How do you feel when it’s pouring down with rain?How does spring make you feel?Do you feel a tingling sense of excitement as you see the days lengthening?Or do you enjoy feeling gloomy on a grey day? Have you ever wondered how much the weather affects your mood? I’m sure your answer will be, “Yes,…… Continue reading B2 Weather Personality Quiz
If you read or heard “Plastic pollution affects our health and the health of the planet.”, what would come to your mind? Would you stop to think about all the plastic items you possess or threw away just yesterday? You might already know how plastic impacts the environment. However, could you reduce this material from…… Continue reading B2 Listening and Speaking About Plastic in the Ocean
In this activity, students will watch a very short video dealing with food waste and what we can do to avoid it. The video is short and many students may not be familiar with an Irish accent. So, before watching, learn the vocabulary that you have on the wordcloud. As to make sure you know…… Continue reading B2 Listening Food Waste Prevention tips
My B2.1 classes need to practise for open cloze and multiple choice cloze and word formation and …. an endless list :S. I’m not really keen on using classroom time for the CTE activities (except for reading), so I’ve been looking around for some texts that I could use from some old coursebook. I’ve also…… Continue reading B2.1 Multiple choice cloze The environment and polar bears
My former presentation on this topic was a bit outdated, and as I’ve just upgraded to a new version of Affinity software, I couldn’t resist giving it a try. I honestly thought it would only take me about four hours, but as usual, I got carried away and ended up spending the whole day. (Oops!…… Continue reading B2 Speaking practice The Natural World
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Starry Night Over the Röne Vincent Van Gogh This beautiful tribute to Vincent Van Gogh provides us with the opportunity to learn and practise vocabulary related to the art world and nature. Level C1
Photo by Aleksandar Pasaric on Pexels.com We all know the one about ‘raining cats and dogs’ but what about ‘to rain on somebody’s parade’ or ‘to give something a rain check’? In the link below you’re bound to learn at least one more of the many British idioms. Go on! Give it a try!
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