MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This is another version of "So This is Christmas" by Celine Dion.
Don't forget to look at older Christmas in "Festivities" / No olvides ver las entradas antiguas navideñas haciendo click en "Festivities" y yendo hacia abajo.

The Family

1. Watch this video and review the vocabulary about the family and their relationships. / Repasa el vocabulario sobre la familia y sus relaciones.
Don't forget to look at the old posts about the same topic / No olvides mirar las entradas antiguas sobre el mismo tema.

2. Listen to this song about The Family.

Jobs

1. What do you do? Watch this video and learn about jobs. / ¿A qué te dedicas? Ve el vídeo y aprende sobre trabajos.

2. A video with some jobs. Learn them because then you'll be tested / Un vídeo con algunos trabajos. Apréndelos porque luego te harán un pequeño test.
3. A song about jobs.

Don't forget to have a look at old posts about jobs./ No olvides ver las entradas antiguas sobre trabajos.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Go to 'festivities' and look at the posts from previous years / Ve a 'festivities' y echa un vistazo a las entradas de años anteriores.

Present simple: grammar and exercises

1. A quiz.
2. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verb. Click on 'hint' to get a letter or on '?' to get a clue. / Completa los huecos con la forma correcta del verbo. Haz click en 'hint' para que te den una letra o en '?' para que te den una pista.

Classroom Instructions

1. Listen and repeat the words.

2. Match the words and pictures.

3. Match the jumbled spellings and words.

4. Watch this video with some classroom instructions.

Classroom objects

Watch this video and practise some vocabulary about classroom objects.

Spelling practice

1. Watch the video and write down the names and countries they mention. Then watch the second video with the subtitles and check./ Ve el vídeo y escribe los nombres y los países que mencionan. Luego ve el segundo video con los subtítulos y comprueba lo que has escrito.

2. Watch the first part of the video and try to write down people’s names (pause and repeat as many times as you need). Then watch the second part and check. / Ve la primera parte e intenta escribir los nombres que deletrean (para y repite cuantas veces necesites). Luego ve la segunda parte con los subtítulos y comprúebalos.

Happy Halloween!!

Learn some words related with Halloween. / Aprende algunas palabras relacionadas con Halloween.

No olvides mirar las entradas anteriores (métete en "Festivities" y luego busca "Halloween").

To be

1. Choose the correct form of the verb to be for each question. / Elige la forma correcta.
2. Make full sentences from the following words. You will also need the correct form of the verb 'to be'. Do not use contractions and don't forget punctuation! / Haz frases completas. Utiliza la forma correcta del verbo to be sin contracciones y no olvides la puntuación.

More phone numbers

Listen to the telephone number by clicking the "PLAY" link and choose the answer. Press the "Final Score" button at the bottom of the page to score your quiz. / Escucha el número de teléfono haciendo click en "play" y escoge la respuesta. Luego dale a "final score" al final de la página para ver tu puntuación.

Phone numbers

Click the button next to each number to hear a short sentence with a phone number in it. You can listen to it as many times as you want. Then click on the phone number you hear. Look in the answer box to see if you were right. / Haz click en el botón de al lado de cada número para oir una frase corta con un número de teléfono. Puedes oirla cuantas veces quieras. Luego haz click en el número de teléfono. Mira en el recuadro de respuestas para ver si lo has hecho bien.

1. Phone numbers 1

2. Phone numbers 2

Present simple and hobbies

Watch this video and review how to use the present simple.

Present simple review

1. Read a text about Christophe's typical Sunday and do the quiz.

2. Click "text off" and then "next". Listen to Lottie and answer the questions. Then listen again with the text on and check your answers.

a) How old is Lottie?
b) Who does she live with? Where?
c) How old is her father?
d) What does he look like?
e) What is he doing in photo 2?
f) What does he do?
g) What time does he get home?
h) What is Lottie doing in photo 4?
i) What does her father do after tea?
j) What do they do in the evening?
k) What do they both love?
l) What is she doing in photo 7?
m) What do they sometimes do at the weekend?

Past and dates review

Do the activities in this interactive book to review the past simple and the dates.

Extra listening: Booking a room in a hotel

Listen to the conversation and take notes (don't read it). Then listen, read and check your notes.

Where's the restaurant?

A very easy game to practise prepositions of place.

Prepositions of place

Where is the mouse? First point to different places in the room to learn prepositions and then click

Eating out

This video is from a really interesting website with lots of opportunities to practise your English. Have a look at it.

At a restaurant 2

1. Read the instructions for the quiz. Listen and choose the right answer.
2. Listen and read the script.

At a restaurant

1. Some vocabulary about food and restaurants.
2. Some useful expressions about restaurants (American English).
3. Learn to order in a restaurant.
4. Watch a conversation in a restaurant with subtitles.

Common shops and places in town

Revise some vocabulary about towns and cities with this interactive book.

Extra listening: a trip to Florence

Listen to the dialogue and answer the questions.
Click here to see the answers.

1.Who went to Florence for the Eid holiday?
a) Sonia
b) Sonia and her sister
c) Sonia and James

2. Did she have a good time?

3. How long was Sonia in Florence?
a) thirteen days
b) three and a half days
c) three days

4. What time on Saturday did Sonia pick up her sister?
a) 03.30
b) 04.30
c) 07.30

5. What time did the plane land in Bologna?
a) 3pm
b) 12 noon
c) 11.30 am

6. How long did they stop for lunch?
a) one hour
b) half an hour
c) one and a half hours

7. Was Sonia awake at 9 pm?
a) yes
b) no
c) not known

Shopping list

Listen to the dialogue and complete the list below:
Click here to check your answers.

ITEM /QUANTITY

1. /two kilos
2.
3. Plums /
4.
5. /------------------
6.
7.
8.
9. Flour/
10.
11.
12. Washing up liquid/

Food

Three short videos with food vocabulary.

1. Watch this short and easy video about drinks and condiments.
2. Review some food vocabulary watching this one.
3. Watch the video: where are you? and what are you doing?

There / They're / Their

Watch a video about these words.

Present Simple / Present Continuous

Watch this conversation and see some examples of the different uses of the Present Simple and the Present Continuous.

Present continuous

In this video lesson, students will learn action verbs with the present progressive - doing, sleeping, cooking etc.

The house

Don't look at the text.
Listen to Clare describing her house in England. On the right, click on "Quiz: comprehension qs" and answer the questions. Finally, listen and read the text.

Review: subject pronouns, object pronouns and possessive adjectives.

Click here and do the exercises in the interactive book.

Review abilities with CAN

Click here and do the activities in the interactive book.

My house- My bedroom

Another interactive book, this time with vocabulary about houses.

Present Continuous

Review the present simple and the present continuous with this interactive book.

Houses

Click here, wait until the page loads and do the exercises.

EASTER

1. Learn some words about Easter.
2. Read this short text and do the quiz.
3. Read the text and fill in the gaps.

THE WEATHER

Watch the video and learn some vocabulary about the weather.

Now, watch this one and learn what to wear.

Remember to loot at the post about the weather from the year 2009.

April Fool's Day

April Fools' Day is celebrated in different countries around the world on the April 1 of every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day where many people play all kinds of jokes and foolishness. The day is marked by the commission of good humoured or funny jokes, hoaxes, and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, teachers, neighbors, work associates, etc.

Was / Were

Watch this video and listen to examples of questions and answers with was / were.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY

Look at the posts about St. Patrick from previous years.

Watch the video with the lyrics for Molly Malone and sing along.

SHOPPING FOR CLOTHES

I. Watch this video and learn some useful expressions you can use in a shop.

II. Watch scene 1 and scene 2 and answer these questions or complete the sentences (answers in "comentarios").

Scene 1:

1. How much does the first long-sleeved shirt cost?

2. The bigger ones and the smaller ones are the __________ __________.

3. How much are the first pants (trousers)?

4. How much are the darker ones? Why?

Scene2:

5. How much is the first dress?

6. How much is the second more colourful dress?

7. She tries on one a little less ___________.

III. Watch this clip about the film "Pretty Woman". You can read the subtitles.

CLOTHES

Vocabulary:

1. Watch this video and learn some vocabulary about clothes.

2. Learn to describe clothes with this video.

Listening:

What are you wearing? Watch the first part of the video and take notes. Then watch the second part and check your notes with the subtitles. One of the women is wearing "slacks": informal trousers (a bit old-fashioned word- una palabra un poco anticuada).

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

What's he doing? He's learning to pronounce th.

1. Watch this video with examples of the present continuous in the affirmative.

2. Now watch this one with questions and answers.

DRABBLE COMPETITION

A drabble is a story that has exactly one hundred words.
Click here to read the rules to enter the school competition.
Come on!! Write something funny or mysterious!

Don't Think of Me by Dido

Listen to the song and complete the lyrics using object pronouns and the following adjectives (check your answers in "comentarios").

angry / sweet (dulce) / lucky (afortunado) / lovely (encantador) / best / warm (cálido) / smart (elegante) / pretty / late / little / bad / clean


So you're with _________, not with ________
I hope she's __________, and so _________
I hear she cooks delightfully,
a __________angel beside _________

So you're with ________, not with _________
oh how _______one man can be
I hear your house is _______and ________
oh how ________with your homecoming queen
oh how ________it must be

when you see her ________smile baby
don't think of me
and when she lays in your _________arms
don't think of me

So you're with _________, not with ________

I know she spreads _________honey
in fact your _______friend, I heard he spent last night with _________
now how do you feel, how do you feel?

when you see her _________smile baby, don't think of me
and when she lays in your _______arms
don't think of me
and it's too _________, and it's too _________
don't think of me
and it's too _________, and it's too _________
don't think of me

does it bother you now all the mess I made
does it bother you now, the clothes you told me not to wear
does it bother you now all the ________ games we played
does it bother you now when I'm not there

CHORUS

DVD Movie Rental

Listen to the conversation and decide if the woman likes or dislikes the types of films.

A day in my life

Click here to read the text and do the exercises. Then see the answers in the teacher's notes.

All about me

Click here and do the exercises. Then you can see the answers in the teacher's notes.

Dates

Watch this video with dates (American people don't say the before ordinal numbers).

Comparative and Superlative

Watch the videos with the grammar explanations and do the exercises (to see the answers to the activities that are not online go to the bottom of the page and click on "done"/ para ver las respuestas a los ejercicios que no son online, baja en la página y haz click en "done").

Daily routines practice

Do the exercises and practise the vocabulary (daily routines and times).

DAILY ROUTINES

1. Watch this video and learn some daily routines (el mismo vídeo está en una entrada anterior pero con las frases por escrito, aquí las dicen).

2. Watch this video and learn more daily routines (American accent).


3. Now watch the video and identify the daily routine.


4. One more video

Describing people, things and places

Watch this video.

COLOURS

1. Listen to the colours.
2. Match the words with the pictures.
3. Choose the right answer.

New Year Scraps

More Unique Orkut Scraps at GoodLightscraps.com