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Past tenses How Did You Meet Your Best Friend?

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After having bent my mum’s ear for about an hour moaning because I had fallen out with a close friend , she turned around and wisely said, ‘People enter your life, for a reason, for a season or for a lifetime.’ Which quite is true, isn’t it? But even if we quarrel with a mate or…… Continue reading Past tenses How Did You Meet Your Best Friend?

A1 · Grammar

Present simple ‘be’ in negative sentences

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This one (and many to come) is for my very, very special bunch of students from 2 which I already miss very much because I’m stuck in the house with my leg up in bandage. First click on the presentation and after on the activity. Click for slides Click for grammar activity

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The present simple of ‘be’ positive statements

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  For the very first English lesson, here's a video on the present simple of the verb 'be'. After you can click on the activity to check what you know. Click for activity  

A2 · B1

Silent letters in English words

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Serena When you have a phonetic language like Spanish, for instance, it is quite easy to say the words you have learned from a book or  a dictionary because if you know the sounds of each letter you can do quite well when speaking the language and everybody will understand you. But this is not…… Continue reading Silent letters in English words

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Listening A2: Sport in Britain

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Here’s a listening activity for pre-intermediat students. The video is from Long Nguyen’s Youtube channel and has been adapted for education purposes.

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Listening Pre-intermediate A2: British homes

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What’s your home like? Here is a listening activity about British homes for Basic levels of English. The video is from you the Youtuber’s channel, Long Tommy The video belongs to OUP and is one of the series of Windows on Britain. The use of this video is exclusively for educational purposes.

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Listening Intermediate B1: The Safest Places in the World

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Here’s a video that aims to practise comparative/superlative forms and words related to the topic of the environment, crime and health. If you enjoy it, a little feedback is more than welcome 🙂 The video is from RealLifeLore on Youtube

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A2 Vocabulary quiz for you can spot in towns

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Hello! Here’s a quiz on vocabulary for places in cities and towns. Here’s a picture of a busy town with all the types of buildings you would expect to see in any town. Have a look at it first. Some have the name of the building on the image, but not all of them. There…… Continue reading A2 Vocabulary quiz for you can spot in towns

A2 · Grammar

A2 Comparative structures ‘adjective + er/more + than’

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Here’s a grammar bite on comparative structures using ‘adjective+ er/more/less + than’  that we can use when we want to say that two items are different in a quality. Remember that the general rule for one-syllable and some two-syllable adjectives,  (small, clever, happy, etc.) is the affix -er, while other adjectives  (honest, beautiful, interesting, etc.)…… Continue reading A2 Comparative structures ‘adjective + er/more + than’