Watch the video and fill the gaps. You'll find the answers in 'Comments' .
Christmas night, another fight __________, we cried a flood Got all kinds of poison in Of poison in my __________
I took my __________ to Oxford Street Trying to right a wrong Just walk away, those __________ say But I can't believe she's gone
When you're still waiting for the snow to __________ Doesn't really feel like Christmas at all
Up above, __________ on air flicker Oh, they flicker and they float And I'm up here holdin' on To all those chandeliers of __________
Like some drunken Elvis singin' I go singin' out of __________ Sayin' how I __________ loved you, darlin' And I always will
Oh, when you're still waiting for the snow to __________ It doesn't really feel like Christmas at all Still waiting for the snow to __________ It doesn't really feel like Christmas at all
Those Christmas lights light up the street Down where the __________ and city meet May all your __________ soon be gone Oh, Christmas lights, keep shinin' on
Those Christmas lights light up the street Maybe they'll __________ her back to me And then all my __________ will be gone Oh, Christmas lights, keep shinin' on
Oh, Christmas lights, light up the street Light up the __________ in me May all your __________ soon be gone Those Christmas lights keep shinin' on
Click here to download a pdf with the vocabulary bank of all the units in the textbook. Print it and bring it to class next Monday for pronunciation practice.
When we use the past simple, a specific time in the past is mentioned: 'Did you see the match last night?' or understood between the speakers: 'Did you see the match?' (We both know it was last night...). So, a question beginning with 'When...?' will normally be in the past simple.
We use present perfect for a past action where no specific time is mentioned or understood: 'I've been to Paris twice', or when there is a connection with the present: 'I've worked here for two years' (I'm still working here).
Activity 1: Choose the correct answer. Activity 2: Click on the words in the correct order. Activity 3: Complete the sentences with the correct tense. Activity 4: Just, yet, still, already. Activity 5: For and since. Activity 6: Listen and write the verbs in the correct tense.
[SHADOW] Boys and girls of every age Wouldn't you like to see something (1)________________? [SIAMESE SHADOW] Come with us and you will see This, our town of Halloween [PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS] This is Halloween, this is Halloween Pumpkins scream in the dead of(2) ________________? [GHOSTS] This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or (3) _______________ till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween [CREATURE UNDER THE BED] I am the one hiding under your bed (4)_________________ ground sharp and eyes glowing red [MAN UNDER THE STAIRS] I am the one hiding under yours stairs Fingers like snakes and (5)________________ in my hair [CORPSE CHORUS] This is Halloween, this is Halloween [VAMPIRES] Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! In this town we call home Everyone hail to the (6)________________ song [MAYOR] In this town, don't we love it now? Everybody's waiting for the next surprise [CORPSE CHORUS] Round that corner, man hiding in the (7) ________________ can Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll... [HARLEQUIN DEMON, WEREWOLF & MELTING MAN] Scream! This is Halloween Red 'n' black, slimy green [WEREWOLF] Aren't you (8)________________? [WITCHES] Well, that's just fine Say it once, say it twice Take a chance and roll the dice Ride with the moon in the dead of night [HANGING TREE] Everybody scream, everbody scream [HANGED MEN] In our town of Halloween! [CLOWN] I am the clown with the tear-away face Here in a flash and gone without a trace [SECOND GHOUL] I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?" I am the wind blowing through your (9)________________ [OOGIE BOOGIE SHADOW] I am the shadow on the moon at night Filling your dreams to the brim with fright [CORPSE CHORUS] This is Halloween, this is Halloween Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! [CHILD CORPSE TRIO] Tender lumplings everywhere Life's no (10) _____________ without a good scare [PARENT CORPSES] That's our job, but we're not mean In our town of Halloween [CORPSE CHORUS] In this town [MAYOR] Don't we love it now? Everybody's waiting for the next surprise [CORPSE CHORUS] Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back And scream like a banshee Make you jump out of your(11) __________________ This is Halloween, everyone scream Wont' ya please make way for a very special guy Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now! [EVERYONE] This is Halloween, this is Halloween Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! [CORPSE CHILD TRIO] In this town we call home Everyone hail to the (12) _______________ song [EVERYONE] La la la la-la la [Repeat]
I know this (1) ______________ Why do you lock yourself up in these chains?
No one can change your (2)______________ except for you
Don't ever let anyone step all over you
Just open your heart and your (3)______________ Is it really fair to feel this way inside?
Chorus: Some day somebody's gonna make you want to
Turn around and say (4)______________ Until then baby are you going to let them
Hold you down and make you (5)______________
Don't you know?
Don't you know things can (6)______________ Things'll go your way
If you hold on for one more day
Can you hold on for one more day
Things'll go your way
Hold on for one more day
You could sustain
Or are you comfortable with the pain?
You've got no one to (7)______________ for your unhappiness
You got yourself into your own mess
Lettin' your (8)______________ pass you by
Don't you think it's worth your time
To change your mind?
(Chorus)
I know that there is pain
But you hold on for one more day and
Break (9)______________from the chains
Yeah I know that there is pain
But you hold on for one more day and you
Break (10)______________, break from the chains
We use going to for things we have already decided to do, it's our plan or intention:
'I'm going to study Law at university next year'
It can also be used to express a prediction. It is based on evidence:
'It's late! You're going to miss the train.'
We use present continuous for future arrangements when a time / place has been agreed (most of the times 'going to' is also possible). However, with the verbs 'go', 'leave', 'come', 'meet', 'have', we tend to use the present continuous.
'I'm having dinner with my colleagues tomorrow night'
We use 'will', 'won´t' for instant decisions at the moment of speaking, offers, promises and predictions:
'I'll buy the blue sweater' (in a shop) INSTANT DECISION
'There's no milk left. I'll go and buy some' / Shall I buy some milk? OFFERS
'I'm sorry. I won't do it again' PROMISES
'I think families will be smaller in the future' *PREDICTIONS
*For predictions, will / won't and going to can both be used. However, when you can see that something is about to happen it is more common to use going to: 'He's going to crash' (I can see him going towards a tree)
Watch the following video for more examples and information:
Activity 1: Click on the words in the correct order. Activity 2: Choose the correct answer. Activity 3: Future plans. Choose the correct answer. Activity 4: Will or going to? Activity 5: Will or going to?
Watch the video and practise the pronunciation of some sports:
Activity 1: Listen to six descriptions of sports and choose the correct picture. Activity 2: Read and listen to the text 'The skier' and do the activities. Activity 3: Do, play or go? Read the rules and do the activity. Activity 4: Read the text 'The origins of sport' and do the activities. (answers in 'comments')
Past simple: We use this tense for completed past actions.
'She got married two years ago'
Click here to revise the spelling rules of the simple past regular form (-ed forms)
Watch this video to revise the pronunciation of the simple past form
Past continuous: This is the past equivalent of the present continuous: It is used for actions in progress in the past which are often 'interrupted by a short completed action' (in past simple).
'I saw an accident when I was driving here this morning'
Past perfect: We use this tense when we are talking in the past and we want to refer to an action which happened earlier in the past.
'When I got home I saw that somebody had broken the window'
Activity 2: Click on the words in the right order. Activity 3: Complete the text with the correct form of the verb in brackets. Activity 4: Choose the correct tense. Activity 5: Choose the correct tense. Activity 6: Choose the correct tense. Game: Irregular verbs
This reading lesson is about the invention of certain foods which are currently popular in Britain and the USA. With the exception of sandwiches, they're all types of junk food!
