New beginning

Last year I was working in IES Gacía Morato, in Madrid.

This year I am working in IES Luis de Góngora, in Torrejón de Ardoz.

I will not erase the contents for last year, but I need to modify some sections so that his blog can be useful for my new students.

I hope some of the contents will still be useful for my old students.

Speaking exams

Isn't it amazing?
You can have a look at the images for the speaking exam!

Answer key Vocabulary units 7, 8 and 9

In this post you will find the link to download the answers to the vocabulary worksheets for units 7, 8 and 9 that I gave you last week.
Click on the image below to download the document.

Sherlock questions

Students who have chosen "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" will have to hand in these questions from the book.

Download questions

You can either print the document and do the activities, or you can write your answers on a .doc document and email it to lauralnclase@gmail.com.

The deadline will be discussed in class.

Bone questions

Those of you who have read "Bone out from Boneville" will have to hand in these reading comprehension questions.

Download questions

You will have to answer the questions and hand them in using either .doc or .pdf format.

You cant print it or send it by email to lauralnclase@gmail.com

The deadline will be discussed in class.

You'd better do the activities, or else...

 

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Many of you have told me that the book was out of stock in many stores, so I have decided to scan the whole book so that you can read it and not be forced to choose "Bone" instead.

Download the book

In the next post I will post a document with the questions for those who read "Bone" and the questions for those who read "Sherlock".

Moulin Rouge - Elephant Love Medley

This musical film was released in 2001. It tells the story of a young Scottish poetry writer, Christian (Ewan McGregor), who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge, Satine (Nicole Kidman). It uses the musical setting of the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France. at the beginning of the 20th century.

We are going to work with a song called "Elephant Love Medley". It marks the moment when Christian and Satine realise they are in love and they decide to have a relationship.
The song, like many others in the film, is a mixture of several popular songs. It includes:

• Love Is Like Oxygen by Sweet
• Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing by Frank Sinatra
• Up Where We Belong by Buffy Sainte-Marie
• All You Need Is Love by The Beatles
• Lover's Game by Chris Isaak
• I Was Made For Loving You by KISS
• One More Night by Phil Collins
• Pride (In The Name Of Love) by U2
• Don't Leave Me This Way by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
• Silly Love Songs by Wings
• Heroes by David Bowie
• I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton (made famous by Whitney Houston)
• Your Song by Elton John

This song is going to be very helpful to review modal verbs and future tenses. We are going to work with this worksheet:

This is the video of the song:

First of all you will listen to the song. Then, in pairs, you will try to complete the gaps, using modal verbs and future tenses. After that, you will listen to the song once more to check your answers.

In this other video, made by a fan of the movie, we can listen to the original fragments of the songs that appear in the medley.

I hope you like the song.

Good luck with your exams!