Level 4

Reported speech
Some exercises to practice
More exercises
A video on reported speech
Other video: changing tenses

Listening Activity Level 3

Dear students,

This is the listening activity we'll work on as follow-up. It's a documentary about Amsterdam.
1. Do 4 out the 7 activities proposed.
2. Submit your homework

Documentary Amsterdam

Level 4

LINKING WORDS

LEVEL 4

Past perfect
How it works
Diagram
Do the following exercises to review past perfect and present perfect continous
More exercises to practice past perfect
Let's watch this movie segment and do the exercises

Level 3

Comparatives and superlatives

Video: using comparatives and superlatives

Video about comparatives and superlatives

Some exercises for comparatives
Comparative and superlative table
Present perfect
More activities to practice present perfect

Present Perfect use

Level 3

Listening activities: let's practice your listening with the following exercises:
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Here are some listening exercices to practise the present perfect. Pay attention to the use of the present perfect in the conversations and ask yourself why the present perfect is used, instead of another tense.

Have fun listening !

Haven't we met before ?

Camping under the stars

I haven't seen you for a long time

Grads enter uncertain job market

Permits to prevent fortune-telling scams

Level 3

Writing postcards
Create your own postcards

PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

Look at the following explanation and examples

Level 3: Hopes and ambitions

In English, there are many ways of expressing future time. One of the most common is using the modal auxiliary verb “will”. This page will explain the main meanings of “will” and show you how to form the future with “will”.

Future with be going to

Game: review verb tenses

SECOND CONDITIONAL

Take a look at the following explanation and exercises
More exercises
Let's practice with a reading: The cat and the mouse
Second conditional exercises
Let's practice the conditionals with movie segments

Watch the following Video: What would you do if you won ten million dollars

Second conditional sentences in the Big Bang Theory

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PHRASAL VERBS
Some situations to use phrasal verbs

Countable and uncountable nouns

Presentation on countable a uncountable nouns
Some ideas about countable and uncountable nouns
Let's practice
How much, how many, a little, a few
Some exercises
More exercises

Videos
Here you can see more examples
Let's cook and learn

Let's prepare for Eugenics debate

In this site, you will find information and activities to be prepared for the debate about Eugenics

Prepare for discussions

Prepare for discussions

Topic for debate

You will find different sources of information about Eugenics and bioethics
Eugenics movement
American Roots of Nazi Eugenics
Eugenics: history and future
Race, racism and human genetics

Videos
Population control
Nazi Eugenics

DEBATES

This site will help you to learn the genre of argumentation
Debates

PASSIVE VOICE

Look at the use and form of passive voive
Exercises

Things that changed the world

Look at the following video
Top ten Amazing inventions
How technology has changed our lives
The evolution of technology and the human race

The big scan game

Can you help Angela Spelling?

Debate

Dear students
Let's take a look at this site to chose what topic you would like select for our debate

Describing experiences

Using adjectives with -ed and -ing
Watch the movie segment and answer the questions

What did you use to do when you were a child?
Watch the following movie segment

MYSTERIES

BERMUDA TRIANGLE
A mystery?

Group discussion:
Do you believe in ETs and UFOs?

Simple past vs past continous

Look at the following examples
Practice: do the exercise
Watch the movie segment The Pursuit of Happiness and do the activities
watch the following video

Level 4: information reports

Genres for writing
Look at some characteristics and samples of information reports
Genre Project: information reports
Information report structure

LEVEL 3 (Listening homework: London)

Watch the documentary and do the activities

LEVEL 4 (Big cities)

Watch the following video segment.
Take as many notes as you can.
What can we expect from big cities?
Effects of urbanization
Biggest and most populated cities in the world

LEVEL 3 (talking about people)

Listen to the following excerpt about Amy Winehouse
Take notes as you listen to the audio.
What questions do you have? State as many questions as you can about her life.
Try to answer those questions with notes you already took.
Using your own words and your notes, write a description about her life.
Listen to one of her songs

LEVEL 4: (IF... First conditional)

Look at the following explanation on how to use the first conditional
Continue with exercises
Listen: if you go to Hawaii,you will see....
More examples

LEVEL 3 (Review of verb tenses: present, past, and future

Take a look at the following guidelines and do the exercises
Present Simple
Present Simple exercises

Present progressive or continous
Present progressive exercises

Simple past exercises

Future Simple

Future simple (going to)

LEVEL 4 (knowing and talking about places)

Watch the following video about Amsterdam and do the activities
Video

Level 3

Let's play and review past simple
Treasure Hunt: getting the right verb tense

THE DANGER OF A SINGLE STORY

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What do you think about this speech?
Do you agree with Chimamanda's ideas?
What do you think about the image that Colombia has abroad?
Do you have single stories of something or someone? which ones?

LEVEL 4: Giving advice and expressing strong obligation

Look at the difference between should-must
Let's practice
Look at this video: Inquiring about health
Look at the following movie segment