Tomorrow's St Patrick's Day!!

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In this link you can find idioms related to this day in honour of the Patron Saint of Ireland.

Let's talk: Free English Lessons on YouTube

Do not miss this YouTube channel. You can watch very interesting and helpful videos to learn English, like this one with idioms related to fruit:

Common Illnesses

Introvert... and proud!

Listen to this podcast about personality. You can find it in the 6-minute English series by BBC Learning English.

Click here.

Crime doesn't pay

We are currently learning about crime (be careful with this word; it is a false friend. In English, if you commit a crime, it does not necessarily imply that you have killed someone).

Enlarge your vocabulary here and then practice it with this quiz.

And, above all, do not forget that crime never pays!!

      

WILD-GOOSE CHASE, with Shakespeare, not Tom Cruise, ;))

Wild-goose chase is an expression that can be found in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, one of the many he used for the first time that have settled in the English language.

In this short video (just 4 minutes long) you will learn it in context, even in current times, together with some more vocabulary. Enjoy it!

Click here to watch it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/shakespeare/unit-1/session-8

SUCCESS

In this lesson by BBC Learning English you can watch a video, learn a good deal of vocabulary related to SUCCESS and revise grammar related to the use of the article. Enjoy it!

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Learning key words to understand news stories

Learn these words and you will be able to understand today's news:

vowed, partisan, bold ambition, census, iconic

Click here to watch the video.

Searching for a job

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

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:

Pain / ache / ill / sick / hurt

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

Differences between American English and British English

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

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

Interested / Interesting: The difference

You are having some problems choosing the right ending of adjectives with two possibilities: -ed/-ing. Look at this video. It will help you.

The Hangman

¿Qué tal un juego de toda la vida para repasar vocabulario? Todos hemos jugado al ahorcado alguna vez. Pues en esta ocasión, en inglés:



englishflashgames.blogspot.com Y si os apetece más, en ese mismo blog hay más juegos para aprender de forma entretenida. ¡Buen verano!

Webs interesantes para repasar y consultar

Por supuesto que hay muchas en la red. A poco que busquéis, seguro que encontráis algunas que os resulten interesantes y prácticas. Podéis empezar con La Mansión del Inglés, con vocabulario, gramática, lístening,... y la BBC Learning English, con material auténtico y variado, desde noticias hasta lecciones sobre EXAM SKILLS, con audios descargables y las transcripciones (las dos están enlazadas en la columna de la derecha, bajo el epígrafe "Interesting Links").

Otra web que he visto hace poco tiene ejercicios para nivel básico, aparte de diferentes tests para otros niveles. Y en esta otra, también hay variedad de ejercicios de gramática, vocabulario,... echad un vistazo. El enlace dirige a una parte de la web con ejercicios para formular preguntas para respuestas dadas, pero hay mucho más.

No tenéis excusa para no repasar y practicar un poco este verano.

Os daré algunas más, pero de momento, recordad:

Idioms Dictionary

Hello again.

In this presentation I want you to have a look at some interesting idioms to keep on learning during your holidays. Enjoy yourself!