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How you can organise your ideas?

1.Develop an outline to organize your ideas. An outline shows your main ideas and the order in which you are going to write about them. Click here to see some sample outlines.

•Write down all the main ideas.
•List the subordinate ideas below the main ideas.

•Avoid any repetition of ideas.
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How to stablish your topic.

Analyze
Separate out the parts and show how they relate to the whole. For example, whether you are asked to analyze a poem, story, or play, you will need to look at individual elements such as point of view, setting, characters, plot, imagery or symbolism, and motifs or themes. See how each of these elements contributes to the overall meaning of the work.

Argue
Give reasons for or against. Be sure to use specific examples to back up your points.

Compare and contrast
These words often appear together but not always. If you are asked to compare, show the similarities and the differences. If you are asked to contrast, show only the differences.

Describe
Write about a subject in detail, often so that the reader gets a clear mental picture or image of what you are describing.

Discuss

Write about a subject in detail, giving reasons and examples.

Summarize

State the main ideas briefly, leaving out specific examples.


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Lesson 6 - Reported Speech (with Conditionals)

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Lesson 5 - Reported Speech (with Modals)

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Lesson 4 Reported Speech (Changing Verb Tenses)

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Lesson 3 Reported Speech

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Lesson 2 Reported Speech

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Listeninig 1.

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Michael and Victoria live in Australia and are planning a trip to the United States. They are flying to Miami, New York and Alaska and they don’t know what the weather is going to be like.

Victoria looks at the weather channel on the Internet. She finds out that in New York it will be partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. The high will be around 80F with East Northeast winds of 15 to 25 mph.

“I find that the temperature is surprisingly high for this time of the year in New York” Victoria says to Michael.

“For Miami I suppose we’ll have to pack our bathing suits” Michael adds.
“It seems like we aren’t going to be very lucky. The weather forecast for Miami is as follows” says Victoria “Sunny with cloudy intervals. High of 57F. Winds South, 5 to 10 mph.
“What? Only 57F? That’s very low. I can’t believe it. That temperature can’t be right for Miami. Besides it’s going to be windy.”
“Yeah” agreed Victoria. “It seems like we’ll have to take our bathing suits for New York instead of for Miami. And, remember, later we’ll go to Juneau, Alaska”.
“Yes, that’s going to be very cold. Right?” asks Michael.
“Let me see. I’ll check it on the weather channel again. It says: Juneau, Alaska.Overcast with rain showers at times. Temperatures in the mid to upper 30s. Winds East Southeast, 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%.”

“Brrr…that’s going to be very cold. I think I’d rather go to the Caribbean. I want to enjoy a hot climate, sunny skies and no thunderstorms.”

“There are also thunderstorms in the Caribbean” says Victoria.

“Yes, I know, but that’s only from May to June and September to October.”

“Shall we change our tickets then?” asks Victoria  

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How to write an essay?

An essay is a short piece of writing that generally shows the author's view on a particular subject. There are many different kinds of essays, including narrative, descriptive, and persuasive. The following steps, however, can be used to write any kind of essay.

1.Establish your topic .
2.Organize your ideas .
3.Write a first draft .
4.Revise the first draft .
5.Proofread the final draft .

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The Day of Peace is coming!

While we use to celebrate the Day of Peace on 30th January, others countries celebrate it on 21st Sepetrember.

WHY?
The International Day of Peace, also known as the World Peace Day, occurs annually on 21 September. It is dedicated to peace, and specifically the absence of war, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone. It is observed by many nations, political groups, military groups, and peoples. The first year this holiday was celebrated was 1981. But some countries like Canada don't celebrate it.

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Lesson 1 - Reported Speech

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Poco a poco vamos a ir dando algunos consejillos para poder hacer un buen examen de inglés tipo selectividad (la mayoría de los consejos son recogidos de clase).

Hoy vamos a hablar de la primera parte:

(A) COMPREHENSION

Para enfrentarse al texto:

-Primero debemos ver el texto muy por encima viéndo las palabras que más nos llaman la atención e ntentar relacionarlas unas con otras.

-Cuando ya hemos hecho este primer paso podemos leer el texto tranquilamente teniendo ya una idea previa de que es lo que me voy a encontrar.

-Cuando no entiendas una palabra, ve al contexto, la frase de arriba, miras como está escrita si es sustantivo,adjetivo,verbo...etc y deduces la palabra.

Para contestar con tus propias palabras:

-Contesta con tus propias palabras no debes plagiar el texto.

-Extrae la idea principal y desarrolla de forma personal en inglés.

-Evita "pensar en español".

-No seas demasiado escueto en tus respuestas.

-Cuida los signos de puntuación y si has contestado a la pregunta.

Para decidir si una frase es verdadera o falsa:

-Extrae de tu frase las palabras más relevantes y localizalas en el texto, puede que no te las encuentres de la misma forma puede ser un sinonimo, por ejemplo.

-Compara tu frase con la localizada en el texto

-Decide si es verdadera o falsa

-Finalmente escribe si es verdadera o falsa, y justifícala con la evidencia del texto.

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