Intermediate 1
Here’s a short video with pictures and the opportunity to hear these words. You can also check your memory and spelling in the crossword you will find in this post. You can also download the paper version and keys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FQBAaM6PcY Seafood crossword seafood-crosswordDescarga seafood-crossword-keysDescarga
Is it bake or roast? Grilled or fried? Why do the English say both, roast potatoes and baked potatoes? Is it the same dish? Here’s a video with an opportunity to see pictures and hear these different cooking adjectives and nouns. In the video you have a short quiz to check your memory for these…… Continue reading B2 Cooking vocabulary 1
Hello. In this post you’ll find a short video with pictures and a short quiz for basic cooking vocabulary for intermediate levels of English. Cooking vocabulary 2 covers more advanced verbs. If you’d like to check your memory and spelling, you can do the crossword that you’ll find in this post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2jvCoLTf5U Serena’s blog cooking-verbs2-crossword-1Descarga…… Continue reading B2 Cooking vocabulary 2
I know I shouldn’t be bragging about family, but this beautiful Billie Eilish song cover is by one of my sons! I’m absolutely lost for words and want to share it with the world. All the voices by him, working on his laptop, using his mic, shut away from the world, in his room (I…… Continue reading Learning English with songs Cover of Lovely (Billie Eilish)
Photo by freestocks.org on Pexels.com Nothing like a nice and juicy crossword to get our neurons working on Monday. Try this crossword made on Crossword lab. By the way, why is it that whenever I look for a picture related to shopping, there are so many photos of women shopping? I hate shopping and I…… Continue reading Intermediate Shopping and money crossword
What is it, match or suit? How do you pronounce k-n-i-t? Is it nit, nait, kit or whatever? Here’s another video vocabulary activity with most of these verbs for intermediate students. You’ll also be able to hear the examples I recorded the examples. https://youtu.be/BN3u6JxwvC8 Serena’s blog
Have you ever witnessed a crime? What happened? For this activity, I’ve used a picture captured by a surveillance camera and I wrote a short description of what I thought was happening. Of course, I could not be sure, so that was why I was making guesses. In the example, you’ll see that I used…… Continue reading Modal verbs: Making a guess in the present
Image by Rajesh Kavasseri on Unsplash What’s your favourite style of music? Do you listen to different styles according to your mood? Do you find any particular music uplifting or disturbing? Can you play an instrument? What’s your favourite group or who’s your favourite musician? Have you heard anything good recently? Do you spend a…… Continue reading Styles of music quiz
Here’s a song written by David Bowie back in the 70s that became very famous again when Nirvana performed their fantastic cover. It wasn’t an easy task for me to decide which version to use; because I love both of them, but since very few people know that Bowie wrote it, I eventually decided to…… Continue reading David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World
As a teacher, I know very well how students feel about phrasal verbs as there are so many. But although phrasal verbs are very commonly used in English, I don’t recommend learning them by heart – I mean sitting for ages in front of a paper with lists and lists of them. Rather than this,…… Continue reading Phrasal verbs for work
