stop-motion "Tim"

Dear students
Remember to watch the video and write a summary of it in your own words.

Making suggestions

Do this making suggestions

Listen to this podcast by the BBC where the people involved in the conversation make some suggestions.

Reported speech: Command and Request . Exercises

COMMANDS AND REQUESTS IN REPORTED SPEECH

My recipe

Watch the video and do the exercise. Then write your recipe in "comentarios" at the end of the post.

A good read. Listening exercise

This is the podcast (number 48 A good book) we heard in class with the transcript , worksheet and the vocabulary.

UNIT 0

This is the powerpoint presensation we worked with our first day of class

More PowerPoint presentations from rosario rosales

And for Intermediate2, go to podcast 58 in level 3 in this link if you want to listen to the podcast we listened to the first day.
Click here and here for the transcript and worksheet.

listening and exam

Have a look at this video. The author gives useful advice on improving your listening.



Eva Suárez has published a post on preparing for your exams at EOI GUIA. Don't miss it, there are real "pruebas de certificación" exams from other communities.

Thanksgiving day

Some of you had come to me and asked for the photocopies and the listening exercise we worked in class yesterday. Click here for the reading, and here to register for the listening.
Below you have a video with the information of the photocopies.

halloween exercises

Drag the mouse on the pictures until you see a kind of pink circle, click on it and do the exercises.

Agreeing and disagreeing

One of our last topics in class was about how to agree and disagree.
If you want to find out more about how to agree with someone in informal English click on the image. (BBC world service, learning English)

The landlady

Well here you have the homework for this week .
The first part is the context. You'll have to find some information about the things that were going on in Spain in the final-fifties.
The second part is a pre-reading activity where you'll learn something about the two characters in the story and you'll have to answer some questions.
The third part is the story itself.
The story is also recorded if you want to listen while reading.
Adapted from the story "The Landlady" British Council


The landlady first part
The landlady second part
The landlady third part


listening part 1
listening part 2
listening part3
listening part4

What's in a name

Click on the picture, read the text and do the exercises

HAPPY VIEWING!

Do you sometimes feel frustated when listening to an audio or watching a video, and have the feeling your English doesn't improve ?

Don't get depressed!
It is said that babies spend about two years watching and listening before saying proper sentences.

We learn in a different way, but practising is the first step to master anything. So why don't you start right now?

I have come across a site with English subtitled videos and different levels of difficulty.

First watch, listen and read, then listen again without the subtitles and finally try to tell someone (or yourself in the mirror, in English, of course) what you remember. Another option is, when the video finishes, watch it in "quiz mode" where you'll have to guess the missing words.

Happy Viewing!

CLICK in Class English Central (You have to register in our group and start.... IT'S REALLY EASY!)

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Songs in Guía

Haven't you visited "English in Guia-Nivel Intermedio" yet?. Well, then it's high time you did it. Eva, one of the English teachers there have published a post "Learning with songs" about practising and having fun with songs in different levels. Don't miss it.

-ed/-ing adjectives

Are you bored,boring or both ? Do you feel amazed or amazing? Find the answers to these and other confusing questions here, here and here.

Reading While Listening

A form of reading that has been receiving a lot of attention from language teachers and researchers is reading while simultaneously listening. You can build not only your vocabulary but you can see how words are written and pronounced, increasing your listening comprehension, as well as your pronunciation and intonation.
I have come across this website and this one,where you can practise these skills. The first is full of simple stories with some exercises at the end if you want to check your understanding. The second has videos and listenings with subtitles. So stop making excuses and let's get to listen.

Money matters

Here you have three idioms related to money. They all have a link to a listening exercise. Learn the idioms and do the exercises.
The first two are for intermediate students, the third is real English, so don't get frustrated if you don't understand everything
Time is money
Love/Money makes the world go round
Put your money where your mouth is

Talking about the family

Two listening exercises about the family. The first one is a multiple choice and the second (EXERCISE ABOUT THE FAMILY)is a dictation. Hope you enjoy them.
They are both from ello.org

EXERCISE ABOUT THE FAMILY

Listening exercise. Sports

Listen to five extracts from the news and answer the questions. Don't lose heart if you don't understand much the first time, remember that listening is a skill that improves with practice.

eating in a restaurant

This week we will keep on studying the topic of food and restaurants. The following listening exercise is about eating in a restaurant. It's quite easy you just have to write down what the man and the woman ask for.
Exercise
Taken from "about.com"