1º BACHILLERATO

17th OCTOBER: NATIONAL PASTA DAY!

En 1º Bachillerato C comenzamos cada clase de Inglés con una exposición sobre algún evento o conmemoración que se celebre ese día ("A Day like Today").

Así conocemos y apreciamos un poco más la riqueza de la diversidad lingüística y cultural de los países donde se habla la lengua inglesa. Hoy 17 de octubre, Día Nacional de la Pasta en EEUU, le ha tocado el turno a la alumna Ana Gómez Cubé, quien nos ha hecho más llevadera la última hora de la mañana organizando tras su explicación, un concurso donde sus compañeros han demostrado su creatividad elaborando distintos platos de pasta y explicando posteriormente su elaboración e ingredientes en inglés.

 La elección del plato ganador ha estado muy reñida, resultado finalmente el más votado el menú llamado "Ravioli de Otoño", elaborado por Zeus, Nadia, Carla,  Lola Núñez y María Marín.

¡Lástima que el material empleado no haya sido comestible!

 

In 1st Bachillerato C we start each English class with an speech about an event or commemoration that is celebrated that day ("A Day like Today").

In this way, we know and appreciate a little more the richness of the linguistic diversity and culture of the countries where the English language is spoken.

Today, October 17, National Pasta Day in the USA, it was the turn of the student Ana Gómez Cubé, who has made the last hour of the morning more bearable by organizing a contest after her explanation. where his classmates have demonstrated their creativity by preparing different pasta dishes and later explaining their preparation and ingredients in English. The choice of the winning dish has been very close, finally the most voted was the menu called "Autumn Ravioli", prepared by Zeus, Nadia, Carla, Lola Núñez and María Marín.

Too bad that the material used was not edible!

Have a look a this video  if you want to know more about it!

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REPORTING VERBS

Here is a table where you can learn the different constructions that some reporting verbs follow when we use reported speech.

 PASSIVE VOICE

Hi, students! 

If you want to get a general idea about what passive voice is, have a look at this  site (La Mansión del Inglés)

Your teacher may have talked about the Passive Voice in class, but here is some  more information and activities just in case you do not quite understand it yet. 

The passive voice with the different tenses

In a passive sentence, the object of an active sentence becomes the subject. Then we have to use the verb be in the tense we need and add the past participle of the main verb after it. In a passive voice sentence, the subject is the receiver of the action, not the doer of the action.

• They take the photos in Africa. (active)
• The photos are taken in Africa. (passive)

You can see how to use the passive voice with different tenses below.

When do we use the passive voice?

In English, we us the passive voice when we don’t know, or we don’t want to talk about who or what does the action in a sentence. Check the following examples.

• A bank was robbed yesterday. (=We don’t know who robbed the bank.)
• He was arrested last night. (=It’s obvious that the police arrested him.)
• I have been told that you insulted my brother. (=I don’t want to say who told me.)
• Jurassic Park was filmed by Spielberg in 1993. (=I’m talking about Jurassic Park and not about Spielberg.)

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*Read these sentences and see if you can now use the Passive Voice correctly.

*Click HERE (British Council) to find more about the Passive Voice. 
 

*Click The Passive 1: a good grammatical explanation about how to use/form the passive.
* Click The Passive 2: some exercises to practise the passive.
* Have something done1: exercises on have/get something done (causative have)

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27th September 2020

¡Hola a todos! Empieza un nuevo curso y queremos dar la bienvenida a todo nuestro alumnado de 1º de Bachillerato! Recordad que además de libro de texto y las explicaciones de vuestros profesores, podéis consultar en este blog posibles dudas que os encontréis durante el curso, y encontraréis diversas actividades para practicar los puntos gramaticales o el vocabulario estudiado en clase.

INTERESTING WEBS TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH

A continuación te sugerimos algunas webs donde puedes encontrar explicaciones gramaticales, ejercicios, juegos de vocabulario, etc. Entra en ellas y aprende por ti mismo...

 1.- http://www.saberingles.com.ar/Resources for students of English of all levels, teachers and translators. A good way to learn or improve your English in an entertaining way.

2.-http://www.woodwardenglish.com/ Interesting website where you can find grammar, vocabulary, interactive games, explanations about confusing words…

3.- Learn English Feel Good: on this web  you can find lots of excercises to practise grammar and the ke 

4.- Perfect English Grammar is another interesting web where you can practise tenses and many other grammar points.

5.-La Mansion del Ingles. Curso de Ingles Gratis. Gramática inglesa Gratis (mansioningles.com)

RELATIVE CLAUSES

Si quieres entender muy bien las oraciones de relativo, no dejes de consultar esta página donde encontrarás una explicación muy clara de todas las variantes, pronombres y ejemplos para saberlas utilizar sin equivocarte. Click here.

Bachillerato common  Topics for writing 

Click on the topics to go to the site:

- My Travel Blog: a Reading and writing activity to help you write your own Travel Blog.

- Film Review 1: Skyfall film review (The British Council).

- A for and against essay about the internet (The British Council).

RELATIVE CLAUSES 

- Relative clauses 1