Present perfect tenses

Perfect Tenses

My first date

It was a Sunday afternoon of September and I was very nervous. The day before, I met a boy that invited me to have a drink. Two hours before my first date I still didn’t know what to wear.

When the boy rang at the door I wasn’t ready, so I told him to wait downstairs. While he was waiting, it started to rain. After that, the boy ended up soaking wet but finally I went down and we went for a walk.                                                                                       

We entered to gelato and he invited me to an ice-cream. He asked for an almond ice-cream and I asked for a lemon one because I’m allergic to almond. He wanted me to try his ice-cream but I rejected until I couldn’t say no. I was ashamed to tell him that I was allergic to almonds because he liked them a lot.

When I tried the ice-cream I started to feel my allergy was starting to have an effect.                                                                                                                               In the end, he had to call on ambulance and they took me to the hospital. What a horrible first date, what a shame, I will never hide my allergies again!!!!

Gotye, "Somebody I used to know"

If you want to read the lyrics of the song, click on Isabel Perez's ESL site to enjoy the lyrics and some vocabulary exercises.

Many thanks to Isabel Pérez for these exercises: (you can find more exercises on the link above)

Match the halves; fill the gaps with one of the following prepositions, and then translate the meaning of this verse.

Prepositions: for, like, of, in, on, at, about.

1) Now and then I think      2) ____ when you said 3) Told myself that 4) But felt so lonely 5) But that was love and

a) you felt so happy you could die b) ______ your company c) it's an ache I still remember d) when we were together e) you were right ______ me

Listen to this part and make a list with all the verbs you find and the verb tenses (e.g. think- present simple)


Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
But I don't wanna live that way, reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know

*Screw somebody over- hacer daño
*Wanna- wantto

Notice the pronunciation of the following words:
rough
though

A description of a place

Choose one of the following options:

1. A description of a house.
2. My dream house.
3. A description of a place for the other students to guess. 
4. The most amazing place I have ever visited. 
5. What I like about where I live.
6. My ideal area. 

Use at least once:

so + adjective

such + adjective + noun

NLP Learning Modalities

Dear all,

Today let us read this interesting text and find out what kind of learner each of us is.

Underline all the sentences that you identify with, all the sentences that you think apply to you.

An opinion essay

Hunting animals: a sport or a crime?


In my opinion hunting animals is a crime because it is a murder.
I think that nature hasn't been created to be destroyed and we shouldn't interfere with nature because we can cause a disaster like the disappearance of species.
I disagree with the areas that have been created for hunting animals because they are more guilty than the person who suffering and death of animals.
In addition, hunting can be dangerous because personal accidents can happen, there have been cases of deaths of people.
In conclusion, hunting should be banned and we shouldn't destroy nature because we can repent.
I also want to add that hunting can make appear poachers.

A book review

A book review


My favourite book is entitled "Si tu me dices ven, lo dejo todo pero dime ven".
It's a book that has been written by Albert Espinosa that is the director of Polseres Vermelles.
The plot of the book is a man that broke up with her girlfriend and beings to remember his life in the past when he was a child. The rest of story explains absolutely exciting adventures, for example the death of his parents, some stories made me cry.
I'd recommended this book because it's really fantastic and teaches you how hard life can be.
I was impressed by the author is sentence:
" Dedicada a todos los que siguen queriendo ser diferentes y luchan contra aquellos que desean que seamos iguales.".

How to improve your speaking? Tounge-Twisters

Hi guys, today I'm gonna show a good method to improve your pronunciation: Tounge-Twisters!, also, a good way to have fun and have a good laugh.

Bellow you can find some Tongue-Twister; I already know some of them are a bit hard to say, but, Hold on, and keep trying!

Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.

Denise sees the fleece,                     

Denise sees the fleas.

At least Denise could sneeze

and feed and freeze the fleas.

There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.

Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too.

Are you already tired? If the answer is no, there are a lot of Tongue-Twister...

http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm

This is all my friends, I hope you've enjoyed it!

A book review: Breaking Down, by Stephanie Meyer

Breaking down's front cover

Breaking Dawn is the fourth and final novel in The Twilight Saga written by American author Stephanie Meyer. Divided into three parts, the first and third sections are written from Bella Swan's perspective, the protagonist, and the second is written from the perspective of Jacob Black.

At the beginning of the book, Bella and Edward get married; they get married in an awesome wedding organized by Alice, Edward’s vampire adopted sister. Afterwards, Bella’s and Edward’s honeymoon starts. They travel across America by plane, and finally they arrive to Río de Janeiro. When Bella asks Edward: “Río de Janeiro? Are we gonna stay here?” he answers: “No, just a stop along the way”, then they arrive to the docks to travel by boat. Twenty minutes later from the beginning of the journey, Edward said: “Bella, look there” while he was pointing straight ahead.

Bella saw only blackness at first, and the moon's white trail across the water. But she searched the space where he pointed until she found a low black shape breaking into the sheen of moonlight on the waves. As she squinted into the darkness, the silhouette became more detailed. The shape grew into a squat, irregular triangle, with one side trailing longer. They were in Isle Esme.

The honeymoon was being perfect; also, Bella got what she wanted: have sex with Edward, a reckless topic. They stayed there for a long time, three weeks approximately, but an incident broke their cloud of love and happiness. Without knowing how, Bella was pregnant.

Then, they had to go home.

Bella has got inside an unknown creature; she has got inside a half-blood, part human, and part vampire. The fetus was growing very fast, breaking at the same time Bella’s ribs.

Finally, Bella is transformed into a vampire and gives birth to a baby girl. Now, Bella is brilliant, she discovers she has a special power, she has a mental shield. She can protect everybody’s mind if she wants. Then, all is perfect, all is balanced and the happiness is in the air, but something dangerous is coming. The Vulturi, the vampire family, comes to attack Cullen’s family. Finally it all ends successully.

In conclusion, I think that this book is really awesome and terrific. Personally, I think the book has got a good structure and, honestly, is my favorite book. I totally recommend it.

A film review

My favourite film is “A 3 metros sobre el cielo”. It’s a Spanish film of Fernando González Molina. The film is from 2010 and lasts 118 minutes. It’s a drama and romance movie.

The plot of the story is about two young people who belong to different worlds. It is the chronicle of an improbable love, almost impossible but inevitable dragging in a frantic journey where they discover the first great love. Babi (Maria Valverde) is a girl from uppermidle class that is educated in goodness and innocence. Hache (Mario Casas) is a rebellious boy, impulsive, unconscious, has an appetite for risk and danger embodied in endless fights and illegal motorbike races, the limit of common sense.

All in all, I’d recommend this film because it’s a very nice love story and it’s very exciting. Personally, I think that I love Mario Casas, it’s my favourite actor. 

Do you think that school holidays are too long?

Some people think that school holidays are too long. However, some people think that school holidays are too short.

In summer, teenagers can rest from school. They can prepare for the next course of study.

Personally, I think that teenagers can work to earn money to pay for University in the summer.

Teenagers go out at night because they enjoy different activities, such as going to the disco.

If the school holidays are shorter, they will not be able to have fun. Consequently, they will get bored and discouraged to learn. 

In addition, if parents work there are “esplais” and “casals” to leave them there.

As far as I am concerned, school holidays aren’t too long. We need to relax and enjoy.

Something to do when you have nothing to do

Hey bloggers!
Nowadays I'm reading a books that seems to be very interesting. I'm sure you all know about it, the book's name is Hamlet and its written by William Shakeaps (sorry I don't know how to spell his name )


So I just wanted  to recommend the book to you. Its very good and the vocabulary is simple and manageable. As we don't have much to do this summer why don't you give a try to this book. Have a look I'm sure you'll like it.


I guess I don't need to write the story as we all know what it is about . After all Hamlet is one of the most famous works of W.S.
 Even that if I had to explain Hamlet in one line it would be something like this: The tragedy of Hamlet traces the admirable portrait of a legendary Prince of Jutland who is dreamy, contemplative, but  lost in doubt and irresolution because of his father's death. That's why in order to finally   solve all the  mysteries and secrets   around him Hamlet is  forced to clarify the reasons that led his father to death. In his way Hamlet will not only find those secrets but he will also gain self-sufficiency.

here's the link:http://books.google.es/books?id=29ZPAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=hamlet&hl=ca&sa=X&ei=27LHT--1MIK5hAfa9rC2Cw&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=hamlet&f=false

happy reading!