miércoles, 16 de marzo de 2011

Happy Saint Patrick's day

17th March 2011. Happy Saint Patrick's day. Here you have a "very Irish" powerpoint presentation.


A little bit of traditional Irish music...

martes, 15 de marzo de 2011

A bit of Oscar Wilde for today. Enjoy it!

Present Perfect VS Past Simple

Ahí va una canción de U2. Os he copiado la letra para que lo uséis como un buen ejercicio de listening.




The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town

You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere

You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace

It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away

You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination

You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
Was a beautiful day

domingo, 13 de marzo de 2011

Present Continuos vs Present Simple

Como estos días hemos estado revisando la diferencia entre el presente simple y el continuo y todavía tenéis alguna duda os hago un pequeño resumen.

Present Simple: we use it to express routines. It is very common to see Frequency Adverbs before the verb.

SUBJECT +FREQUENCY ADVERB + VERB + COMPLEMENTS

I always get up at 7 o'clock

REMEMBER TO ADD -S TO THE VERB IF THE SUBJECT IS 3RD PERSON SINGULAR

She usually goes to the gym.


Present Continuous: we use it to talk about actions in progress and future plans.

SUBJECT + VERB TO BE + VERB-ING + COMPLEMENTS

He is writing a letter at the moment.
We are visiting John tomorrow morning.


CAREFUL WHEN ADDING -ING TO SOME VERBS:
(si el verbo acaba en e muda esta e cae y se añade ing, en verbos como swim, se dobla la consonante final y en otros como study se conserva la y al añadir ing)
make - making
swim - swimming
study -studying

jueves, 10 de marzo de 2011

Welcome in!

Hello everybody!


Os doy la bienvenida a este blog con una canción de Travis "My eyes".

I hope you like it!