April Fool's Day. Easytext 12

Hi, everybody! Today's reading is April Fool's Day

Nuestro Proyecto Bilingüe

Click on this link and find out what our bilingual project is like:
 IES Miguel de Cervantes Bilingual Project

I am a veterinarian

LISTENING AND READING:
This page has easy readings, too.  I am a veterinarian

English exercises for Secundaria and Bachillerato

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The Ghost Teacher

Activities on The Ghost Teacher:
1 Plot summary (Resumen del argumento)
2 Introduction and chapter 1
3 Chapters 2 an 3
4 Chapter 4 to 6
5 Epilogue

English schools in the 1930s

HAVE FUN!

My own story

My own story

Easy text 11

Click on the following link: shopping from home

Easy text 10

Today's short text is: A good idea

Viaje a Londres

sde desde Hola a todos:
Estamos organizando un viaje de varios días  a Londres para 4º de ESO y Bachillerato.
 El precio total sería 345 €  que incluiría 4 noches de hotel  de 3 estrellas con desayuno, avión y los traslados del hotel al aeropuerto. He quedado con la agencia en que el  miércoles, 13 de febrero vendrán  a recoger el dinero  de la reserva ; 150 € por persona.
Por favor os pediría que aquellos que ya estén seguros de que vayan a ir me lo comuniquen poniendo su nombre y curso en comentarios (abajo).
Un saludo

Irregular verbs

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irregular verbs 1

irregular verbs 2

Easy text 9

CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK: Police work

Easy text 8

Click on this link: Surprise

easy text 7

CLICK ON THE LINK:  IS ANYBODY THERE?

2º TERM READER (1º BACHILLERATO)

El reader para la 2ª evaluación es  The Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler. Adaptada por Rosalie Kerr.
Oxford Bookworms Library. Stage 4

Reported Speech

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REPORTED SPEECH:  En el "estilo indirecto"  (Reported Speech)le contamos a una persona lo que dijo alguien en un momento anterior. Ejemplo:
Estilo directo:  " Iré a ver a mi abuela mañana" dijo Antonio.
Estilo indirecto: Antonio dijo que iría a ver a su abuela al día siguiente.
En inglés el estilo indirecto (reported speech) es muy similar pero hay diferencias en ciertas estructuras.  Aquí tenéis un resumen.

1 STATEMENTS

• Reporting verbs: say / tell (+object) “they told me…
• Estructura: Regla del “one tense back”: Cuando pasamos a estilo indirecto el tiempo del verbo cambia al tiempo pasado anterior:

DIRECT SPEECH.................................REPORTED/INDIRECT SPEECH 

present simple “I play football every day”	past simple he said (that) he played football every day
present continuous "we are playing computer games now"	past continuous  he said (that) he was playing computer games then
past simple "My sister  bought a camera yesterday”	past perfect he said (that) his sister had bought a camera the day before.
present perfect . " They have seen John"	past perfect She said (that) they had seen John
past perfect . "They had forgiven him”	past perfect Lisa told me (that) they had forgiven him"
Future “will” “It will rain this evening”	Conditional “would” She said that it would rain this evening

VERBOS MODALES

*la mayoría de los modales NO cambian

“He should go home “ ------- he said that he should go home

PERO: : can---------------could

           will ...................would 

           have to-----------had to

            must …..............had to

2 QUESTIONS

• Reporting verb: ask
• Estructura : One-tense-back rule./ La pregunta sigue la estructura de claúsula afirmativa, no interrogativa 

1 EX: “Where are you going”?------------------- he asked where I was going.

What do you want? ---- she asked what I wanted

2 “Do you like music?” ---------- she asked him if / whether he liked music

3 ORDER, REQUESTS, ADVICE

• Reporting verbs: Order, tell, ask, advise, encourage, remind, warn
• Estructura :Subject +reporting verb + subject + “to infinive”

Ex: “get the information”, she said------ she asked me to get the information

She advised us to get the information

• En negativas se usa “not” delante del infinitivo
  • She asked me not to sell the car

4 SUGGESTIONS

• Reporting Verb : suggest
• Estructuras:
  • 1 he suggested that …
  • 2 he suggested + ing-verb

Ex: “let’s go to the cinema”----- She suggested that we (should) go to the cinema

She suggested going to the cinema 

OTHER CHANGES 

Time and place expressions

Now …………………………………then today / tonight………………………that day / that night yesterday……………………………the day before, the previous day tomorrow…………………………….the next / following day, next week / month………………… the following week / month last week / month……………….… the previous week / month, the week / month before a week / month ago …………….…the week / month before here …………………………………there

Demonstratives

This……………..that these …………..those

Easy text 6

Camila and Karen

Camila and Karen are good friends. Camila is fifteen and

Karen is fourteen.

"We are different, but we are also similar. That is why we

are good friends!" says Karen.

The girls really are different! Camila is short. l-ler hair is

short and black and straight and her eyes are black.

Karen is tall. l—ler hair is long and blonde and curly and

her eyes are blue. Camila and her family are from Brazil.

Karen and her parents are from England.

Camila and Karen are also similar. They are good

students. They |il

Camila is a basketball player and Karen is a tennis player.

2. Tick.

(Pon un tick)                                 Camila             Karen

1.  I am fifteen.                                 X

2. I am fourteen.

3. I am tall

4. My hair is short

5. My eyes are blue.

6. I am from Brazil.

7. My family is from England.

8. I am a good student.

9. I like music.

IO. I play tennis.

3. Complete the sentences with these words.

(Completa las frases con estas palabras.)

black     friXends    basketball    Brazil   father

1. Camila and Karen are friends

2. Camila’s hair and eyes are  ……………………..

3. Camila is from ………………………….

4. Karen's mother and ……………………… are from England.

5. Camila plays …………………

Workbook Answer Key (Unit 2)

WK Answer Key Unit 2 (3)

WB Answer Key Unit 2 (1)

WB Answer Key Unit 1 (2)