el libro Essential Grammar in Use (3rd Edition with answers and CD) (Cambridge) y trabajar con él en casa, ya que incluye el CD y las soluciones. Este libro en ningún caso es obligatorio.

See you soon!

Bienvenidos al blog de NB2 (Nivel Básico 2)

2008-10-13T09:09:00.000+02:00

Hola a todos.

Bienvenidos al Blog de Nivel Básico 2 (NB2) de la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Majadahonda.

Este blog os servirá como complemento a las clases presenciales, y será actualizado periódicamente con el fin de que podáis acceder fácilmente desde casa y repasar los contenidos vistos en clase.

Espero que os sirva de ayuda y que disfrutéis de esta nueva experiencia.

Un saludo.

Mariluz