In this post, students will learn how to speak about situations that make them happy and situations that annoy them. To start off, look at the following illustrations. What’s happening in each illustration? Which situations do you think would make you happy, and which situations would make you feel angry? 2. Match each panel with…… Continue reading A2/B1 What Makes You Happy & What Makes You Angry?
What’s your day like? Do you get up early? Do you drive to work? In this lesson we’re going to see and revise vocabulary related to daily routine and we’re going to listen to people speak about what a usual working day is like for them. First of all let’s brush up on some collocations…… Continue reading A2 Daily Routine & Comparative adjectives
Where do you live? 🏡In this post you’ll learn how to give your address in English — how to say the street, number, postcode and country.Download the cheat sheet, practise in class, and sound confident next time someone asks for your address! Happy learning!!! cheat sheet giving your addressDownload
I’m pushing myself to create my own podcasts (and no I’m not keen on my voice, but hope to improve diction and so many other things). This podcast aims to create an activity where my students can practise speaking about how their homes or different homes make them feel, using some emotion and colour vocabulary.…… Continue reading B2 Listening and speaking How to Make Your Home Really Comfy
For this post, I’ve set up a role-play for my students (but here’s a copy for you). We’ve been talking about jobs around the house, advantages and disadvantages of living in certain areas and so on. So now it’s time for a role-play and ever since Cristina Cabal started ‘having fun’ 😀 with Mizou, I’ve…… Continue reading B2 Role-play Buying a property
If money were not a problem and you could choose where you wanted to live, are you sure you would make the right choice? While you’re climbing up that property ladder or not, you may want to take this personality quiz after all, not all houses are homes, are they? By assigning personality quizzes to…… Continue reading B2 Personality quiz: Finding the Perfect Home
Just for a bit of fun and to encourage my B2.1 students to practise asking questions related to housework using the song “The Boy Does Nothing” by Alesha Dixonand while also learning how to use ‘nothing’ and dropping the habit of leaving out ‘do/does’ in questions. By engaging with these questions, students can deepen their…… Continue reading Learning English with songs: Alesha Dixon – The Boy Does Nothing
I’ve just come back from a week’s stay with my mum in the UK. And as she’s been a bit under the weather, we spent our afternoons watching TV, chatting, and drinking cuppas. Then, last Wednesday, a programme about what this amazing woman was doing to her hometown just caught all my attention, and I…… Continue reading B2 Listening and speaking about neighbourhoods
For this week we’ll be describing parts of the house. The aim is to get into the habit of using a wider range of terms rather than the typical “nice, big, pretty, etc”. Here’s a wordcloud and a flipping card quiz as a starter.
With some people finding it hard to make ends meet and others doing their best to be sustainable, many of us like to give it a go at DIY. However, it’s true that on many occasions we end up with a handful of screws or even worse, an injury or having to call a professional…… Continue reading B2 Flipping cards vocabulary for jobs around the house
