To all English levels: BUILDING UP YOUR VOCABULARY

Dear all,

As we have learned in class, vocabulary is a huge area of opportunity to improve your learning. I'm listing here some links with useful resources to help you work on this area.

1. How to learn new vocabulary. It's important you develop a technique to transfer new vocabulary to your long term memory. There are some websites with ideas that may help you.

2. What vocabulary to learn? It always depends on your personal database of words, your interests and your needs. It's a good idea to learn vocabulary from a text, so you can connect the meaning to the context and remember the meaning easily. However, there are some high frequency words that you'll find in most texts and have been put into lists, so it might also help you learn some of those words too. Find examples of lists here . Again, be careful with lists, since the words are totally out of context and may not be useful to your needs. Other interesting ways to buid up your vocabulary include a subscription to "Word of the Day" and some word games.

3. How about TOEFL vocabulary? You can try with sites that offer some of the most frequent words in the test.

English 2. Activity 2 TV in Mexico

This activity corresponds to Lesson 2, Unit 7, Exercise 5. After exchanging ideas with your classmates, write a short paragraph (6-8 sentences) with your opinion about TV in Mexico. Make sure you use in your paragraph some verbs to express likes and preferences (lesson 1), vocabulary about TV shows (lesson 2) and the grammar from lesson 2.
This activity will be checked in class on Thursday March 25th.
Note: All students should study lessons 1 + 2 on you own. Class on March 25th is subject to the condition mentioned in the classroom today.

English 2. Activity 1. The most... sport

Use this space to publish your paragraph, due Monday March 8th.

English 4, exercise 5. Reported Speech

Dear guys,

Spend some time checking this website, to reinforce the grammar on Reported Speech. Practice exercises can be found here.