File 2A Money

Click here to see what I posted last year.

Some new links:
All about money (Recommended to revise vocabulary on the topic. See `More quizzes´and do them)
Grammar quizzes: Click here and then on:

• `Single Tenses´: Present Perfect.
• `Tense Choice´: Past Simple-Present Perfect

For/Since

2 songs to practise the Present Perfect Simple

Here are the links to the songs we did in class.

• U2 and Bruce Springsteen -- "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
• Chris De Burgh -- Lady In Red [[ Official Live Video ]] HD (You can read the lyrics below)

Pronunciation: Regular and Irregular verbs.

As we're starting dealing with the Present Perfect tense next week, here you are some links that may help you with the pronunciation of both regular and irregular past participles. Listen and repeat. 

Regular verbs 1
Regular verbs 2 (Great!)
Irregular verbs (Great!)
Commonly-used irregular verbs 1
Commonly-used irregular verbs 2
Commonly-used irregular verbs 3
This one includes the -ing form

File 1A Food

1. Click here to see  what  I posted  for File 1A last year.
2. Spanish food (vocabulary, recipes...).
3. Have a look at the right-hand column: All files vocabulary lists with pronunciation (Intermediate)  and check how many words from File 1A you know. Can you pronounce them correctly?
4. Some new grammar links:

• Types of verbs 
• Click here for a complete list of "Stative verbs"  and try to do  this exercise. 
• Present Simple.
•  Click here if you need to revise the spelling and pronunciation rules of the 3rd person singular.
• Present Continuous 

       

Welcome

I'd like to welcome my new NI1 students. I hope you find this blog useful and make the most of it. 

Last week we did an activity with a song, click on the links below to do it again on your own or just to enjoy this great song.
Video
Video with lyrics - Sing along!!!
Task document

Homes

NEW: browse this site, you'll find out  really useful information on the topic.

1.Watch the video and revise house vocabulary. 
2.Types of houses.

3.Go to this link and click on each room to find out what you can find there.

4.Then click here and do the crossword.

5. Describing houses.

6.Listen to some people describing their dream houses. (Click on Audio slide show and do the comprehension quizzes on the right)

File 4A Back to school...

Education vocabulary
Education in Britain
First conditional and future time clauses
Listening: Public or Private Universities


Click here if you want to listen to "Wonderful world" by Sam Cooke.








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File 2B Changing your life

Click here to watch a video on stative verbs. There's also a complete list with examples and an exercise.
Present perfect continuous  Quiz 1  Quiz 2
Short listening exercises

Real English Lesson 51 Have Done vs Did

Real English - Lesson 57 Present Perfect plus Verb Review

Don't miss this video!!!

It's great to review all the tenses we've been practising in class!!! Listen to how the people in the video use them.

File 2A Ka-ching

 

Grammar: Present Perfect

• Listen and complete the sentences with the right tense (Great!)
• English Tenses (Table)
• Revise its uses and forms and do the exercises at the bottom.
• Test 
• Simple past or Present Perfect? (Good practice!!!)
• Exercise 1  Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4
• Listen and choose the correct answer
• Listen to some conversations and choose the right answers
• Song : `Have you ever?´ by Brandy;  Check your answers

Vocabulary: Money

• Exercise 1   Exercise 2 
• Listening

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Real English 39 comparatives superlatives

Watch the video and listen to how people use comparatives and superlatives.


Note: Thanks to http://www.real-english.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/ for this video.

File 2C Race to the Sun

• Vocabulary

Travel ( Browse the site for vocabulary, practice and listening on the topic-American English)
Air travel (Browse the site for vocabulary, practice and listening on the topic-American English)
Train travel (Browse the site for vocabulary, practice and listening on the topic-American English)
Transportation (Browse the site for vocabulary, practice and listening on the topic-American English)
Road signs

• Grammar  

COMPARATIVE MEGA-QUIZ
COMPARISON OF ADVERBS AND ADJECTIVES
CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER
SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES QUIZ
COMPLETE THE SENTENCES

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Real English Lesson 31 "How long does it take?"

A. Watch the first part of the video a couple of times and try to answer the questions below for each speaker: 

1. Where do you live?
2. Where do you work?
3. How do you get to work?
4. How long does it take you to get to work?

B. Watch the second part of the video, with subtitles,  and check your answers.

Note: Thanks to http://www.real-english.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/ for this video.

File 1 Revision

Here is some extra practice for Files 1 A, B & C:

• Listening:

Click here and listen to Adrienne describing her family.

• Speaking:

Talking about your family- great to revise and improve your vocabulary on the topic.
Giving your opinion and Agreeing & disagreeing.
Making predictions.
Telling a story.

• Vocabulary:

Food: Do you enjoy challenges? If you do, try  to do this`Food for Thought' crossword.  When you finish, click here to check your answers.
Sport: Do, go or play?

• Grammar & pronunciation:

Question forms & Subject / object questions.

Pronunciation of Regular verbs in the past. Watch the video, listen and repeat.

New Year's resolutions

Happy New Year, guys!
Are you having a good time? I don't mean to be a killjoy, but we're going back to  school in a week , and I've thought that providing you with some warm up for our first lesson of 2012 would help us to get cracking.
Making New Year's resolutions is a sort of tradition for lots of people every year. If you click here , you'll listen to some people in London talking about  this topic.
Take note of any useful language you'll need for the lesson.
Think of your answers for these questions as well:

• Do you ever make New Year's resolutions?
• Do you usually stick to them?
• What have you resolved to do in 2012? 

You can get some ideas here, here, or here. Don't miss these funny and innovative New Year's resolutions and  these funny resolutions for 2012.