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2Bach- Colors of the Wind Pocahontas) - Translate into Galician
Click HERE:#mce_temp_url# to listen to the song in English.
Translate this fragment of the song into Galician so that in can be sung (take the METRICS into account) in our language:
Voluntary homework to raise up to 0.5 in the final mark this term.(2 Bach B and C). Deadline: Monday THE WEEK BEFORE the 2nd term exams start.
You think I’m an ignorant savage - 9 Beats
And you’ve been so many places - 8
I guess it must be so -6
But still, I cannot see -6
If the savage one is me - 7
How can there be so much that you don’t know?- 10
You don’t know-3
And you’ve been so many places - 8
I guess it must be so -6
But still, I cannot see -6
If the savage one is me - 7
How can there be so much that you don’t know?- 10
You don’t know-3
You think you own whatever land you land on-11
The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim-10
But I know every rock and tree and creature- 11
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name- 10
The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim-10
But I know every rock and tree and creature- 11
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name- 10
You think the only people who are people-11
Are the people who look and think like you-10
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger-11
You’ll learn things you never knew, you never knew-11
Are the people who look and think like you-10
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger-11
You’ll learn things you never knew, you never knew-11
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?- 13
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?- 10
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?- 12
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?-11
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?-11
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?- 10
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?- 12
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?-11
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?-11
C1 READING /LISTENING COMPREHENSION: Tom Standage's ten trends to watch in 2025. A letter from the editor of The World Ahead
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EXERCISE + KEY + VOCABULARY HERE: #mce_temp_url#
PROBAS CERTIFICATIVAS - GALICIA + LINKS
CLICK HERE (2020) and HERE (C1) MORE C1 EXAMS GALICIA HERE - MORE B2 GALICIA HERE and HERE, MORE B2 AND C1 HERE
HERE, AS WELL (GUIDES)
HERE EEOOII scoring guides (rúbricas).
AND......USEFUL POSTS:
MONOLOGUES EOI HERE
B22 A FEW SPEAKING TASKS HERE
EXCELLENT POST BY NATALIAZLM: WRITING - USEFUL EXPRESSIONS FOR ESSAYS + WRITING BANK
CONNECTORS AND LINKING WORDS - INGLÉS PARA PEREZOSOS - Click HERE
TALK SPEAK ENGLISH YOUTUBE CHANNEL-HERE
USEFUL VOCABULARY (AND MORE) B2 AND C1 - B1 - ENGLISH FILE OUP + VOCABULARY B2 INGLÉS PARA PEREZOSOS HERE
B1 - B2 - C1 VOCABULARY - CLICK HERE
B1 - B2 - C1 USE OF ENGLISH - CLICK HERE
SOME PRICELESS TOPIC BASED VIDEOS TO HELP YOU PREPARE FOR YOUR SPEAKING TEST (FROM CRISTINA CABAL’S WEBPAGE)
ENGLISH FILE RESOURCES - DIFFERENT LEVELS HERE
B1-B2-C1 EJERCICIOS Y APUNTES -INGLÉS PARA PEREZOSOS HERE
B1 GRAMMAR (FROM LAWEBDELINGLES) It includes translation exercises.
B2 GRAMMAR ( FROM LAWEBDELINGLÉS) It includes translation exercises.
C1 GRAMMAR (FROM LAWEBDELINGLÉS) It includes translation exercises.
CRISTINA CABAL’S EOI SPEAKING TOPICS AND MAREK CONNELL’S EOI MONOLOGUES - AN AMAZING UNIT ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT BY CRISTINA CABAL HERE
B2- C1 MONOLOGUE - EMPLOYEE VS ENTREPENEUR - Transcript HERE
B2-C1 MONOLOGUE(CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES, F EX UNEMPLOYMENT) AND DIALOGUE (A SHORT BREAK AT THE FALLAS)
AMIGOS INGLESES: IMPROVE YOUR WRITING USING MORE ADVANCED VOCABULARY
SIX TIPS TO PASS THE EOI B2C1 WRITING/SPEAKING EXAM SAMPLE MEDIATION IN WRITING AND SPEAKING
OPINION ESSAY, FOR/AGAINST ESSAY, COMPLAINT LETTER BY MÓNICA REDONDO
FORMAL LETTER-EMAIL ASKING FOR INFORMATION - COVER LETTER - COMPLAINT LETTER (+ COVER LETTER INGLÉS PARA PEREZOSOS) + FORMAL EMAILS DONE IN OUR LESSONS->HERE - COMPLAINT - USEFUL PHRASES- HERE (another complaint e-mail HERE and HERE - Bullying)- REQUEST EMAIL(GALICIA C1 LIBRES 21) HERE - Complaint letter by Cristina Cabal HERE - EMAILS TO WELCOME VOLUNTEERS HERE and HERE
SPEAKING AND WRITING ABOUT CHARTS, GRAPHS, DIAGRAMS...IN ENGLISH + GRAPHS, CHARTS DONE DURING THE LESSONS HERE - USEFUL VIDEO HERE - MORE GRAPHS EXERCISES HERE - BAR CHARTS AND GRAPHS IELTS + IELTS (with videos) - TWO BAR CHART LESSONS HERE - TWO LINE GRAPHS (JOBS-CRIME)HERE
OPINION ESSAYS AND FOR-AGAINST ESSAYS B1- B2-C1 OPINION ESSAYS HERE + C1 WRITING MODELS - HERE + HOW TO WRITE A PROPOSAL C1 ( FOUR-DAY WORK WEEK PROPOSAL + IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LANGUAGE CLASSES - HERE+ MULTIFUNCTION WRITING - HERE + C1 article Galicia 2020 ( ELDERLY PEOPLE’S FREE TIME ACTIVITIES)
B2 - C1 ESSAYS - HERE
- A FEW LINKERS + B1-B2-C1 USEFUL VOCABULARY
- TO THE POINT ENGLISH WITH BEN (VOCABULARY...C1-C2) It includes translation activities-Advanced and proficiency verbs.
- TWO C1 ORAL MEDIATION EXAMPLES
- ESSAY WRITING C1
- ARTICLES, GRAPHS, COMPLAINT EMAILS
- INVERSION
- RECURSOS LISTENING C1 - C2 - FRIENDS MILES AWAY
- C1- C2 LISTENING PRACTICE
- FOLDERS WITH EEOOII "PRUEBAS CERTIFICATIVAS" B1-B2-C1 - HERE
- B2-C1 USEFUL LINKERS + B2-C1 PHRASAL VERBS + B2- C1 USEFUL IDIOMS + B2-C1 OTHER USEFUL EXPRESSIONS
- ENGLISH FILE GRADED VOCABULARY
- UPPER-INTERMEDIATE VOCABULARY AND INTERMEDIATE VOCABULARY
- NEF ADVANCED VOCABULARY
- C1 ORAL MEDIATION TASKS
- HEALTH VOCABULARY ACTIVITY BY CRISTINA CABAL
- THE WORLD OF WORK - HERE - WORK B2-C1
- HEALTH - HERE - HEALTH B2-C1
- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH - HERE
- THE ENVIRONMENT - HERE
- ADVANCED LISTENING PRACTICE
- testenglish.com - HERE
- WORKBOOK C1 USE OF ENGLISH HERE
- WORKBOOK B2 USE OF ENGLISH HERE
- INGLÉS PARA PEREZOSOS EXERCISES - HERE
- SPEAKING LEVEL TEST - HERE
- YOU’RE DEFINITELY FLUENT IF YOU CAN CHANGE THESE (ADVANCED C1-C2 GRAMMAR) - HERE
- THAT’S JANUARY (B11 - B21 - B23 - C11) SPEAKING TESTS
- TWO C1 ORAL MEDIATION TASKS - HERE
- NEF Preint GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY - HERE
- NEF Int GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY - HERE
- SERENA’S BLOG HERE
- CHATBOTS BY CRISTINA CABAL TO IMPROVE YOUR WRITING AND SPEAKING HERE
- C1 READING: Tom Standage’s ten trends to watch in 2025. A letter from the editor of The World Ahead - HERE: #mce_temp_url#
- MEDIATION ACTIVITIES C1 HERE: #mce_temp_url#
- PROBS THAT’S JAN HERE: #mce_temp_url#
- COMPLAINT EMAIL EXERCISES HERE: #mce_temp_url#- FOR AND AGAINST ESSAY EXERCISES HERE: #mce_temp_url#- FORMAL EMAIL ASKING FOR INFORMATION HERE: #mce_temp_url#
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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CHRISTMAS CRACKERS - CLICK HERE: #mce_temp_url#
HOW CHRISTMAS TREES ARE MADE - CLICK HERE: #mce_temp_url#
LAST CHRISTMAS : SONG- CLICK HERE: #mce_temp_url# AND EXERCISE HERE: #mce_temp_url#
2nd BACH NOTEBOOK + MULTIPLE CHOICE CLOZE EXERCISES + READING TRUE- FALSE - NOT GIVEN
Estelle Darcy by isabelcota2
Click here or here (NOTEBOOK) + here (appendix to the English notebook) + HERE (new PAU sample test)
Click HERE ( MULTIPLE CHOICE CLOZE EXERCISES)- More cloze tests HERE
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READING COMPREHENSION PAU - TRUE / FALSE /NOT GIVEN
INVERSIONS IN CONDITIONAL SENTENCES
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ACI CARDS
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Infinitives and Gerunds Games
Amazing chatbots to improve your writing and speaking created by Cristina Cabal
Vocabulary to speak about towns and villages
Translate BEAUTY AND THE BEAST into Galician
Translate BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (these lines) into Galician in such a way that It is "singable" (number of syllables in each line = English - try to keep the rhyme)
Video HERE
Tale as old as time
True as it can be
Barely even friends
Then somebody bends
Unexpectedly
Just a little change
Small to say the least
Both a little scared
Neither one prepared
Beauty and the Beast
Ever just the same
Ever a surprise
Ever as before
And ever just as sure
As the sun will rise
Voluntary homework to raise marks for all those students who do not study the subject History of Music and Dance.
You MUST give it to me one week BEFORE the English language exams (deadline, you can do it before that)
GENDER EQUALITY VOCABULARY
Video - Why are women paid less than men? HERE
Multiple choice cloze
Fill the gaps in the text with the correct word below:
Gender roles can be (1)________ as the behaviours, values, and attitudes that a society considers appropriate for (2)________ male and female. Traditionally, men and women had completely different (3)________, men were seen as the provider for the family and women were seen as the caretakers of both the (4)________ and the family. Gender roles influence a (5)________ range of human behaviour, often including the clothing a person chooses, the profession a person (6)________, and the personal relationships a person enters. People have occasionally felt pressure to act or look a certain way based on their gender. This pressure can make people unhappy, especially if they are being asked to be or act in a way that does not (7)________ who they really are. Today people have more freedom (8)________ ever to express themselves, regardless of their gender.
1 | a called | b defined | c mentioned | d determined |
2 | a both | b some | c all | d none |
3 | a parts | b character | c papers | d roles |
4 | a home | b house | c residence | d place |
5 | a big | b wide | c extensive | d large |
6 | a follows | b continues | c pursues | d chases |
7 | a appear | b fit | c adjust | d match |
8 | a from | b what | c than | d for |
VIDEO listening (from: https://freeenglishlessonplans.com/2020/11/17/gender-roles-b1-b2/?amp=1)
Why is Ross (the dad) so upset about Ben (the son) playing with a Barbie?
Because he doesn’t like Barbies
Because he doesn’t think it’s appropriate for boys
Because his ex-wife gave him the Barbie
Why does Ben have the Barbie?
Because he chose it at the store
Because Susan gave it to him
Because they didn’t have any other toys
How do Carol and Susan react to Ross’ opposition to Ben playing with the Barbie?
They don’t pay too much attention to it
They agree with Ross
They are offended by his reaction
What does Ross do about the situation?
He shows Ben other toys to play with
He plays with Ben and his Barbie
He hides the Barbie
Who tells Ross that he is exaggerating about the Barbie:
Monica and Joey
Joey and Rachel
Monica and Rachel
What did Ross use to do when he was little?
Call Monica “B”
Dress up like a woman
Sing songs all the time
PAUL AUSTER (AUTHOR OF ORACLE NIGHT) DIES AGED 77
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PRONUNCIATION OF -ED - WITH EXCEPTIONS!!!
VERB HAVE GOT PRACTICE
Conditionals Listening Practice
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Listen to the whole conversation ( Link above) and answer these questions:
What is wrong with the photo?
Why doesn’t Mrs Seymour give Double X a better photo?
Who sent the photo to Mrs Seymour?
How is it possible to make the picture clearer?
Who is in the photo?
Can you guess why the photo was sent to Mrs Seymour?
Listen again and fill in the gaps:
If you find him, I ______ extremely pleased.
If we _____ a better picture, we _____ it to you.
If she _____ us that, I _____ to ask for your help.
It _____ me somewhere to start if I _____ her phone number.
It _____ a bit clearer if you _____ at it with your eyes half closed.