Creative Writing: Characters in a story

Mr. Bean at Christmas

Activities (with answers) and DVD clips

http://efllecturer.blogspot.com.es/2011/10/merry-christmas-mr-bean.html

Christmas is coming

Here we have a nice little video on Christmas shopping with activities

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/video-uk/christmas-shopping

And a reading activity about Christmas traditions

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/read-uk/christmas

How to pronounce"th"

As you all know, there are two ways of pronouncing "th" in English.  Here we have a nice video to show you the difference.

Cook or cooker?

Well that is the question...

http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/2013/11/28/cook-or-cooker/

Apart from looking at the use of "going to" and the present continuous to talk about the future...

We are also looking at airports.  Here we have some interesting links to Heathrow

http://www.heathrowairport.com/

And to finish off, some quick practice with future forms

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-13478.php

London Underground

Today we'll be watching a short DVD on the London Underground.  Before class you can read up on it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground

 London underground logo

 Waterloo station

Rush hour

London underground map

And if you're interested in transport have a look at the London Transport Museum

http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/museum-guide/worlds-first-underground

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

Thanksgiving and Black Friday are just around the corner so here are some links where you can find out all about this celebration in the USA and Canada.  Enjoy!

The story of Thanksgiving (youtube) to listen and read at the same time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJrQ_wGIHc

A reading comprehension on Thanksgiving

http://www.learnenglish-online.com/reading/thanksgiving.html#.Uo3p_r6DOic

Thanksgiving in Canada plus a link to Wikipedia and a cute cartooon

http://esl.culips.com/2008/10/thanksgiving-weekend/

Black Friday (youtube)

http://www.youtube.com

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Basic 2, a podcast from the British council on music and a drink

To keep you busy over the weekend, a podcast from the British council about music which we are dealing with in File 2C

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/sites/podcasts/files/learnenglish-podcasts-elementary-03-09-transcript.pdf

Basic 2, /t/, /d/ or /id/

 When we revised the past simple we also practised pronunciation of the -ed ending of the regular past.  Here you have more practice and remember practice makes perfect...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j32SurxnE4s

Basic 2, Music vocabulary with pronunciation practice

At the moment in File Pre-Intermediate we are dealing with the topic of music.  In this link you will find lots of vocabulary and pronunciaton practice.

http://www.speakenglish.co.uk/vocab/music

Intermediate 1, The difference between travel, journey and trip

I have just given back your writing activities for Unit 2 (about the first time you travelled) and some of you confused travel, journey and trip.  Have a read of this link please:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv209.shtml

Intermediate 1, Sleep

In unit 3, one of our topics is sleep, here you have a link to a British Council "learn English teens" article on sleep, with comments and activities at the end.

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/read-uk/sleep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnCW8Xe-n4w

You can also watch a Youtube video on sleep too.

Parts of the body....

Quick pronunciation practice of parts of the body

.http://www.learningchocolate.com/content/parts-body-0

And here we have even more parts of the body with pronunciation
and Spanish equivalents..


http://www.saberingles.com.ar/lists/body.html

Some help with revision, unit 1 Intermediate 1

Have a look at the link here

http://www.learningchocolate.com/category/sportshobbies

for some practice with sports and hobbies vocabulary with lots of pronunciation practice...

Subject and object questions

Just in case you didn't quite understand "subject and object questions" here is a slideshare to help clarify ideas



http://es.slideshare.net/nlopez74/subject-object-questions-explanation

Some practice
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_questionforms_subob.htm

Festivities in the UK in November

Calender of festivities in the UK in November

http://projectbritain.com/festivals/november.htm

November 5th and the Gunpowder Plot in London

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/the_gunpowder_plot

Read all about it in the link above

Bonfire Night firework display, celebrated all over Britain on November 5th

Not everything was perfect in Lewes this year.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487976/Lewes-bonfire-night-celebration-results-14-arrests-dozens-injuries.html

Some help with schaw

A couple of days ago we were doing some pronunciation work with schaw, the most common sound in English...here you have some extra practice

.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yj-uAltQJk

Useful information for your next trip to Scotland

Scottish Tourist Board  http://www.visitscotland.com/       

Map of the regions of Scotland

Highland Cows

Bed and breakfast

Scottish flag and thistle

Paolo Nuttini - Scottish singer

A man's a man for all that

Well worth listening to.

Because I'm Scottish....

Enjoy!!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving will soon be coming up in the USA.

Read about why people in the UK celebrate it

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/magazine/life-around-world/5-reasons-why-i-wish-we-celebrated-thanksgiving-ukhttp://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=394053248802157607#editor/target=post;postID=8028229846277889584

Past Simple and Past Continuous

We have been working on the Past Simple and the Past Continuous in class and here we have some activities with answers.

 

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-past-continuous-exercise-1.html