Listening practice

These are the two listening activities on your photocopy:
Global Warming
Hurricane season

Click on "comments" to check your answers.

Environmental problems

Listen to six short news reports about environmental problems.

Click here to listen to a discussion about environmental issues.

Climate change/ The environment

Click here to see some vocabulary.

Natural disasters

Social networking sites

Facebook can be depressing because everyone else's lives are better than yours... But are they really?

1. Staying connected. 
Click here. Listen and take notes. Then listen and read the script.
2. Social media revolution. 
Watch the video and do the activities.

Conditionals

Watch the video and complete the conversation (check your answers in 'comments').




Phoebe: It's my bank.
Monica: What did they do to you?
Phoebe: I'm going through my mail and I open up their ________ (1) statement!
Ross: Easy!
Phoebe: And there's ________ (2) extra dollars in my ________ (3).
Chandler: Oh! Satan's minions at work again...
Phoebe: Yes, 'cause now I have to go down there and deal with them.
Joey: What are you talking about? ________ (4) it!
Phoebe: It's not ________ (5) . I didn't ________ (6) it. If I ________(7) it, it would be like ________ (8)!
Rachel: Yeah!, but if you ________  (9) it, it would be like ________ (10)!
Phoebe: Ok, Ok... Let's say I buy a really great pair of shoes. Do you know what I'd ________ (11) with every step I ________(12)? "Not mine, not mine..." Even if I ________  (13)happy and skipping, I'd ________ (14) "Not, not mine, not, not mine".
Monica: We're with you. We've got it.
Phoebe: Ok. I'd just never ________  ________  ________ ________ (15) it. It would be like this giant "karmic debt"...

Guía del candidato 2016

Click here and read about the exam in June (times, number of words, possible topics, evaluation sheets...)!!

Computers and the Internet

1. Click here and learn some vocabulary.
2. Listening activity to practise that vocabulary.
3. The Internet- vocabulary.
4. Listening activity about the vocabulary.
5. More vocabulary.
6. Listen and read a text about computer terms.
7. Read the text and choose the correct tense (past simple or present perfect).

Birthdays

Some vocabulary.
Listening to practise that vocabulary.
A listening about a birthday party.


The story is repeated three times: 1st time, normal reading speed; 2nd time, slower, with pauses for dictation followed by repetition and captions; and 3rd time, normal reading speed, with captions.

Celebrations and festivities

Click here to learn some vocabulary.

Listen and do the activities.

The Edinburgh Festival

Mother's Day 

LISTENING GAP FILL

Mother's Day is an important ________________ world, even though it started in North America and Europe. Not all countries celebrate it ________________, but the most popular day is the second Sunday in May. It is, of course, a day to honour our mothers and make them ________________. A punctuation point about the day is that most countries choose the singular possessive “Mother’s Day”, with the apostrophe before the ‘s’ __________________ family honours their mother, rather than all of the world’s mothers. Young children get especially excited about Mother’s Day and put ________________ making cards and presents for their Mums, or Moms in America. For mothers, ________________ a second birthday.

Mother’s Day in the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, etc. means mothers ________________ day off from housework. It is common for children to cook for their mother ________________ breakfast in bed. She also receives presents, flowers and cards. In America, Mother's Day is ________________ the year for restaurants, as children take their Mums __________________. Americans spend a lot on this day - over $2.5 billion on flowers and $70 million on Mother’s Day cards. In Sweden, people buy small plastic flowers and the money raised ________________ mothers and their children. Many people are against the idea of Mother’s Day as it is upsetting for children (and adults) who have lost their mother. ________________ for them this Mother’s Day.

Click here, check your answers and do more activities.

Verb patterns

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5

Passive Voice

Click here to learn about the passive voice.

A short explanation and lots of exercises.

The Media

Click here to see some vocabulary related to the topic.

News stories

Websites to practise:

1. BBC Learning English: short real pieces of news with a summary, some vocabulary and the script.

2. Listen to News: short easy news reports with pre-listening vocabulary, gapfill texts, comprehension questions...

3. News in levels: choose a piece of news and a level (you have the script).

4. VOA: Level Two articles are meant for intermediate learners of American English. Sotries are often more than 500 words and may include audios from newsmakers. There may be a quiz to test your understanding and new words are explained in the Words in This Story area at the bottom of the article (very slow).

5. El País in English

6. Breaking News in English: choose the news story and the level. You have lessons with lots of activities.

Cartagena guided tour- last two days!!

Cartagena Guided Tour in English

Saturday 30th April-  08.30h - 15 euros per person 
(including coach and guided tour)

Family and friends are also welcome!!!

2 last days to sign up: 

Monday 25th and Tuesday 

26th April

Reported speech

1. Grammar explanation.             

2. Video with examples and explanations.
3. Exercise: reported requests.
4. Exercise 1. 
5. Exercise 2. 
6. Video activity.

The Comeback- a story

Click here and listen to the story. 

A Visitor to The Star- a story

Click here to listen to a story.

Under the Water by Mark Hancock

Click here to read and listen to the story we did in class. 

Cartagena Guided Tour in English

Saturday 30th April-  08.30h - 15 euros per person 
(including coach and guided tour)

Click here to see information about the visit. 

If you are interested, you need to tell me and give me the money this week (18th to 22nd April).