File 2A Spend or save?

• 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 
• Money idioms quiz
• Listening

Study English - Series 3, Episode 21: Talking About the Family

File 1B Family life

Vocabulary:
Click here and revise the words you need to talk about your relatives.
Watch this video and learn how we talk about family members.
Do this quiz to check how many words you know & this Reading practice
More practice:  Family members; Mix & match
Family members listening quiz (Read the instructions before you start)
TALKING ABOUT YOUR FAMILY IN ENGLISH

Grammar:
Future tenses
All future forms 1
All future forms 2

File 1A: Extra practice

How to manage your mood with food | 8 Tips (Great! Watch the video and revise vocabulary in File 1A)
Eating habits

Spelling 3rd Person Singular Verbs

Pronunciation of Final -S

Stative verbs

www.perfect-english-grammar.com Stative Verbs List

File 4B: In an ideal world

 A. Grammar: Conditional Sentences II

If you had a million dollars, what would you do?  (DON'T MISS IT!!! THERE ARE OTHER FUN SONGS TO PRACTISE GRAMMAR POINTS)

I've added some`conditional´songs to MUSIC  (browse the sidebar).

If you need to practise conditional sentences (only types I and II ), click here.

B.Vocabulary: 

1.  Click on the links below to practise your vocabulary  and learn new words you can use to talk about houses.   (You can listen to the words, go exercises and play games).

• Virtual house
• Home
• Things you can see in a room
• Kitchen
• Living room
• Bedroom
• Bathroom

    2.  Learn about Houses in England.

• Houses in England
• Types of houses

File 2C: London Cycle Hire Scheme

Don't miss this video !!! 

Find out how  London Cycle Hire Scheme works. (with subtitles). 

Browse http://www.visitlondon.com/ ,there are lots of  useful and interesting links. If I were you, I'd start with Transport in London.

    
              Source: https://www.google.es/

A commercial full of comparatives

Click here to watch the commercial and here you can listen to the song with lyrics.

File 2C: Race to the Sun (Part 1)

Here you are some extra practice for:

•  How long does it take?  (Listen to some people answering the question).

•  How comparatives and superlatives are formed in English:

            1. Check what you can do:

                  Comparatives- Mega Quiz
                  Comparison of Adverbs and Adjectives

            2. Remember Form & Use

             

Real English® 57 - Present Perfect & Present Perfect Continuous, plus V...

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.

 Here you can find the lesson for this video.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsvmSi7MSsI

File 1C Family

Here's some extra practice.

• Vocabulary:

Family vocabulary , Quiz  & Mix and match

Personality adjectives

• Grammar:

Predictions
Future forms

• Listening:

Family traits

FILE 1B Sport

Here you are some extra practice on the topic of sport.

• Click here and do different quizzes to practise the vocabulary you've learnt.
• Do this sports crossword or this one - only if you're a sports fan.
• Cheating in sport: Read and listen about Maradona and the `Hand of God´ 
• Extra Listening:  Why does she go to the gym? (listen, do the listening quiz, then read the transcript and take note of useful vocabulary).
• Video: Olympic moments of 2012

Happy New Year!

Happy 2013 to all my students. 

Have you ever celebrated New Year's Eve abroad? Would  you like to? 
I'd really love to ...Click on the links below and find out where...

London (click on "Mostrar más" and read the comment about the celebration. A bit too noisy, but  if you're patient enough,  you can hear people singing the traditional `Auld Lang Syne´).

New York ( Advertising everywhere, amazing atmosphere, Sinatra's `New York, New York', plenty of kissing...I love it!)

What about you? Where would you spend your next New Year's Eve?

(Click on "Comments" and share your choices with us.)

Keep up the good work...Keep learning!

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)