Answer key Unit 4

Here's the answer key for the workbook exercises from Unit 4.

To get some extra practice on relative pronouns and relative sentences, click here.

To review the prepositions of movement, click here (3 exercises) or here.

Answer key unit 3

We're about to finish unit 3, so here's the answer key for the workbook exercises.

Christmas is coming!

It's almost Christmas time, and what better way to celebrate it than by listening to a carol?
Here's the last song by Coldplay, a beautiful Christmas song. I hope you like it!




Lyrics | Christmas Lights lyrics

Saint Andrew's Day

November 30th is Saint Andrew's day, the patron saint of Scotland.

Read a bit about its history and celebrations, then try this multiple choice quiz and this crossword.

Irregular verb practice

Created by Crazyprofile.com

The exam is approaching, and as usual, there will be a question on irregular verbs. You may start practicing them at Verbbusters. It's an online game which can be played at six different levels of difficulty. Good luck!

Answer key for Unit 2

Have you tried to do the exercises in your workbook? Here's the answer key for the exercises on modal verbs and for the vocabulary exercises.

All Saints' Day

Can you complete this poem? Use the vocabulary here to help you.

Little Monsters

Choose your ­­____________ and carve it right,
For tonight is the night of fright.
A most dangerous eve is ____________,
Disguise yourself from dangers unseen.
Beware!
The witches and ____________ prepare their brews,
Deadly mixtures and magic stews.
Those without ____________ should run and hide,
Or, better yet, stay inside,
For the darkest night is the night of fools,
Souls unprepared for bone-eating ____________,
Ghosts and ____________ who seek to annoy,
Or, perhaps, even destroy.
Listen!
Hear the sounds of laughter and little feet,
As they threaten you with “____________."
Give them candy, they will go away.
Lock your doors and pray
That the ____________ candle stays lit,
And the devilish children quit.

Anthony Eitnier

Answer key for unit 1

If you've done the exercises on reported speech, here's the answer key.
Here's also the key for the vocabulary exercises.

In case you need a bit more practice before the exam, you may try these:

• reported commands, statements and questions
• explanation + 11 exercises

Starter unit

Here's the answer key for the execises in the starter unit.

Selectivitat

To practise your reading and improve your listening skills at the same time, try these two sites:

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
A news article with an audio file. You can do a number of comprehension exercises as well.

Learning resources
Another news article with audio or video and some interactive comprehension exercises.

Posa't a prova
English readings at 4 different levels of difficulty (but no listening!) and all the other Selectivitat subjects.

The Poet's corner

St George's day is coming. To celebrate the festivity, you're going to write some poems. To make things easier for you, try this:
Instant poetry forms.

Happy St Patrick's day

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

As you listen, answer the following questions:

1. What basic elements will you need?
2. Step 1. What should you wear?
3. Step 2. Where should you go? At what time?
4. Step 3. What special words must you say (the English translation!)?
5. Steps 4 & 5. What 3 dishes must you cook?
6. Step 6. What will you drink?
7. Step 7. How will you spend your day? Mention the 2 most important things.
8. Step 8. What the last thing you must do on St Patrick's Day? What's the superstition with a four-leaf clover?
9. Americans who claim to be of Irish descent now number more that 34 million. That's how many times the population of Ireland?

Futures!

We've been revising the future tenses in class. Here's a little bit more practice:

Future simple: WILL + Verb (4 exercises, 3 tests)

BE GOING TO + Verb (5 exercises, 3 tests)

Future continuous: WILL BE + Verb -ing (1 exercise)

Future perfect: WILL HAVE + Verb -ed/3rd column (1 exercise)

Future mix: WILL, BE GOING TO, present simple, present continuous (1 exercise)

The Oscars

The Oscars were awarded last night in the Kodak Theater of Los Angeles. Watch this video to learn about the winners.

or see the full list of nominees.
Have you seen any of the films in this list? Choose a film and prepare a two-minute talk about it: the plot, the actors, your opinion about it and if it got an Oscar, did it deserve it or not?

Relative clauses

Practise the relative clauses here:

• some theory
• some practise

Conditional sentences

Watch this video on 1st conditionals:


Now try these six exercises on conditional sentences.

Martin Luther King's Day

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is a United States holiday marking the birthdate of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., observed on the third Monday of January each year, around the time of King's birthday, January 15.

King was the chief spokesman of the nonviolent civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law (at his time, for example, coloured people had to sit at the back of the buses, or had to give their seat to the whites, and there were segregated toilets for coloured and white people). He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.

His most famous words were a speech he delivered in 1963, which goes "I have a dream..."


Try to complete his words as you listen to the speech.

Modal verbs

Revise the different uses of the modal verbs:

• can
• could
• may and might
• should
• must and have to

and also some computer and texting vocabulary.

Perfect tenses

Practise the present perfect simple and the present perfect continuous.

Can you tell the difference between

• present perfect simple and present perfect continuous?
• past simple and present perfect?

With these exercises you will!

Revision of past tenses

Visit these websites and do the exercises to start revising for the upcoming exam...

• Past simple
• Past continuous
• Past perfect
• used to
• difference between past simple and past continuous
• difference between past simple and past perfect