Modal verbs (updated)

Gerund or infinitive? (BACHILLERATO)

Please revise when to use the gerund and the infinitive in this presentation.



You can also check out this unit on BBC Learning English to do some exercises.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/lower-intermediate/unit-10/session-1

As usual, Agendaweb.org is a great source of exercises to practice this. https://agendaweb.org/verbs/infinitive_gerund-exercises.html

Here is a fun collection of songs that use gerund or infinitive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyr5WhdXoE8

I've also created a small playlist of songs that appear in the presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFy9rQLLBWSYoQ0sb0zdXdAl0f9wfITTM

American vs. British English.

Just a fun TikTok video about some of the differences between British and American English. We can see cleary whose side the author is on. 😉

Credit: https://www.tiktok.com/@justsammorris

Tareas para los días 1-10 junio.

Hola a todos,

estas son las tareas para el mes de junio. El último día de entrega será el  día 10 a las 23:30. 

• Student Book: pages 98, 100, 104, 126, 127 and 128.

• También os he dejado un ejercicio de reading y writing en la carpeta virtual: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1F7Dgv6svk9jhrhclEIJq9xky4bnDFb1B?usp=sharing

• En cualquier momento podréis rellenar un cuestionario de autoevaluación sobre todo el curso.No es un examen pero sí sirve para ver qué recordáis del curso y en qué tareas habrá que incidir el año que viene, así que os recomiendo que lo dejéis para la semana del 8 de junio: Cuestionario de Autoevaluación 

Estaré respondiendo consultas en esta sala de Jitsi  lunes 1 a las 17:00 y el  miércoles 3 de junio a las 17:00 https://meet.jit.si/B1ASANCRISTOBAL . 

Podéis contactar conmigo para tutorías individuales o si tenéis dudas sobre Jitsi en el correo habitual. 

reported speech (updated)

Here is a compilation of all the grammar presentations on reported speech, which we will be studying this week.


 

Be careful with the questions, as they are done differently.


Finally, some special verbs that use other structures for reported speech.




Finally, there is an online lesson on  BBC Learning English that you will find useful. Remember you can do it through their app as well.

You can also do online self correcting exercises here.  https://agendaweb.org/verbs/reported-indirect-speech.html

I will also be sending some extra material to your e-mail accounts so please check your e-mails regularly this week and write to me if nothing has arrived by Friday.

A book review

Our assistant Naomi has made a book review presentation so that you can get an idea of how it's done. It's about a biography of actor River Phoenix.



Also, I found a cool website if you are looking for nice templates for your presentations: https://slidesgo.com/

The passive voice (BACHILLERATO)

Here is a presentation on how to use the passive voice, which we will be seeing in unit 6. As you can see, it's quite similar to Spanish BUT there are some peculiarities that you need to pay attention to.
(Note: I've changed the presentation a little, as it was a bit hard to read on mobile phones)

Here is further information on how to use the causative structure.

You can go to Agendaweb's section for passive voice practice here http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/passive-exercises.html

For more on passive reporting structures, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/

For more on using the passive voice with two objects check http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/

You can see some practical examples of how the passive voice is used here:

 

There is a second part of the video. You can watch it here.

Finally, this collection of songs that use causatives and passives is also worth checking out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG_7Xlghi_c