TO MY NEW STUDENTS of 2nd BAT

Welcome!
The first thing you have to do is introduce yourselves in English, so the other people can know about you. You have to leave a comment to this article (Envia un comentari at the bottom of the page) with a short personal introduction in English (50-70 words). Your teacher will evaluate your introduction, so try to write correctly and without mistakes.
I have left my own personal introduction as an example!

"My name is Laia and I will be your English teacher this year. I'm 36 years old, and I have a child. I was born in El Vendrell and it is also where I live.

I like the same things everybody confesses: reading, music, cinema… and some other things, like cooking or dancing."

VERBS WITH SIMILAR MEANINGS (Unit 2)

I've found this interesting link where you can find a list of different verbs with similar meanings. Remember that this can be useful vocabulary for your writings.


http://www.saberingles.com.ar/ways/index.html

TOP TEN REGIONS

Visit the post titled Lonely Planet's top 10 regions

This time you have to choose 1 possible destination for your holiday next summer and say why you like them. Write a letter to a friend and  at some point in your letter there should be a sentence that starts One of the places i like most is PLACE. I like it because...

DEADLINE: Thursday 11th October

USEFUL PHRASES FOR INFORMAL LETTER WRITING

http://www.brays-ingles.com/writing-informal-letters.html

WRITING LETTERS

You can watch the following videos about the differences between FORMAL and INFORMAL letters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA5mdWZi7T0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z9G71G2OBg


To explain the differences between the letters in a very simple and visual way you can look the information that appears in the following link as well,
http://www.schooltrain.info/english/letters/letters_formal.htm

Samples of formal/informal letters,

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/morejobletters/Resignation_Letters_Thank_You_Letters_Employment_Letters.htm

Samples of e-mails

http://www.qgroupplc.com/category/writingemails

GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

You can watch the video and practise some exercices in the following links:

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9801/el-to-ing.html
http://english-zone.com/grammar/ger-inf01.html
http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz97mkm.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/infinitive-gerund/exercises?03
http://www.really-learn-english.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercises.html#04

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