Merry X-mas and Happy New Year to you all!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

This is the compulsory reading for the 2nd term. Yo can dowload the pdf in the link below and start reading at X-mas. Enjoy it!

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unwanted presents

Common false friends

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Especially vs specially

Specially:  goes with adjectives
E.g: The dress was specially designed for her.

Especially = in particular
E.g: I'm especially  fond of chess.

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Good or well?

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Exercises

Writing skills: Mini saga

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How To Get An Upgrade To First Class

first class flights

Urban tribes

Emos

Emos are followers of the emo subculture, a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics.

Chavs

Chav, /ˈtʃæv/ is a stereotype and pejorative epithet commonly used, chiefly in the United Kingdom. The stereotype was popularised in the British mass media to refer to working-class youth subculture in England.

Appearance

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Clothes

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7 Innocent Gestures That Can Get You Killed Overseas

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Birth chart

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More proverbs

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Alcohol poisoning

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cpr choking

The Corpse Bride

HALLOWEEN NIGHT FILM

When: Wednesday 31 @ 20:00
Where: @ the school library

      Happy halloween!

First Aid

nosebleed treatment

How to fake a tarot reading

tarot cards

Cineclub Mariana: Thursday 25 @ 22:00

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

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The fraud of the Anne Germain

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Idioms with parts of the body

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Speed Dating

Speed Dating Essentials

Small talk

Definition  from Collins Dictionary

noun

1. light conversation for social occasions
2. 
   

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Wellcome everyone!

This is the book we are going to use this year. 

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Bibliografía recomendada

2.1. Libros de consulta y ejercicios

·         Longman. Grammar Practice for Upper-Intermediate Students.

·         Murphy, R. English Grammar in Use, C.U.P

·         Swan, M. English Practical Usage, O.U.P (New Edition)

2.2. Para revisar la fonética y mejorar pronunciación

·         New Headway Pronunciation Course. Upper-intermediate. Ed. OUP

·         English Pronunciation in Use. Ed. CUP

2.4. Para enriquecer el vocabulario

·         English Vocabulary in Use. Upper-intermediate. Ed. CUP

·         Test your English Vocabulary in Use. Upper-intermediate. Ed. CUP

·         English Idioms in Use. Ed. CUP

·         English Collocations in Use. Ed. CUP

·         Advanced Vocabulary. CUP

·         Vocabulary Builder. Heinemann

2.5. Para leer por placer

Títulos de cualquiera de las siguientes colecciones:

·         Oxford Bookworms, nivel 6

·         Heinemann Guided Readers, upper-intermediate level

·         Longman Structural Readers, 6 y 7

·         Collins Graded Readers 6 y 7

·         Macmillan Readers: Upper-intermediate.

·         Penguin Readers. Levels 5, 6

·         Cambridge English Readers. Levels 5, 6

Revistas:

·         “Speak Up”

·         “Time”

2.6. Diccionarios

Bilingües            

• ·         OXFORD STUDENT´S DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH. Oxford University Press,
• ·         POCKET PLUS (con CD-ROM). Longman
• ·         OXFORD STUDY (with CD-ROM). Oxford University Press.

Monolingües    

·        Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary. Collins

·         LONGMAN DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH (with CD-ROM). Longman.

·         CAMBRIDGE LEARNER´S DICTIONARY (with CD-ROM). Cambridge University Press.

2.7. Cómo mejorar la comprensión oral

Además de todo el material disponible en el laboratorio para este nivel, el siguiente:

• ·         Cambridge Skills for Fluency. Ed. CUP
• ·         Active listening. Level 3: Building skills for understanding. Ed. CUP
• ·         Task Listening. Ed. CUP