Happy Easter! And File 2C

We'll I hope you had a great holiday. Just as a reminder I'm sure you remember that before Easter we finished File 2C. Here you have a few activities we did in class and some extra tasks for you to practise.

1. Vocabulary on Race to the Sun reading exercise
2. Extra reading on travelling to London (without answers, it's a piece of cake)
3. Extra reading on dangerous things when driving
4. Extra listening (how is transportation in your town)
5. Song (All the single ladies)

• Song
• Song with lyrics
  

Do you fancy going to Britain for a few days?

Last week when we finished the lesson we were talking about going to practise our English to Britain for a few days (Isabel suggested it). I've also seen that Isabel left two comments in the previous article. I think it's a great idea but I'm a bit concerned about dates basically. If we can agree on a date and we get a good enough number of people who are interested I'll do my best to organise it. All I want from you is comments with date and place. After a week we'll see what we can do. Come on! It'll be fun!

It was just a holiday but it changed my life

Today we're going to read this story about two women, Victoria and Sally, who decided to change their lives completely after a holiday. Here you'll find links to the material I'm handing out this evening and also to the original article where these stories were taken from.

• Reading work
• Speaking work
• Original article

Now it's your time to give opinions. Can you imagine a holiday that could change your life? Has this ever happened to you?

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.

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.

• Video
• 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.

• Exercise
• Video of the song
• Information about Madonna.