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INFORMAL E MAIL Writing tip: We often use phrases in e-mails to friends and family: Great to hear from you Start with Hi..., Dear... I hope you´re well. Say hi to (Sam) How was your weekend? (Sam) sends his love. Speak to you soon. Finish with love or Best wishes and your name

Listen to the song and write the 10 missed words with a comment. McFly -  LOVE IS EASY Do do do do do do Do do do do do do Do do do do do do Today I’m laughing the clouds (1)________ I hear what the flowers say And drink every drop of (2)_______ And I see places that I have been In ways that I’ve never seen My side of the (3)_____ is green Oh, I can’t believe that it's so simple It feels so natural to me If this is love then love is easy It's the (4)_______ thing to do. If this is love, then love completes me Cause it feels like I’ve been missing you A simple equation, With no (5)_________ to leave you confused. If this is love, love, love, Oh, it’s the easiest thing to do Do do do do do do Do do do do do do Do do do do do do Do you feel the way that I do? Do I turn your grey skies look blue And make dirty (6)_________ look new? And the birds sing Tweedily tweet dee dee dee Tweedily dee dee dee And now I know exactly what they (7)________ Oh I ca...

There were people in Australia long before Europeans discovered the continent in the 1600s. Aborigines didn´t have metal or pottery, but they had very rich form of art, painting, song, poetry and mythology.  There were around 500 different tribes with different languages and a complex system of trade. They lived by collecting food and hunting with spears and boomerangs. In 1770 James Cook landed in the eastern part of Australia,  which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain and declared it a British colony. At this time, Britain was looking for a place to send its prisioners and criminals. Australia was the perfect place, it was very far from Britain !!!  Cook's discoveries prepared the way for establishment of a new penal colony . Captain Arthur Phillip led the First Fleet into Port Jackson on 26 January 1788. This date became Australia's national day, Australia Day  At the beginning only prisioners and their guards arriv...

  GEORGE WASHINGTON. (1732-1799) He was the first President of the United States. He became President in 1789, eight years after the American War of Independence. George was born in Virginia. His family owned a big farm and had slaves. George didn´t have much education. During his life he had three jobs: he was a farmer, a soldier and a politician. He loved the life of a farmer. He grew tobacco and owned horses. He worked hard but he also liked dancing and going to the theatre. In 1759 he married a widow called Marthe Custis. They were happy together but didn´t have any children. He was Commander-in-Chief of the army and fought the British in the War of Independence. The war eneded in 1781 and he returned to the farm, but the people wanted him to be president. Finally, in 1789, he became the first President of the United States, and gave his name to the new capital city. He started the building of the White House, but he never lived in it. By 1797 he was tired of polit...

One more year it´s September 11th. New York is in our memories. It was Tuesday afternoon, I got home from work quite soon, I turned on the tv and, What did I see? I saw World War Three, Staring back at me, I thought I might wake up to reality, There wasn’t gonna be, Yeah, And all I could see was, This horrific tragedy. In the Silence Of The City, No mobile phones ring, In the Silence Of The City, You cannot hear a thing, In the Silence Of The City, The smiles are washed away, In the Silence Of The City, There’s nothing left to say. And New York, New York, So good they named you twice, The city that never sleeps, Do you believe your eyes? And by this act of war, Big apple is eaten to the core, And two tall towers, Crumble to the floor, And Manhattan isn’t there, It’s there no more! In the Silence Of The City, No mobile phones ring, In the Silence Of The City, You cannot hear a thing, In the Silence Of The City, The smiles are washed away, In the...

                             Franklin's lost expedition THE MYSTERY OF THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION Many years ago, explorers wanted to find a way by sea from Europe to China, via Alaska. In 1845, John Franklin left England with 134 men to look for a route through the Arctic. Franklin´s ships had everything they needed. They had enough food in tins for three years and thousands of litres of lemon juice to stop disease and many other things as books, maps, scientific and musical instruments and even a camera. They arrived at Baffin Bay in July 1845 and things were going well, some sailors saw Franklin´s expedition on July  26th and that was the last time they were seen alive. The British Government became very worried because they heard nothing about Franklin for a long time, they sent expeditions to lo...

In 1971,In the Philippines, some men discovered a group of 25 people in the rainforest. They called themselves Tasaday people and they lived like cave people in the stone age. They had fire but they did not use the wheel, did not have agriculture. They collected plants to eat and they trapped fish in the river. They were very peaceful people and they believed that the animals were their natural friends. The scientists claimed for protection and many governments gave money to the Philippines to make sure the Tasaday people were safe.They stopped all tree-cutting and road building in the area. A few months later, a journalist visited the Tasadays and he discovered that these people lived in houses, not in caves, they watched television and they wore modern clothes. They told the journalist that they were paid to look like prehistoric people. When the scientists returned very angry they found Tasadays living like in the stone age cave people again. Today that status is wid...

Queen Victoria was crowned on the death of William IV in 1837 and she died in 1901. It was a reign of tremendous change in the lives of all Britons. During this time Britain became the most powerful country in the world with the largest empire that had ever existed. Britain ruled one fifth of the world´s surface and one quarter of the people.  

The Bermuda Triangle is an area in the Atlantic Ocean, near Florida in the United States. Some years ago, many aeroplanes dissapeared when they were flying through the area. Ships also dissapeared or sank when they were sailing there. Today, many people say that the area has a special, magical force and that it is  very dangerous. They are frightened of going into the area because they say something might happen to them During the 1940’s Flight 19 squadron was reported missing in the Bermuda Triangle, while on patrol off the Florida coast. The planes encountered an unusual glow in the atmosphere. The second Cyclops , a collier ( a kind of ship),   she coaled ships on patrol with American entry into World War I, Cyclops  joined a convoy in France, and she was assigned to Naval Overseas Transportation Service. She then sailed to Brazilian waters to fuel British ships in the south Atlantic,  She put to sea from Rio de Janiero 16...

Charles Dickens ( Portsmouth , Inglaterra , 7 de febrero de 1812 – Gads Hill Place , Inglaterra , 9 de junio de 1870 ) fue un famoso novelista inglés , uno de los más conocidos de la literatura universal, y el principal de la era victoriana . Fue maestro del género narrativo . En su obra destacan las descripciones de gente y lugares, tanto reales como imaginarios, su dominio de la lengua inglesa es inigualable, sus personajes son inolvidables, y tenía una profunda sensibilidad social. Sus novelas y relatos cortos disfrutaron de gran popularidad en vida del escritor, y aún hoy se editan continuamente. Dickens escribió novelas por entregas, el formato usual de su época, por la simple razón de que no todo el mundo poseía los recursos económicos necesarios para comprar un libro, y cada nueva entrega de sus historias era esperada con gran entusiasmo por sus lectores, nacionales e internacionales. Dickens fue y sigue siendo venerado como un ídolo literario por escr...

Choose the correct words. 1.-My foot hurts, so I´ll go/I´m going to the doctor´s this evening- 2.-Our car is really old, so we´ll buy/we´re going to buy a new one. 3.-Let´s go to the cinema tonight. I´ll meet/I´m meeting you outside at eight o´clock 4.- I´ll play/I´m playing tennis with Jonh this afternoon, so I´d better take my tennis racket. 5.-Harry ´ll get up/´s going to get up early tomorrow to study for the exam. 6.- I´ll call/I´m calling you later about Saturday night. 7.-They can´t come to my party because they´re flying/they´ll fly to Paris that weekend. 8.- I´m going / I´ll go to the hairdresser´s tomorrow at 5.15

To the teacher: What does________ mean? How do you say_________in English/Spanish? How do you pronounce that word? Could you repeat that sentence, please? Could you speak more slowly, please? I´msorry. I don´t understand. Is this correct, Please? Could you help me, please? Which page are we on? Can you spell that word, please? I´m sorry, I´m late. When is the English exam? What´s the homework? To the students: Where is your homework? Listen carefully. Who knows the answer to this question?

Exercise - Future Mix Principio del formulario Put the verbs into the correct form (will, going to, simple present or present progressive). 1.        I love London. I (probably / go) there next year. 2.        Our train (leave) at 4:47. 3.        What (wear / you) at the party tonight? 4.        I haven't made up my mind yet. But I think I (find) something nice in my mum's wardrobe. 5.        This is my last day here. I (go) back to England tomorrow. 6.        Hurry up! The conference (begin) in 20 minutes. 7.        My horoscope says that I (meet) an old friend this week. 8.        Look at these big black clouds! It (rain) . 9.        Here is the weather forecast. Tomorrow (be) dry and...