Category: B2
C1-C2 Phrasal verbs for health
Pexels Negative Space Here you have a fun quiz for advanced levels that includes quite a few phrasal verbs and some idioms related to health.
Audioslave Be Yourself
Audioslave image from Mondo Sonoro The aim of this song is to practise verbs after ‘someone’ as students often make mistakes with these forms. The uplifting and optimistic lyrics in this song explore the bittersweet issues of life, perceived and experienced very differently by each individual, and where after all, nothing more can be done…… Continue reading Audioslave Be Yourself
David Bowie – Heroes
Another incredible song by David Bowie (Did he ever do anything that was not worth while?). This song is for revising vocabulary from different topics dealt with in intermediate levels. It’s also a great way to hear a good sample of ‘will’ for future use as the song deals with a posssible future situation, where…… Continue reading David Bowie – Heroes
Flipping quiz! Holiday vocabulary
With all the problems we’re having teaching during the pandemic, one has to reinvent activities and strategies that allow students to interact and do things in the classroom without putting their health at risk. Not long ago, my students shared cards, mixed and mingled with each other and spent their time interacting. Now, we can’t…… Continue reading Flipping quiz! Holiday vocabulary
Talking about the future: going to – present continuous – will
Here’s a short video explaining the use of ‘going to, the present continuous and will. https://youtu.be/e5_aDXUMTxA
B1/B2 Expressions with ‘mood’
Image by Meridith Hunter on Unspash I suppose I should be writing something about moods, but ironically I’m not in the mood.
B2 Indirect questions
Here’s yet another one of those kitsch videos that I have the awful habit of producing every now and then. This one’s for indirect questions. As a reminder, indrect questions are the type of questions we ask when we don’t want to be too direct; maybe because we don’t know the person very well, or…… Continue reading B2 Indirect questions
Participial adjectives a quick lesson
Here’s a quick, quick, quick lesson for these types of adjectives. See the presentation and after do the quiz. Careful because the quiz has nearly 40 questions and you will have six minutes to answer all of them. Do you dare to take up the challenge????
Adjectives for emotions and moods
Here you have the opportunity to learn and practise adjectives related to emotions. Some of them (nearly all of them, I mean) are participials. In the first activity you will find a quiz to help you learn and remember the words. In the second activity, you will complete the sentence with an adjective related to…… Continue reading Adjectives for emotions and moods