English for beginners: April 2018

April 27, 2018

Present Continuous

1. Activities. What are they doing?

2. Listen to the sentence and choose the right picture.

3. Watch the video and learn about the present continuous.

Look at old posts about the Present Continuous.

Britain's Got Talent

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April 20, 2018

I Jornada de Puertas Abiertas

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British Sports. Click here to see the poster of the talk.

Rock and Roll. Click here to see the poster of the talk.

April 13, 2018

Vanessa

Watch the video and answer the questions or complete the sentences. Check your answers in "comments".

1. How old is her brother?
2. How old is Vanessa?
3. What time do they have breakfast?
4. What does her mum do?
5. How does her mum go to work?
6. What time does her mother get home?
7. How does her father go to work?
8. What does her father do?
9. What time does he get home?
10. How does Vanessa go to work?
11. Where does she work?
12. What time does she start work?
13. Vanessa is a web designer. What does she say about her job?
14. What time does she have lunch?
15. What time does she finish work?
16. At night her parents __________________________, read or __________________________.
17. Vanessa __________________________ jokes. She wants to be a comedian. She tells jokes to her parents. Sometimes they laugh. Sometimes they don't.
18. On __________________________ she goes downtown to a __________________________ and tells her jokes. It's __________________________ and it's her dream.
19. What time does she go home?
20. When does she get home?
21. What can she do on Sundays?
22. She has a pretty __________________________ schedule.

Glossary
joke: something funny
downtown: in or near the center of a city or town
pretty: very
schedule: a plan of activities

Morning routines

Sarah and John talk about their morning routines. First do the quiz and then listen and read the script.

My Life

Click here to watch a video. Answer these questions. Check your answers in "comments".

PART 1 Complete the notes

John is ______________ years old. He lives with ______________ in their ______________ in ______________.

PART 2 Answer the questions

1. What time does John get up?

2. What does he do after that?

3. What exercise does he do?

4. What do they have for breakfast?

5. What time does he get to work?

6. What does he sell?

7. How many sales does he make?

8. What time does he leave work?

PART 3 Answer the questions

1. Who cooks dinner?

2. What don’t they eat?

3. What does Sarah do?

4. When do they play tennis?

My Family

PART 1 Answer these questions:

1. Where’s María from?

2. Who’s Anna?

3. How old is Anna?

4. Where does she live?

PART 2 Match the names with the people in Anna’s family. How old are they?

Mum Jessica _________

Dad Archie _________

Brother Liz _________

Sister Tom _________

Dog Patrick _________

Check your answers in "comments".

April 07, 2018

Daily routines

Click here to see an interactive book with times and daily routines.

Listen to Melissa talking about her daily routine. Answer the questions. Check your answers in "comments".

1. What time does she get up?
2. What time does she leave for school?
3. How does she go to school?
4. What time does she have lunch?
5. Where does she have lunch?
6. How does she go home in the afternoon?
7. What does she do before *tea?
8. What does she do after tea?

*tea: BRITISH a meal eaten in the evening (dinner)

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