mistakes?

Have a look! Really interesting.... Thanks, Martín!
http://litreactor.com/columns/20-common-grammar-mistakes-that-almost-everyone-gets-wrong
 

phrasals!

Thanks, Maru for the new phrasal verbs list!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-vWyXof_Wr2dXElgzRe8EySuZV4S5VBQ6Kf8OAeMag/edit?hl=en&authkey=CIOOhaUK

new links for FCE, CAE, CPE

I wish I had more time for posting the incredible material I come across!
To start with.... lots of exercises!
http://www.agendaweb.org/

cae; writing articles
http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?docid=147736

fce: writing
http://firstcertificate.wordpress.com/tag/articles/ writing fce
http://www.englishforums.com/open/Tests.htm cpe

verb tenses timeline

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZ8P_1tdKyUVZGY5Mmg3cGdfOTRjYnh2OGJkOA&hl=en

some jokes

Thanks Marce M.
Kids Are Quick

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TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America .
MARIA: Here it is.
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America ?
CLASS: Maria.
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TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.
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TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell 'crocodile?'
GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'
TEACHER: No, that's wrong
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.

(I Love this kid)
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TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD: H I J K L M N O.
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.
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TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!
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TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
GLEN: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are.
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TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with ' I. '
MILLIE: I is...
TEACHER: No, Millie..... Always say, 'I am.'
MILLIE: All right... 'I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.'
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TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn't punish him?
LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand...
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TEACHER: Now, Simon, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.
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TEACHER: Clyde , your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your brother's. Did you copy his?
CLYDE : No, sir. It's the same dog.
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TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher

last / latest lie/lay

Confused words

http://esl.about.com/cs/vocabulary/a/a_confused_2.htm

Two new links

sent by Manuel C. Thanks for building up this blog!

Here they go:

College humor:
http://www.collegehumor.com/

And soemthing else. This might be even more useful:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/

try this out before exams!

http://www.bahta.org/therapy/braingym/pace.html

Some brain gym! good luck!

Let's get serious for a while

Excellent lecture given by Harvard Professor Homi Bhabha who is the author of The Location of Culture and the forthcoming A Measure of Dwelling on transition.
It's long but worth it! Just enjoy great ideas and clear English.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yER4QwiSl14

Women's and Men's brains

Yes! They have a nothing box!
But mind you... some male students told me sometimes they can't tell women what they're thinking!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuMZ73mT5zM (English version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhTzdhsfWz4&feature=related ( with subtitles)

indirect questions

Theory:
http://esl.about.com/od/gramma1/a/indirectques.htm

Practice:
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bl_indirect.htm

Enjoy it!
And remember...practice makes perfect!

don't miss the opportunity

to understand them better!
Yes... I've heard you say "My wife doesn't understand I don't need to be doing something all the time. I can do NOTHING"
And you , women, say: "When he's in front of the TV , he's aloof!"
Funny organs our brains!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuMZ73mT5zM

Take some minutes to watch this. Just for the soul!

Kseniya Simonova es la ganadora de la edición Ucraniana de Tienes talento. En la final, pintó en directo una animación de la invasión alemana de Ucrania durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, usando sus dedos y una superficie con arena.

http://pelapapas.com.mx/htmls/animacion-arena-2.html

you always ask me about verb tenses

well, here you are: theory and practice.
It's really useful but too grammatical so... a cup of coffee, a bar of chocolate, music on a rainy day if possible.
no. no beer! How do you expect to learn??!

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html

More quotes from Geo

Hi teacher! Here are the quotes, I don't remember which exactly I gave to you, but there are ones of my favourite, thanks for publishing them :) xoxo, GC.


"If there's just one piece of advice I can give you, it's this - when there's something you really want, fight for it, don't give up no matter how hopeless it seems. And when you've lost hope, ask yourself if 10 years from now, you're gonna wish you gave it just one more shot. Because the best things in life, they don't come free."

"Change; we don’t like it, we fear it, but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change or we get left behind. And it hurts to grow, anybody who tells you it doesn’t is lying. But here's the truth... The more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes change is good. Sometimes, change is everything."

"Everyone thinks it’s so romantic, Romeo and Juliet, true love, how sad. If Juliet was stupid enough to fall for the enemy, drink the bottle of poison, and go to sleep in a mausoleum, she deserved whatever she got."

To be read!

Thanks Georgina C. from pre-first- Iatel- for sharing your favourite quotes with me!

I couldn't agree more with this one!!The photo is mine- Venice February 2009!

We don't get unlimited chances to have the things that we want, and this you know. Nothing is worse than missing an opportunity that could have changed your life.

So LOVE the people who treat you right.

FORGET about the ones who don't , and BELIEVE that everything happens for a reason (YES!!!) .

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it . Nobody said that it'd be easy; they just promised it would be worth it. Eventually feels a lot better than actually.

word formation exercises

for those who want more practice!

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df92h7pg_61f7knbqcn&hl=en

Thanks for letting me know

you still remember me!

Mariel and Claudia have sent or shown me the compositions you wrote. And also thanks to the "pets" I have in my class now who have written such beautiful things!

And Conrado... I shared the chocolate! Thanks for spoiling your former teacher.



Bye for the time being while listening to Coldplay - 42- great! Love you all!

Inversion

For Mica and Marina. You'll find theory and an exercise.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df92h7pg_54dqv3msdn&hl=en
Keep fingers crossed! xxxx

reported speech intermediate exercises

You ask , you have!
Reported commands:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df92h7pg_50c687tkff&hl=en

Reported statements:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df92h7pg_51hjn3gfgm

Reported questions:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df92h7pg_53dgntkcd2