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.



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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

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