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Only a bored teacher, who can't leave her home can publish this. Hope you enjoy it.

By the way, it changes daily!

DAILY CARTOON
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Cartoon by Andertoons

REVISION TIME

Apostrophes have two jobs.

You can use apostrophes to show that some letters have been taken out of words to shorten them, or you can use apostrophes to show that something belongs to something else.

Visit the following page of the BBC and practise: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/punctuation/apostrophes/quiz.shtml

Quiz: Used to, get used to & be used to: http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/326.html

Quiz: Used to & Be/Get Used To: http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/115.html

Quiz: Try to do & Try doing, etc: http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/268.html

Gerunds or infinitives?

Here's some more practise:

http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/gerund2.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/structures/gerund_infinitive2.htm

http://www.eslpartyland.com/quiz%20center/haightmult.htm

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/gerinf1.htm

Misuse of the infinitives:

http://a4esl.org/q/j/dt/mc-misuseinfi.html

Getting the right tense

The game where you can win points by getting your tenses right!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/tenses/getting_the_right_tense/game.shtml

Future Designer laptop - ROLLTOP

What do you think about this new notebook?

Would you buy it if you had the opportunity?

How popular or commercial might it become?

New voxopop

You've asked for it, you have it!!

A new discussion has been published. This time is about cinema-going habits and film reviews.

You can find it HERE.

Visit the site, listen and record yourselves. It'll be great to listen to your opinions.

No excuses for those who have any kind of technical inconvenient. Instead of "speaking" you can write, as usual, in comments.

How to write and publish a post

I know you are eager to publish a post in our new blog. That's the reason why I've decided to post this, let's call it, assistant.

Just a reminder:

1. Go to http://ourupper-intermediategroups.blogspot.com/
2. Click on "acceder"
3. Register yourself with your mail and password
4. You'll be taken to the dashboard.
5. Click on "new post" and you're there! Ready to write.
6. Once you've finished, click on publish post.

FUTURE PROGRESSIVE

Something to remember:

• Future progressive puts emphasis on the course of an action taking place in the future.
• It puts emphasis on the course / duration of an action taking place before a certain time in the future. It can also be used to express an assumption regarding a future action.
• It is not used very often as it can usually be replaced by future simple.

Use

• action taking place before a certain time in the future
• puts emphasis on the course of an action
• action that is sure to happen in the near future

Signal Words

• for ..., the last couple of hours, all day long
• in one year, next week, tomorrow
  

PRACTICE

• http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/future-1-progressive/exercises
  
• http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/future-2-progressive/exercises