B1- Obligation. Must vs Have to. Revision of verb tenses

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After so much work, relax listening to this song. You can download a worksheet to practice listening.

B1- Making suggestions and listening.

BBC: a lesson on making suggestions.
An easy exercise to practice making suggestions.
Talking to someone about a sweater: listen and repeat.
Shopping out for an outfit in the USA

A phone message (use words for numbers: one, not 1)

Agreeing and disagreeing

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

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).

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!

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.

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.

Básico 1- Present simple: questions

How much do you know about Christmas? Try this quiz for fun.

And this is the presentation of the present simple.

And you can listen to this song and do the worksheet. The video has subtitles in Spanish. It's so romantic!!!

Intermedio 1- Comparison

This is the PowerPoint presentation about the comparison.

 And if you need more practise on the comparison, download this worksheet and the key.
And if you click here, you can do a quiz online. There are some questions which contain exceptions which I haven't told you about,
The (soon) you get there the better... -> Cuanto antes llegues mejor
This book is the (good) of the two -> The superlative for two things is made with the comparative.
These structures are not part of the curriculum in Intermedio 1, so you don't have to learn them.
And on this site there are loads of exercises for you to practise English. Some of them might be a bit difficult. Have a look.
Here you can answer questions about "degree" (very, absolutely, really). But first you might like to revise them by clicking here.
This is the worksheet for the song below.

Básico 1- Adjectives and emotions

Watch this video. Listen and repeat.



This is another video to revise adjectives.

Revise adjectives using this game.

This is for opposites. And this one too.

And even more games

This is a slow song: listen and sing.

Básico 1- Numbers and nationalities

Use this crossword to practise the numbers 1 to 20. Click here.
Usa este crucigrama para practicar los números del 1 al 20. Pincha aquí.

And if you click here you can do another one about countries.
Y si pinchas aquí puedes hacer otro sobre países.



And the song we listened to yesterday. And its exercise. I hope you like it. It is subtitled in Spanish. Is it too romantic? Y la canción que escuchamos ayer. Y su ejercicio. Espero que os guste. Está subtitulada en español. ¿Es demasiado romántica?

 

Intermedio 1 - Guy Fawkes

How much do you know about Guy Fawkes? Who was he? Why is it a holiday? When is it celebrated?

Download this worksheet and watch the video below to learn more about it.




If you like history and want to learn more, watch this one.

Intermedio 1- Food. Present tenses

If you want some extra reading exercises, click here. They are a bit difficult.

On this post you can do a listening exercise

And this is the presentation for present tenses.
 

Thanksgiving

How much do you know about Thanksgiving? Read these facts and decide if they are true or false.

1. Local native Americans invited the Pilgrims to share a meal with them.
2. This meal immediately became an annual tradition.
3. The celebration lasted several days and there was lots of eating and hunting.
4. They celebrated their first successful harvest.
5. The first menu consisted of turkey and potatoes but there wasn’t pumpkin pie.
6. The first celebration was announced by President George Washington on 26th November 1789.
7. It became an annual tradition at the beginning of the 20th century.
8. The diary of a pilgrim inspired a writer to recreate the first thanksgiving feast.
9. The date to celebrate Thanksgiving has been the same since the 18th century.
10. President Lincoln was the first to grant the first official pardon to a turkey.
11. These turkeys live in the White House until they die.

Now watch this video and check your answers. 

Intermedio 1-Passive voice

Do you need further practice? Click here.

Enjoy the song while you do this worksheet. Don't look at the answers before listening, cover them!

 

And if you want to watch Casablanca trailer again, visit this old post

Básico 1- Personal pronouns. Likes

Personal pronouns

• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3 (a lot of vocabulary, it's a bit difficult)
• Exercise 4 (some verbs are in the past)

And to compensate for the song I played today in class, try this slow song by Eric Clapton. Click here to do an activity.