PRONUNCIATION HANDOUT

Here is the pronunciation handout I gave you in class. It contains all the website links you need to practise your pronunciation skill. Click here

LISTENING ACTIVITIES AND RELATIVE CLAUSES-UNIT 5

Here you are a song by Abba on the topic of money. Listen to the song and do the listening activity that goes with it. Click here to listen and do the quiz

This video quiz about the Westfield Shopping Centre in London will help you to practise your listening skills. Click here to listen and do the quiz

Here you have the grammar explanation on relative clauses plus the exercises we'll be doing (or have done in class). CLASS PRESENTATION

Unit 5. BARGAIN

Here you'll find some extra vocabulary on money (mostly collocations with the word "money" in them as well as some new-year tips to help you in your English-learning task. I hope you find both things useful.

MONEY COLLOCATIONS

ENGLISH LEARNING TIPS

HAPPY NEW YEAR

The time to go back to classes is getting nearer and before that I'd like you to have a look at the last things we did before the holidays. Below you'll find the documents with story writing tips, a couple of exam-like reading exercises and several activities we carried out in class. There is also a listening activity we did in class whose recording is in our setbook (just in case you've got the CDs).

Enjoy your last days of holidays and, again, Happy New Year!!!

Jumbled paragraphs

Listening comprehension activity. Speakers

Reading activity. Fill in the gaps plus key.

Hints on story writing plus reading exercise with key.

Urban legends.

You've also got here the answers to the exercises on connectors I set for Christmas homework.

Key to connectors homework

UNIT 3. CITIES

My dear students!
I haven't updated my blog for quite a while now; I'm terribly sorry!

Well, here I'm back again (like the turrón at Christmas time) ready to post all the things we've done in unit 3. The most important ones appear below.

Mistake spotting activity for Av2M

Answers to Mistake spotting activity for Av2M

Mistake spotting activity for Av2X

Answers to Mistake spotting activity for Av2X


If you follow this link you'll be able to do a listening activity on mortgages and loans that we never had time to do in class.

http://www.esl-lab.com/loan/loanrd1.htm

And if you feel like doing some more listening, this is an easy but interesting recording, this time on the subject of estate agents:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/2010/11/101118_6min_estate_agents_page.shtml

AN ARTICLE ON LAUREL STREET (published in The Guardian)

Here is a reading activity; below you have the full text to check your answers.


WRITING TASK

As we have finished the unit, there is a new writing task on the horizon; here you have the handout I've given out in class. Note that the hand-in deadline isn't the 19th but the 26th of November.

UNIT 2. SUPERSIZE ME

This is the video clip we saw in class, if you've got the questions, you can do the listening exercise