Have I ever told you about Glogster?

I think I have. In this glogster on dictionaries you can find a wide variety of them. You just have to look for the one you need and have a look.

Idioms

An idiom is: a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. to put one's foot in one's mouth: meter la pata)  
 You can learn all about idioms if you look them up in this idiom dictionary. I'm sure you'll find it funny and useful.

Reported Speech.

 When you tell someone what another person said or what happened, you use reported or indirect speech, learn when and how to use it in this link.

If you report questions you must follow these rules.

Have a look at this excellent glogster on the reported speech, and do some practice.

Talking about Glogs, this is an excellent one if you want to learn all about passives.

All about passives, go through this excellent glog by englishtips. Play the games, watch the explanations, do the exercises. After doing everything, you'll be able to do any kind of passive sentence. 

Do you know what a Glog is? Have a look at this one on the past and practise it!

Have a look at this Glog and have a good time practising the past tense form

Passive Voice

Passive Voice is used when you are more interested in the action than in the person who did it.
It is very easy, just follow these tips.
ACTIVE:  Gaudi designed La Sagrada Familia

 PASSIVE: La Sagrada Familia was designed by Gaudi

1. Active subject becomes agent preceeded by the preposition by
2. Active object becomes passive subject
3. Auxiliary Be is used  in the same tense as the main verb
4. Main verb always in past participle

This link will help you to understand all the changes in passive much better.
Once you have read the chart you can practice passives here, thanks to Caroline and Pearson Brown.

This is a model of a CV for somebody with no working experience

Write your CV, use this model to help you. After looking at the model, you can write your own curriculum on line,click here.

Europass format

Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

First name(s) / Surname(s)
Address       street ,     ,      Madrid (Spain)

Telephone(s)          Mobile
E-mail(s)
Nationality
Date of birth
Gender  Male /Female


Desired employment / Occupational field      Sale Assistant

Education and training

Dates 09/2010 - 06/2011

Title of qualification awarded  Techinician on Sales and Purchasing. I am currently studying to get my diploma.

Principal subjects / occupational skills covered  ICT, English, Sales Operations, Administration of a Retail Rhop, Storage Operations, Working Guidance and Counseling, Sales Point Animation, Relationships in the Workplace Environment.

Name and type of organisation providing education and training  IES Valle Inclán Secondary School

14 Juncal street, 28850 Madrid (Spain)



Dates 09/2005 - 06/2010

Title of qualification awarded  General Certificale of Compulsory Secondary Education

Name and type of organisation providing education and training IES ...................
........................   street, 28.........             ...........................      Madrid (Spain)

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue(s) Spanish / Castilian

Other language(s)

Self-assessment Understanding Speaking W r i t i n g

European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production

English B2 Independent user B2 Independent user B1 Independent user B1 Independent user B2 Independent user

(*) Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level

Social skills and competences I am an friendly, outgoing, enthusiatic person. I like dealing with people and recommending products to customers based on their needs and interests.

Computer skills and competences I have intermediate level of experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook. I have intermediate level of experience using Internet Explorer or other web browsers.

Other skills and competences General knowledge of how to use a calculator, scanner, copy machine, fax machine, printer, telephone and various standard office equipment.

If you want to be the perfect sales assistant you should know all this.

 Read this description of the perfect sales assistant and use it to describe your skills in your CV.

When you are giving a presentation you should use this vocabulary.

Thanks to Caroline Brown again here you have some exercises on how to improve your presentations.

Another excellent way of learning business vocabulary.

In this Spanish-English business dictionary you'll find most vocabulary you need related to business, if you click on the left side of the word you will be able to hear how it is pronounced