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
In this post I would like my students to learn a little history of the country where the English language originally came from. It’s true that the coursebook mentions the Battle of Hastings, but I thought that it would also be a great opportunity to do a listening with this video by the BBC. For…… Continue reading B2 Listening The Battle Of Hastings
For this class, my students are going to talk about present-day work conditions, so I thought that it would be a great opportunity to introduce them to some cultural aspects of Britain, to be absolutely precise, Victorian Britain. In this post, I created a video with a set of Victorian characters speaking about what it…… Continue reading B2 Listening and Speaking about Work Conditions
… or maybe not so ideal. In the previous post, you have a personality quiz, but it’s also true that you will now need some nice words to describe the workplace. If you could choose your ideal workplace or your nightmare one, how would you describe it? And if you already have a job, which…… Continue reading B2 Vocabulary The Ideal Working Environment
Right! I’ve got to get my groups to read and if that means making up tons of personality quizzes, be it so! Do you work in a company? Do you feel you fit in, or do you feel more like a fish out of water that doesn’t seem to click with your colleagues? Whatever made…… Continue reading B2 Personality quiz: Discover Your Ideal Work Environment
How good is your film vocabulary? Will you be able to answer and talk about all the questions that appear in this short video? Well, if your answer is yes, well done! But if you’re not sure, you can give it a go on this four-minute video, where you can revise some of the vocabulary…… Continue reading B1-B2 Speaking activity: Talking a bit about films
In this post we’re going to see some expressions that you can use to ask about and express preferences. Pay attention, above all, to the verb patterns that we use after each verb or modal. You have a short dialogue as an example and, for some extra practice, a short activity where you must complete…… Continue reading B1-B2 Expressing preferences
What if you could not afford to move away from home? What if you found yourself on the wrong side of thirty and still living at your parents’? Would you migrate to one of Spain’s numerous ghost towns? Would you leave behind all the hustle and bustle of city life, friends and Bizum for the…… Continue reading B2 Listening: Spain’s Population Dilemma
Yep, it’s high time to work on those little chunks of language called collocations. Here are some of the most typical ones we would use when speaking about TV or programmes. Pay attention above all to the most common error of this level, which is the confusion between ‘see’ and ‘watch’. BTW Isn’t the couch…… Continue reading B1/B2 Collocations for TV
