COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

Do the activity below while you watch this video:

(See transcript here)

Unit 5. REQUESTS, OFFERS AND SUGGESTIONS

Hi,

Check this website to learn how to make requests and do the exercises.
Check this website to learn how to make offers and suggestions and do the exercises.

Listening:
Could you do me a favour? (See transcript here.)
Pick Up Places. Jonathan and Jeff talk about places to meet women. (See transcript here.)

UNIT 5 B. NEVER TOO OLD

GRAMMAR:
The Future with "Will"
The future with "Be Going To"
Going to & Will 1
Going to & Will 2
Will or Going to?

Verb patterns
Gerund after prepositions
Verbs with prepositions

LISTENING:
What are your plans for tonight?
Wish list Quiz (See transcript here)

SONG: LEAN ON ME + PENELOPE CRUZ'S SPEECH AT THE OSCARS

Lean on me by Bill Withers

Michael Bolton (Karaoke version). Sing along!


This is taken from Self-learning EOI Coruña:

And the Oscar goes to ... Penélope Cruz

This is not going to be 45 seconds, I can say that right now. Has anybody ever fainted here? Because I might be the first one. Thank you so much to the Academy. I want to share this with my fellow nominees and with the amazing ensemble of actors that I had the privilege to work with in this movie. Thank you, Woody, for trusting me with this beautiful character. Thank for you having written over all these years some of the greatest characters for women. And I cannot talk about great female characters without thanking my friend Pedro Almodóvar for having made me part of so many of his adventures. Thank you, Bigas Luna, Fernando Trueba, for giving me my first movies. Thank you, Harvey Weinstein. I wanted to dedicate this to my parents and to my brother and sister, to my friend Robert Garlock, who is not with us anymore, and to everyone who has helped me from the beginning and you know who you are and I thank you from my heart.

I grew up in a place called Alcobendas, where this was not a very realistic dream. And I, always on the night of the Academy Awards, I stayed up to watch the show and I always felt that this was, this ceremony was a moment of unity for the world because art, in any form, is and has been and will always be our universal language and we should do everything we can, everything we can, to protect its survival. So I thank you so much and I have to say something in Spanish, because everyone: Todos los que desde España ahora estén compartiendo este momento conmigo y sientan que esto también es de ellos, se los dedico. Y a todos los actores de mi país. Muchisimas gracias.Thank you so much.

UNIT 5. Into the future

Grammar:
will / won't for predictions (1)
will / won't for predictions (2)
will / won't for promises, offers, decisions (1)
will / won't for promises, offers, decisions (2)
might for possibility
present, past and future of can
review of tenses (1)
review of tenses (2)

Listening:
Cars of the future quiz (See transcript here)
Future talk and kids (See transcript here)

January Exam

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Extra practice:
Listening about jobs with a different exercise
Listening about Santa Claus with a different exercise. See transcript here.

Extra listenings for the exam

Click on the images to print the activities. There you can check the answers to the questions and read the transcripts.

UNIT 4. TV or not TV?

TV addiction quiz
Listen to a girl talking about how much TV she watches and answer the questions. You can read the transcript by clicking SHOW TEXT/HIDE TEXT.
Listen to another girl talkig about TV preferences and answer the questions. You can read the transcript by clicking ON while you listen.
Listen to a man talking about films and answer the questions. You can read the transcript by clicking on TRANSCRIPT.
Vocabulary: -ed/ing adjectives 1 | 2| 3

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UNIT 4. Present perfect and simple past

Present perfect or past simple? 1, 2, 3, 4

More exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4

Game: Past participles



Dictation quiz

UNIT 4. That's entertainment!

Game: Types of films

Listening: Which is better, watching a movie at home or at the cinema?

Test: Are you a Star Wars freak?

Watch the Clone Wars movie trailer at Subtitled movie trailers!

Unit 3. Strange jobs

Read about some strange jobs
Listen to people talking about cool jobs and bad jobs and do the quizzes 1 , 2 (intermediate)
Suffixes games 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Unit 3. Job hunting

Reading comprehension: applying for a job
Grammar:
Action and state verbs
Present continuous
Present simple or continuous?1, 2, 3



Do versus Doing Exercise 1, 2, 3

Unit 3. The World of Work.

Vocabulary: Job families Can you find your job?
Listening: Listen to this girl talking about her first job and complete the sentences.

Grammar:
Have to/Don't have to/Must/Mustn't 1, 2
Had to/didn't have to/ did you have to
Can/can't/have to/don't have to

Unit 2. Video: Are you married? (+ other questions)

Watch the video and notice how the interviewer asks about marital status and other extra information in English:


Use a dictionary to guess the meaning of these difficult words and expressions from the video:

By the way - How dare you ask me? - Not any more - Heck, no!

Marital Status exercise

US Election 2008

Listening about Obama: PDF and audio (the one we did in class)

Electing a US President in plain English (with subtitles)

Unit 2. First meetings.

Past continuous extra practice:1, 2,3,4,5,6,7

Vocabulary: marry, be married, get married

Unit 2. Beginnings

Starting small: KFC McDonalds Ben&Jerry (Make your own ice-cream)

Listening: Joe's Hamburger restaurant (easy)
Listening: Snack time (easy)
Listening: A healthy lifestyle (medium)
Video: Dina did 6 things yesterday

Past simple (regular and irregular)
Past simple (regular and irregular 2)
Pronunciation of -ed exercise

Unit 1. Speed dating

Speed dating web pages: 1, 2, 3

Listen to this girl expressing her opinion on speed dating and complete the sentences.

Agreeing and disagreeing: so do I, neither do I

So/Neither quizzes: 1, 2, 3, 4

(You can find extra practice in unit 43 of Essential Grammar in Use)

Auxiliary verbs quiz: do, does, is, are, did, was & were

Unit 1. Work, rest and play

Hi everybody!

Here you have some useful links connected with verb tenses and question words:

To be-simple present

To have-simple present

Simple present-agreement exercise

Yes/no questions

Information questions

Question words 1

Question words 2

Question words 3

And don't forget to visit Jamie Oliver's site!