Listening Practice

 Dear readers,

I stumbled upon this Youtube channel which is great for practicing the listening skill !!

Listening: Smart tech and climate change

 Smart technology is becoming more and more commonplace in people's homes, but could it help with the fight against climate change? Listen to Sam and Neil talk about it.

Listening: Environmental issues our planet is facing

Watch the video and find the answers to the following:

1. How old is the earth?
2. How old is the human race?
3. List 4 general problems mentioned in the video related to the sea, the animals, the ocean and climate change

50 easy ways to save the planet and Extra vocabulary

 Dear students,

Have a look at a list (taken from the Guardian) with 50 easy ways to save the planet. Really point 16 and 34 are just grossed.  

1     Cut fossil fuel emissions

2.     Emit harmful greenhouse gases

3.     Smog

4.     The hole in the ozone layer

5.     Reduce one’s carbon footprint

6.     Do our bit to save the planet.

7.     Raise awareness of the effects of climate change.

8.  Cut down on meat.

9.  Have a detrimental effect on the planet

10.  Take urgent action to

11.  Switch to renewable energy sources

12.  Stand up for endangered species

13.  Take responsibility for our actions

14.  Strive to be more energy-efficient/greener

15.  Reduce, reuse, recycle

Vocabulary: Recycing and weather

 

Speaking about BOOKS

 

Vocabulary: books, novels, stories

 

So & such

 Dear readers,

Here you have some extra activities to practice.

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4

Visiting Wales

 

Vocabulary: Travel

 

Speaking phrases

 

Vocabulary: Air travel

Dear readers,

Click here and do the exercises to improve your vocabulary for air travel.

Aeroplane: Best scenes

 

Online shopping

 You can try online shopping for clothes at:

HARRODS

HUIT JEANS

TESCO (the most popular hypermarket in the UK)

Phrasal Verbs: Clothes

 

 

Present Perfect Simple & Continuous

 Dear readers,

Click here to learn more about this grammar point. Then do, the following activities:

Exercise 1
Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Health and Illness: Extra Vocabulary 2

 

1. • To feel under the weather = to feel slightly ill
   • To be as fit as a fiddle= to be healthy
   • To phone in sick= to call work and say you’re ill
   • To suffer from a disease
   • To be a hypochondriac or a cyberchondriac /ˌhaɪ.pəˈkɒn.dri.ək/
   • To give someone a diagnosis /ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnəʊ.sɪs/ Ex: The doctor cannot give a diagnosis without doing some tests
2. • To treat an illness such as asthma, depression, high blood pressure
   • To relieve a headache, dental pain, arthritis /ɑːˈθraɪ.tɪs/
   • To practise self-medication with non-prescription medicines /ˈmed.ɪ.sən//ˈmed.sən/
   • To have an operation, to undergo an operation
   • To donate organs, to be a donor
   • To go down with a cold / the flu
   • To need surgery /ˈsɜː.dʒəi/
   • A life-threatening illness
3. • The side effects of drugs
   • Vaccination
   • Integrative medicine: a combination of traditional and alternative medicine
   • Home-made remedies
   • Alternative medicine /ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/:
   • Homeopathy /ˌhəʊ.miˈɒp.ə.θi/: a way of treating illnesses using very small amounts of natural substances
   • Osteopathy /ˌɒs.tiˈɒp.ə.θi/:  the treatment of injuries to bones and muscles using pressure and movement
   • Reflexology: a treatment in which your feet are rubbed and pressed in a special way in order to improve blood flow and help you relax.
   • Acupuncture /ˈæk.jə.pʌŋk.tʃər/: to insert very fine needles into the body at points along the meridians

Minor Injuries

 Minor Injuries

• She twisted her ankle last night.
• I was using the scissors when I cut my finger.
• I wasn’t looking where I was going and bumped/
banged my head.
• He fell down and scraped his knee.
• I’m OK. I just grazed my elbow.
• My arm is bruised, but it doesn’t really hurt.

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minor injury | lesión leve
to twist sth | torcer
to bump/bang one’s head | golpearse la cabeza
to fall down | caerse
to scrape one’s knee | rasparse, rasguñarse

to graze sth | rasparse, rozarse
bruised | magullado, amoratado

Phrasal verbs: Health

 

HALLOWEEN

 Learn a bit about Halloween

Question Tags

 Dear readers,

Click here to learn more about how to use question tags in English and do the tests!

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