THE LORD OF THE RINGS VS GAME OF THRONES

Miguel gave us a great presentation last week. He compared The Lord of the Rings with Game of Thrones and told us a lot about their characters, plots, setting... very interesting indeed. Here is everything he said. Just in case you missed it. What about you? Which of the two do you prefer? Tell us your opinion on the comment section below!

WHO'S YOUR FAVOURITE ACTOR?

Here is Porfi's choice... what's yours? Tell us on the comments section below!

CHILE BY JOHN

A few days ago John gave us a wonderful presentation about Chile, where he is originally from. Now I think that all the class is looking forward to visiting the country! Have a look and judge for yourselves!

CHARLOTTE'S LETTER TO JOYCE

Today's class was really enjoyable. We revised how to write informal letters in groups and had a good time trying to find out a solution for Charlotte's problem. Have a look at the presentation below to see the resulting letters

A problem page_letter from paulokagomez

CLIMATE CHANGE ACCORDING TO OLALLA

 

Last week Olalla did a great presentation in class on climate change. She talked about the process and its devastating effects. She was fluent, confident and in a bit of a hurry! That's why she mispronounced some of the key words related to the environment. Do you know which?

Thanks a lot for your nice presentation, Olalla!

Climate change from Olalla Buceta

GHIBLI

Time for a new step beyond on class presentations. My intensive course students are now working on their own and facing oral speeches alone! Here is the first experience. What do you think? Is Talía's presentation on Studio Ghibli good enough for our class?

ARE YOU STRESSED WITH EXAMS?

Just before our Easter Holiday we talked about how to cope with stress before exams. We gathered the best tips to face oral exam situations and wrote them all up on the board.

As you are all doing exams next Thursday and Friday here is the advice we discussed with the listening activity we did in class. Your suggestions were not far from the expert´s opinion. Even though you focused more on the previous feelings before the exam, I think we got quite a few interesting pieces of advice.

Hope they help you get rid of anxiety and score the best results ever!!

1st TERM EXAM DATES

My intensive course students should by now know that exam time is coming. Here are the dates!! Don´t forget to write your name on the oral exam list in class, as usual. Good luck, everyone!! Keep up the hard work!

Group	Time	Listening / Reading / Speaking	Writing / Speaking
2º intermedio intensivo	9:45	Thursday 5 April	Friday 6 April

PRONOUNCING "U"

So far you have all learned that English is not a phonetic language, which means most letters - mainly vowels - have more than just one pronunciation. Unfortunately, the sounds in English do not correspond to one letter of the alphabet and that's the reason why we have just discovered the letter U can be pronounced in many different ways, like we practised in class.

With the video above you can study the different pronunciations of the letter U and try the words again!

THE PARTS OF THE BODY

Learning new vocabulary can be tough when just trying to do it by heart. However, playing games and enjoying the learning can be motivating enough to get to know all the target words.

This is what we did in class last Thursday. Enjoying and learning can go together!! See the video and try to remember the different parts of the body we put labels on.

Thanks everybody for the hard work!

 

OUR LANGUAGE ASSISTANT

My INTENSIVE INTERMEDIATE 2 COURSE has just started and we have been appointed a new foreign language assistant for the new semester.

His name is Jarrett McDowell. He is from North Carolina in USA and he will presumably be involved with conversation classes. He lives in Pontevedra and has been working at our school community for three years now. We´ll meet Jarrett on Tuesday 6 February and I hope you are all looking forward to giving him a new welcome!!

Jarrett will be teaching my intensive intermediate students every Tuesday at 11.00. I am afraid we won't meet him often but you will see him in the school corridors and he will be more than glad to talk to you!!

WELCOME TO INTENSIVE INTERMEDIATE 2!

Hi everybody!!

Here are the documents we discussed in class on our first day. Hope they help you get started. You can have a look at the presentation below and also, click here to download a very interesting document with some more information on the course, just in case you missed our first class!!

Please, let me know if there is anything you would like to find out about.... and just enjoy the course!! Comments are also welcome!!

INTRODUCING A NEW COURSE from Paula Gómez