Good bye!

Dear all!

The school year is over and we are heading for the summer (although the weather doesn't seem to agree...). It's been a great year with all of you and I just hope you keep up with English and you come back next year! :-)

The best way to say good-bye is singing, don't you think? :-)

I wish you all a great summertime! Please stay in touch!

About Fracking

I don't know about you, but I've been wondering what fracking exactly is... And I haven't found a satisfactory and easy-to-follow explanation about the topic yet. Thankfully I found this self-explanatory video, which, I admit, I've had to watch more than once (I won't confess how many times!). I hope you too find it interesting:

And now watch this CNN video, very clear and well-explained too:

 

 

Question Tags

Aaah... Question tags... What a wonderful topic! ;-)

Just to remember what we've learnt in class, take a look at this very complete explanation if you have 8 minutes:

Question tags aren't so difficult to build, after all. We just have to focus on the auxiliary we have to use (or else in the verb be, have or modals) and also check if we should make an affirmative or a negative question tag, that's all. Here you can do some extra practice and here is another exercise.

The problem arises when getting to speak them out... Pronunciating questions tags with a rising or with a falling intonation varies the meaning of the sentence! 

We've been practicing this issue in class and we've been trying to (another difficult task) incorporate question tags to our everyday discourse. Here you have a link to a nice exercise on how to pronounce questions tags correctly. I'm sure you'll enjoy it, won't you? ;-)