AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...

As you already know Bardem has recently received the Oscar as " Best Actor in a Supporting Role".
Have you seen any of Javier Bardem's movies? Which ones?Do you like him or not? Do you know anything about him?

HOW TO SUCCESS IN THE SPEAKING EXAM

SPEAK AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!!!( IN ENGLISH, OF COURSE!!) AND DON'T USE CATALAN OR SPANISH WORDS!! WHEN YOU FINISH THE EXAM SAY: " That's it", for example.
Remember that there are 3 parts in the 2nd Term Exam:
1.ASK and ANSWER questions related to knowing each other:
Hello, how are you? What's your name? Where are you from? What do you do? What are your hobbies? Where do you live?....

2. DESCRIBING A PICTURE:
First give the situation of the person/ thing you are talking about in the picture: AT THE TOP/ AT THE BOTTOM/ IN THE MIDDLE/ ON THE LEFT/ ON THE RIGHT...
THEN use THERE IS/ THERE ARE, use a RELATIVE PRONOUN ( who/ which/ when / where) and the PRESENT CONTINUOUS to describe the action that the person in question is doing.
For example: In the middle of the picture, there's a man who' s playing football with his child.

3. GIVING AND ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS:
Excuse me, where's the.....?
Go along this street/ go straight this street
Turn on the left/ Turn on the right
At the end of the street there's.....
The...............is at the corner
The.................is in front of/ between/ next to.....
GOOD LUCK!!!

HAVE you BEEN in love BEFORE? HAVE YOU EVER TRAVELLED ABROAD?

Choose one of these two topics and write an essay ( about 250 words). Use the Present Perfect, the Past Simple and the Past Continuous. Use also linking words like WHEN, WHILE, SINCE, BUT, HOWEVER, THEN, NEXT...

Do you need some practise to know how to use the Present Perfect? Try these exercises!

Complete the story

Past simple versus Present Perfect




Here you have an EXAMPLE of how your composition can be:

I've been in love three times in my life.
The first one was when I was a child, I fell in love with one of my classmates. We were just seven years old. We went everywhere together, and we always held our hands. We did huts on trees, we played together, we sent kisses and we kissed our cheeks.
The next time I fell in love was when I was fourteen. He was from Tarragona and we met playing chess.
My third time was in university, there I met my husband and we have been together since I was nineteen and he was twenty-three. I was studying Spanish Language and he was studying Economics. Now I'm a teacher and he's working in his shop. We are married. We have been married since 2002, and we have two children: a daughter and a son.