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

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.