Nathalie du Toit- Bethany Hamilton

This week we are going to read about these two amazing women. They both lost a limb and they made an effort to continue with their lives as they had been before. Have you ever thought of how you would cope if you had a disability. Do you know anyone who has gone through a similar experience and has succeeded? Here you have the links to Nathalie's and Bethany's webpage and also to two videos talking about their lives. The videos are very difficult, I know, but I think that with the visual aid you will be able to understand something (give them a try!).

• Nathalie du Toit' webpage
• Nathalie's video
• Bethany Hamilton's webpage
• Bethany's video

Now you can write comments giving your opinion about both stories or telling the story of a similar case you've come across.

Listening practice on descriptions

As I told you in class I've found some links to listening exercises which have something to do with descriptions. I hope you find them useful:

• Which woman is it?
• Hair description
• Description of couples

Reading on British manners (end of file 3A practice)

Just to finish with the topic of manners we are going to do this exercise in class based on a web page made by a British school. All you have to do is read the information on the page and do the vocabulary exercise. You can write comments on DOs and DON'Ts in Spain.

• Acceptable behaviour in Britain webpage.
• Exercise.

Listening exercise on carousel activity

As I told you here is the link to the listening exercise we did last wednesday in class. It a great page to practise your listening skills.

• Traffic woes.

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?