Reported Speech

Grammatical Explanations:

- HERE 
- Tense Changes 

- Change of Time and Place Reference 

- Reporting Questions 

Video - Reported Speech

Practice:
- Reported Speech (1) 
- Reported Speech (2) 

- Reporting Questions
- Fill in the Gaps

Have you ever been jealous?

Listen while you read these "Express English" interviews about jealousy


Blog entry by courtesy of my colleague Teresa Bastida.

Second Conditional

 

VIDEO 1 - SECOND CONDITIONAL

• GRAMMAR EXPLANATION

- Second Conditional - Explanation 1

- Second Conditional - Explanation 2

• ACTIVITIES TO PRACTISE

- Second Conditional (1)

- Second Conditional (2)

- First or Second Conditional? (1)

- First or Second Conditional? (2)

- First or Second Conditional? (3)

• CONDITIONAL TESTS

- Second Conditional Test (1)

- Second Conditional Test (2) 

* What would you do if you won 10,000 dollars, pounds, euros, yens...? 
Watch these interviews and get some inspiration in case it happens to you in the future.

VIDEO 2 - WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF...?


* If you had three wishes, what would they be?
What did people in London answer when the BBC asked them this question? Listen and read this round of interviews.
VIDEO 3 - IF I HAD THREE WISHES...

VIDEO 4 - SONG

Zero and First Conditionals

Are you superstitious, or do you like to think you’re not? Do you ever touch wood for luck, or is 13 your lucky number?
Well, even if you think it’s all mumbo jumbo, superstitions come in very handy for the grammar point of this post, first conditional sentences. Here is a video on the topic by Jennifer, an American teacher you already know from earlier posts on this blog. 
If you are not subscribed to English with Jennifer, do it now. 

VIDEO 1 - FIRST CONDITIONAL


VIDEO 2 - ZERO CONDITIONAL

• GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS

- Zero Conditional (Explanation - 1) 

- Zero Conditional (Explanation - 2) 

- First Conditional (Explanation - 1)

- First Conditional (Explanation - 2) 

• ACTIVITIES TO PRACTISE

- Zero Conditional (1) 

- Zero Conditional (2) 

- Zero Conditional (3) 

- Zero Conditional (4) 

- First Conditional (1)

- First Conditional (2)  

- First Conditional (3)

- First Conditional (4)

- First Conditional (5)

- First Conditional (6)

• CONDITIONAL TESTS

Zero Conditional Test 

First Conditional Test

• OTHER CONJUNCTIONS USED WITH FIRST CONDITIONALS 

- "as long as" - (con tal de que/siempre que)
I'll stay as long as you need me - Me quedaré siempre que me necesites.

"provided (that)" - (siempre que)
The company will pay the bonus provided (that) the job is completed on time - La empresa dará un plus siempre que el trabajo se complete a tiempo.

"unless" - (a menos que)
You won't succeed unless you work harder - No tendrás éxito a menos que trabajes más.

Let's go shopping!

Prepositions of movement and direction

Hi guys! here you go a list of links to practise and improve your use of these prepositions. I hope you find it useful.

- INFORMATION ON PREPOSITIONS Excellent grammar explanation

- Expressing movement (1)

- Expressing movement (2)

- Extra practice (1): Prepositions of movement

- Extra practice (2): Prepositions of movement

- FLASHCARD to print

VIDEO - Prepositions of Direction

NOTE: There is a mistake: Fish are not ON the water. They are IN the water.

Practice makes perfect: the more, the better.

As you know, the final exam is just around the corner and the more you practise at home, the better your English will become. 
Here you go a useful link with lots of short videos to practise listening at home. The good thing is that you can listen to these people while watching them on the video.
Click HERE to start working on it. Important: There is a CC button (Closed Captions=subtitles), so as you watch the video, you can also read the text by turning on that button.

I love sports... what about you?

Watch the following video and try to answer the questions below.

- What's the sport you can see on the video? Yeah! you are right.. it's American football!

- What do you think about this NFL (National Football League) advertisement /əd'vɜ:tɪsmənt/ (anuncio)?
- Do you think the video is real or a fake?

- Would you like to play this sport? Why (not)?

Here you go another video. It's the most exciting sporting event I've ever watched on TV.

Think about that sporting event and answer these questions:

- Did you watch it?

- When and where did it take place?

- What teams were taking part?

- What was the final result? Who scored the goal(s)?

- In your opinion, who was the best player?

- Where did you watch that match?

- What was your reaction when the match finished?



By courtesy of Sergio Viñals.

Asking and giving directions

View more documents from Rafaarabit33
You can also download this document HERE 

HOW TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS

• Excuse me, where is the nearest bank?
• How do I get to (the) . . . ?
• Can you tell me how to get to (the) . . . (from here)?
• What’s the best way to get to (the) . . . ? 
• Excuse me, do you know if there is a . . . near here?

HOW TO LOCATE PLACES

• The bank is next to the library.
• The library is on the corner of Main Street and Park Avenue.
• The park is in front of the department store.
• The shoe shop is opposite the hospital.
• The shopping centre is near / close to the cathedral

HOW TO GIVE DIRECTIONS

• Go straight on
• Go up / down High Street
• Turn left / right
• Take the second (turning on the) left /right
• Walk past the (post office)
• Cross the street
• The (bookshop) will be on your left / right
• Take Baker Street
• Walk two blocks

EXAMPLE

• (First,) go down this street (for three blocks)
• (Then,) turn right at the zebra crossing.
• (After that,) go straight on Park Avenue until you get to the traffic lights.
• (When you get to the traffic lights), turn right again.
• The bank will be on your left, next to the police station. You won’t miss it.

Now, you can get more practice with these listening activities:

- LISTENING GAME (From Elllo.org) 

- LISTENING - How to get to the station (from elllo.org)

Would you like to play another game? if so, play this Reading game.

- READING - Game (from BBC) 

WATCH & LISTEN: Homes in Britain

To understand directions in English coming from people or machines, watch the first video and then do the activities in the second one.
FIRST VIDEO

SECOND VIDEO

And finally, enjoy this video!

How to tell if your boyfriend is a slob

View more documents from Rafaarabit33.

-You can also download the document HERE

-Vocabulary -"Housework chores" 

By courtesy of my colleague Teresa Bastida

Comparatives and Superlatives

First, let's have a look at this English teacher giving a lesson on Comparatives and Superlatives adjectives.

Now, you can practise comparatives and superlatives by clicking on these links below:
COMPARATIVES (1) 
COMPARATIVES (2)
SUPERLATIVES (1) 
SUPERLATIVES (2)

Prepositions of Place/Location/Direction (2)

Prepositions of Place/Location (1)

And here you go another post. Let's watch this video to revise "prepositions of place".

The Sounds of English

How important is to have a good English pronunciation? Firstly, watch this short video and meet Alex, the BBC English teacher.

Now, are you ready to improve your English pronunciation? Click on this LINK to the BBC website. It is a very good, an awesome webpage to practise all the different sounds of English.

NOTA: Primero podéis darle al botón de Play para ver el vídeo y escuchar a la profesora de inglés de la BBC explicando por qué es tan importante conocer los símbolos de los sonidos en inglés y todo ello ilustrado con algunos ejemplos. Después de ver el vídeo, encontraréis más abajo todos los símbolos. Pinchando en el símbolo que os interese practicar, podréis ver a la misma profesora dando una breve y concisa explicación de ese símbolo y dando varios ejemplos. Animaos! es de las mejores páginas de pronunciación que existen en la web.

Have fun and enjoy these videos!

Going to & Present Continuous for future plans (1)

To learn how to use these future tenses in English, click HERE.

These are some more useful videos which explain how to form and use Going to + Infinitive and Present Continuous for Future plans.

Pronunciation: Videos from the BBC

Now it is time to practise some consonant sounds that we learnt during the first lessons. Let's remember some of them and start with these three ones. Watch these videos and practise at home.

• Click on SHE to watch the video for this sound.
• Click on SELLS to watch the video for this sound.
• Click on ZEBRAS to watch the video for this sound.

Wear Sunscreen

This is an excellent video for you to look at it. There are very interesting tips which we all can follow in our lives. I hope you like it. It comes with Spanish subtitles and you can also practise imperatives thanks to this video.