Wednesday 24 February 2010

Train your accent

This is a great exercise you can do from time to time to improve your pronunciation. You can read some texts in different topics and listen to a native speaker reading them. Here is a link to the page and also to the lesson we did in class. Make the most of it.

Train your accent page.
Lesson

Sky news 22022010

This week we have been working very hard on a quite demanding task. We have been watching the news headlines of a TV channel. This is an incredibly demanding and tiring task. At this stage the only thing you are expected to do is to get a general idea of what the news is about. In class I asked you to get the general idea and also to write the keywords you could gather. And I must admit you did an excellent job. Congratulations! Here you will be able to watch the news again and also the script.

Script.

Monday 8 February 2010

My life without money

Today, just to finish with the topic of money we are going to read about the story of Heidemarie Schwermer, who decided to live without money. In the following links you'll be able so see a short video of Heidemarie and also an interview with her at a BBC radio programme.

And now I'd like you to make comments on this topic.
  • Can you live without money?
  • How important is money in your life?
  • What do you think of Heidemarie?

Material Girl

As you know last week we worked with this lively song by Madonna. Here is what we did in class plus some extra information.