Pronunciation tips

Here you can find a list of short videos with some interesting tips on pronunciation.

English fillers to speak fluently

6 Minute Grammar: How to use narrative tenses

Searching for a job

If you are a jobseeker right now, in this page you can find some interesting vocabulary.

FCE LINKING WORDS

Two videos about linking words at the level of First Certificate Examination, that is B2. 

TO or FOR? Prepositions in English

Have a look at this video. It will help you to clarify the uses of these very often confused prepositions.

Remember, remember, the fifth of November...

"Remember, remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason, why gunpowder treason 
Should ever be forgot."

Yes, it is Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Bonfire Night. You can learn more about the historical facts behind this celebration, and also about how people celebrate nowadays in this video:

Passive Voice - English Lesson

How to sell features and benefits: Learn English with Simple English Videos

Do you need to sell anything? In this video you can find some useful tips:

It is Halloween!!

Why not to listen to a talk about this festivity, so traditional in English-speaking countries? Go here.

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Pain / ache / ill / sick / hurt

I think some of you have some problems with these words. Have a look at this BBC web.

Writing stories

In this entry of a colleague's blog you can find an interesting slideshow on how to write anecdotes and, in general, any story you could need to tell.

How to write an anecdote by isabel bastida from RosarioEOI

Differences between American English and British English

Watch these two videos with common words which are different in both varieties:

Practicing question tags

If you need more practice on question tags, follow this link.

You are a psychic, aren't you?

  

Welcome!

Welcome to this new year. I hope you learn a lot and, of course, pass your final exams, ;)

This is the textbook for this year:
English File Upper-intermediate Third Edition, by Christina Lathan-Koenig and Clive Oxenden, (Oxford University Press), ISBN 978-0-19-455844-0.

Be careful to buy it with the Workbook WITH KEYS in the same pack (ISBN 978-0-19-455850-1), as many of the tasks in the workbook will be homework not to be corrected in class.

And in the side columns of the blog you can find resources and links attached. I hope they are useful to you. Anyway, you can bring your doubts to class.

See you there.

Everyday communicative situations

In this link you can find some videos on everyday communicative situations, with subtitles, vocabulary and some ideas to practice similar conversations.

Have a look at it.

Talking about movies

Watch this video. You will learn more vocabulary related to cinema.

My favourite sport

What's your favourite sport? Listen to some people here twice and complete this chart:

 

SPEAKER	NUMBER	STATEMENT
1. Adrienne (USA)		a. This speaker loves watching ice-hockey.
2. Mark (England)		b. This person likes watching a sport, but he/she has never practised it.
3. Lisa (Canada)		c. This speaker loves soccer. He/she used to watch a match every weekend.
4. Peter (Sweden)		d. His/her favourite sport is swimming. He/she does it for fun and exercise.
5. Skip (USA)		e. He/she hates sports.
6. Phil (England)		f. This person likes ball sports.

 Check answers and transcripts here. You can also find them and more activities in the source: http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer051/T063-Sports.htm