A trip to remember

Listen to a girl called Melanie talking about a school trip to Paris and do the exercises.( You are given the answers).

Past simple or past continuous

-We use the past continuous to describe an action in progress at a specific moment in the past: This time yesterday I was having a relaxing bath at home.
-We use the simple past to describe a completed action in the past: She read the magazine and went to bed.

Exercise 1
Exercise 2

How to improve your listening skills II

Here is a great website which is specially for your level, called Elementary Podcasts by the British Council. There are lots of texts to listen to and you can also download the mp3 files and save them on to your computer.Click on here to see this website.

Improve your listening skills!!!!

Hi guys!!
You always ask me about ways of improving your listening skills on your own and I always tell you to see films in English, to listen to the BBC online, to travel abroad,etc...Apart from all that, you have the Internet with loads of websites and blogs (like this one ;)),that help you improve all the skills.A fantastic website I came across last week is ESL VIDEOS.In this website you´ll find a wide variety of videos with questions and transcripts so, if you don´t understand well, you can listen to it and read the transcript at the same time so you get used to the sounds of the words.There are 4 levels: beginner,low intermediate,intermediate and high intermediate.You can start to improve now!!2º Básico students click here: http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_low_intermediate.php?id=9644

Christmas reading comprehension texts

This is some homework for Christmas: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m9YNYTMbwoId-8eunHht3JEZA-YWxUpv0JhbpYQ7X4Y/edit

Giving advice

We can give advice to people using 'should' or 'shouldn´t' + infinitive or the second conditonal sentence 'If I were you, I would...'
Activity 1 Choose the correct answer in the sentences.
Activity 2. Click on the words in the correct order.
Activity 3. Charlie has a problem. It is too fat. Complete the sentences.
Activity 4. What advice can you give to Charlie? Complete the sentences.
Activity 5. Listen to the song 'Chasing Pavements' by Adele and read the lyrics. There are some examples of 'should' to give advice.


I've made up my mind,
Don't need to think it over,if
I'm wrong I am right,
Don't need to look no further,
This ain't lust,
I know this is love but

If I tell the world,
I'll never say enough,
Cause it was not said to you,
And thats exactly what I need to do,
If I'm in love with you

Should I give up,
Or should I just keep chasing pavements?
Even if it leads nowhere,
Or would it be a waste?
Even If I knew my place
should i leave it there?
Should I give up,
Or should I just keep chasing pavements?
Even if it leads nowhere

I'd build myself up,
And fly around in circles,
Wait then as my heart drops,
and my back begins to tingle
finally could this be it

Should I give up,
Or should I just keep chasing pavements?
Even if it leads nowhere,
Or would it be a waste?
Even If I knew my place
should i leave it there?
Should I give up,
Or should I just keep chasing pavements?
Even if it leads nowhere

Should I give up,
Or should I just keep chasing pavements?
Even if it leads nowhere,
Or would it be a waste?
Even If I knew my place
should I leave it there?Should I give up,
Or should I just keep chasing pavements?
Even if it leads nowhere

MODAL VERBS

Modals are special verbs which behave very irregularly in English.Here are some important differences:

1. Modal verbs do not take "-s" in the third person.

Examples:He can speak Chinese, She should be here by 9:00.

2. You use "not" to make modal verbs negative, even in Simple Present and Simple Past.

Examples:He should not be late, They might not come to the party.

3. Many modal verbs cannot be used in the past tenses or the future tenses.

Examples:He will can go with us. Not Correct:She musted study very hard. Not Correct

Common Modal Verbs: Can, Could,May,Might, Must, Ought to ,Shall ,Should, Will ,Would.

Click here for more info: http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/ingles/gramatica/verbosmodales.htmlhttp://www.first-certificate.com/Modals-fceExercises here: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/330-modals-ability1.htm

More exercises: http://a4esl.org/q/h/0101/ig-modals.html