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 1º BACHILLERATO  - Bridges 1      

Latest update  05/02/2014

Activities on the Burlington Books website. Click here.

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UNIT 1

 

  

A listening activity: hair description

grammar help  

Present Simple affirmative 

Present Simple negative 2

Present Simple Questions

Present Continuous

Present Simple or Present Continuous? 1 (Level 1)

Present Simple or Present Continuous? 2 (Level 1)

Present Simple or Continuous? 3 (Level 1)  

Present Simple or Continuous? 1 (Level 2)

Present Simple or Present Continuous? 2 (Level 2) 

 

The Chinese New Year: a description of personality according to the Chinese horoscope. (Read and test)

 

 

 

UNIT 2

   

A listening activity: a vacation resort

 

               grammar help

Be: Past Simple affirmative

Be: Past Simple negative

Past Simple affirmative 1

Past Simple negative 1

Past Simple questions 1

               grammar help

  The Past Continuous

  Past Simple or Past Continuous? 

                 grammar help

  The Past Perfect (1)

  The Past Perfect (2)

 

 

Likes and dislikes

 

 

 

UNIT 3

Adjectives or adverbs?

 

 

 grammar help

The Present Perfect 2
The Present Perfect 3
The Present Perfect 4 
The Present Perfect 5 

The Present Perfect: Particles (ever, never,...)

For or since?

How long...?

Present Perfect or Past Simple?

Present Perfect or Past Simple? 2

 

A video: Parkour tips and tricks (by parkour instructor "Cali") from BBC News

A video from the BBC: Swiss cable guy

A song: I still haven't found, by U2

  A song: I've seen it all, by Bjork, with activity

UNIT 4

 

  Revision: environment

  Environment vocabulary

  Environment vocabulary with examples

  Climate quiz

 grammar help

  Be going to

  Will or be going to?

Future plans: Present Continuous
Will, going to, or Present Continuous?
 
Going to, Present Continuous and Present Perfect

  Future Continuous

  Future Perfect

  Future Continuous or Future Perfect? 

 

 

A video about global warming

 

Listening activity: Deforestation Decreased Over the Past 10 Years.

 

 

 

 

A song: Wear sunscreen

UNIT 5  

 

  who, which, where

  Defining relative sentences          

  Relative pronouns (group of exercises)

MORE EXERCISES ...

 

 

UNIT 6   Recommended exercises from other websites:

    Countries and nationalities 1

    Countries and nationalities 2

    Countries, nationalities and languages

 

grammar help

Obligation and prohibition (must / mustn't)

Advice (should / shouldn't)

 
 

  Papua New Guinea: the country with the highest number of languages in the world (820)

UNIT 7  

 

  Conversion into Passive (Present and Past)

 

 

UNIT 8  

 

   

 

 

READING BOOKS  2012 - 2013:

  TERM 1:

  A Sense of Danger. Tracy Simmonds. Burlington Books. ISBN 9963-47-128-5

 

 

 

 

  TERM 2:

  Meet Me in Istanbul. Richard Chisholm. Macmillan ISBN 0-435-27223-3

 

 

 

   TERM 3:

   The Sign of Four. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, retold by Anne Collins. Macmillan ISBN 1-405-07678-X

 

 

 

 

 

RECOMMENDED PRACTICE FOR EVERY DAY: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/

Here you can: 1) listen to the text, 2) read the text, 3) see definitions of the vocabulary in the text 4) listen to the pronunciation of the vocabulary. You can choose from a great variety of news.

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