Showing posts with label Pre-Intermediate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pre-Intermediate. Show all posts
01 April 2020
29 March 2020
Grammar lessons and exercises for A2 Level students
I´m goint to add a link to a very interesting website with different kinds of activities to practise your English. There are grammar points and exercises, as well as listening tasks to improve your English.
27 March 2020
Oxford Practice Grammar for A2 Level
Oxford University Press offers you this exercises to practise your English online.
How to Pronounce -ed in English
There are three ways to pronounce the final -ed of regular verbs in the simple past tense. This pronunciation is determined by the final sound* of the verb in the infinitive: Is it a voiced consonant, an unvoiced consonant, or a vowel sound?
Click here to see some examples and listen to the past tense verbs.
Now you are ready to do these listening activities (1, 2, 3).
*If you need to revise the phonemic symbols in English, click here.
- For verbs ending in d and t the final -ed is pronounced /Id/ as in the final two letters of the word did. Note that here the -e is not silent and this final -ed sound adds another syllable to the end of the verb.
- After unvoiced sounds such as/ p, k, f, s, ʃ , tʃ ,θ/ the final -ed is pronounced like /t/ as in the word cat. Note that the -e remains silent.
- After voiced consonants such as /b, ð , g, v, z, ʒ, dʒ , m, n, ŋ, l, r/ the final -ed sound is pronounced like /d/ as in good. Note that the -e remains silent. The final -ed is also pronounced like the d in good after all vowel sounds (the -e remains silent too).
Click here to see some examples and listen to the past tense verbs.
Now you are ready to do these listening activities (1, 2, 3).
*If you need to revise the phonemic symbols in English, click here.
26 March 2020
Past Simple
Use of English
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English Irregular verbs
Asking Questions
25 March 2020
Imagine
John Lennon was born in Liverpool in the autumn of 1940.
His early years were certainly not easy. His father worked away for long periods on a ship, and essentially he was raised by his aunt. As he did not have the guidance of his parents in his formative years, it is perhaps understandable that John Lennon became disruptive at school.
The turning point in his life though came when he developed a strong interest in skiffle, a type of rock and roll music, during his teenage years.
It was while playing for a skiffle band he had formed at school that he met Paul McCartney. The two struck up an immediate friendship, and developed a fine partnership, writing and composing songs. After performing under several band names the pair, along with George Harrison and Pete Best, settled on calling themselves The Beatles. The drummer, Pete Best, was replaced later by Ringo Starr, and soon afterwards The Beatles were signed by George Martin for EMI records.
Lennon and McCartney were the creative force behind the group, and the amount of quality material they produced was amazing. They began touring the world and were hugely popular, especially in the US.
Around 1966, Lennon met Yoko Ono. Although the couple were immediately attracted to each other, John was married to Cynthia Powell and they had a child.
John and Yoko eventualy married in 1969. In those early years together, they devoured a fair quantity of psychedelics such as LSD, and stories of violence towards one another were in the press.
In 1970, Paul McCartney left the Beatles, causing tension between himself and John. A year later Lennon released the hugely popular ‘Imagine’ album. Together he and Yoko campaigned for world peace. Calling for an end to the Vietnam War offended the American government deeply, and he nearly lost his green card as a result.
From 1975 to 1979, John Lennon produced no music of any real quality, preferring to stay at home with his young son Sean, whom Yoko had borne. If he had known what was to follow it is highly likely that he would have stuck with that peaceful lifestyle.
Unable to repress the musical genius inside himself, he wrote the excellent album ‘Double Fantasy’. On December 8, 1980, he was accosted by a young man outside his apartment in New York and asked to sign a copy of the album. When John returned to the apartment later that day, that young man, called Mark Chapman, shot and killed him.
Chapman received a life sentence for his madness, but the rest of the world lost a unique musical genius. Lets all be glad at least, that John gave us a taste of his magic.
"Imagine" ,which is one of his best-known songs, first appeared on his 1971 album, Imagine.
Lennon commented that the song was "an anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic song, but because it's sugar-coated, it's accepted."
Yoko Ono commented "It's not like he thought, 'Oh, this can be an anthem,'"Imagine" was "just what John believed -- that we are all one country, one world, one people. He wanted to get that idea out."
Since its release, "Imagine" has appeared on many lists of favourite songs and influential songs; e.g. it is listed as the 3rd greatest song on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
If you want to practice your English with this song, click here.
Listening Comprehesion for A2 Level
Listening Activities for Basic Level Students
ELLLO Listening Level 3 exercises are designed for basic level students. Click on the picture below and start. Ready, steady... go!
24 March 2020
Numbers
18 March 2019
Monoloque A2 Holidays
Talk about your plans for your next holidays.
- Where are you going? How long?
- Which activities are you going to do?
- What kind of holidays do you like?
- Do you always go to the same place?
Give details.
Monologue A2- Housework
HOUSEWORK
Talk for two
minutes about the topic suggested. Use
the following questions to give you ideas for your speech.
- How often do you do housework?
- When do you do housework?
- How
much time a day do you dedicate to housework?
- Do you share the housework at home?
- Who does the shopping in your home,
and the cooking? Who takes out the trash/rubbish?
- What household chores [tʃɔːz]
do you like, dislike or hate? Why?
30 January 2019
Making Plans for Party-Listening and Speaking
Practice your oral skills, both listening and speaking with these activities:
10 January 2019
Interaction- Going to a party
Learn how to talk a about a party, asking for and/or giving information about it, making invitations, suggestions, etc. The author of this fantastic activity is Cristina Cabal. Thanks so much, Cristina :)
Visit Blog the Cristina to find more activities like this one.
Visit Blog the Cristina to find more activities like this one.
08 November 2018
Who are they?
You are going to describe famous people and you classmates have to guess who they are. You only have to write a short paragraph about a celebrity and other people may send comments saying who they think each person is.
17 January 2018
Basic formal letters
Click on the link below to learn how to write formal letters in English
Click here to see an example of different types of letters with useful expressions (Hacer clic en los enlaces abajo para ver ejemplos de distintas cartas formales con vocubulario y frases útiles)
- Carta formal en inglés para solicitar información:Letter of enquiry - Explain clearly what information you require and why.
- Carta formal en inglés para formular una queja formal:Letter of complaint - Explain the reason for your complaint in the first paragraph and then give details in further paragraphs.
- Carta formal en inglés para solictar un puesto de trabajo:Letter of application - Explain which post you want to apply for, where you saw it advertised and include any relevant information about yourself.
- Carta formal en inglés para disculparse:
Letter of apology - Express regret and explain why you are apologising.
