Santa Brigida Home-Work For January

This is work for both groups Intermendiate 2 and Advanced 1 to do because of not having to attend class this week as you will have more free time...: )

Intermediate 2

1. Listenings from 3 to 7
2. S/B P. 158 finish all irregular verbs
3. S/B P. 42/43 Reading
4. S/B P. 41 Vocabulary work (use monolingual dictionaries)
5. W/B  P. 27 and 29  all


Advanced 1

1. Listenings 14, 15, 16, 17
2. S/B P. 150 and P. 41 Vocabulary work
3. S/B P. 42 grammar all plus P. 136 grammar bank and p.137 corresponding exercises
4. S/B P. 44-45 Reading all
5.W/B  P. 26 grammar plus listening
6. W/B  P. 27 Reading; P. 28 Vocab. Grammar; P.29 Grammar Listening.
 

Santa Brigida Intermediate 2 CD 2 Answers

NI2

CD2

Answer key:

1

1A  2B  3C  4A  5B

2

1  landmarks  2 (British) engineer  3 competition  4  1754   5  9.5 metres

3

1F  2D  3C  4B  5A

4

1C  2A  3B  4C  5B

5

1C  2A  3C  4B  5A

6

1  1987  2  (BBC) weatherman  3  hurricane  4  (weather) forecast  5  lunchtime

7

1F  2A  3C  4B  5E

8

1  15^th July  2  over 300 years  3  tomatoes  4  (special) gloves  5  in the crowd

9

1B  2A  3C  4B  5B

10

1  experienced actors  2  being prepared  3  riding a bicycle  4  read the reviews  5  confidence

11

1B  2F  3D  4E  5C

12

1A  2B  3A  4C  5B

13

1B  2B  3A  4C  5C

14

1  play football (professionally)  2  diet and fitness  3  spend time alone  4  plan the (whole) season  5  set a world record.

15

1F  2A  3C  4B  5E

16

1  tied up  2  (expensive) electrical goods  3  mobile  4  tall and well-built  5  in a month

Telde Groups

Dear Telde students:

I will not be giving class tomorrow, Tuesday, the 18th of December due to the death of my mother-in-law.

I will see you on Thursday the 20th at class as usual.

Santa Brigida News for Today Monday the 17th of December

Hello Intermediate 2 and Advanced 1,

I am writing to say that there will not be class today, Monday the 17th of December, due to the death of my mother-in-law.

Thanks.

Note added: Just to add that on Wednesday the 19th, I will not be giving class. I will not see you all until after the holiday period. I'd like to wish you all a peaceful and happy holiday. I will leave some work on the Blog on Thursday for you to do during the holiday period just to keep in touch....and not too much home-work! ; )  

A Wonderful Video on 'Defending the Teaching of Languages in the Public System'

...hi everyone,

Please have a look at this video.  It is really great and says exactly what we all feel about the Language Schools. Please feel free to share it with others.



Telde Message

This week we will have class as usual on Tuesday and Thursday.   

Home-work for week of Dec. 10th

Santa Brigida

Intermediate 2

1. S/B p. 134 3A,  P. 135 3A
2. Listenings 16, 17
3. W/B p. 23, 24
4. A and B story activity

Advanced 1

1. S/B p. 149 vocab.
2. S/B p. 136  3A grammar and corresponding exercises
3. S/B p. 38 grammar
4. Listenings 9, 10, 11

Have a restful and enjoyable long week-end everyone, you deserve it! ; )

Telde Intermediate 2 Home-work

1. Can you go to the link here to view the correction information to help you grade your writing. Please make a note of the grade for each section in your notebook. I will collect and correct the writings next week and we will compare grades. : )

2. W/B Listening and all activities on P. 18

3. S/B P. 33 Grammar exercise 6A and prepare the speaking exercise 7

4. And last but not least, have a good long weekend!

ADVANCED 1 Answers to Revision Worksheets

2A Adjectives

A) 2. the long one or the short one 3. The Irish 4. homeless people 5. Japanese man/woman  6. correct 7. the poor/poor people  8. the dead  9. correct  10. rich/a rich man

B) 2 blue denim 3. awful gold 4. big dark  5. long black silk 6. beautiful old wooden 7. small black leather 8. delicious spicy Thai 9. short brown curly 10. new blue and white striped

2B Narrative Tenses

A) 1. hadn't noticed, had stopped  2. had been carefully saving, had been concentrating, had been watching ,  had only been looking 3. was leaving, was happening, were looking

B) 2. asked  3. mentioned 4 had been looking  5 had accused/accused  6. had searched/searched 7. made  8. had said  9. jumped up 10 made 11  had never seen 12 drofve 13 parked  14 had taken place 15 came 16 started  17 had never stolen 18 made 19 found 20 had stopped 21 were watching

2C Adverbs

A) 2 Do you really mean that: their defence was absolutely awful 3 played well 4 Unfortunately England never play well 5 were incredibly lucky 6 do you ever have  7 To be honest England were quite lucky 8 were extremely lucky 9 Personally I thought both teams defended badly; England were a bit better, especially in attack

2 Vocabulary Revision Race

1 stereotype 2 Pole 3 loose 4 backpack/rucksack 5 fur 6 patterned 7 matches 8 get undressed 9 suede 10 customs 11 boarding pass/card 12 take off 13 aisle 14 airlines 15 lately 16 nearly 17 hardly 18 fortunately 19 especially 20 even

Home-work for Week Beginning 3rd of December

TELDE

Intermediate 2

1. S/B Intermediate 2 all vocabulary exercises
2. S/B P. 33 Grammar
    P. 132 Grammar 3.1 and corresponding exercises on P. 133
3. Group Application letters for the 4th of December

SANTA  BRIGIDA

Intermediate 2

1. Revision sheet complete and correct.
2. Listenings 13 and 14  (New CD ready for Monday the 3rd)
3. Writings

Advanced 1

1. Revision activities - 3 pages, answers in class
2. Listenings 7, 8

Advanced 1 Invitation

                                                         

A Workshop With VANESSA LIMPKIN

'SILENCE AND YOUR FRIENDLY BRAIN'

 Part 1: The Friendly Brain

 Part 2: Finding Moments of Centering   

                                  

WHERE:  E.O.I. Santa Brigida

WHO FOR: Advan.2 Advan.1  Inter.1C  

         

WHEN: 05/12/12 WEDNESDAY 19.45

(Unfortunately, it is impossible to accommodate more classes or people outside of the E.O.I. due to lack of space/seating).

Home-work for Week 26th of November

Santa Brigida

Intermediate 2

1. Listenings 11 and 12
2. Composition writing in groups for December the 3rd (only group writing accepted )
3. W/B page 17, 19, 20

Advanced 1

1. Listening 5 and 6
2. W/B page 16, 18 (Ex. 4 only), 20


Telde

Intermediate 2

1. Application letter in pairs or groups of 3 maximum (no individual work accepted) for December 4th
2. 2 Reading Questions from work sheets
3. W/B page 14, 15

Wikispaces - A Place to Work Collaboratively on Writings/Monologues etc

We have been doing some collaborative writing recently and we will be doing more. Here is a recommendation for a place to go to do some writing together. Each group or pair of students can create their own Wiki and work on their writing/monologues etc together. Good luck and Enjoy!
Here is the webpage:  Wikispaces 

Video Competition to Promote Our Language Schools

Please go here to see the source of this image. Click to enlarge.

We have talked in class about this competition and some students have expressed an interest which is great. Let me know if you plan to enter...best of luck to those of you who decide to enter...remember your cousin, aunt, uncle, grand-mother etc can also get involved...spread the news...!

Home-work for Week Beginning 19th November

Telde

Intermediate 2

1. Worksheet on Social Issues, unscramble words and choose 4 to give possible solutions to.
2. Informal/Formal worksheet, read and be familiar with it and complete page on formal/informal writing.
3. Lookback exercise page at end of Unit 2 - all of it.
4. W/B page 13

Santa Brigida

Intermediate 2

1. Finish Reading exam.
2. Listenings 9, 10
3. P. 132 plus 2 C S/B

Advanced 1

1. E-bay activity
2. S/B p. 28/29
3. Finish song
4. Monologue 2 to be collected on Monday the 19th
 

November 14th Strike Day - No Class This Evening

I will be at one of the following marches today and this evening, see here.

There are many reasons to march, some of which are mentioned here.

And why not read about it all in English:  Anti-Austerity Strike Across Europe

See you next week then Advanced 1 and Intermediate 2 of Santa Brigida.
You have your home-work but I shall put a note up tomorrow reminding you of it!

Language Exchange Opportunities on the Island

Language Exchange Opportunites - an excellent way to practice your English in a social setting. Confirm first before going there... Enjoy!

13th to 18th of November Language Exchanges

- Martes 13: bar "El parque", en Arucas, cerca de la iglesia. A las 19:30
Contacto: LUA_LP3@hotmail.com, imic@arrakis.es

- Jueves 15: "Oasis Chill Out", en Telde. A partir de las 19:30
...

(c/ Picachos, nº 33, junto al mercado viejo).
Cómo llegar: http://www.oasischillout.com/
Contacto: alumnoseoitelde@gmail.com

- Jueves 15: "Amigos Coffee", en Playa del Inglés.De 18:00 a 20:00, después de esa hora habrá música en directo.
Cómo llegar: www.amigoscoffee.com
Contacto: barbaraedelgard@t-online.de

- Miércoles 14 y viernes 16: "Café Mozart", en Las Canteras, a las 11:00
(Paseo de Las Canteras, nº 68 - Esquina Gravina)
Cómo llegar: facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Mozar...t-Cafeteria/186066154757925
Contacto: lesamos@virginmedia.com,
marketta.ruishalme@gmail.com

- Viernes 16: Karaoke con canciones en inglés en "Txiki Bar", Calle Diderot, 15, en Las Palmas a las 21:00.
Contacto y peticiones de canciones: raultrini@yahoo.es

- Domingo 18: Arguineguín, en Bar FORUM, c. Lajilla 13, a las 18:00
Contacto: hazelholager@hotmail.com

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Listening Practice and an article on 'Learning English'

Here are some links from my colleague Diane's Blog which are of excellent use to practice your Listening.

1. UCTV (University of California Television)
2. Listening Lessons

And here are some more listening opportunities....

3. Watch British TV channels online
4. A listening project from the CEP in Icod. This is mainly for lower levels but is good to refresh your memory.
5. Listen to hours of music and video for free here
6. And last but not least, why not revise your comparatives and superlatives through songs!  Go here to do so...

and finally, finally ...How to Learn a Language in 22 Hours - read all about it here
.

Santa Brigida: Our Zero Poverty Campaign

Food Collection

EOI de Santa Brígida wants to help the Human Rights’ Committee of IES de Santa Brígida in their Zero Poverty Campaign. Together with Cáritas, the Town Hall Social Services and the Obra Social San Benito, they have organised a campaign for the collection of food to help families in need in our area.

Would you like to help, too? Please bring non-perishable food like:

legumes                       pasta                            tinned food

biscuits                         coffee                           sugar

oil                                 powdered milk            gofio

cocoa                           fruit juice

You can leave it in the EOI library before 1^st December.

Let’s take a united stand against poverty!

Obama's Victory Speech

As promised, Advanced 1, here is Obama's acceptance/victory speech. Intermediate 2, you might also like to read and/or listen to it.  Go here to view it.

Advanced 1 Halloween Story

Hello Advanced 1,

Here is the video we did in class.

The egg one is another example.

Remember to please use all the story criteria we talked about in your story (adverbs etc)

The completed group story is for the 19th of November. Each person should have a copy
of the story to keep for themselves and I am given one story copy per group.

Have fun!

Remember if you want to work in groups check out Google Docs, wikispaces or a Facebook group.

Homework for Week 5th of November

Santa Brigida

Advanced 1

1. S/B P. 22  Reading and all activities
2. P. 148 clothes vocab. S/B
3. Listenings 1 and 2
4. Group Horror story for 13th of November


Intermediate 2

1. S/B  P. 23 prepare points for Private/Public Health debate, use P. 147
2. Listenings 5 and 6
3. S/B  P. 25 Reading, all of it

Telde

Intermediate 2

1.Monologue exchange for 14th of November. P. 22  Ex. 8A answer 3 questions for monologue
2. S/B P. 24  3A, B, C and 5A Grammar
3. Study P. 130    Grammar 2.2

Santa Brigida Advanced 1 CD 1 Listening Answers

NA1

CD1

1. 

1  C   2  B   3  B   4  A   5  A   6  B   7  A   8  C

2.

1   over / more than 150   2  information assistant   3  a (small) town   4   was asleep / sleeping   5   luggage / clothes    6   Travel Care   7   Terminal Duty Team

8   check-in area   9   Passenger Services   10   flight delays

3.

1  E   2  A   3  D   4  F   5  B

4.

1  B   2  B   3  B   4  A   5  A   6  C   7  A

5.

1  B   2  A   3  C   4  A   5  B   6  B   7  C   8  B

6.

1   up to / no more than 4 minutes   2  special nature   3  (a) separate microphone

4  (the) best interview   5  issues   6  (any) equipment   7  (a) special project(s)

8  Our Society Today   9  clearly labelled   10  for collection

7.

1  D   2  F   3  E   4  C   5  A

8.

1  Y   2  N   3  Y   4  N   5  Y   6  Y   7  Y

9.

1  A   2  B   3  A   4  B   5  C   6  A   7  A   8  A

10.

1   shops (too) crowded   2  children’s area   3  not enough signs   4  comfortable seating   5  (big/wide) range of food   6  horrible design   7  bargains / low prices in the shops   8  (lots of / endless / long) queues   9  (the) fun room   10  poor quality of the food

11.

1  A   2  D   3  E   4  B   5  F

12.

1  C   2  B   3  A   4  A   5  C   6  A   7  C

13.

1  Theatre Studies   2  practical   3  Drama in Education   4  Artistic Managers

5  financial situation   6  good reviews   7  best comedy production   8  (a) TV commercial / advert(isement)   9  (a) major/large/big/important company

10  to be unemployed

Happy Halloween!

Here is Michael Jackson's Thriller to get you in a Halloween mood! Students in Telde, you have a workcard that you can do with it if you want to.

I hope to do the workcard today in Santa Brigida.

Enjoy!

Santa Brigida Intermediate 2 Listening CD Answers

NI2 – CD1

KEY:

CD Track 1:

1.      3443

2.      SE1 8PB

3.      43

4.      1963

5.      Moore

6.      B

7.      C

8.      C

9.      B

10.  C

CD Track 2:

1.      B

2.      C

3.      B

4.      1^st July

5.      Cutting down

6.      Bad headaches

7.      (exciting) adventure

8.      Expected

9.      Determination

10.  Road

CD Track 3:

1.      3 years

2.      Job

3.      Wales

4.      A

5.      C

6.      C

7.      B

8.      B

9.      A

10.  C

CD Track 4:

1.      Techniques and training

2.      British economy

3.      Awareness

4.      Impossible

5.      Replying/responding

6.      Answering the telephone

7.      Respect

8.      E-mail code

9.      Brainstorm

10.  Countered

CD Track 5:

1.      B

2.      C

3.      C

4.      C

5.      B

1.      22b

2.      EX15

6.      Evening after work

7.      Saturday evening

8.      Three hours.

CD Track 6

1-4. H, F, E, B (in any order)

5.      A

6.      A

7.      B

8.      B

9.      A

10.  B

CD Track 7

1.      Five

2.      50%

3.      18

4.      14

5.      In the first tutorial

6.      Relevant

7.      (very) elegant

8.      Not possible/impossible

9.      Excellent

10.  Much better

CD Track 8

1.      B

2.      B

3.      B

4.      C

5.      B

6.      Beyond their limits

7.      Areas of industry

8.      100

9.      Collapsing

10.  B

CD Track 9

1.      5 minutes

2.      Have a coffee

3.      September

4.      On holiday

5.      2 weeks

6.      Saturday

7.      B

8.      C

9.      B

10.  A

CD Track 10

1.      Range

2.      a/the list

3.      catch him

4.      B

5.      C

6.      A

7.      B

8.      A

9.      C

10.  Work and scores

CD Track 11

1.      D

2.      C

3.      B

4.      50 questions

5.      A

6.      A

7.      M

8.      A

9.      A

10.  M

CD Track 12

1.      1812

2.      1814

3.      1817

4.      1817

5.      1818

6.      1822

7.      C

8.      A

9.      1838

10.  1840 … bicycle

CD Track 13

1.      A

2.      B

3.      C

4.      B

5.      A

6.      B

7.      Daily

8.      The/an automatic

9.      9911 4425

10.  40 Park

CD Track 14

1-4. A, B, E and F (in any order)

5.      up to

6.      expense

7.      volunteers

8.      of charge

9.      5,000 pounds

10.  D

CD Track 15

1.      B

2.      B

3.      C

4.      A

5.      Detail

6.      Space and the individual

7.      Read simple directions

8.      Maps

9.      Writing essays

10.  Right order

CD Track 16

1.      C

2.      D

3.      B

4.      B

5.      A

6.      B

7.      Proportion

8.      Rubbish/(other) traps

9.      Fish farms

10.  Cod stocks/cod population