YOUR LAST VACATION

Listen to the following girl talking about her last vacation:

1. Where did she go?

2. How long did she stay?

3. Where did she stay? (accommodation)

4.What did she do? 

5. What was the weather like?

6. Who did she go with?

7. Did she meet anybody?

8. Did she pay for a guide?

9. What did she eat?

10. Was it expensive?  How much did she spend?

Leave a comment with a brief description of her last vacation!

What about you?

Tell us about your last vacations!

Positive Thinking

 Listen to the following radio programme:

1. Why is positive thinking good?

2. What does each caller recommend? 
3. What do you think about positive thinking? Are you an optimist?

Write a comment with your answers

 Is your glass half full or half empty?

 Try this happiness quiz

Rima's experience in the UK

Rima is from Lithuania. She is twenty-three. She arrived in London 6 months ago. She wanted to get a job as an au pair, looking after children. She also wanted to improve her English. 

 Listen to Rima talking six months later and answer the following questions:

Where is she staying now? Why?

What does she do?

What about her English lessons?
Is her English improving? Why?

What is she going to do?

What do her parents think about the wedding?
What can you say about her boyfriend?

What is their dream? 

Write a comment with your answers! 

(taken from New English File Pre intermediate, unit 3, listening 3.1)

Present Continuous for the future / going to

Rick, Amy, Susan and Phil are talking about their plans for the future...

Listen to their conversation and answer these questions:
 What are their plans? What are they doing over the break?

Leave a comment with your answers!

 

Have you noticed the use of gonna in the conversation above?

Click here to read about the use of gonna and wanna

  

Future: GOING TO

What are you gonna do this weekend? Any plans?

Future: WILL / WON'T 

What will the world be like in 100 years?

Let's predict the future =)

We should...

Can you think of other things we should never do?

21st Century Verbs

The impact of  ICT (information and communication technologies) is generating new words and expressions. 

The following verbs (most of them relugar verbs) describe actions that didn't exist some decades ago:

to blog       to facebook          to message            to text          to email        to google       to scan

to print       to surf the net       to tag                    to tweet       to skype       to chat          to youtube 

to friend     to post                  to link                   to click        to cut and paste    

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Can you think of more verbs like these???

What is a blog?
Watch the following videos about blogging and identify the concepts we are learning in class:

"The big deal about  blogs is that they give people like you the power of the media"

Curious Words Origins

Desireé was reading about the origin of English words and wants to share her discoveries with all of us:

 

Do you know the origin of the word “kangaroo”?

Answer

Do you know the origin of the word “OK”?

Answer

Read about the origin of other words here:

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/wordstory/index.html

Recommended by Desireé

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. New Stereotypes?

Click on the image above to read the online article

What do all these cartoons have in common?

What do you think about the concepts "digital native" and "digital immigrant"?

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