B1 · Clothes, fashion & consumerism

B1-B2 Phrasal verbs for Paying and Owing money

Hi there everybody! Here you have a little quiz with 13 phrasal verbs related to  paying and owing money. As usual, read the questions, or the description and guess which is the missing preposition. By the way, in this  activity   you’ll have an example that will help you get the correct guess.

House, home & daily life

B2 Flipping cards vocabulary for jobs around the house

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

Body, health & nutrition

B2 Word formation Food Nouns to adjectives

Serena’s blog A lot of adjectives are formed by adding a -y to a noun. Some examples of this are salt >salty and spice > spicy. Sometimes the changes are larger like in the word hunger > hungry. But not all words that end in -y are adjectives formed from a noun, because on some…… Continue reading B2 Word formation Food Nouns to adjectives

C 2

B2 Word formation Adverbs

This is a word formation activity to help learners of English understand how English words are formed. In this post, words are formed by changing an adjective (bad) to an adverb (badly). As you can see from these examples, we usually add -ly to the adjectives and maybe, we also make a small change. All…… Continue reading B2 Word formation Adverbs

Natural world & environment

B2.1 Multiple choice cloze The environment and polar bears

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

B1 · Body, health & nutrition

B1/B2 Talking about restaurants

This week we’ll be talking about restaurants and restaurant service. As a warm-up have a look at these cartoons and say what you think they are about. There may be a joke you need to explain, or you may even relate to more than one of the illustrations. If you need a couple of hints,…… Continue reading B1/B2 Talking about restaurants