Thursday, 16 April 2009

Prepositions

Again two presentations of Jennifer. Thanks for your explanations, Jennifer!



Monday, 30 March 2009

April Fool's Day

What do you know about 1st April?
Read and listen

Sunday, 18 January 2009

Relative clauses

Congratulations. We have just done our last lesson: relative clauses.
On English is all around blog you will find some explanations and exercises of relative clauses.
And this nice joke too.

Tuesday, 30 December 2008

UK Queen's Christmas message

Listen to the Queen of the UK. It's an interesting and useful activity for English language learners. She speaks perfect English and her speech is especially suitable for learners because it is clear and extremely slow so it is easy to understand (although it isn't in fact, real British rhythm)
Her speech would also be interesting to work on vocabulary about solidarity.



Read the full text here

Monday, 29 December 2008

Seasonal songs

A great love song for Christmas:





Wham! Lyrics
Last Christmas Lyrics

And a song for the new year, although it's a little depressing ...





ABBA Lyrics
Happy New Year Lyrics

Sunday, 28 December 2008

Time to check conditionals, passive and reported speech

It's Christmas time... time to have a rest, and time to check!

Passive:

Active and passive
Passive 1
Passive 2
Passive 3
Passive 4

Reported Speech:

Reported speech activities here
Here too.
And here.
More reported speech activities.
And even more here


Conditionals:

If clauses
Conditionals
Conditionals here too
More conditionals
More conditionals here too

Saturday, 22 November 2008

Another great modal verb!

Watch the video. It's the last Nespresso spot.
Can you guess the use of the modal verb MUST?