MERRY CHRISTMAS and some reading!

Merry Christmas and a Happy new year 2024!

READING for our first lesson in 2024:

Read the text using this link and do task 1. Find the words to explain below.

Words to explain

What is 3D Printing and how does it work?

New Year's resolutions

 

This or that

 

Listen

listen 

Coldplay X Selena Gomez - Let Somebody Go (Official Video)

HOMEWORK for Monday 20 November 2023

Reading: Read the text about lying using this link.

Words to explain:

Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy (Official Music Video)

Listen

lie 

Common English Expressions for Lying and Telling the Truth

https://www.highlevellistening.com/11-common-english-expressions-for-lying-and-telling-the-truth/ 

HOMEWORK for Monday 13 November 2023

Reading: Read the text about Climate change (with audio) using this link. Below are the words relating to the text.

Grammar: Do the passive voice handout.

Would you rather...

 

The Impacts of Climate Change

Discuss

Listen

 listen

Harry Nilsson Without You 1972 HD

HOMEWORK for Monday 6 November 2023

Reading: Read about Martin Luther King (with audio) using this link.  Below find the words relating to the text.

Listen

listen 

50 years without Martin Luther King

The Beatles' Final Song ‘Now and Then’ Released

The Beatles - Now And Then (Official Music Video)

Active vs Passive Voice

HOMEWORK for Monday 30 October 2023

READING: Read about Robert Redford (click this link). Write down some facts for the next lesson.

WORDS to explain:

GRAMMAR: Do exercise 9 on page 23 (tenses)

Robert Redford Wins Best Directing: 53rd Oscars (1981)

discuss

 

B. J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (Stereo / Lyrics)

Halloween Animated History

Bet You Didn't Know: Halloween | History

Robert Redford, interesting facts about Robert Redford

Listen

LISTEN 

HOMEWORK for Monday 23 October 2023

Reading: Read Once upon a time on page 27 and complete the exercises 2, 3 and 4 on page 26.

Words: See below.

Grammar: Tenses; exercise 7 on page 23.

10 Facts about the Brothers Grimm

Listening

 listen

YESTERDAY ONCE MORE--THE CARPENTERS (NEW ENHANCED VERSION) 720

HOMEWORK for Monday 9 October 2023

Reading: Read about Niki Lauda on page 22 A key moment and answer the questions - exercise 4 on the same page.

The words to explain:

 Handout: Finish off the preposition handout.

Probably The Most Motivating Video You Have Seen | Niki Lauda

Discuss: movies

 

Movie Vocabulary

Ralph McTell Streets of London

HOMEWORK for Monday 2 October 2023

READING

Read about Dall-e using this link Dall-e. Write some facts / notes about the text for the next lesson.

You can also watch/listen to it on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka4u30nEEx4

WORDS TO EXPLAIN

LIFE STUDYBOOK

Do exercise 13 on page 13 (tenses).

Discuss

Listening

listening 

What is Artificial Intelligence in 2 Minutes

Kenny Rogers - You Can't Make Old Friends (duet with Dolly Parton) [Offi...

What is Artificial Intelligence in 2 Minutes

HOMEWORK for Monday 25 September 2023

Life: Do exercise 8 and 9 on page 11 and read the text on page 17 and do exercise 2 and 3.

Words to explain (from your homework exercises):

Miley Cyrus - Flowers (Backyard Sessions)

Listen

listen 

HOMEWORK for Monday 18 September 2023

READING: Read the text A confused generation on page 12 and do exercise 3.

WORDS TO EXPLAIN:

PREPOSITION HANDOUT: Finish it off

Lewis Capaldi - Wish You The Best (Official Video)

Forming adjectives- Word Formation

READING AND WORDS TO EXPLAIN

Read the text and do exercise 3 and 4.

 

LIFE

LIFE 

Tina Turner Simply The Best 1991 Remastered by Decade Productions

Legendary Singer Tina Turner Dies at 83

Idioms about friends

  

Learn English Friendship Idioms l Friend Idioms and Phrases l Idioms

Listen

listen 

The course book

Discuss

 

Have you ever....?

 

Words

 

Tony Bennett "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" on The Ed Sullivan Show

Tony Bennett dead at 96 l GMA

Listening

listen 

What is Artificial Intelligence in 2 Minutes

HOMEWORK for Monday 3 April 2023

 Read the text about Easter. Also find the words below.

Random questions

 

Discuss: Easter

 

LIsten

listen 

California Blue

10 facts to know about Easter

HOMEWORK for Monday 27 March 2023

Read the text about Jane Fonda using this LINK. Make some notes after reading. 

Below see the words.

Jane Fonda accepts the 2014 AFI Life Achievement Award

Random questions

 

Discuss

 

Cutting Edge Intermediate Unit 12

Cutting Edge Intermediate Unit 12

Lou Reed - Perfect Day (Official Audio)

Discuss

 

HOMEWORK for Monday 20 March 2023

Reading: Read about Frank Sinatra using this LINK. Make some notes after reading. Find the words to explain below.

Studybook: Do exercise 2a on page 119.

Words

Frank Sinatra - American Singer, Actor, And Producer | Mini Bio | BIO

Discuss

 

Discuss

 

I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra | Concert Collection

Life

life upperintermediate

HOMEWORK for Monday 13 March 2023

Reading: Read about Buffalo Bill using this LINK. After reading make some notes about the text. See below the words to explain.

Handout: Finish off  Should/could/would have -handout.

Studybook: Do exercise on page 116.

Words to explain:

Discuss

 

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Employed Real Native Americans

Down By The River

Listen

listen 

HOMEWORK for Monday 6 March 2023

Reading: Read the text about John F Kennedy using this  LINK. After reading make some notes for the next lesson. Pls, find below the words to explain.

Words:

Handout: Finish off the preposition handout.

John F. Kennedy Bio: Life and Presidential Career

Discuss

 

Tony Christie - Is This The Way To Amarillo (2005) HD 0815007

Past Modals: Should Have, Could Have, Would Have

HOMEWORK for Monday 27 February 2023

Reading: Read the text about George Washington (also with audio) using this LINK. After reading, write few sentences about the text. Below please find the words to explain.

Words: