Time bandits

Here is an extract of the movie Andrew mentioned yesterday in class. Don't forget: Time is money!

Childhood Memories

 In this very short interview Sir Tery Pratchett (a famous British writer) talks about a childhood memory. Notice the use of "would"?

Family

It's a bit confusing, but maybe the diagram will help you! A revision on family vocabulary, relationships and so on.

Directions

Here you can see some examples of the imperatives, instructions and vocabulary that we used last week in class.

A letter

Hello,

Seeing that we're going to spend some time together, I thought you'd like to know a bit about me. I'm in my mid-thirties. I'm Spanish, born and raised, but I have lived in the UK for a total of about one and a half to two years.

I'm married and I have three beautiful daughters: Elena, Paula and Irene. They're all 19 months old (they're triplets). So, in a matter of days, we went from there being two of us in the house to five. That meant that suddenly everything was too small: our car, our flat... even our days were too short.

I've been teaching English for about half my life. I started teaching when I was still studying and I have taught English in private academies, at University and now here at the EOI. I also spent one year teaching Spanish in Edinburgh. I have had a huge variety of students: children, teenagers, university students and now I teach mainly to adults. I'm very lucky in that I get to work with a lot of different people and I always try to learn from their experiences.

My main interests are reading literature, discussing politics and playing drums and guitar. I'm now training to become a triathlete, but I'm afraid long distances are still a long way away. I love doing sport, though, so I keep training whenever I have some free time (which is not very often)

In the future I hope to finish the album we are currently recording with my band, and I'd love to finish a mid-distance triathlon.However, my main ambitions are to be happy and healthy, and never to lose interest in the people and world around me. Fingers crossed!

Would you like to tell me about yourself?

All the best

Miguel

Fridays

These are the Fridays when we have a class this year.

If you have a class on MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS:
*October: 4th and 18th
*November: 15th
*December: 13th
*January: 17th

If you have a class on TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS:
*October: 11th
*November: 8th and 29th
*January: 10th

Libros 2º Nivel Básico

Libro de Texto:
English File Third Edition (Elementary)

Libros de lectura recomendados:
* British and American Festivities (Gina D.B. Clemen) Black Cat Readers
* Children, Animals and Strange Adults (Saki)
* New Yorkers, short stories (O Henry)
* Hampton House (Jenny Dooley)

List of Recommended Books for 2nd Advanced

* One Day (David Nicholls)
* Holes (Louis Sachar)
* Small Steps (Louis Sachar)
* Notes from a Big Country (Bill Bryson)
* Notes from a Small ISland (Bill Bryson. Plus anything else by this author)
* How to be an Alien (George Mikes)
* Tales of the Unexpected (Roald Dahl. Plus anything else by this author)
* Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie)
* Junk (Melvin Burgess)
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Mark Haddon)
* Bookends (Jane Green)
* The Harry Potter Series (J.K. Rowlings)
* The Adrian Mole Series (Sue Townsend)
* The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
* A Song of Ice and Fire (George R Martin)
* The Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
* The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
* Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
* Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome)
* I Don't Know How She Does It (Allison Pearson)
* The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
* The Boy in the Striped Pijamas (John Boyne)