Why gender-based marketing is bad for business

Gaby Barrios on TED

 

Buy Locally

Some videos for inspiration on Unit 1, National & Local Produce and Products. Here you can find some advantages and disadvantages:

How to talk about advantages and disadvantages.

I have a toothache (A visit to the dentist)

How to prepare the speaking test- Telling a personal anecdote

Watch the video and read the transcript. Both students make mistakes. Notice them reading the transcript. Scroll down the activites and do the exercises.


Tell a story or personal anecdote.

Tell a story or personal anecdote

Tell a story or personal anecdote

Tell a story or personal anecdote

Picture Dictionary/ Diccionario visual

Click on the link below to review the vocabulary and the words' pronunciation/ Pulsa sobre el enlace de debajo para repasar el vocabulario y la pronunciación de las palabras:



Picture Dictionary
(click on 'Picture Dictionary')

A fantastic e-book collection/ Una colección fantástica de libros electrónicos

Register with you e-mail address and a password, and you can have a wonderful e-books collection, with audio, for free!!

¡¡Regístrate con tu dirección de correo electrónico y una contraseña y puedes tener un maravillosa colección de libros electrónicos, con audio, gratis!!

Oxford Owl

The Library Page



We have read 'The Ox and The Yak' today / Hoy hemos leído 'The Ox and The Yak'

Jamie Oliver's talk at TED

A wonderful talk about food and health problems in USA and the rest of the world. How we should change our food habits and teach our children how to eat better.

Remember to use the subtitles tool (on the screen's bottom) or just print the transcript and read it while you are listening.

Jamie Oliver: Teach every child about food.

Recommended audio-reader : Environmental Friendliness

Click on the link below. Outstanding vocabulary related to 'Environment' and two reading speeds to choose. Enjoy!!


Environmental Friendliness

More on 'Jobs and Employment': Virtual Jobs Interview

Extremely useful videos to learn the right reponses in a job interview. Click on the link below:


 Virtual Job Interview

Listening Review for B1

- Small Talk.

- Introductions.

Read Texts/ Textos Leídos

Pulsa en el enlace para disfrutar de un montón de textos sencillos y largos, leídos muy, muy despacio. Los archivos de sonido son descargables, e incluso algunos tienen ejercicios/ Click on link to enjoy simple, nice texts galore, read very, very slowly. The sound files are downloadable and even some of them have worksheets

Listen to English- Learn English!

Regular verbs Past Simple Pronunciation

Some interesting videos that will help us to manage this question:

Pronunciation of the Past Simple verbs with 'ed' endings

Link to the BBC exercises:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1413_gramchallenge26/

My daily routine/ Mi rutina diaria

Here we have a collection of videos that can help us to prepare our composition 'My daily routine'/ Aquí tenemos una colección de vídeos que pueden ayudarnos a preparar nuestra redacción 'Mi rutina diaria'
Pay attention to the vocabulary, structures (Present Simple) and way of telling the time/Presta atención al vocabulario, estructura (Presente Simple) y a la forma de decir la hora.

 

False friends/ Falsos amigos

Una lista bastante grande/ An extensive list:

False friends

The Seasons Song/ La canción de las estaciones

SEASONS SONG

There are four seasons that happen in a year
spring, summer, autumn, winter
spring, summer, autumn, winter
There are four seasons that happen in a year
spring, summer, autumn, winter
spring, summer, autumn, winter
Can you tell me what season it is?
Let's take a look
SPRING
Can you tell me what season it is?
Let's take a look
SUMMER
Can you tell me what season it is?
Let's take a look
AUTUMN
Can you tell me what season it is?
Let's take a look
WINTER
There are four seasons that happen in a year
spring, summer, autumn, winter
spring, summer, autumn, winter
There are four seasons that happen in a year
spring, summer, autumn, winter
spring, summer, autumn, winter

What's she doing? What's he doing?/ ¿Qué esta haciendo ella? ¿Qué está haciendo él?

Unas cuantas canciones para aprender el presente continuo./ some songs to learn the Present Continuous.

It's raining, it's pouring (Weather song with lyrics)/ Está lloviendo, está diluviando (Canción del tiempo con letra)

It's raining, it's pouring

The old man is snoring

He went to bed

And he bumped his head

And he couldn't get up in the morning.

Rain, rain, go away

Come again some other day

Rain, rain, go away

Come again some other day.

It's raining, it's pouring

The old man is snoring

He went to bed

And he bumped his head

And he couldn't get up in the morning.

Rain, rain, go away

Come again some other day

Rain, rain, go away

Come again some other day.

It's raining, it's pouring

The old man is snoring

He went to bed

And he bumped his head

And he couldn't get up in the morning

Health Vocabulary/ Vocabulario de la salud

The Balloon Song/ La canción del globo

What about reviewing the colours with such a funny song?/ ¿Qué tal si repasamos los colores con esta canción tan divertida?