Today is SAINT PATRICK'S DAY. Let's celebrate from home

This is a very special date for Irish people and it is also celebrated in the USA.
Do you want to know more about this festival? Here you are a WebQuest, with questions and links to pages where you can find the answer: Festival Webquests: St Patrick's Day: Student page | Onestopenglish.
I hope you like it.




This is Ireland

Pronunciation Tips �� Past Tense English Verbs.

Use these exercises to revise past tenses. It's not very easy. There is one you probably haven't seen before, but if you translate into Spanish you'll know when to use it.

UNESCO: World Digital Library

¡QUÉ REGALAZO DE LA UNESCO PARA LA HUMANIDAD ENTERA!
Especialmente para LOS JÓVENES.
Ya está disponible en Internet, a través del sitio

https://www.wdl.org/en/

Reúne mapas, textos, fotos, grabaciones y películas de todos los tiempos y explica en siete idiomas las joyas y reliquias culturales de todas las bibliotecas del planeta.

¡¡¡ESPERO QUE OS GUSTE!!!

B1-1. Activities related to "WORK"

Since we must stay at home, let's do our best to make good use of our time.
This is my first post this week. 

I am sure you all have good apps to improve your English or sites you like. Why don't we share them? You can add your favourites to this padlet. I've just added a couple myself.

And these are some links with varied activities. I hope you like them.

Jobs and their pronunciation.
This site provides exercises to revise vocabulary related to work and jobs though some of them need Java to work (some browsers don't support Java)
Reading comprehension: Applying for a job
Listening: Work-life balance. Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises. DON'T read the tapescript until you finish the listening tasks.
Pronunciation of "sh"
Pronunciation of "have to". You can listen and read the script at the same time.

And to end today, type at least two words you have learnt in unit 5. Don't worry if they are already in the "answergarden"

11th November. Remembrance day

What is Remembrance Day?

Visit this site if you want to learn more.


 Why do people wear poppies? Click here and read about it or watch this video.



Or you can listen to these children's explanations.

B1-9 Semipr. Present simple vs continuous. Describing people

Here you are a presentation for you to revise vocabulary and use it. How would you answer the questions in the last two slides? If you want, you can record a short monologue and email it to me.




For those who don't remember much about the present simple and continuous, you can watch this presentation. I hope it helps.

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- Revision: future and vocabulary

Have you ever played Kahoot!?

You can download the app from playstore and play in teams or player vs player. Here you are some games, but there are many more.

Future (easy) 

Future (more difficult)

Shopping 

Supermarket 

Clothes(very easy)  

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

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.