Conditionals and wishes

This time it's turn for the conditionals and wishes to make their appearance. Although we've already seen conditionals this year, we studied them together with the other uses of past tenses, so it was somewhat brief.

Now we've got the chance to revise them more thouroughly, and we'll include the expression of wishes. 

So, firstly, I'm bringing you the slides, which contain explanations, examples, activities and even a The Big Bang Theory video portraiting the use of the second conditional. Make sure you don't miss it. It's always fun to see this crazy, geeky gang of scientists!

Conditionals and wishes from Míriam

Also, I prepared some photocopies for you to enhance your practice at your own will: Conditionals and wishes.

Work with passion

Is it hard to find your passion? Your true vocation? For one young man, it was, so he decided to do something special, something different. And a documentary was made to capture his experience: One week job. 

Also, the director made a speech speaking about this man's experience and reflecting on the meaning of work. I would like you to complete the gap-filling activity while listening to the video, so we can keep working at class. As the quality is not the best (it was hard work to understand it at class, sorry about that), you've ot the transcript in case you find it impossible to make out the words.

By the way, this is a lesson adapted from the amazing website Film-English.

One week job from Míriam

Vocabulary in the workplace

We've been seeing vocabulary about jobs and work through the unit, so in this entry all of them will be put together for you to revise them (we've got the exams within our graps and it's very important to show a broad knowledge of structures). 

In the workplace from Míriam

Idioms related to work and jobs from Míriam

The future

As you asked me, there it goes the grammar slides picturing the uses of the future, so you can revise everything.

The future from Míriam

Also, the cards from the game we played in class.

Can technology solve our big problems?

For next week, you'll have to watch (again) the speech of Jason Pontin analyzing how technology could solve problems, but sadly it's not the case. On Monday, we'll correct your answers to these questions:

JASON PONTIN – Can technology solve our big problems? - TED TALKS (Feb '13)

1.     How many technological advances of the 20^th century are mentioned?

2.     According to JFK, why did the Apollo 11 go to the moon?

3.     What are technologists doing instead of trying to solve humanity's big problems?

4.     Why haven't we gone to Mars yet?

5.     According to Pontin, what's the actual cause of famines?

Try not to use the script after you've finished, read it after the exercise: "Can technology solve our big problems?" script.

Idioms and collocations. Do you know them all?

Today's post deals with idioms and collocations around the topic of technology and inventions. I've prepared some activities and slides for you to practise and get familiar with them. Technology Idioms

You can revise them before or after the activity, but I recommend to try ding the activity first. When you finish, have a look at the following slides.

Technology idioms from Míriam

When you're done with the idioms, try collocations and have fun! Technology collocations

New meanings for a new era

It's a curious thing how we take ordinary words and give them a brand new meaning so as to adapt them to modern times. This happens mostly in technology and science. Some examples we've seen in class, and it would be great if you could revise them going through the next slides and playing the matching game.

Computing concepts vs ordinary meaning from Míriam

Reinvented words