Do you feel like immersing yourself in a classic book?
Lit2Go is a great free online collection of stories and poems in text and MP3 to listen to, read or download. Check it out! Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along. Project Gutenberg offers over 56,000 free eBooks in many languages, especially older works.You can download them to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smart phone or ereader, or read them online. The Great English Short-Story Writers is one of the books you can read online or download.
ACAPELA. IVONA VOICES. Have a look at these webpages where you can type or paste a text and they convert it into audio. It's
not as good as human voices, but it's useful to help you to practise pronunciation.
This website offers pronunciation lessons and exercises from various aspects of pronunciation training, ranging from the basic concepts of English sound system and clear explanation of pronunciation terms to useful exercises for both students and teachers, If users have questions about English pronunciation, they can ask a question at their discussion forum.
BBC LEARNING ENGLISH. This website is really useful to revise the sounds in English and improve your pronunciation. It's got two sections:
Tim's Pronunciation Workshop,which shows you how English
is really spoken. It'll help you become a better listener and a more
fluent speaker. The Sounds of English, a video guide to all the consonant and vowel sounds in the English language. Watch, listen and repeat. It's as simple as that!
WRITTEN EXAM:Wednesday, 2nd September at 08.50 in Classroom 18, Acceso B. WRITING: 09:00 -10:15 LISTENING: 10:25-10:55 WRITTEN MEDIATION: 11:05- 11:20 READING:11:30-12:45
ORAL EXAMS: Monday, 7th September at the school, The time and classroom will be published in September.
MARKS: Monday, 14th September at 14:00 on your email. EXAM REVISION: Tuesday, 15th September at 10:00 in Classroom 1. ACTAS: Thursday, 17th September, from 14:00 in Mirador. RECLAMACIONES: Thursday, 17th, Friday 18th and Monday 21st September, in the School Secretary office, from 09:00-13:00.
Have you ever heard of the Speech Shadowing technique?
It involves repeating a piece of English audio word-for-word as you listen.You may also shadow when you sing along to your favorite English songs. Have a look at this webpage to learn how to apply this technique to help you practise the pronunciation of individual words and phrases. Shadowing gets your mouth muscles moving as you train on language that you know is correct. The pronunciation practice aspect includes connected speech. That’s how – in the flow of real speech – individual words are compressed or merge into words that come before or after. Besides, Shadowing is said to help with the melody of phrases. If you shadow well, you’re not only pronouncing the words correctly. You’re also using native intonation.This is important because intonation patterns differ between languages.
It’s not just what you say, but the music with which you say that makes
for (mis)communication in your target language. Shadowing could also help you reinforce vocabulary, collocations and structures that you already know, when used as part of a wider study routine. In conclusion, it'll help you to improve your pronunciation, boosting your confidence when speaking English. Have a look at this webpage to learn how to use the technique. And you can practise this technique with some videos in this webpage.
Here you have an example
You can also use https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/ which converts any written text into spoken words, so it’s useful for you to practise not only pronunciation, but also grammar and vocabulary. You have to open the document containing a text, or type one and then you can listen to it and read along to train your connected speech.
a. 1.who 2. - 3. whose 4. where 5. when 6. who/that 7. which 8. that/which 9. where 10. whose
b. 1. This is the book
I was telling you about.
2. There's the machine at the gym I think you would really like.
3. We're travelling to Dubai, which I've always wanted to visit.
4. I was worrying about my luggage, which I'd forgotten to weigh before we left.
5. Chris, whose father owns the company, always works really hard.
6. I've finally had to replace my old car, which I've had since I passed my test.
c. 1.The band, who were supposed to start at eight-thirty, didn't come on stage until nine o'clock.
2. The rail company refunds passengers whose trains are delayed.
3. I looked in all places where I thought I might have left my phone.
4. The idea that we came up with together worked wonderfully well.
5. Morocco, where we spent our honeymoon, is my favourite place for a holiday.
6. The neighbours, whose cat I'm looking after, get back from holiday tomorrow.
Fig.somethingforsomeone to thinkabout;issues to be considered.Youressayhasprovided me withsomeinterestingfoodforthought.My advisergave me somefoodforthoughtaboutjobopportunities.
Have a look at some other idioms connected to FOOD.
You can also click here and here to get some pdf docs. with information and examples related to relative sentences. To finish, here you have some links for you to revise and practice relative clauses: * link 1
One of the
"new" things included in this powerpoint is the use of Reduced Relative
Sentences, in other words, using participle clauses: *A present participle clause (-ing) can repleace: a) a relative clause in the present or past continuous.
"The woman singing that song is a famous actress" (The woman who is singing ....)
"The car going round the corner was the new BMW" (the car which was going round ...)
b) a relative clause describing a permanent state.
"The people living in that house work in the theatre" (the people who live ..)
"The flat belonging to my brother was the nicest" (the flat which belongs to ...)
* A past participle clause (-ed) can replace a passive relative clause:
"All TVs sold in this shop have a one-year guarantee" (All TVs which are sold ....)
"The video released last week has sold a million" (The video which was released ...)
Alternative medicine describes practices used in place of conventional (mainstream) medical treatments.
Complementary medicine describes alternative medicine used in conjunction with conventional medicine.
The term complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is an umbrella term for both branches. Integrative Medicine involves bringing conventional and complementary approaches together in a coordinated way, addressing the whole person-mind, body and spirit-in order to achieve optimal health and wellness.
Click here to ckeck the pronunciation of some alternative therapies. Click here to get a definition of those words.
And this is the video you watched in class today about INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE, which goes with the activity above.
At present, there seems to be a wider variety of addictions brought about by new technologies. One of them is the so-called NOMOPHOBIA ( No Mobile Phobia), which is the fear of being without your mobile phone. Here you are the video you watched in class.
Today you also learnt about PHUBBING ("Phone" and "Snubbing"), which is the act of ignoring people in a social setting by looking at your phone or other digital devices instead of paying attention to people around you.
Click here to download the listening activity about Phubbing we did in class, and here to listen to the recording again.
Another technology-related illness or disorder is what is called FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), which is how "screenagers" feel when they can`t check on social networking sites.
When it comes to looking for a job, there are people who take an unconventional approach. Listen to the song you and do the exercises on the wiorksheet. Later read a newspaper article about a determined job-seeker.
