Listening News

If you want to develop your listening skills here you have a link with a lot of listenings and with exercises. You can practise with both accents, American and British English; click here

There is also another page for learning English through the news in BBC Learning English; it's quite good for increasing your vocabulary. You have the piece of news with the words and with the audio so you can also practise listening comprehension; click here

If you prefer American English here you have a similar page for learning English called Voice of America. To go to the general page click here but I recommend to go to the news so click here

To finish with and if you are interested in knowing what's going on in the world, here you have a page with many links to newspapers and news; click here

See you in class!

That's English!: unit 3

This unit es about Life in Future. Here you have a summary about the use of future tenses. 

• FUTURE TENSES:

• I’m having dinner with Kim --- arrangements, for sure; connected to Spanish present tense; the present simple is also used for future but only when it's something fixed like the train leaves at 7 pm
• I’m going to have dinner with Kim --- plans, intention, quite sure predictions

I want to have dinner with Kim

• I’ll have dinner with Kim --- a possibility, predictions, sudden decisions
  
  
  If you want to work with these tenses you can use these exercises: 
  
  
  exercise 1 exercise 2 exercise 3 exercise 4 
  
  
  
  
  Here you have a link with a lot of materials; click here 

  
  

  To finish with, here you have two songs we saw in class about future:

  
  

  When I'm 64 by The Beatles and Everybody wanna live your life by Mika
   
  
  

Increasing vocabulary

Here you are the exercises we did in class about adjectives ending in -ed or -ing. The exercise we did is here if you want to do it again on your own; click HERE. If you need more practice, here you are some more exercises:

• exercise 1   exercise 2    exercise 3

We also worked with vocabulary of food so here you are some exercises:

• list of food  -  an exercise to work with your children - list with drawings

Coming back to school!

Hello everybody! Here we are again after holidays. Are you eager to start? I am! It'll be nice to see you again or to meet new students. 

This shool year we are going to use this blog to do some practice or for further info about the topics we're dealing with at class. Let me tell you I have intermediate students in both programmes, the official one and  That's English!  Although I'll indicate which students should use each post in this blog the rest of the students are welcome to use it as well.

But let's start with something nicer... at least for me. Here you are a really good song with lyrics to refresh your English. I hope you'll enjoy it. Click HERE

See you at class!

That's English! Module 6 - unit 1: Expressing preferences+ expressing likes and dislikes

In unit 1 the topic is about holiday and the grammar prompt is expressing preferences with structures such as:

• prefer + -ing form or + to+ infinitive 
•  would raher + infinitive (without to)

To get a clearer idea, go to this link for further info and click here for practice and here or here

About likes and dislikes, this is a topic we usually have among the ones of the first level and we don't revise later, but we should. Let's have a look to these two videos to see this topic and check it is not so easy as we could think:

• expressing likes
• expressing dislikes

Pay attention to the relationship with verbs followed by -ING form. In this group you can find: like, dislike, hate, fancy, feel like, adore, love, enjoy or the expression don't mind.

I hope you'll find this useful. See you in class!

Going shopping

I know this sounds ridiculous but sometimes we don't revise typical situations we are supposed to have learnt and we don't improve them properly. I'd like you to have a look to these videos to see and check what you already know and what you can improve by adding expressions, vocabulary or just taking into account that this is American English instead of British. Here you have the links:

• buying shoes; click here
• buying clothes; click here
• some common expressions; click here

Anyway, I hope it'll be useful.
See you in class!

An interesting link to work with

One of my students gave me this link to work with videos, music, and so on in English. It is graded so you can choose what you need. I hope it'll be useful. See you.
http://www.multimedia-english.com/contenidos/busqueda