Intermedio 1- Future forms. The British pubs (listening)

There are a lot of extra exercises here.

Watch the video below and answer the questions which you can find in this worksheet.
If you can't download it, you can do the exercises on this website.

Listening: Shopping for clothes

Here you are several listening activities on clothing and fashion. I hope you enjoy them.

• Work clothes
• Multiple choice exercise on clothing
• Watch the video and do the exercises on this site.
• Candem scene
• Candem fashion

New BBC app

I've just come across this interesting app which can help you improve your English wherever you are. You can download it here.
I highly recommend you to have a look at  Tim’s Pronunciation Workshop.  It is more fun than the section The sounds of English but both of them will help you pronounce better.

Make/do collocations. Listening "Exclusive tour inside Harrods"

Make vs. Do

What other collocations do you know with make and do? Try this exercise.
And this is a betting game.

Only for the brave: try these ones. They are difficult. Be careful, you have to type the words and choose the correct verb form.
Exercise1             Exercise 2             Exercise 3             Exercise 4

Listening: Harrods

It was difficult, I know. You can play it again with subtitles. And for those who couldn't do it, watch the video and answer the questions below:





1) COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS:

- Harrod’s is one of ____________________________________________.

- You can buy something from __________ up to __________.

- They can get you anything you want, from an __________________________.

- Harrod’s is not only a shop, it is also a _______________.

- The shop has __________ floors.

- A small transaction can be a ___________________.

- The Toy Kingdom is the _____________________________ in the world.

- The store has a thirty-million dollar ________________, which travels at the speed of _______________.


2) WHAT DO THE FOLLOWING NUMBERS REFER TO?

5,000:

300,000:

$12,000:

1.5 billion pounds:

Click here to see the answers.

Intermedio 1- Present perfect/past simple/past continuous. Charities and money

Games

Use this game to revise the difference between past simple and past continuous.
I think this is a bit more difficult.

Listening

Money and charity
The Charity show
Animal charity

Present perfect

Do you like THE PINK PANTHER? Watch this video and predict what has happened to the different characters (pay attention to the way verb tenses are used).

We learnt about the present perfect and the past simple in Básico 2. You can use these posts to revise a bit: Post 1 and post 2





Here you are two extra exercises (exercise 1, exercise 2). If you use contractions, remember to use the apostrophe (the same key as ? -> en la misma tecla que la interrogación, al lado del 0).
Below the exercise you have a list of common mistakes and the reason why these senteences are incorrect.
Exercise 3
Exercise 4

Revise the vocabulary for money and watch this video. You can download the worksheet and the answer key.



Haven't you had enough? If so, you can do this listening exercise on this topic. Take it easy, it might be difficult. Do it, check answers and listen to it a last time at the same time as you read the tapescript. I hope you like it.

Use this presentation to make monologues. The questions will guide you to organize your speech.
For example: Slide 2. "I have sung in public several times./ I have never sung in public because I'm very shy and I sing really badly so I get embarrassed easily".

Have you ever...? - Present Perfect from David Mainwood

B1- Past tenses and extra listening

You'll find some extra exercises in these links:

• englishtenses.com: they are more difficult. You can choose what tenses you want to work with.

Present tenses

• The Grammar Aquarium
• UsingEnglish.com
• EnglishGrammar4You

Past tenses

• English exercises.org (the exercises are at the bottom of the page)
• New English File
• https://sites.uclouvain.be/gramlink/Gramlink-AN/V-passe.htm

Listening

• Listening 1: Holidays
• Listening 2: Transport
• Listening 3: Summer jobs
• This listening revises questions about holidays. The questions are not about the conversation but about grammar. Some of them are difficult. However, you can use it to practise questions, pronunciation and intonation. Listen and repeat (and if you are in the mood, record your voice).

B1: Past simple and past continuous

If you want to learn more, try this site. The exercises are fairly difficult.

Choose the correct pronunciation of past simple regular verbs.

There are more pronunciation activities here. Some of them are a bit difficult.

Halloween

Do you know how Holloween is celebrated in the UK? Just watch these videos. You can subtitle them if you find them difficult.






You can find some listening and vocabulary activities about Halloween here. Task 2 is usually very demanding, so use a pen and paper to answer it.

This one is a bit more serious.

And this is a quiz. Are you an expert on Halloween? Good luck!

B1- Age of Communication. Present simple vs continuous

I hope you enjoy these cartoons. Which do you like best?

 


I`m pretty sure you know most of the grammar points in these slides. Just below you'll find links to some extra exercises.




An easy exercise
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
This is more demanding

And if you have problems with verb tenses you can find lots of exercises here.

Intermedio 1: Films

Click here if you want to learn more about films.

Why we are Striking on International Women's Strike, 8 March

Do you have any other reasons to go on strike? If so, add a comment.

B1- Sports.

Listening

• Listen to the description of a sport and click on the picture when you know which sport it is.
• Skiing
• Paddle board. Before listening you can do the vocabulary quiz on the right. The comprehension questions are below. Listen and answer them. The script is on the left, hide it by clicking (Audio script +/ -) until you have done the exercise.
• Running shoes 
• Conversation about a smartphone.
• And you can listen to the song by Lenny Kravitz and download the worksheet.

Básico 1- Can, can't

Watch this video. You can listen and read the subtitles aloud (en voz alta). Imitate the pronunciation. 

You can also use this (American English). Start in Unit 9, looking for a job. Start in minute 2.
Podéis usar también este. Empezad en la unidad 9, en el minuto 2.

These are some of the words in the video:
type: escribir a máquina,
iron: planchar,
wash clothes: lavar la ropa,
wash dishes: fregar.



Use this link to revise can / can't. You can do exercises 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12. I think that's enough.

Intermedio 1

I told you that it is a true story: this boy can speak eleven languages. I'm green with envy.



And this interview about learning languages is quite interesting. If you find it difficult, you can show subtitles in English or in Spanish.

Intermedio 1- Participal adjectives (-ed / -ing)

Participal adjectives

Watch this presentation and complete the gaps. The answers are at the bottom of this post. There is also extra practice.

More presentations from eddy arias

Answers Slide 5:

frightening-frightened
embarrassing- embarrassed
annyoyed-annoying
Answers Slide 6:
alarmed-alarming
terrifiying-terrified
excited-exciting

Exercise 0
Exercise 1 You can try the exercise in the middle of the page-
Exercise 2 Read the sentence and decide if you need an -ed or an -ing adjective. Then click "Answer" to check.
Ecercise 3 This is difficult.
Exercise 4
Game

BBC - Quizzes The vocabulary can be difficult

Intermedio 1- Modal verbs

Worksheet on modal verbs of obligation.
Use this worksheet to revise "be able to", "be allowed to" and "have to".
I hope you are better at basket than I am. Play this game and check. My score is "0".

Play this game with your friends, just for fun. It doesn't take long.
If you need more practice, try this link. Click on the left column for exercises and you can find the grammar explanations for them on the right.
And you can download the game we played yesterday. The answers are at the bottom of the page.

 And a song which deals about stereotypes about men and women: if you like music, why don't you try to fill in the gaps in this song: The Boy Does Nothing, by Alesha Dixon?