The school year is over!

I just wanted to congratulate everyone for the effort you've made this year because I'm sure that, no matter the results, you have tried to do your best!

My main aim this year has been to transmit my enthusiasm and love for the English language and I hope you will take that with you forever, to help you keep on learning in the future. I will also keep working and improving; having students like you has encouraged me to try to be a better teacher. I will miss you!

Congratulations to all those who passed all parts, and courage to all those who need to retake some parts in September. 

DO NOT throw in the towel, keep working during the summer and we'll see each other in two months' time!

The blog will be available during the summer so try to use it to practise all the skills you may need to reinforce; it can be a very useful tool to revise all the grammar points we have dealt with throughout the school year, and also to find useful activities of all kinds.

HAVE A NICE SUMMER...DON'T FORGET YOUR ENGLISH 
...and BE HAPPY!! ;-)

The best of luck in your exam!

Exam practice

Click on the image and you'll find an amazing website with some exercises to practise for the final test!

Of course, look for the CAE exams and focus only on the multiple choice, open cloze, word formation and key-word transformation exercises! 
And remember there are more links to websites for exam practice on the main menu at the top of the blog page.

Your exam is just around the corner. 


Take the bull by the horns and go for it!



GOOD LUCK!

(Image taken from www.illustrators.net)

Open cloze (extra practice)

Click on the image below and access a lot of online exercises to practise open cloze tasks. I'm afraid some of the items are not very easy, but keep trying and DO NOT get discouraged ;-)

Review some grammar and vocabulary

Click on the link which could be more useful to review:

• Advanced Practice (Michael Vince)
• BBC Learning English
• Adjective  and noun collocation
• Adding emphasis
• Adjective order
• Conditional structures
• Confusing words
• Dependent prepositions
• Expressing regret (Wish)
• Future forms
• Inversion
• Linking words
• Prepositions
• Phrasal verb particles
• So and Such
• Reporting verbs
• Relative clauses 
• The causative form

Word formation

Here you are an interesting powerpoint presentation to have some practice on word formation...

22nd April: Earth Day

On April 22, more than one billion people around the globe will  participate in Earth Day 2015 and help Mobilize the Earth™. People of  all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation for the  planet and demand its protection. Together we will stand united for a  sustainable future and call upon individuals, organizations, and  governments to do their part.

Find below two interesting links to find out more about this day! Just click on them!

Read more about Earth Day on the Net

The Origins of Earth Day

How can we contribute to care for the environment ??

Watch the following videos and you'll see there are different ways to help with the upkeep of the planet...

Nigeria abductions: Vows to remember Chibok girls

Protesters around the world have vowed to remember the girls abducted by the Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram one year ago. 

A procession was held yesterday in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, with 219 girls taking part to represent each missing girl. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the world must "never forget the kidnapped Chibok girls".The mass abduction sparked global outrage, with nations including the US and China vowing to help find them.There have been reported sightings of the girls, but none has been found. Boko Haram say the kidnapped girls have converted to Islam and been married off. One witness told the BBC that she saw more than 50 of them alive three weeks ago in the north-eastern town of Gwoza.

Source: BBC World News