Differences between men and women

Listen to these people talking about how being a man or a woman is like and answer the questions.

Here you have the ad we saw in class and another interesting clip.

Express English

Express English is a new section from BBC's learning English site. Every week, people in London will be asked a different question. You can listen to the answers in a one-minute Youtube video. It's a great way to listen to how people in the street actually speak and, hopefully, you'll pick up some new expressions or revise some of those already seen in class (like in this week's video: take up and used to).

These are this week's questions.

Listening: top international universities.

Do you recognise this picture? It's Cambridge University, one of the top universities in the world (and one of the most beautiful places to visit in England, by the way).

Listen to this podcast from the BBC and find out more about other important universities.

If at first you don't succeed...

Have you seen this film?

What is it about? Is the protagonist successful in the end? Does he just give up and fail to solve the problem?

Exercise 1
Exercise 2Exercise 3

Happy Valentine's Day

To tell you the truth, I've never celebrated this day in my life, but I found a couple of things you may find interesting.

This is the song we listened to in class. Beautiful, isn't it?



If you want to know if you are in love, watch this video. It has loads of interesting vocabulary. If you find it too difficult, though, you may read the transcript as you listen here.


You can find out more about the origins of this festivity here.

Finally, let's learn some new expressions related to love and relationships.

Love matters

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BBC iPlayer

 

Just to let you know that at the very bottom of this page you'll find a new widget: the BBC iPlayer, which allows you to listen to the British BBC's radio stations. Remember the more you study and practise English, the better. You need to be constat, so if you listen to English regularly, you will soon notice how your listening skills improve.

Practise your listening skills

In this site (click here and here) you'll find regular listening practice based on the weekly news, with pre-reading vocabulary, reading, gap-fill exercise, comprehension quiz and answers. It's worth having a look!

Mobile phones

Listen to these two exercises about mobile phones:

- In the first one you have to list the things that really annoy Ruth we people use their mobiles. (Listening track & transcript)
- In the second you have to answer a quiz on the advantages of disadvantages of children having a mobile phone.
(Listening track & quiz)

Try this other quiz: you'll learn some useful vocab related to mobile phones.

Listening: Holidays

Check this out: different types of holidays. Which one do you prefer?

Now listen to these three people talking about how the like to travel and answer the questions. 

Transport: the tube

Since we are going to be talking about transport for the next couple of days, warm up a bit with this recorded conversation on the tube. You can download the transcript and read it as you listen, if you find it difficult.

Some interesting lexis:

get around
delay
trip
rush hour
get ond and off the train

Thanksgiving miscelanea

Here you have the video Group A watched in class and Group B had no time to.



If you prefer reading, here you have a little text.

In case you want to celebrate Thanksgiving at home and want to have some turkey, here you have how to cook it. Yummy!

Finally, enjoy some Friends thanksgiving moments. Hilarious!

1C Listening

Do this listening about family roots (it's got nothing to do with The Simpsons, by the way).

Can you relate Bart Simpson to the rest of his relatives?

The Haunted History of Halloween

I know it's hard to understand, but you should listen to authentic materials too, not always adapted one. So, don't panic, take it easy and enjoy!




You have the task, here, and the key in the comments section.

1B Sports

Listen to these three people talking about different sports and try to identify what sport they are talking about. Then, listen to these other people talking about their favourite sports and answer the questions.