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GRAMMAR VIDEOS FROM THE BRITISH COUNCILS FOR TEENAGERS

GRAMMAR VIDEOS

This section offers you grammar practice in snack-size bites. Our Grammar Snack videos show the grammar being used in a natural way. A conversation-style explanation and interactive exercises will check that you can really use the language.

A QUIZ...

It's time for another quiz from British Council Korea! Let's see how you get on with this one! 

PREPOSITIONS

We always get lots of questions in the Language Clinic about prepositions so here are five useful links to help you. I hope you enjoy them:

Prepositions:
1) Verbs & prepositions - http://goo.gl/uIA7Ro
2) Adjectives & prepositions - http://goo.gl/c5u68x
3) Prepositional phrases - http://goo.gl/2NbdYX
4) Time prepositions - http://goo.gl/gwugWa
5) 150 prepositions with practice exercises -http://goo.gl/dRqEiJ

WRITING POEMS IN ENGLISH

¿Qué es un LIMERICK?

KICKBALL RULES, BY NEIL

FILM REVIEW TEMPLATE

Dear students from 3C,

Here you are a template(model) of film review.

THE CASTLE AND ITS SURROUNDING OLD TOWN “LA VILLA”

The Castle in Aguilar de la Frontera can be regarded as one of the most remarkable ones during the period known as Al-Andalus and later Kingdom of Castile. Moreover, it has been popular for the beauty of its buildings.

There were several settlements since the Roman period up to the Christian one and the formers called it as IPAGRO. But during the muslism age Ipagro was named as POLEY. Poley was also the name of a very important battle which took place at the time between Abdallan and Ben-Hafsun dated back in the year 890 B.C.

During the Christian period the town was owned by the king Fernando III and his son Alfonso X who handed the village over the portuguese Yáñez Dovinal for his great service to the king.  Yáñez  Dovinal decided to name the village as AGUILAR in honour of his mother's surname ÁGUIA. This was also the reason for the eagle found in the coat of arms. Dovinal was the first lineage of Aguilar. But after a period ruled by some of the Dovinal's lords and with no offspring except for a young boy, the village of Aguilar was given back again to the crown.

During this period (1350), the crown was ruled by Pedro I “El Cruel” who handed the power over Alfonso Fernández Coronel. But Alfonso supported Enrique II de Trastámara, who was the illegitimate brother of Pedro I, to the throne. For this reason, Pedro I was very upset and started an important historic event known as the Battle of Aguilar. He then changed the village's name to Monterreal. Alfonso Fernández Coronel was killed in this battle by Pedro I in 1353 and the village was given again back to the crown. 

After several battles, Enrique II kills Pedro I in Montiel and ascends the throne in 1369. Enrique II transfers the village to the family Fernández de Córdoba in 1370. They were a very remarkable lineage in the state and the name of Monterreal is changed to Aguilar. They rebuilt the castle which was ruined by the attacks of Pedro I “The Cruel”.

Finally, Alfonso Fernández de Córdoba was the 10th and most remarkable lord for the village of Aguilar.




Our visit to the castle will focus on the following points:

• (PUBLIC) GRANARY: (Pósito)
• “THE VILLAGE”: La Villa
• PANORAMIC VIEW: Vistas panorámicas.
• ALONSO DE AGUILAR: Familia Fernández de Córdoba
• DEFENDING WALL:  “FALSABRAGA”
• STONE-MASON / STONE-CARVER MARKS : Marcas de cantero sobre las piedras.
• BAILEY: “Patio de armas”
• MAIN TOWER:  “DEL HOMENAJE”
• BACK DOOR AND ENTRANCE: “POTERNA Y ENTRADA EN RECODO”
• THE XIII CENTURY
• TOWER “LA CADENA”: TORRE DE LA CADENA
• SOUTH-EAST TOWER: TORRE DEL SURESTE

A PERFECT REVIEW ! By Angel Valle




READ THIS REVIEW AND WRITE IT DOWN TO YOUR NOTEBOOK.

 

HERE YOU ARE A COPY OF THE MARKING CODE

 MARKING CODE FOR WRITTEN WORK

#                      Number or agreement, e.g., he want(S) 3 dog(S)

^                      Something is missing, e.g., I went (TO) school yesterday morning

[ ]                    Word order e.g., Where (DOES) Paul  [does] work?   

WW                 Wrong word, e.g., I didn’t buy something (ANYTHING)

WF                  Wrong form e.g., His English is very well (GOOD). I didn’t saw (SEE) her

T                     Tense, e.g., I saw a nice sweater and I buy(BOUGHT) it

[ ]                                this needs to be reorganised, e.g. The city grew in such a way the old centre, outlined in a time that  [there is no automobiles and bus…and now is different in dealing with so much traffic]  .

?’                                What do you mean? E.g.,  I am glad as if I had slept

Ws                   spelling, e.g. broother  con(M)fortable

P                                 punctuation, e.g. What is it(?)

VF                   Verb-form wrong, e.g. I gived (GAVE) him my coat.

Ǿ                                 Not necessary, e.g. I saw a man and I asked him the way. An old and blind man.

Wp                  Wrong preposition: At (ON) Mondays I usually play football.

Complete the text about Halloween

BEST WRITING ISABEL DIAZ !!! Congratulations !

This is my selection among all your writings from 3C. It is well-structured, it keeps cohesion and coherence, that is meaning and structure have been taken into account.

I think it is worthy for you all to have this model in mind.....Thanks Isabel for your text.