HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

1. Carve your own pumpkin.

2. Listen to an article (click at the bottom of the page) about Halloween and take notes (don't look at the script). Then, click on the handout at the bottom of the page and look at the questions. Listen again and try to answer them. Finally, listen and read the article. Check your answers at the end of the handout.

3. Watch the video we watched in class yesterday.

4. Listen to the song: This is Halloween lyrics

Question tags

1. Read the grammar and see some examples.
2. Now do some exercises.

The social network

Watch the movie trailer and fill in the gaps.

Facebook facts: are these facts true or false?

Sentence stress

Read here about the importance of word stress and listen to some examples and click here to see some simple rules.

Free time plans

Listen to this conversation between two friends and choose the right answer. Then you can listen and read the tapescript, you'll learn some new words and you can do some vocabulary activities too.

How happy you are

Do you want to know how happy you are? Click here and find out.

More about happiness

Our sense of happiness can have a great impact on our health and life. Jeremy Milnes explores the things that make us happy. Find out how happiness affects your health and how to get more of it in your life.

Watch the video and complete the questions (to check your answers, click on "comments").

a) Can you complete the list of things that have to come together to produce happiness?
__________________, healthy mind, __________________, success, __________________.

b) Which things impact on our happiness?
Our __________________, our beliefs, our __________________, our upbringing, our income

c) How happy we are is influenced by four things:
1. Biology: __________________
2. Personality: Who tend to be happier?
3. Environment: our __________________, our income and whether we are in a __________________.
4. __________________ because it releases endorphines.

d) What is great about happiness?
e) Our levels of happiness can change from time to time so what pieces of advice does he give us?
- First of all _____________________________________
- Aim for __________________ and a positive attitude on life.
- The important thing is what _____________________________________
- Focus on _____________________________________
- Take up _____________________________________
- _______________ regularly.
- Laugh and ________________________________ because laughing releases tension and makes you feel better.

LISTENING HANDOUT OCTOBER 2010

I. Plans for the weekend: http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G052Plans.htm
II. What's my favourite food? http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer/61-Food.html
III. Learning languages: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/i-wanna-talk-about/learning-languages
IV.August news: http://www.englishclub.com/~newsfeed/201009.htm
V. How is the internet changing language today?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2XVdDSJHqY

Lyrics training

If you like music, this will be your ideal website. Enjoy the songs and practise your English at the same time.
Choose a song and a level: beginner, intermediate or advanced and click on "help" to read the instructions.
Enjoy it!

A new planet

Listen and read this news report about the discovery of a new planet. Learn some vocabulary.

Brighton in the rain

1. Read the song and try to complete it with the past participle of the verbs on the left (don't look at the key).

2. Listen to the song and check it.

(Thanks to "It's Magazine" for this great activity)

Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside.

Listen to the podcast without looking at the text and take notes. Then listen and read. Check your notes and have a look at new words or expressions.