Merry Christmas!!

Click here to see some vocabulary about Christmas.
Click here and read about Christmas in the UK.





Click here and read about Christmas traditions around the world.

Watch a video about Extreme Christmas Lighting and learn some vocabulary.

Try to complete the song All I Want for Christmas is You (it's full of Christmas symbols). 

Merry Christmas!!

Here's a Christmas song. This website is great if you love music.

Because I'm Happy

Sing along

Happy New Year!

1. Listen and read a text about New Year's Day.

2. Listen and fill in the gaps of this song by ABBA.

3. New Year's Resolutions. Learn some vocabulary and watch a video about this topic. Click here to see the script.

4. Watch this funny video about New Year's Resolutions. The lyrics are below the video.

Merry Christmas!

Lou Reed

Lou Reed, Rock ’n’ Roll Pioneer, Dies at 71. Read about it here.

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!

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)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

1. Have a look at this interactive book about St Valentine (it has vocabulary, listenings, songs and readings).
2. Reasons to love you. Fill in the gaps with the right word.
3. Follow the instructions and learn about the festivity and St Valentine. (listening, reading and exercises).
4. Listen to the story and take notes. Then you can listen and read it and see the vocabulary.
5. Listen and find out about buying the right present for St Valentine.

A Christmas Song: Let It Snow

Listen to this catchy Xmas song and fill in the gaps. Look at "comments" to check your answers.


Oh, the __________outside is frightful,
but the __________is so delightful.
And since we've no __________to go,
let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
It doesn't show signs of __________,
and I __________some corn for popping.
The __________are turned way down low,
let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
When we finally __________goodnight,
how I'll hate going out in the __________!
But if you'll really hold me __________,
all the way home I'll be __________.
The __________is slowly dying,and,
my __________, we're still goodbyeing.
But as long as you __________me so,
let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a song written by Bob Gedolf and Midge Ure in 1984 to raise money for relief of 1984-1985 famine in Ethiopia. The original version was produced by Midge Ure and released by Band Aid on 29 November 1984.
In late 1984, a BBC report by Michael Buerk was aired highlighting the famine that had hit the people of Ethiopia. Irish singer Bob Geldof saw the report and wanted to raise money. He called Midge Ure from Ultravox and together they quickly co-wrote the song, "Do They Know It's Christmas?".
Geldof kept a November appointment with BBC Radio 1 DJ Richard Skinner to appear on his show, but instead of discussing his new album (the original reason for his booking), he used his airtime to publicise the idea for the charity single, so by the time the musicians were recruited there was intense media interest in the subject.
Geldof put together a group called Band Aid, consisting of leading Irish and British musicians who were among the most popular of the era. The 1984 original became the biggest selling single in UK singles chart history, selling a million copies in the first week alone. It stayed at Number 1 for five weeks and ultimately sold more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It remained the largest selling single in UK chart history until 1997, when Elton John's"Candle in the Wind 1997" was released in tribute to the late Diana, Princess of Wales, which sold almost 5 million copies in Britain.
- Watch the video and do the activity from the handout I gave you in class (you can check your answers in "comments")