Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Worlds apart

Please, download these two pdf documents containing two reading activities:


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Click here for part 2

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Grammar review

These are some grammar  questions to refresh what we learnt last year. Please download them and answer them at home as homework.

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Thursday, September 19, 2013

A Tiny Apartment

Apartments in Hong Kong are small and expensive. Gary Chang, an architect, decided to design a 344 square feet apartment to be able to change into 24 different designs, all by just sliding panels and walls. He calls this the "Domestic Transformer."  This is the video we watched in our class. Please watch it again to get more details.



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Education: The Intelligence Test.

These are the activities related to the video about the IQ test carried out in 1932 and the present days in Scotland.
You also have a True/False activity about different educational systems in the world.

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Comparatives and superlatives

In this pdf document, you can see how comparatives and superlatives are used in English.  Please, study it since the explanation offered in the textbook is very vague.

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Advice on Job Interviews

A job interview is usually seen as a hard, even traumatic experience, but mastering the art of the job interview isn't as hard as you might think.

In this video, oration and career experts share some advece for job interviews. The lessons given aren't your "run-of-the-mill" interview suggestions; these tips focuses on both verbal and non-verbal communication techniques to achieve your dream job.

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Concessive clauses


Concessive clauses -also known as clauses of contrast- are subordinate clauses that are used to express the opposite of the main clause. The main connectors expressing this meaning are:

- Although
- Even though
- Despite
- In spite of

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