Happy New Year!

If you decide to say goodbye to 2017 in a different way, here you have the BBC live countdown for the new year.




Anyway, I'm sure you'll find the next video useful 😜. Don't forget that you can activate the subtitles if you need.



HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Strong adjectives

It's not dirty- it's FILTHY!

Revise strong adjectives here

Practise them  here, here and here.

Present perfect continuous

Watch the video to see the difference between the past simple, present perfect and present perfect continuous:


Click here for an explanation and activities from the BBC.

Try a couple of exercises here and here.

You can try some more exercises here.

FOR and SINCE

Remember the difference between FOR and SINCE.




Try some exercises here.

See an explanation and some activities by the BBC here.

And don't forget how to pronounce SINCE:

Writing: a biography.

Listen to Donald Trump's biography again. Click here.

You're going to write a biography of someone you know who is alive. It can be a friend, someone in your family, yourself!...

• Don't forget to organise the text into paragraphs.
• Use punctuation correctly. Click here if you need help.
• Use simple past and present perfect.

Deadline is December 15th .

Advent Calendar

Get in the mood for the festive season with this Advent Calendar. Click here or on the image and have fun!

Present perfect vs. past simple

Click here for an explanation and exercises (scroll down to find the exercises)

You'll find some easy exercises here.

Try some more exercises here, here, here, here and here and lots of them here.

Present perfect or past simple

Watch the videos to remember how to use the past simple and the present perfect:

Numb3rs

For an explanation on how to say numbers click here

You will find out how to say 0 and other curious things here

You can try lots of exercises here

Ka-Ching!

Listen to Shania Twain singing a song about money:


Can you fill in the words in the gaps? If you can, write ONE ANSWER on the wall below.

We live in a greedy little world--

that teaches every little boy and girl

To  (1) ____________ as much as they can possibly--

then turn around and

(2) _____________ it foolishly

We've created us a (3) _____________ mess

We spend the (4) _____________ that we don't possess

Our religion is to go and (5) _____________ it all

So it's (6) _______________ every Sunday at the mall

All we ever want is more

A lot more than we had before

So take me to the nearest store

[Chorus:]

Can you hear it ring

It makes you wanna sing

It's such a beautiful thing--Ka-ching!

Lots of diamond rings

The happiness it brings

You'll live like a king

With lots of money and things

When you're (7)_________________go and get a (8) _________________

Take out another (9) ________________ on your home

Consolidate so you can (10) _______________

To go and spend some more when

you get bored

All we ever want is more

A lot more than we had before

So take me to the nearest store

[Repeat Chorus]

Let's swing

Dig deeper in your (11) _____________

Oh, yeah, ha

Come on I know you've got it

Dig deeper in your wallet

Oh

All we ever want is more

A lot more than we had before

So take me to the nearest store

[Repeat Chorus]

Money, money, money!

Click here to learn and practise money vocabulary.

Try some exercises here, here and here.

Pronunciation of regular -ed endings

Learn how to pronounce -ed past endings correctly.

First, you need to know the difference between voiced and voiceless sounds in English. Watch this video:



 Now, you´re ready for this:



And now practise!

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Exercise 8

Irregular verbs

Forget the future! It's all about the past now! You can start by revising and practising irregular verbs here. Don't forget to learn the pronunciation, too. It's just as important as the spelling.

You can download the exercise we did in class here.

Writing: description of a person

She's a bit forgetful.

Write a description of a person you know well. You have a model text and instructions on page 113 of your book.

Remember:

• Plan your paragraphs carefully (see your book)
• Use a variety of personality adjectives.
• When you say something negative, use a bit + negative adjective (a bit messy) or not very + positive adjective (not very organized)

Deadline for this is November 24th.

Reacting to news

Click here to learn how to respond to news with the BBC.













Remeber how to respond using HOW or WHAT (A)

And now practise HOW + ADJ and WHAT (A) + NOUN here  and

here

More about the future

Watch this BBC video and see how to use will, going to and the present continuous in a natural way.



If you need more practice, here you have plenty of exercises and you'll find a video, explanation and exercises here. Are you GOING TO (plan) try them? I think you WILL find them useful (prediction 😉)

Personality

Learn and practise personality adjectives here.

You can practise them here.

Family video

Listen to some people talking about their families.


We did this exercise in class with the Tues/Thurs group. It's voluntary for the Mon/Wed groups.

Family members

Revise and practise family vocabulary here

Going to, will and present continuous

Watch these videos if you need more help with the difference between going to, will, and the present continuous to express future:





Click here for an exercise and example sentences.

Try more exercises here, here, here and here.

Present simple and continuous. Action and non-action verbs.

Try some present simple/ continuous exercises here, here, here and here

You will find some action non-action  exercises here, here, here and here

Present Continuous & Present Simple: comparison

Watch this video to remember the difference between present simple and present continuous:



Is it difficult to follow this in English? YouTube often allows you to activate the subtitles in different languages. You can also get a transcript, if you want. If you don't know how to do this, click here or ask me.

Atomic food!

Listen to the song. How many food words can you hear? There are 40!

Remember you can learn and practice food vocabulary here

If you want to learn and practise more vocabulary, click here.

Now, what do you have in your fridge? Write down 5 things! Click anywhere on the wall below to write:

Food vocabulary

We're going to start discussing food in class.

Click here if you want to learn and revise food vocabulary.

Bon appetit!

Richard and Jackie's holiday

Listen again to Richard and Jackie talking about their holiday in Spain. Click here

Try the exercises again:

Listen to the recording and fill in the chart with the right answers:

	Richard	Jackie
I really liked …
I was surprised at …
I was disappointed with
The highlight of the trip was …

Listen again and complete the information below:

1. Richard and Jackie have just spent __________________ in Spain and have enjoyed themselves a lot.
2. The small, snack type food you get in the bars is called tapas. Richard specially liked “boquerones”, which are small fish in _______________,.
3. They came across lots of unexpected fiestas and there was a lot of singing and _____________
4. In Seville, they enjoyed going into churches and watching ______________________
5. Richard was surprised that the streets were very ______________ and the underground was ______________
6. For Richard, seeing the Alhambra was absolutely __________________

If you want to listen to more podcasts like this click here.

Getting started

Ready to kick off?

Here are some things that you will need.

Click here to download the information sheet.

Click here to download the initial revision.

Click here to learn and practise classroom language.

If you are very rusty, download the answers to the entry checker here.

And don't forget to say hello here!

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