Happy Halloween!

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Everyday activities

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

1. What time is it? 
2. Where is she? 
3. What time does the film start? 
4. What does he do when he travels by bus?
5. What does he do at 1pm? 
6. How does he eat? 
7. What time does Tom wake up?
8. What time does he get up?
9. What time does Alex wake up and get up?
10. What does she have for breakfast?
11. Does she have a bath? Why? Why not?
12. What time does Tom go to bed?

Click on "daily routines" in content and do a lot of listening activities there.

My daily routine

Watch some videos with examples of people talking about their daily routines.

Food you like

Borough Market

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



Part one

1. Where is the market?
2. When is the market open?
3. What do you find there?
4. Where are the  market workers from?
5. What do they sell?
6. What languages do they speak?
7. Where is Marianna from?
8. Where is Aurore from?
9. Where is Sofia from?
10. Where is Michèle from?
11. Where is Fabien from?

Part two

1. What does Michèle sell?
2. What does Fabien sell?
3. What doesn't Fabien like?
4. Where is Graham from? What does he sell?
5. What do people who don't like meat eat?
6. What else do they sell?
7. Where is the best tea from?
8. What does Ratham sell?
9. What do Fabio and Robert love?
10. How much is a delicious cup of coffee?
11. How many people come to the market every year?

Ethan Followwill

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

Ethan’s profile

1. How old is he?
2. What does he do?
3. Where’s his family from?
4. Where do his parents live now?
5. What does his father do?
6. Where does his father work?
7. What does his mother do?
8. What does she like doing?

Family and friends

1. How old is his sister Kate?
2. How old is Jenny?
3. How old is Sarah?
4. How old is Liz?
5. Where does Paden live?
6. What does Ethan like?

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7. What do Ethan and Charlie like?

8. What does Laura do?

My desk

Profile: Ethan Followwill

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

1. How old is Ethan?
2. What does he do?
3. Where's his family from?
4. Where do his parents live now?
5. What does Dorman do?
6. Where does he work?
7. What does Blyth do?
8. What does she do?
9. How many sisters does Ethan have?
10. How old are they?
11. Where does Paden live?
12. What does Ethan like? (three things)
13. What do Ethan and Charlie do?
14. Who is Sarah?
15. What does she do?

The Traid Clothes Shop

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



Part 1

1. Where is the shop?
2. What are the customers buying? _____________________ and accessories.
3. Are the clothes new?
4. What do people give to the shops?
5. What does the shop (charity) do with the money?
6. What is Kathy doing today?
7. The clothes are _______________ and colourful . You can buy men's and women's clothes: _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________ and _______________.
8. Traid makes fashionable ______________________________ using _______________  _______________.

Part 2

9. What's Zoe making today?
10. Where does she live?
11. She makes all kinds of clothes using old clothes: _______________, _______________, _______________ and for the winter _______________ and sweatshirts.
12. What time does she start work?
13. What time does she finish work?
14. What is she doing today?
15. What does she always do at work?
16. Today she ______________________________ and sewing very quickly.
17. She can make ______________________________ in a day.
18. What is she doing during her break today? (two things)
19. Does she like her job?
20. Zoe knows her hard work _____________________________________________.

Present Simple and Present Continuous

Watch the video and revise the uses of the present simple and present continuous.

 

Another video



Some examples



An exercise

In a café

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



First woman (Emma)

1. What does she order?
2. How much is it?

Second woman (Sophie)

3. What does she order?
4. How much is it?

Emma's family

5. Who is Phil? What does he do?
6. Who is Lisa? How old is she? What does she do? Is she married?
7. What does her father do?

Present Continuous

Britain's Got Talent

Click here to read the script.

Click here to do older posts with CAN.

Lunch

Watch the video and complete the chart. Check your answers in "comments".

	Where?	What?	How much?
Speaker 1
Bridget
Joshua
Helen
Dax		----------, --------- and beans

In the restaurant

In a coffee shop

I. Watch the first part of the video and answer these questions. (Check your answers in "comments")
1. What does Allie have?
2. What does Mark have?
3. How much is it?

II. Watch the second part and repeat the sentences.

III. Watch "Social English" and answer these questions. (Check your answers in "comments")
1. What does Mark want to buy?
2. What time is her next meeting?
3. What time is it?

Personal information

A  new flatmate
Watch the video with the subtitles. (Mistake: Her name's Jane. She's number 8. She's the LAST).

JOBS

 Listen and read about what journalists, shop assistants and other occupations are about.

 

Check old posts about the same topic.

THINGS YOU EAT FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER

Watch the first part of the video (1'44'') and complete the following sentences. Use one word in each gap. Check your answers in "comments". Watch the rest of the video and review affirmative and negative sentences.

For ________________ (1) I always have ________________ ________________ (2) and oatmeal with quinoa and raisins. I also drink ________________ (3) and eat ________________ ________________ (4) and ________________ ________________ (5). 

I always have ________________ ________________ (6) for ________________ (7) or sometimes some ________________ (8). My favourite main dish is sopaseca con carapulca. It's a Peruvian ________________ (9). It has dried ________________ (10), noodles and ________________ (11).
My favourite ________________ (12) for lunch is chicha morada. I like it ________________ ________________ (13). I don't drink soda. I think soda is ________________ ________________ (14). It's not ________________ (15) for you.

I have some ________________ (16), ________________ (17) and a dessert for ________________ (18). My favourite ________________ (19) is ________________ ________________ (20). I ________________ (21) it. I make ________________ ________________ (22) when I have time. 

Present Simple (negative sentences)