COVER LETTER

Cover letter

 COVER LETTER - explanation and activities

Modal Perfects - Explanation and practise!

Explanation and practice

Practise:

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/could-have-should-have-would-have-exercise-1.html

Impersonal passive

 

For some practise and an explanation click HERE!

Bonnie Tyler - I Need a Hero

Holding Out for a Hero – Bonnie Tyler

Fill in the gaps.

Where have all the ____________men gone

And where are all the ______________?

Where's the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds?

Isn't there a white ____________ upon a fiery steed?

Late at night I toss and I turn

And I _________ of what I need

I need a hero 

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night

He's gotta be __________

And he's gotta be ____________

And he's gotta be ______________ from the fight

I need a hero

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light

He's gotta be ____________

And it's gotta be soon

And he's gotta be ________ than life!

_______________r than life

Somewhere after __________

In my wildest fantasy

Somewhere just ___________ my reach

There's someone reaching back for me

Racing on the _____________ and rising with the heat

It's gonna take a _________________ to sweep me off my feet

I need a hero 

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night

He's gotta be _____________

And he's gotta be __________

And he's gotta be ___________ from the fight

I need a hero 

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light

He's gotta be _______________

And it's gotta be _________

And he's gotta be __________ than life

I need a hero

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night

Up where the mountains meet the ___________ above

Out where the lightning splits the sea

I could swear there is someone, _____________

Watching me

Through the wind, and the ____________, and the rain

And the ___________, and the flood

I can feel his approach like a fire in my ____________

I need a hero 

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night

He's gotta be _____________

And he's gotta be __________

And he's gotta be ___________ from the fight

I need a hero 

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light

He's gotta be _______________

And it's gotta be _________

And he's gotta be __________ than life

I need a hero

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night

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Wish Clauses

 

Practise: Practise wish-clauses

CONDITIONALS

Practise:

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/conditional-sentences-3

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/mixed_conditionals.htm

2025 Christmas Special

The best 2025 Xmas commercials:

Some more Xmas things:

Top Xmas songs of 2025:

Xmas Vocabulary:

Read a Xmas classic:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

If you love cooking:

2025 Christmas Ads de Ana B. López

Question Tags in Big Bang Theory

A detailed explanation of Question Tags:

Or a shorter explanation:

Practise Question Tags!

Big Bang Theory- Question Tags

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zuo56O7_aU

Let's put on our thinking cap,...............?

Subtlety isn't her strong suit,..............?

You did,..............?

It's great,..............?

It never is,.............?

You never stop talking,.............?

That's a funny turn,.................?

You'd love that,...............?

They have wine here,.................?

It is,...........?

Irregular Plurals

Check the different irregular plurals here!

Practise irregular plurals with some exercises here! And here:

Writing a proposal

 In this link you will find the steps to writing a proposal, the expressions you should use, examples of proposal and some activities. Very useful!

Writing a proposal

Graphs and Charts

 Here you will find some information for the C1 mediation task where you will have to describe a graph or a chart.

This is the type of task you will have to do in the EOI written exam for C1 level.

You are given a chart and a context. This can be an example:

You work for an insurance company which needs an analysis of the most prevalent crimes. You have been asked to write a summary of the latest results of the police survey.

You must write about the following points:

• Explain the results of the survey.

• Highlight the most important findings. 

• Write between 80 and 100 words. You must write about both points.

In these videos you will find some interesting ideas to describe charts. Take into account the charactereistics of the EOI exam.

Numbers in Daily Life!

Check how you handle numbers (C1)

Numbers

 

Common Idioms with Numbers (from 1 to 10)

#1

back to square one

to have one too many

one for the road

#2

To kill two birds with one stone

To be of two minds

#3

Bad things come in three

Third time is the charm

#4

On all fours

#5

The fifth wheel

#6

Six feet under

#7

The seven year itch

#8

To be one over the eight

#9

To be on cloud nine

To have nine lives

#10

A tenner

Charities

 Watch this video. What charities are mentioned? 

What is their purpose?

Are there any similar charities in Spain?

Look at these questions and ask your classmates some of them:

1. Have you ever done volunteer work? If so, describe the work you did.
2. What do you think about giving money to charity?
3. Do you trust charitable organizations? Which organizations are most trustworthy?
4. How often do you pass homeless people who are asking for money on the street? How do you feel in that situation? What do you do?
5. Do you consider donating blood is an act of solidarity?
6. Do you give blood regularly? Why or why not?
7. Would you consider donating an organ while you are alive, like a kidney or a lung?