Thanksgiving day

Some of you had come to me and asked for the photocopies and the listening exercise we worked in class yesterday. Click here for the reading, and here to register for the listening.
Below you have a video with the information of the photocopies.

Voice of America (VOA) has launched The Classroom. It has lot of activities for your intermediate level.
Don't miss the adverb 1 and the adverb 2 , in the intermediate section, if you still have problems with that part of grammar.
Have fun!!!

The Specials

I was surfing the net today and came across The Specials, an online docu-soap series following the lives of a house of young adults with learning difficulties. It has been nominated for an international award.
You can watch all the episodes online with English subtitles. It's worth watching it.

Common mistakes made "for" Spaniards

Fran Casanova, from Intermediate2, Group2, has kindly offered me some material from a course he did , with it I've prepared an exercise with some words and expressions Spanish people have problems with, caused mainly by direct translation.

Click on the image and good luck!

The Force of Circumstance

This is the result of your preferences from the survey carried out in class last week, short articles instead of the complete book. Most of you have found rather difficult to understand the first twenty pages, and have looked up a lot of words in the dictionary; for that reason we''ll stick to the original idea,that is, reading short stories.
So our next story is "The Force of Circumstance" by Somerset Maugham. Below you have the text, but I have omitted the end since I didn't like the writer's much.
How would you end it differently?
Write your own ending for this story (150-200 words).We'll have an oral discussion about it on Friday 26th.


The text

I PHOTO CONTEST AT THE EOILPGC

Dear all,
why don't you take part in our photo contest that is going to be held for the first time this year at our school.
Some of you have beautiful pictures of our stay in France, our bush walking, Lithuania, .....
Come on, participate and win!!!

Photo Contest