CAE students Valle de México

Hi my dear students, welcome back! It's a pleasure for me  to work with you again. I hope we both make the most out of this experience.

To begin with, click on the following link where you will find useful information on phrasal verbs, check everything, I mean at the end of the information of each page you will find more information, the following link is about prepositional verbs, then about phrasal-prepositional verbs and finally you will find the link about check your understanding this is a quiz, so answer it and send your score to my mail or put it in your drop box. Then make up a conversation in which you use at least 7 phrasal verbs and also send it to my mail or in dropbox, but also print it and take it to class so that I can collect it and take it to give you feedback, this way is easier for me to give you feedback.

Phrasal verbs information and grammar

You have to send the tasks by this Friday at 6:00 o'clock. Remember to send them on time.

See you and take care!

DIDEPA students FCE

Hi everybody, we have finally finished the 2nd course, but remember we have to keep on working because the following one, starts as soon as this one finishes, so let's continue.

We started working with verbs of manner which have a lot to do with adverbs of manner. So click on the following link and revise the definition of the 14 verbs you'll find there. The website has sound so you can listen to the word and definitions as many times as you want. The task you have to send to my mail is a conversation in which you use at least 7 verbs of manner. Remember you also have to do the vocabulary exercise 2 of the student's book page 50 and in the workbook do the reading activity on pages 38 and 39.

Verbs of manner definitions and pronunciation

Send the conversation to my mail by this Tuesday at 6:00 o'clock. But please, also print it because I'm going to take them to revise them at home so I can give you feedback.

See you and take care!

DIDEPA students FCE

Hi there! Aren't you excited because we are about to finish? I am! This time I  want you to go to the following links and study the vocabulary about films and types of films you will find there. The first one  it's a very useful site that will help you improve your knowledge on this topic, the page has sound but I couldn't download the controlers needed to listen to it, I hope you can, but If not, don't worry. The second is a slide on types of films with examples.

Film vocabulary

Types of films

To practice this new vocabulary, do the following exercise about films, click on the link below and have fun!  At the beginning, you have to read a dialogue, and then you'll find the exercise. At the end of the activity you also have a pronunciation activity, if you want you can also listen to the words as many times as you want to practice your listening.

exercise on films

This time you don't have to send me anything to my mail, you just have to do the exercises of the student's book I told you in class, I mean exercise 2 of the vocabulary page 46 and the reading on page 48 and 49. Regarding the exercise on films, you just have to print your score and make sure you take it to class, I will mark it at the beginning of the class.

It's important to tell you that the following 2 classes I'll be arriving 20 minutes later, because I have to go to a course and I can't make it earlier, so please wait for me.

Finally, on this occasion, I want you to leave a comment here on the blog about the course, feel free to express what you consider necessary about the course, what you liked the most, what you found the most difficult, what you didn't like and what you would like to practice more in the following part of the course.  This comment has to be published by this Tuesday at 5 o'clock.

See you and take care!

DIDEPA students FCE

How are you doing? Great?, fine?, so so? etc. Sorry for not posting the information earlier, but here you have what you have to do. As I told you in class, you just have to do the mail which appears on page 43 of the student's book, but don't send it to my mail, just take it to class. Then, do the Review and Use of English of page 44 and  in your exam booster, do the exercises of Use on English  Multiple-Choice Cloze of page 33 and to help you practice the phonetic we talked about in class, also do the Pronunciation activity you have on page 37 exercises 2 and 3.

The only activities you have to send me to my mail are the review and the exercises of the exam booster. Send them by this Tuesday at 5:00 pm.

CELe students 7th level

Hi my dear students, we have been working rally hard, and I feel proud of you all. As you have notice, this level has a lot of vocabulary to remember, so here you have some activities that can help you to do so easily.

The first is an activity for you to revise colloquial English, do it and print your score.

Colloquial English File 3

The second one is an activity about "feelings", once again do it and print your score.

Feelings idioms

Finally, we can't forget grammar, so here you have an exercise about 1st conditional and future time clauses. You know what to do.

File 3C 1st conditional and future time clauses


Do all the activities and take  the scores to class by this Wednesday.


See you and take care!

DIDEPA students FCE

Hi my dear students, we are half way through the course, and I hope you are still willing to keep on working as if it were the first day.

As I told you in class, you have to finish the chart about word formation and the exercises 1 and 2 of page 41 of your student's book. In addition to this, you also have to do the exercise about phrasal verbs with "look"on the same page.

Then in your workbook do the reading activity on page 30 and 31, the grammar activity about phrasal verbs (exercise 1) on page 33 and the exercise of Use of English about word formation on page 36.

Talking about pronunciation,  click on the following link to watch an introductory video about the sounds of English, watch it very carefully and pay attention to what it's said. Then if you have time to revise each of the vowel sounds, go to the other link that I have posted and click on the sound that you want to practice.

BBC Learning English pronunciation

Vowel sounds videos

Then, to have extra practice on the correct pronunciation of vowels and consonant sounds, go to the following link and check the phonetic symbols carefully and try to imitate the sounds. Go to the vowels and then to the consonant sounds to listen and repeat as many times as you want, and when you think you are ready, do the activity about "pronunciation 50 50"

This activity is to help you improve your pronunciation and listening skills

Pronunciation practice

You have to send me the homework of your books to my mail by this Tuesday at 5:00 pm. Send them on time please. The activities about phonetics are additional.

See you and take care!

DIDEPA FCE students

A dog's life

How are you doing? much better now that we have revised the grammar point on phrasal verbs? I know that is not exactly what can be considered as "piece of cake", but I think that now this topic is much better understood. Well, we have to go on, this time with a reading activity. Do the reading exercise on page 38 of your student's book, exercises 1 and 2. You also have to answer the question on exercise 3, about if it's right to "humanise" pets, but you must write your answer here on the blog, remember that to do so, you need to have a gmail account and go to the "comment" area of the blog and leave your answer there.

Please publish your answer on time and do not sent it to my mail. The only things you have to send to my mail are the following:

• exercise 5 on page 37 of your student's book, the reading activity, page 38  and the corrected version of he writing about phrasal verbs you did in class. Make sure you take your writing to class for me to collect it. Send them all by this Tuesday at 5:00 o'clock.

Remember to send all your activities on time.  See you and take care!