How is chocolate made? Video activity to revise passive voice

You can work on this activity to practise listening comprehension and revise passive voice!

http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_low_intermediate.php?id=10594

How is chewing gum made? (Passive voice)

Check the use of passive voice in this video:

Phobias!

Hello! Here goes some material on the topic we discussed last class: PHOBIAS!

For next class, remember to choose one STRANGE PHOBIA, and prepare the answer to the following questions:

1) What's the name of the phobia?
2) What is the phobia about? (A fear of. what?)
3) Why do you consider it a strange phobia?
4) Do you know anybody who suffers from this phobia?
5) What advice would you give to a person who suffers from this phobia?

The following material can help you:

1. Power point presentation with images showing different phobias,

2. A video about strange phobias: http://mental.healthguru.com/video/the-worlds-weirdest-phobias?Neatorama


I hope you find this useful!

KEY Revise and Check 7&8 (SB pages 66 and 67)

GRAMMAR

1. A
2. C
3. B
4. C
5. B
6. A
7. A
8. C
9. C
10. B
11. A
12. B
13. B
14. C
15. C

VOCABULARY

a) 1 meet - 2 tell - 3 miss - 4 hope - 5 wears

b) 1 forget - 2 learn - 3 try - 4 promise - 5 enjoy - 6 mind - 7 hate - 8 finish

c) 1 very - 2 incredibly - 3 bit - 4 rather - 5 quite

d) 1 lost - 2 home/back - 3 better - 4 tickets - 5 on - 6 divorced - 7 from

CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?

a) Because they are lazy.

b) 2, 4, 6, 7

CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THESE PEOPLE?

1. c
2. c
3. a
4. c
5. a

Meet the Parents - Trailer

Here goes the video we watched last class! Enjoy!

World Cup 2014

The World Cup has started!

Here are some interesting sites to visit:

- How much do you know about the World Cup? Find out by doing this quiz.

- An article about Messi and all the pressure he has in this World Cup: Article "The Burden of Begin Messi"

- Who do you think will win the World Cup? http://www.jdaenglish.com/wce-who-will-win/ 

- Some listening and vocabulary activities about the World Cup:
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/sport/football/fans/brazilian-superfan-lesson-activities.html
http://www.esolcou'rses.com/content/topics/sport/football/world-cup-picture-quiz.html 

- Let's revise nationalities! http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/countriesandnationalities/world-cup/countries-nationalities-quiz.html 

Enjoy! :)

See you tomorrow! 

At a restaurant

Here is the scene from the sitcom Friends that I mentioned last class. They are at a very expensive restaurant, and three of them do not have much money. Pay attention to the phrases they use when they order food (I'll have...).

And here are other videos showing different restaurant situations!

Songs!!!

Hello, how are you?

Here is an interesting webpage in which you can do listening activities with songs: http://lyricstraining.com/

It's very easy to use. It's similar to Youtube! After you choose the song you'd like to listen to, you have to select the level of the activity. I recommend 'principiante' or 'intermedio', but if you want, you can have a go at more difficult activities! 

I hope you enjoy it!

Video activity: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

Assignment #1 

Here is a video activity that you can do at home. You can write the answers in a comment below this post, or you can write them on a piece of paper and give it to me on Saturday. 

NOTE: This special activity is optional. If you decide to do it, please let me know on Saturday.

BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER!

BEFORE WATCHING THE VIDEO

1) What is beauty, in your opinion? 

2) Can you make a list of 5 qualities that define beauty? (Number 1 should be the most important one)

3) Look up the definition of the following proverb in a dictionary (or you can also google it!): BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. 
Do you agree with this proverb? Why/why not?

WHILE WATCHING

4) Watch the following video and pay attention to the general message.

AFTER WATCHING

5) Answer the following questions: 

• How does the film make you feel?
• How do the women in the film feel when they see their portraits? Why?
• What’s the message of the film?

6) At the end of the movie, you can see the following phrase:

“You are more beautiful than you think.”

This is the publicity slogan of Dove the product which made the short film. 

Do you agree with this slogan? Why do you think it was chosen?

7) Go back to the list you made before (task 2). Do you want to leave it the same way, or would you like to make any changes? Why?

8) Imagine you are the publicity manager of a MAKE-UP product. Think of a good slogan that represents the idea on the Dove video. 

What do you do in your free time?

Hello everybody!

Here is some optional practice. You can watch this very short video about people's free time activities (or spare time activities) and then leave a comment about what you do on your free time. It's interesting! 

Have a nice day!! (despite the rain!)