Listening Advanced level C1: The Panda who didn’t know she had twins
Featured image by Getty Here’s a short video activity to help practise the listening skill for Upper Intermediate and Advanced levels. The news broadcast BBC Earth.
Tag: The natural World
Multiple choice cloze The panda who didn’t know she had twins.
Here’s a multiple choice cloze for advanced levels based on news from BBC Earth.
A2 Vocabulary quiz for you can spot in towns
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
Listening Advanced C1: Skara Brae
So you thought you knew all about interior design and comfort at home, right? You thought that we, modern-day humans, had invented comfortable beds, hygienic bathrooms and all those things that make our homes tasteful and cosy. Well I have some news for you, because that is what I thought until I discovered Skara Brae.…… Continue reading Listening Advanced C1: Skara Brae
Listening Intermediate B1 : The Top Ten Safest Places in the World
Vocabulary: The Eco-friendly Vocabulary Quiz
Here you have an enoooormous vocabulary quiz that covers almost all the expressions related to the environment -and looking after it- that you should be familiar with for a B2 level and use quite well in a C1. It’s a very long quiz with nearly questions, so it’s better to do it when you’re relaxed…… Continue reading Vocabulary: The Eco-friendly Vocabulary Quiz
Listening B1 Intermediate : Pahoa – Hawaii Volcano Eruption
Here’s a new listening activity for low Intermediate levels. That is from a B1 to a B2.1 It is related to the topic of natural disasters. I upgraded this activity to place in on the new plugin that I’m using now, and I now realise that here in Spain we have a lot to say…… Continue reading Listening B1 Intermediate : Pahoa – Hawaii Volcano Eruption
B1/B2 Listening: Deadly California Wildfire Forces Thousands to Evacuate
Listening to the news in English is a must for language learning, even if this means news such as the one I have prepared for this listening activity. The news is full of events related to natural and not so natural disasters and nearly all of them are thanks to the effect of humans on…… Continue reading B1/B2 Listening: Deadly California Wildfire Forces Thousands to Evacuate
B1 Listening : Strange wildfires in California
Horrified by the news of another wildfire in California, I set myself to prepare a listening activity for my students so they could get into the habit of watching news in English. It was then, when I happened to ‘bump into’ some terrible facts that seem to make some of these fires different from the…… Continue reading B1 Listening : Strange wildfires in California
Listening Upper intermediate B2: Britain’s first food waste and poo-powered bus
Topic:The Natural World With the exhaustion of natural resources  and the increase of environment problems, there comes a time when one wonders about how we will manage to commute to work (not to mention many other more important concerns). Solar panels, water-run and electronic  cars are all interesting proposals but what  really came as a…… Continue reading Listening Upper intermediate B2: Britain’s first food waste and poo-powered bus