Newsy

On NEWSY select the piece of news you want to watch / hear, listen to it as many times as necessary and then listen to it once more reading the transcript. Easy!!!

Passive Voice

Get some grammar practice with passive voice sentences here.
If you feel like some rephrasing, click here and here.

elllo Listening Practice

Get listening practice on elllo advanced page: these listenings can be fast, long, and/or complicated.

Using a noun entry

A difficult activity from Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Key soon.

Phrasal Verbs

More phrasal verbs (up & down) you should know; and the KEY to the phrasal verb activity blogged on 22 March.

Bill Bryson: The story of the electric light

For centuries, we hunched over candles after dark. Then gas and electricity arrived – and the world lit up. In the latest extract from his new book, the acclaimed writer reveals the bizarre story of how artificial light came to transform our lives

Read this Bill Bryson's writing on the Guardian. It's a good read.

Modelos de tarea de pruebas de Certificación de las EEOOII del País Vasco

You can see the samples here. Go to Nivel Avanzado Inglés and remember that the exams are not exactly the same here and in the Basque Country.

Are our brains built for languages?

Learning a language is no easy task. Like optical illusions, language can play tricks on the brain, explained New York University psychologist Gary Marcus at a lecture at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Simple syntactic ambiguities, he argued, throw a wrench into prevalent theories that the human brain is well evolved—or even optimally evolved—for language.
Read this article about the brain and languages; it's interesting!
You can read more articles on CELT.

Mind & Brain(s) VOCAB

Mind and brain vocabulary for you to highlight (from collocation, mono and bilingual dictionaries)

No class on Monday 10th May

Tomorrow's lesson will be on Thursday. See you on Wednesday

QUIZ

Try this 14-question Total English Quiz to revise your art, music, photograph vocabulary. Key on p. 2.

Macmillan Buzz Words: Eco-bling

What does ECOBLING mean?

Global Warming in YAPPR

See an informative video about global warming with subtitles here.

Say goodbye to GOOD and NICE

Find other ways to express exciting and interesting events, people, experiences...

Be my friend...

Voc to talk about friends and friendships.

By Diane Nicholls, editor of MacMillan Dictionary Thesaurus.

Would you agree with Tom Harel?

This EzineArticles.com author writes about The 5 Best Countries to Live In.

If you enjoy football...

... read about the classic in Guardian's La Liga.

Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium

More than a lingua franca, the rapid adoption of 'decaffeinated English', according to the man who coined the term 'Globish', makes it the world's most widely spoken language.
Read this Guardian's Robert McCrum's interesting article on "Globish"

Voc Review Unit 8 KEY

Check your answers here.

Vocabulary Review Unit 8

Revise your vocabulary from this unit: Use dictionaries (preferably monolingual ones) or the textbook to find the hidden words. Keys after Easter.

Article on David Crystal's "A Little Book of Language"

"A Little Book of Language" Language is forever changing – and forms such as tweets and text messages are no less valid than any textbook version, says the linguist David Crystal, whose latest book encourages children to engage with the possibilities of their lingua franca
By Joy Lo Dico from The Independent.

Read it here.

St Patrick's Video Activity KEY

Tapescript and Key.

Speaking / Listening Activity from SPLENDID SPEAKING

The World of Work is a Splendid Speaking Activity we'll be doing in class next Wed. You can listen to Eun-Kyung from South Korea using a Star Story and check her words with the tapescript.

St. Patrick's Day

Today is the Patron Saint Day of EIRE (Ireland). If you feel like learning some facts about it, watch the video below... and do the suggested activity.
Say thanks to Cristina, EOI CT Adv 1 English Teacher and author of the activity.
Tapescript and Key in 2 days.

Job Description

Did / Will you apply for this job?

Reporting Verbs

Have another look at reporting verbs: followed by To + V or V-ing or Preposition... Check them here, remember the examples and make your own sentences.

Mobile Phones

Engrossing advanced reading comprehension activity on Mobile Phones by TheGuardianWeekly-OneStopEnglish. Keys at the end of the activity.

ESL LISTENING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES: Movie Clips

On learnenglishfeelgood you can do short listening activities and check them at the moment. Another good site to visit suggested by Murcia EOI English teacher Elena García.

Listening Activity

On Elllo, you can listen to hundreds of activities. Try this on Household Chores (rings a bell?)... and if you want some more... here it is (answers at the end).

Verbs followed by prepositions

Do this verb + preposition activity by filling in the blanks with prepositions to review the activity on p. 71. Key soon.

You can find an on-line dictionary about it on englishpage website.