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B21 - Food + lesson 7

In this lesson you've got vocabulary of food. We should enlarge our vocabulary by using more precise words. Here are some links that might be useful, but you can find plenty of them on your own:

• this link has vocabulartry about ingredients, ways of cooking, stuff for cooking...: click here
• this is a long list for B2-C1; have a look and see which you know and try to learn some more if you can: click here
• this link shows some useful sententces to speak about food: click here

About compartives and superlatives, here are some links for practising:

• this link has an explanation and some exercises (one of them done in class): click here.
• this exercise is about the double compartive (THE MORE .... THE MORE...) click here.

Apart from comparatives and superlatives, we saw the difference between SO and SUCH:

• SO + adjective or adverb: She's so nice that everybody loves her
• SUCH + nouns: She's such a nice girl that everybody loves her

If you want to practise a bit with this grammar point, go to this link.

B2.1 - Reviewing for lessons 1-2-3-5-8 (Empower B1+)

Here are some links that may help you with the gramar points we saw term. Have a look:

• Narrative tenses: exercise 1
• Different tenses: exercise 1

Here is a link with differen exercises to practise examd. You have different levels and the four skills: this is the task 2 listening of the exam but you can find many more in the home page if you click on the  different labels.

About Christmas, this is the video we saw in class: click here

The typical list of traditional carols: click here

Another tradition: Mr Bean video 

B2.1 - Environment

To see the vocabulary, here are some links to help you:

• This one is in English and the translation into Spanish: click here
• These others are more examples of lists of words connected to the topic: here or here
• This link has other pages with different topics related to environment: here
• If you prefer images, here are some videos about the topic: here (very visual), here (a typical class) or here

These videos also give you an idea about how much we should take care of our planet:

• This about plastic: click here
• Mother Nature: click here
• About global warming: click here

B2.1 - Word formation

We are going to work a little bit with word formation so to deal with this grammar topic here you are some links to help you:

• typical suffixes in English: click here
• adjectives to make nouns and verbs (long - length): click here and here is the one we saw in class; or go to this video to listen to the explanation

I include here the use of WHETHER: here you are the video we saw in class and this is a grammar link to read about this topic and to this one to see examples.

See you in class!

Phonetic symbols and English sounds

Some of the students aren't familiar with phonetic symbols. There are different charts and you have one example at the end of your textbook but this is another example: click here. If you prefer using the material provided by CUP, do go to this link. This other link has a lot of material.

If  you want to read an article about the difference between English adn Spanish you may go to this link and have a look: click here.

There are a lot of videos to help you and these are some examples:

• for consonants: this one   
• for vowels they can be short or long so these videos can help you; this one is very easy and this deals with pronunciation and it gives you many examples: click here. But also you have this one for short vowels and this one for long vowels.
• To work with the most difficult vowel sound /ǝ/ you may use this video or this one.

For thosse who are in higher levels you know there are some other problems to sound natural such as how to connect or link words (here you are a video or this pedagogical one), this video is with some hints about how to do it, or this one to speak more fluently, or this one which compares Spanish and English.

For higher levels, have a look on this video which works with the difference between long /i:/ and short /I/: click here

B2.1 - Verbs followed by infinitive or -ING

In lesson 8B we worked with verb pattern, that is, if a verb is followed by infinitive or gerund. We saw some different ways to learn them, so use the links you'll find below to help you with this  grammar point:

• Using a list: here you are some examples  list 1 (short and easy)   list 2    list 3 and then make your own list or chart. You may make groups of synonims or contraries to help you to memorise the verbs.
• Doing exercises to memorise:  exercise 1    exercise 2    exercise 3    exercise 4 (list of exercises)    exercise 5    exercises 6
• Watching videos about the topic like this one or this one
• Using the verbs with personal experiences (practising on your own): I enjoy watching films and when I don't feel like reading or I don't fancy going to the cinema, I watch a film. I hate being rung at that moment but I don't mind having something to eat. I'm keen on watching detective series as well.
• Doing exercises of rephrasing: exercise 1 (you can find some other exercises if you go to the links shown on the left of this page)     exercise 2 (a bit more difficult)     exercise 3 (similar to the previous one)

Hope this is useful!