May 27, 2009

AT A RESTAURANT


- Order food with 'I'd like'.
- Listen and tick what they order.
- Read the dialogue, listen to it and do the exercise.
- Read the text and answer the questions.
- Dictation: listen and write the sentences.
- Game: write the food in the menu.
- Listen and choose the right answer.

May 22, 2009

LA ISLA BONITA



La Isla Bonita - MUSICA.COM

May 21, 2009

GOING TO


Grammar:

- Listen and read the examples and explanations.

- Read the presentation and learn about the uses.

- Listen and read more examples.

- Listen and read the conversation.


Exercises:

-Read the example and decide the use.

- Choose the right answer.

- Choose the right answer.

- Order the words.

- Complete the sentences.

- Complete the sentences.

- Complete the sentences.

- Match questions and answers.

- Write the sentences.

- Write the questions.

- Present or future.


Listening:

- Listen to some people making plans for the evening and choose the right answer.

FOOD 3

1. Game: find the things on your shopping list and put them in the trolley.
2. Recipe: make a banana milkshake. Order the instructions.
3. Reading: read the text about healthy eating and choose the right answer.

May 13, 2009

FOOD 2


1. Review vocabulary: listen and repeat.

2. Do the exercises.

3. Listen and read the conversation.

4. Listen and read the conversation.

5. Watch the video (at the supermarket).

6. Watch the video (at a buffet restaurant).

7. Listen to the phone conversation and answer the questions. You can read the text too.

8. Listen to six people and answer the questions. You can read the texts too.

9. Listen to Marion talking about food in Italy and answer the questions (click on 'begin the quiz', if the answer is wrong you listen again).

COUNT/UNCOUNT/SOME/ANY/MUCH/MANY/A LOT

Countable and uncountable nouns:
1. Read the examples and watch the video.
2. Read the grammar and examples and do the exercises.

Some and any:
1. Read the examples and the grammar and do the exercises.
2. Complete with some or any.

Much/ many / a lot:
1. Read the grammar.
2. Complete with much, many or a lot of.
3. Order the words.
4. Choose much or many.
5. Choose much or many.

FOOD

1. Learn some food vocabulary (American English). You can learn more words if you click on extra vocabulary 'otros alimentos'.
2. Learn some drink words (American English).
3. Choose the right word for each picture.

May 10, 2009

EXTRA LISTENING

1. Renting a flat: listen and read the conversation between Bill and the agent.
2. Sightseeing around town: listen to the conversation and choose the right answer. Then you can listen and read it.
3. Getting around Tokyo-train tickets: listen to the conversation and choose the right answer. Then you can listen and read it.
4. Asking the way: listen and read the conversation between a woman and a policeman. She wants to find the way to a bank.

May 07, 2009

DIRECTIONS

Have a look at the powerpoint presentation to learn how to give directions:



1. Look at the map and choose the correct preposition.
2. Follow the instructions and say where you are (you are driving on the left!).


Game "Destination Impossible": read and follow directions. (las instrucciones son un poco largas, pero el juego está muy bien, try it!!)
- Click on 'play the game' and read the instructions (e.g. Help Liz get her kids to school in time), when you choose the character they give you two options for that character, you choose the one you prefer. The map with the route appears and you clik on 'start'. When the game starts they ask you if you want to play 'against time' or 'no timer'. There are 10 instructions for each destination. You are on the red spot, read the instruction and choose A, B or C. // Haz click en 'play the game' y lee las instrucciones (e.g. Ayuda a Liz a llevar a sus niños al colegio a tiempo), cuando eliges el personaje te dan dos opciones para ayudarle y tú eliges la que prefieres. Aparece el mapa con la ruta y le das a 'start'. Cuando el juego empieza te preguntan si quieres jugar 'against time' (contra reloj) o 'no timer' (sin tiempo). Hay 10 instrucciones para cada destino. Tú estás en el punto rojo que parpadea, lees la instrucción y eliges A, B o C.

Listening:
1. Watch the video. You can watch it first without subtitles and then do the exercises or you can watch it with the subtitles.
2. Listen and follow the instructions to find the place on the map. Then click play again and the route will appear on the map.

May 05, 2009

LONDON


Know more things about London.
Go on a virtual tour of the city and then answer the questions in the quiz.

TOWN AND CITY


- Listen and read. Some places in town (American English).- Play this game to practise vocabulary about places in town and pronunciation. First click on the ear to listen to the word and then drag the letter'a', 'b'... to match the picture / primero haz click en el dibujo de la oreja para escuchar la palabra y luego arrastra la letra al dibujo correspondiente.- Look at the map. Listen and choose true or false. Then listen and read the text.
- Visit New York: listen and read. Then answer the questions.- Listen to six people talking about the place where they live and if they are happy there. Answer the questions. Then you can listen and read the text.

May 03, 2009

WATERLOO SUNSET by The Kinks

Waterloo Sunset is a song about the view of London over the River Thames in the evening, when millions of people are going home from work. It was a big hit for The Kinks in the mid 1960s.

a. Complete sentences 1-9 with adjectives from the list. See comments to check the answers.

afraid / bright / busy / chilly / dirty / dizzy / fine / lazy / safe

1. The opposite of dangerous is _________________ .
2. When you feel _________________, everything is going round in circles.
3. How are you? I’m _________________, thanks.
4. Some people never travel by plane because they are _________________ of flying.
5. Somebody who doesn’t like working is _________________.
6. The opposite of clean is _________________.
7. The lights in a TV studio are always very _________________.
8. When you have a lot of things you need to do, you are very _________________.
9. Another way of saying quite cold is _________________.

b. Listen to the song. Complete the gaps with an adjective. Some adjectives are used more than once. (See comments to check the answers)



1______________ old river, must you keep rolling
Flowing into the night
People so 2______________, makes me feel 3______________
Taxi light shines so 4______________
But I don’t need no friends
As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise

Every day I look at the world from my window
But 5______________, 6______________ is the evening time
Waterloo sunsets fine

Terry meets Julie, Waterloo station
Every Friday night
But I am so 8______________, don’t want to wander
I stay at home at night
But I don’t feel 9______________
As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise

Every day, etc.

Millions of people swarming like flies round Waterloo underground
But Terry and Julie cross over the river
Where they feel 10______________ and sound
And the don’t need no friends
As long as they gaze on Waterloo sunset
They are in paradise

Waterloo sunset’s fine

Glossary
Keep rolling: continue to move
So (+adjective): very
I don’t need no : I don’t need any
As long as: if I can
Gaze on: look at
Be in paradise: be very happy
Wander: go for a walk
Swarming like flies: moving like little insects
Safe and sound: sano y salvo
(activities taken from New English File Elementary, OUP)

PRESENT SIMPLE / PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Grammar
1. Read the explanation of different uses (English and Spanish).
2.Watch the video with the explanation and examples in English.


Exercises
1. Choose present simple or present continuous.
2. Choose present simple or present continuous.
3. Complete with present simple or present continuous.
4. Complete with present simple or present continuous.
5. Complete with present simple or present continuous.
6. Complete with present simple or present continuous.

LEMON TREE by Fool's Garden

1. Write the –ing form of the following verbs. Then see comments to check the answers (ver comentarios para comprobar las respuestas).
Wait / drive / sit / step / turn / waste / take

2. Listen to the song and complete it using those verbs:


LEMON TREE By Fool's Garden

I'm ______________ here in a boring room it's just another rainy Sunday afternoon I'm ______________ my time I got nothing to do
I'm hanging around I'm ______________ for you
But nothing ever happens- and I wonder
I'm ______________ around in my car I'm ______________ too fast I'm ______________ too far I'd like to change my point of view I feel so lonely I'm ______________ for you
But nothing ever happens- and I wonder
I wonder how I wonder why yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky and all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
I'm ______________ my head up and down I'm ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ around
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree
I'm ______________ here I miss the power I'd like to go out ______________ a shower but there's a heavy cloud inside my head I feel so tired put myself into bed where nothing ever happens- and I wonder
Isolation - is not good for me
Isolation - I don't want to sit on a lemon-tree
I'm ______________ around in a desert of joy
Baby anyhow I'll get another toy and everything will happen-and you'll wonder
I wonder how I wonder why yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky and all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree I'm ______________ my head up and down I'm ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ around
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree

Glossary:
to waste time: to spend uselessly, without profit.
to hang around: to spend time in a certain place or in certain company.
nothing ever happens: nunca pasa nada.
to wonder: to be curious to know.
isolation: the state of being separated from others.
joy: emotion of great happiness.

3. Watch the song with the subtitles and check your answers.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS 2

1. Listen and read. Listen and repeat.
2. Listen and read.
3. Listen and read the conversations.