Many things have been said today on our last day! Let's start by adding the link to the school satisfaction survey on teaching staff, which is anonymous. Please, help us improve. Just do the survey on-line - it only takes some minutes of your precious lives ;-)

As for the criteria to assess your tests, here you are the link to the Candidate's Guide to the exams. Have a look at the relevant items regarding the writing test and the speaking production and interaction.

Have a look at the following tips on how to be successfull at oral exams:

Below you'll find a useful picture guide to differentiate American and British English. Thanks Rubén for sharing!

We learnt plenty of things about the origins of several common English words yesterday. In addition we also learnt how to make new words by using prefixes which add extra meaning, e.g. under-, over-, etc. Pronunciation was also focused on this, that is, on word stress in words with prefixes (having one main stress on the base word and a secondary stress on the prefix).

Check this link to review stress patterns in pronunciation and this other one to review relative clauses.

We also studied the colloquial English section in which an English lexicographer talked about the new words that have entered the English language and the way they've done it. Moreover, in the "In the Street" section, four non-native speakers of English were asked what English words have been 'imported' into their language, and if they think it would be better to have their own words for this. What's your opinion on this matter?

The context of our last lesson is words English has 'borrowed' from other languages. We read an extract from a book called The meaning of Tingo, where the author takes a humorous look at words from other languages which have no exact equivalent in English. If you are dying to learn more words, check out the loanwords or borrowings, which are derived from other languages.

The topic was the pefect excuse to use the grammar point: relative clauses. We revised and extended the knowledge of both defining and non-defining clauses. To learn more about it and practise, below you'll find a handful of links:
- Explanation and further practice 1
- Explanation and online exercise 2
- Paraphrasing
- Test - Multiple choice exercise
- Test - Cloze exercise

There's also a paraphrasing exercise on relative clauses in Docs Section which you can download. In addition, enjoy the videos below: