17.10.13

Food & restaurants!

October 17th - Lab session IUC 10° Hello everyone! Here we have some activities to work on the first part of the class: 1. Vocabulary about restaurants 2. Food and restaurants 3. Food and drinks quiz! 4. Make a comment in this post and write a restaurant review. Write about your favorite place to eat in town and give your opinion. This is an example: "A very good restaurant in town in Carlos Lechona. It is a good option for typical food. Lechona and bandeja paisa are excellent. The prices are good and the service is nice. The waiters are helpful and food comes fresh and hot. I recommend it".

26.9.13

Count & non-count nouns!

Type in Google: "COUNTABLE AND NON COUNTABLE NOUNS". In a word document, make a chart and write 10 examples of countable and non-countable nouns. What is A / AN / SOME / ANY / MANY / MUCH? Look for information about their use. Then listen to your teacher's explanation and do the short task. HOMEWORK: Bring a list of the things you have in your freezer or cupboard. They can be food items, objects ir kitchen supplies.

17.9.13

Lab session - IUC - 10°!

Hello everyone and welcome to the Language Lab at UAM. Today's session will be focused on practicing some skills and on having extra tasks to reinforce some our abilities, as well as introducing new things.
Please follow the links or check the information if necessary: What are personal pronouns? What are possessive adjectives? (Click here) Possessive adjectives practice (Click here) Touchstone Arcade Jobs?--> Professions & occupations. Listening practice 1! Listening practice 2! Listening practice 3!
FINAL TASK--> What do you think is the best profession/occupation? Why? Give some reasons and explain what your choice is. Send your exercise to: lblanco@autonoma.edu.co

9.9.13

WORST MOVIE EVER!

Look at the 'top' 50 worst movies list. Which ones have you seen? What do you think about the list? Is there a movie which shouldn't be rated as 'bad'? Write a comment with your opinion! 50 WORST MOVIES EVER!

Lab Session - English diploma Level 8

Welcome to the UAM Language Lab. Here you can take advantange of the different resources and possibilities to strengthen your English abilities, as well as practice and learn new things. First of all, you can have some interesting listening practice here: Exercise A Exercise B Exercise C Look at the following website for practicing the use of relative clauses with who/which/whose--> Relative pronouns I Relative pronouns II Then, take a look at an idiom game to learn new expressions: Idioms/slang Click on this link--> Idiom Site and choose 3 idioms. Learn their meaning and explain it to the rest of the class.

Lab session - English IV

Hello dear students! Here you have a set of activities to work on during this session. You'll also find a link for the class textbook practice. You can also explore some other activities here. Listening practice 1 Reading practice 1 Touchstone Arcade (Click on Book 2 and choose activities). Listening practice 2 Reading practice 2

30.8.13

What are phrasal verbs?

PHRASAL VERB (noun) plural noun: phrasal verbs 1. an idiomatic phrase consisting of a verb and another element, typically either an adverb, as in break down, or a preposition, for example see to , or a combination of both, such as look down on. exercise and info about Phrasal Verbs (CLICK HERE) How about some more phrasal verbs? There's a nice game here!