Archive for 2012

Christmas Lights by Coldplay



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

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Thanksgiving Day

Click here to download a reading comprehension text and some activities about Thanksgiving Day. 

If you need some help with the vocabulary, have a look at the glossary.

You will find the answers as a 'comment' 

Now you can have some fun! 








gobble/ˈɡɒb(ə)l/:to eat something quickly and often noisily.
giblets /ˈdʒɪbləts/: the liver, heart, and neck of poultry (=chickens etc) that you remove before you cook it. 
drumstick /ˈdrʌmˌstɪk/: the lower part of the leg of a chicken or other bird, cooked and eaten as food.

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Book Reports

The school library is finally open! Now you can borrow books, magazines or dvds and improve your reading and listening skills. 

You can download here different types of templates to write reports on the books you read:




You can also keep a diary of the books you have read all through the year.


Enjoy your reading!

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Vocabulary and pronunciation


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.

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Present Perfect and Past Simple

  • 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.

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Reflexive and Reciprocal pronouns


Click here to find some explanations, examples and one activity on reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.

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A scary song: This is Halloween



[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]

Find the answers in 'comments'

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Hold on (Wilson Philips)



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

(Chorus)

You can check your answers in 'comments'.

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Future forms

  • 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? 


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Sports

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') 


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Past tenses

  • 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 1: Choose the correct tense.
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




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Food inventions


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!

Click here to download the text and activities.
Click here to download the glossary.

You'll see the answers to the activities as a 'comment' to the post.

Enjoy your meal!

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Present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs

  • Use the present simple for things that are always true or happen regularly:
'I never go to bed before midnight'
  • Use the present continuous for actions in progress at the time of speaking (a) or for future arrangements (b):
a)  She's having a bath at the moment.
b) We're moving to Barcelona next month.

Do you need to revise the spelling rules for final 's' and 'ing' forms?

Click here for an explanation on how to pronounce final 's'.

Activity 1. Choose the correct answer.
Activity 2. Click on the words in the correct order.
Activity 3. Put the verbs in the correct tense.
Activity 4. Spelling and grammar.
Activity 5. Spelling: 'ing'


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What's your favourite food?

Click here to listen to six people talking about their favourite food. Follow the instructions:

1. Click on any speaker's button to hear audio for each section.
2. After the audio for each section stops, there will be two questions.
3. If you answer the questions correctly, you move forward.
4. If you answer incorrectly, you have to listen to the audio again.



Don't read the transcript while you are answering the questions! You can read it when you finish the activity.

Have you learnt new vocabulary about food? Write it down and bring it to class on Monday. 

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