MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Christmas traditions in Great Britain from Rosario Rodríguez García

Christmas Interactive Book.
Christmas Traditions Video 1.
Christmas Traditions Video 2.

GAMES:
Christmas Traditions Quiz.
Christmas Story Quiz.
Santa Claus Quiz.

CHRISTMAS CAROLS AND SONGS:

We Wish you a Merry Christmas.
Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
All I want for Christmas is you.
Let it Snow.
Under the Mistletoe.
Last Christmas.

FRIENDS

WHAT DO YOU THINK A GOOD FRIEND IS LIKE?

I Feel A Great Friend Would... from Bro. Oh Teik Bin

VOCABULARY EXERCISES: 
WORDS RELATED TO FRIENDS.

GRAMMAR EXERCISES:
USED TO.

LISTENING ACTIVITY: 
WHAT DID YOU USE TO DO?
HER BEST FRIEND.
HIS BEST FRIEND.






SONGS:  
THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR. 
FRIENDS WILL BE FRIENDS.   
 LUCKY. 
SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW.
THIS USED TO BE MY PLAYGROUND.
YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND.
YOU CAN COUNT ON ME.

 HERE YOU CAN FIND INFORMATION ABOUT FRIENDS REUNITED.

LINKING WORDS

This is a summary of the most common linking words you can use when writing or speaking.They are used to connect words, phrases or sentences. Depending on the relationship between two sentences, or parts of a sentence, you need to use a specific connector.

LINKING WORDS.
MORE EXAMPLES.

ANECDOTES

For those of you who didn't attend today's lesson: you have to prepare an anecdote to tell your partners in class next Thursday. You should work on it and write an outline. Have a look at these documents to help you with your task:




How to Write a Story or an Anecdote.
How to Tell an Anecdote.
Planning Sheet.
Useful Phrases.
Useful Phrases Answers.
Tell a story or Personal anecdote.
Anecdote Practice.

READING KEY

FILE 5A:

4. READING:
b. 1F   2B    3E   4A  5C   6D
c. All of them.

PAST TENSES

Past Tenses. Past Perfect, Past Simple and Continuous from José Antonio Romero Tena

How to Talk about the Past Interactive Book.
Past tenses exercises 1.
 Past tenses exercises 2.

Irregular Verbs List.

 PRONUNCIATION  :

Rules for -ED Pronunciation.
How to Pronounce the Past of Regular Verbs.
ED pronunciation 1.  ED pronunciation 2.

Pronunciation Practice.
Audio 1.
Audio 2.
Audio 3.
Irregular Verbs.

GAME:

Past Simple Betting Game.
SONG: I'M A BELIEVER.
Smash Mouth Version.

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS by QUEEN

GIVING TUESDAY

After BLACK FRIDAY and CYBER MONDAY, today we have GIVING TUESDAY. Do you know what it is?

Click here to find out what Giving Tuesday is .

SPORTS

VOCABULARY:
Have a look at the Olympic games webpage and learn the names of a lot of sports.
Sports Vocabulary with sound.
Sports with Sound Exercises.
 Sports.
 Useful Sports Vocabulary.
Play, Do or Go?

LISTENING ACTIVITIES:
Guess the sport described
What's your favourite sport?
Team or individual sports?

VIDEO ACTIVITIES:
Sportspeople's videos.

FILE 5

Hi everybody!

For those of you who didn't attend the lessons this week: we've jumped from File 2 to File 5, so now we're in File 5A, which is about SPORTS.

For homework, I'd like you to do the Vocabulary Bank, on page 157 and the Reading on page 45.

REVISE AND CHECK FILES 1 & 2

 Click here to get the answers to Revise and Check Files 1 & 2.You should also watch the video for extra practice and the short film on the itutor.

THANKSGIVING DAY

Today people in the USA have a very important celebration: THANKSGIVING DAY.
 Have a look at this Interactive Book.

Then watch these videos to learn the origins of this festivity and the way it's celebrated nowadays.





And some funny scenes from FRIENDS TV series:

FILE 2 LISTENING

 This is the listening activity we did in class on Tuesday for those of you who didn't attend the lesson.

NEWS BULLETIN.
AUDIO.

HOMEWORK

This is your homework for next week: a photocopy to revise the differences between PRESENT PERFECT and PAST SIMPLE  and a READING PRACTICE. Please, print them, work on them and take them to class to check them.

PRESENT PERFECT AND PAST SIMPLE

Present Perfect from monira21

Present Perfect Tense from IES Rosario de Acuña

 

Simple past vs. present perfect tense from Patricia Mellino

Present Perfect with Just, Yet and Already.

You can practise the differences between the PRESENT PERFECT and the PAST SIMPLE doing the following exercises.
Present perfect and Past Simple 1
Present Perfect and Past Simple 2
Present Perfect or Past Simple?

SONG:
What can I do? by The Corrs.

LISTENING PRACTICE

This is the listening you did in class.
Listen to two couples arguing about things they bought but never used and complete the information in the following paper.

What a Waste! 
Audio.
Key.

MONEY

 VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES:
British Money.
High Numbers.
How to say Fractions and Decimals.
Money Crossword.
LISTENING ACTIVITIES:
Wasting money.

Saving money.

Friends and money.


READING:
Shopping Online.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Shopping.


SONG ABOUT MONEY:
MONEY FOR NOTHING.

INTRODUCTIONS

How to introduce yourself.
Introducing yourself and other people.

CONVERSATION FILLERS

Have a look at some of the most common Conversation Fillers you can use to sound fluent like a native speaker. CLICK HERE.

FILE 1 TEST

File 1 Test and Key.
Listening Exercise 1.
Listening Exercise 2.

GUY FAWKES DAY OR BONFIRE NIGHT

GUY FAWKES DAY,  also known as BONFIRE NIGHT,  is celebrated in Great Britain today. Here you can get some information about it.

WHAT DO YOU LOOK LIKE?

  

VOCABULARY:
Physical Description Interactive Book.
Describing Physical Appearance.
Describing People.
Vocabulary to describe a person's physical appearance.
Clothes Vocabulary 1.
Clothes Vocabulary 2. 

WHAT ARE YOU LIKE?

 VOCABULARY:

 Personality Adjectives.
Personality Adjectives activity.
Personality Crosswords.
Personality Adjectives and Negative Prefixes.

PRONUNCIATION:
Personality Adjectives with Sound.
Pronunciation of personality Adjectives.
More Personality Adjectives.
SONG: 
You gotta be.

 

FUTURE FORMS

The Future with the Simpsons

The Future with the Simpsons from Mr Teach

Future Tenses Summary.

GRAMMAR EXERCISES:
Future forms exercises A.    Future forms exercises B.
Future Plans.
Expressing the Future.
Will and Be Going to.

GAME:
Verb Tenses Revision.

SONG: 

WRITING TASK

My Eating Habits .

THE FAMILY

Watch this video about the funny TV series Modern Family, and do the activity.

Modern Family activity.
 


VOCABULARY: A Family Quiz.

 
PRONUNCIATION:
Family Words.

READING:
British Families Today.

LISTENING ACTIVITIES:

A Big Family.

Being the Youngest in the Family.
Future Family.
The Global Family.
Family Personalities.
Meet the Family.
 Ruth's Family.
What are people in your family like?.

PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Present Simple v. Present Continuous from Ana Sancho

Present Simple vs Present Continuous Interactive Book.
Present Simple vs Present Continuous.
Present Simple and Present Continuous, action and non-action verbs.
Present Simple and Present Continuous, action and non-action verbs.

PRONUNCIATION:

Rules for the Pronunciation of The Third Person Singular.
-(e)s pronounced as /S/.
 -(e)s pronounced as /Z/.
-es pronounced as /IZ/.
  CLICK  HERE    TO DOWNLOAD THE SONG ACTIVITY.

VIDEO ACTIVITY

CLICK HERE TO GET THE ACTIVITY AND THE KEY.

FOOD IN THE UK

LISTENING ACTIVITIES:
Food in England.

VIDEO ACTIVITIES:
How to make a full English breakfast.

Click here to watch a video about FOOD in ENGLAND.

SPEAKING: 
Talking about eating out.

FOOD EXTRA ACTIVITIES

LISTENING ACTIVITIES ABOUT FOOD: 

Favourite food.
The Daily Diet.
Junk Food.
Food and Fitness.

Cooking.

Spaghetti recipe.
 Where to eat.

VIDEO ACTIVITIES: 
A Recipe.


GAMES: 

Food Quiz. 
Food and Drink Quiz.

HOMEWORK

Please, download this worksheet and work on it.

Food, Cooking and Restaurants.

FOOD

VOCABULARY: 
Have a look at these very interesting exercises with sound. 
Listen and repeat the words 1.

Listen and repeat the words 2.
Breakfast Interactive Exercises.
Food Interactive Exercises.
Drinks Interactive Exercises.
Vegetables Interactive Exercises.
Fruit Interactive Exercises.


SPEAKING:

Talking about food and diet.

INITIAL TEST

INITIAL TEST.
TEST KEY.

HOMEWORK

For those of you who didn't attend the lesson today:

 we're moving to FILE 9B and I'd like you to do the READING on page 89.