Sunday

Welcome to Intermediate 2!

Hello, how are you?? I'm Patricia and I'm your new English teacher. We are going to use this tag to get to know each other, does it make sense?
What you have to do is give information about you: Who are you? What do you do? Why are you studying English?... any interesting information about you.

See you in class!

p.d- click on 'write a comment (comentarios) ' to start writing!

Welcome to Basic 2!

Hello, how are you?? I'm Patricia and I'm your new English teacher. We are going to use this tag to get to know each other, does it make sense?
What you have to do is give information about you: Who are you? What do you do? Why are you studying English?... any interesting information about you.

See you in class!

p.d- click on 'write a comment (comentarios) ' to start writing!

Thursday

Italian speaks English

Do you understand why I am always telling you: Please, check your pronunciation???This video is very funny, have a look and think about it.

Monday

Unit 9: Lesson Plan 3: Homework

2009 Transitions Students of Vision Opticianry Scholarship entry: on eye health, computers, and how the two can best get along.



Watch and note down all the advices they give you.

Tuesday

Unit 4- Lesson Plan 3: Documentary Titanic

Survivor (Mr Frank Winnold Prentice) accounts of what happened on the Titanic.



Winnold's biography here

Unit 4- Lesson Plan 2: Documentary: Gender Pay Gap


Bill set to expose gender pay gap

Many employers will be made to reveal how much male staff are paid compared with their female colleagues, in an effort to close the gender pay gap.

The Equality Bill aims to tackle discrimination against a range of groups including women, the elderly and those from lower social classes.

Sue Littlemore reports.

Watch the documentary and analyse the main ideas.

CAE READING AND USE OF ENGLISH PRACTICE

Here you'll find another interesting webpage for you to practise your use of English: gap filling, wordformation, multiple choice... and your reading. There are also some tips on writing!go and have a look!

Sunday

Unit 4- Lesson Plan 1: True or False


Listen to Daphne and discuss children education today and then select Daphne's arguments against parents' views on boarding schools*.

A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board", that is, food and lodging.

Unit 4- Lesson Plan 1- Open Cloze: Exam Tips


Read the following extract from a brochure giving advice on taking an examination. For questions 1-12, type the word which best fits in each space. Use only one word in each space.

Unit 4- Lesson Plan 1: Multiple Matching: This Month's letters


Try this Multiple Matching activity, use a dictionary from the Section 'Dictionaries' if you need some help.

Unit 3- Lesson Plan 1: Would/ Used to (The Phantom)


The Phantom of the Opera (Total: 2’46)

Watch the video segment and observe how different Paris used to be in 1870. Pay close attention to the following people and objects.

Write sentences using used to or would:
1 – A lot of employees/ theater _______________________________________
2 – Musicians/ on the stage _________________________________________
3 – Dancers/ whiskey during the rehearsals_____________________________
4 – Horses/ in the theater __________________________________________
5 – Actors/ operatically ___________________________________________
6 – Singers / rich costumes _________________________________________

Unit 3- Lesson Plan 3: Internet Slang


Do the quizz online.

Try to answer as many questions as you can. If there are any you are unsure about check the word by going to the slang translator.

Learn new vocabulary, write it down, and tell us next day in class!

Unit 3- Lesson Plan 5: Be used to/ Get used to / Used to


Practise your use of the verbs 'get used to/ be used to/ used to with these activities.

Activity 1. Read the explanation and do the quizz.

Unit 3- Lesson Plan 4: Homework: Article Local Schools



You see the following on the letters to the Editor Page in your local newspaper. 'Local schools are being broken into and vandalised in the evenings and at weekends by gangs of youths. What can we do to stop this from happening? Write in with your suggestions'

Remember:

1- Introduction: What is the problem?
2- Main Body: What are your suggestions or possible results?
3- Conclusion: How would you sumarise your opinion?

Unit 3- Lesson Plan 2: Research on education


Surf these links and find good information about Education in the Uk and Education in the USA.

1st Link


2nd Link

3rd Link

Unit 2- Lesson Plan 4: More practice: Interview


These are some of the most Frequently asked questions at an interview. They also give you some advice:

Click here, read and get some good advice. Are you planning to apply for a job??

Saturday

Unit 1- Lesson Plan 5. Question Tags Homework


Print this PDF document and do the activities, if you want to check your knowledge on Question Tags.

Unit 1- Lesson Plan 4: Weddings Homework

Watch the video and write why are these weddings so special? What's a geek??

Unit 1- More Practice: Importance of being polite


Activities to practise Polite Requests

Activity 1. Who would make these requests?

Activity 2. Choose the best answer for the requests.


Activity 3. Polite Speech

Activity 4. Politeness. BBC Quizz

Unit 1- More Practice: Take notes about how English people express sorry: language and body language.



Click here and have a look at the script, learn vocabulaary and listen to the conversation

Unit 1. Lesson Plan 3: Homework English Intonation exercise


English pronunciation exercise: Most often students end up learning correct pronunciation of individual words. However they always don't sound as natural as they want to.The problem is most often the use of the wrong intonation of sentences. In English the mood is most often reflected in the way we say words and sentences. This quiz will give you a great idea of how words can mean different things when pronounced in different ways.Please you need speakers on your computer.

Click here to start the quizz

Unit 1- Lesson Plan 3- Homework : Quizz Indirect Questions


Choose the correct indirect question to be used as a more polite way to form the original question. There is only one correct answer. When you are finished click on the "Next Question" button. There are 30 questions to this quiz. Try to use only 30 seconds per question. At the end of the quiz, you will receive quiz feedback.

Click here to start the quizz.

Unit 1-Lesson Plan 3 The Graduate

"Mrs Robinson tries to seduce Benjamin" 1967 Original:
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?cid=206434

Copy:

Unit 1- Lesson Plan 3 Trailer- The Graduate

Friday

Unit 1- Lesson Plan 2- Homework Prince William

Imagine you had to interview Prince William about his life. First of all, think of the questions you would ask him. Watch the video and see if you can answer them, if you can't, surf the Net (English Wikipedia, for example) and find the answers to your questions.

Wednesday

Island of Nauru

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRl5ctx-S1M


Go to this webpage, listen to the documentary and write a summary.

Saturday

Emphasis

Some Emphasis Forms in English

There are a number of ways to add emphasis to your sentences in English. Use these forms to emphasize your statements when you are expressing your opinions, disagreeing, making strong suggestions, expressing annoyance, etc.

1. Use of the Passive
The passive voice is used when focusing on the person or thing affected by an action. Generally, more emphasis is given to the beginning of a sentence. By using a passive sentence, we emphasize by showing what happens to something rather than who or what does something.
Example: Reports are expected by the end of the week.
In this example, attention is called to what is expected of students (reports).

2. Inversion
Invert the word order by placing a prepositional phrase or other expression (at no time, suddenly into, little, seldom, never, etc.) at the beginning of the sentence followed by inverted word order.
Examples: At no time did I say you couldn't come.
Hardly had I arrived when he started complaining.
Little did I understand what was happening.
Seldom have I felt so alone.
Note that the auxiliary verb is placed before the subject which is followed by the main verb.

3. Expressing Annoyance
Use the continuous form modified by 'always', 'forever', etc.
to express annoyance at another person's action. This form is considered an exception as it used to express a routine rather than an action occurring at a particular moment in time.
Examples:
Martha is always getting into trouble.
Peter is forever asking tricky questions.
George was always being reprimanded by his teachers.
Note that this form is generally used with the present or past continuous (he is always doing, they were always doing).

4. Cleft Sentences: It
Sentences introduced by 'It is' or 'It was' are often used to emphasize a specific subject or object. The introductory clause is then followed by a relative pronoun.
Examples:
It was I who received the promotion.
It is the awful weather that drives him crazy.

5. Cleft Sentences: What
Sentences introduced by a clause beginning with 'What' are also used to emphasize a specific subject or object. The clause introduced by 'What' is employed as the subject of the sentence as is followed by the verb 'to be'.
Examples:
What we need is a good long shower.
What he thinks isn't necessarily true.

6. Exceptional Use of 'Do' or 'Did'
You have probably learned that the auxiliary verbs 'do' and 'did' are not used in positive sentences - for example: He went to the store. NOT He did go to the store. However, in order to emphasize something we feel strongly these auxiliary verbs can be used as an exception to the rule.
Examples:
No that's not true. John did speak to Mary.
I do believe that you should think twice about this situation.
Note this form is often used to express something contrary to what another person believes.

Wednesday


Lip-synching



A little girl and her song captivated millions of viewers during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, but what was the truth behind it?? Find it out.

Venice Carnival


Read some information about the Venice Carnival. Click here.

Saturday

Let's go Shopping



* May I see that jacket, please?
* Do you have it in red?
* May I try it on?
* What size do you take?
* I usually take a medium.
* How is it?
* It’s a bit too long.
* Do you have a shorter one?
* It’s a bit too large.
* Do you have a smaller one.
* It’s a bit too small.
* How much is it?
* It’s on sale.
* I’ll take it.

English Grammar


Practise your grammar, you have a bit of everything

Monday

Ali-G inteviews Posh Spice and David Beckham

This video contains some swearwords and slang vocabulary. If you are not interested in that, you don't have to watch it.

Thursday

PET EXAMS

The level you'll get with your "Basic Certificate" is the Level A2+ in the Common European Framework. I would compare this level to the PET Cambridge Exam (Preliminary English Test), but this is the B1 in the Common European Framework ( so the level is higher).
This means that the activities you'll find in this website are a bit, but not a lot, more difficult that what you can expect in your June exam.

Practise these activities: Reading, listening, writing and speaking. Remember that they are not easy but if you are able to do them, it will be easy for you to pass your exam in June.

Wednesday

Slang Dictionary

Interesting dictionaries of English Slang (Colloquial English).

British slang and dialect
General English slang and comparative English/American language
U.S. slang
Australian slang
New Zealand slang
South African slang
Foreign slang and languages
Drug related slang
'Black' slang and rap
Gay/lesbian slang
Crime and prison slang
Other specialist slang sites
Miscellaneous dictionaries and other language related resources
Other links
A Dictionary of Slang promotional banners

Quizzes : Difficult Vocabulary

Difficult
Self- Study English Vocabulary quizzes:
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vocabulary.html

Quizzes : Easy and Easy to Medium Vocabulary

Self- Study English Vocabulary quizzes:
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vocabulary.html

66 ESSENTIAL PHRASAL VERBS

Do you know all of them?? Click here.
English people use many phrasal verbs when they speak, look at this webpage and when you've learnt all of them, write your comments and I'll show you more interesting webpages on "phrasal verbs".

Tuesday

Songfacts

Read some information about the songs you like. Browse either by song title or by artist.

English Listening Lounge: Advanced Listeners

Listen and do some activities in this interesting webpage.

Elllo Listening.

Elllo Listening. Click here and improve your listening skills.

Weekly Updates occur each Monday. On average there are at least five new listening activities each week. Activities are numbered for easy reference. Currently, the listening activities include interviews, newscasts, surveys (Mixer), songs, presentations (Talking Points), and listening games.

Elllo Listening.

Elllo Listening. Click here and improve your listening skills.

Weekly Updates occur each Monday. On average there are at least five new listening activities each week. Activities are numbered for easy reference. Currently, the listening activities include interviews, newscasts, surveys (Mixer), songs, presentations (Talking Points), and listening games.

Monday

Verbs + Prepositions

Here you have a list of common verbs followed by preposition. It's a Turkish webpage but that's not important at all, you can always check a dictionary.

Verbs + prepositions

Here you have a list of common verbs followed by preposition.
It's a Turkish webpage but that's not important at all, you can always check a dictionary.

Sunday