LISTENING FOR CERTIFICATION - BASIC 2

On the following page, you will find 9 listening exercises with their transcription, in case you find it difficult to understand. If you click on the topic, you will be taken to the exercise and the audio. The audio can be downloaded as mp 3 file to use it every time you need.

Listening for Basic Level

FUTURE REVISION - BASIC 2 AND INTERMEDIATE 1

These are more exercises online to continue practising future tenses (be going to / will / present continuous). The link below will get you to a page with a lot of exercises but basic students should only do those in the first three groups, and the ones in orange: Be going to, will - future and Future Simple. The other two groups are for more advanced students.

Agenda Web

LISTENING TO A SPEECH - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED

Randy Pausch was an American professor who sadly passed away (died) in 2008. He was an extremely inspirational person, and through this video I hope it will remind you of what is important in life. Listen to the interview and try to fill in the gaps in the sentences.
Note: in English, 'the reaper' is another word for 'death'

Activity

THE POWER OF SMILING - LISTENING - INTERMEDIATE 2 AND ADVANCED

This is a lesson that will help you live longer, be more successful and feel as if you have eaten lots of chocolate without the calories! Listen to the lecture and see if you can answer the questions below true or false. I recommend you to listen at least twice and carefully, as the man giving the talk speaks quite quickly. 






Activity

MUSIC - ALL LEVELS

And now a bit of fun. I thought some relaxing activities could be good after the strain caused by the exams. Here are some links with songs and activities:

Whitney Houston - I know him so well
Taylor Swift - Breathe
Wicked - For Good
Cold Play - Fix you
The script - If you ever come back
Corinne Baiyle Rae - Put your records on

Beautiful tunes, indeed, to help you chill out.

FOOD AND MEALS - BASIC LEVEL

This is the powerpoint presentation you had in class about food and meals in the UK.

FOOD AND MEALS

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FOOD - BASIC LEVEL

Here is a list of food vocabulary websites to help you with everything related to FOOD and MEALS.


madridteacher.com
Each word is specified in English, Spanish and with a “Spanglish” pronunciation. (If you read it as if you are reading Spanish, you should be able to pronounce it correctly)

learnenglish.de
Plenty of activities to enjoy while learning about food
eflnet.com
Pictures and exercises to go on with food.

drlemon.com


Amazing website with all you need about food, drinks, restaurants and cooking terms

CHOCOLATE - BASIC AND INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Watch the video, click on the egg to read and learn about chocolate, then play the game with a friend.


Chocolate

DRINKS AND PUBS - BASIC LEVEL

Pubs are where many British people meet to talk and have a drink. This page explains pub vocabulary and customs.

Drinks and pubs

CHOCOLATE REVEALED - BASIC AND INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

This lesson is from the pages of Hot English magazine. Read the article and learn new vocabulary with the useful glossary at the bottom of the page.


Chocolate revealed

TRAVEL / JOURNEY / TRIP - BASIC AND INTERMEDIATE LEVELS

What is the difference between 'travel', ' journey' and 'trip'? Have a look at this explanation and take the quiz. Remember to click on START to take the quiz

Travel - Journey - Trip

SOME / ANY - BASIC LEVEL 2

We have studied the difference between 'some' and 'any' but do you really know when to use them? This exercise can say how well you know to use these two words

difference-between-some-and-any

FRUIT - BASIC LEVEL

Learn how to pronounce the fruit in English with the help of the pictures.

Fruit

LISTENING - ENGLISH CLASS INFORMATION - INTERMEDIATE AND BASIC LEVELS

Listen to this telephone message and take the quiz below to test your understanding. There are two listening options: fast (for intermediate to advanced students) and slow (for beginner to pre-intermediate students).

English Class Information

PRESENT PERFECT OR PAST SIMPLE - BASIC LEVEL

Try this quiz to help you decide if you have to use present perfect or past simple. It has a section with grammar notes to help you make up your mind (decide)

Present-perfect-or-past-simple ?

TAKE THE RIGHT PREPOSITION - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

How well do you know English prepositions? Take the preposition quiz to find out! Choose the correct preposition to complete each sentence, or choose — if no preposition is necessary. Leave a comment with your score!

Take the preposition quiz

LISTENING EXERCISE - BASIC LEVEL

Listen to this 1-minute biography of famous soccer player Lionel Messi and take the quiz to test your understanding!

Lionel Messi

ORDERING AT A RESTAURANT - BASIC LEVEL

Listen to this dialogue between Emily, Laura, and the waitress and practice repeating each phrase. The audio is real English at natural speed – so if you can understand it, you’ll be OK to order a meal in a restaurant in English!

Ordering a meal at a restaurant

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE - BASIC LEVEL

Learn how to know when a noun is countable or uncountable. After the grammar explanation, you can take the quiz by clicking on START.

countable-and-uncountable-nouns

COMMON ENGLISH MISTAKES - BASIC LEVEL

Don’t make these common beginner English mistakes!
Take the quiz and decide if the sentences are correct or incorrect. To start the quiz, click on START.


common-english-mistakes-beginner-quiz-1

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE - BASIC LEVEL

This website gives you the grammar on comparison and there is also a quiz where you choose the correct answer. To go to the quiz, you have to click on START.

comparative-or-superlative

EMOTIONS -SPEAK OUT - UNIT 6 - INTERMEDIATE 2

SOLUTIONS - SPEAK OUT - UNIT 5 - INTERMEDIATE 2

PASSIVE VOICE - INTERMEDIATE 2

Here are more exercises on passive voice.
English Grammar for you
ESL Games
ESL Games - Basketball
Learn English Feel Good 
Non-Stop English 1
Non-Stop English 2
Non-Stop English 3

PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS - BASIC LEVEL

This is to show you the difference between present simple and present progressive or continuous.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS - BASIC LEVEL

As you seem to have problems with present continuous, I have attached these videos that can help you understand this verb tense but I must say that they are for children.

VERBS - VOCABULARY - BASIC LEVEL

Learn some action verbs with the Pink Panther. A teacher of English made it for his English class and they had a blast.

A NEW NEIGHBOUR - PART 1 - BASIC 2

This is the first episode of a story in six parts.
Part 1 - a new neighbour

TO THE RESCUE - PART 2 - BASIC 2

This is part 2.

SPEAK OUT - EXPERIENCES - BASIC 2

This is a video about experiences. Remember that you usually use present perfect to talk about experiences.

SPEAK OUT - TRANSPORT - BASIC 2

SPEAK OUT - CINEMA - BASIC 2

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES - BASIC 2

These are two quizzes to review the comparatives:
Comparatives
Comparatives and Superlatives

MORE PRESENT PERFECT - BASIC 2

PRESENT PERFECT or SIMPLE PAST?, by Carlos Reis
Find this and other verb tenses exercises in English Exercises .org

Present Perfect (19.11.09), by Manuela Nunes
Find this and other exercises in English Exercises .org

present perfect affirmative, by isabel
Find this and other present perfect exercises in English Exercises .org

PRESENT PERFECT NEGATIVE, by isabel
Find this and other verb tenses exercises in English Exercises .org

PRESENT PERFECT - BASIC 2

These are exercises online to practise this new verb tense:
English Grammar Online For You
English Grammar Online For You 2
Using English
Saber Inglés
For or since ?
Englischhilfen

PRESENT PERFECT vs PAST SIMPLE - BASIC 2 AND INTERMEDIATE 1

Pactice differentiating past simple from present perfect by answering the questions. Hit the button on the wheel and wait until the arrow stops. Then you will see a question and four possible answers. When you decide which answer is correct, click on 'submit'.

Spin the Wheel

England's Newest Tourist Attraction - INTERMEDIATE 2

Are you planning a visit to England? Are you thinking to yourself, “What shall we do in England? Are there any really special places that we must go to when we are there?” You are? Good, then this podcast is for you.
England's Newest Tourist Attraction

EASTER HOLIDAYS - ALL LEVELS

We will not have time to see anything about Easter (Semana Santa) so I thought that you could find this website interesting. Here you can learn new words, read texts or learn a bit about general culture. Click on the link and enjoy your Easter holidays learning about Easter.

IRREGULAR VERBS - ALL LEVELS

I know you still have problems with irregular verbs. Well, this video can help you with them. This is the American version, in the English way, 'get' is got, got.

PRESENT PERFECT - BASIC 2

This is the new lesson. I found this video that explains how to form this verb tense. You can watch it and listen to the man's pronunciation and explanation. If it is difficult to understand, wait until next class and I will explain everything in detail.

INVENTIONS - INTERMEDIATE 2

1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets

Oscar-winning actor and screen legend Sir Ben Kingsley has taken the starring role in a short feature film about the scientific heritage of Muslim civilisation. The mini-movie, entitled "1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets", accompanies a global touring exhibition which was previously open to the public at the Science Museum in London.

READING TEXTS FOR BASIC 2 AND INTERMEDIATE 1

It is a bit difficult reading for basic 2 but fast learners can try.

Headphones are a danger to life, study finds

Walking down the street while listening to an Mp3 player is riskier than you might think. Find out what your students have to say about latest research into headphone related deaths

HOW TO SPEND ONE MILLION POUNDS - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED

How to spend one million pounds

THE MOST EXPENSIVE SANDWICH IN THE WORLD - BASIC

The Most Expensive Sandwich in the World

GOING TO THE DOGS - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED

Going to the Dogs

HOMOPHONES - PRONUNCIATION - ALL LEVELS

Homophones game


Can you match the words that sound the same, but are spelt differently and have different meanings? Eg: pair,and pear.

You can repeat the game as many times as you like because there are new pairs in each attempt.

Homophones game

PAST SIMPLE GAME - BASIC

Learning the past simple can be fun too. I found this game to review this verb tense. If you get all the points, then you can say that you can use the past. Good luck!

Past Simple Jeopardy

BIG BIRTHDAY - CONDITIONAL - INTERMEDIATE

Practice for TOEFL with English, baby!

THIRD CONDITIONAL - INTERMEDIATE

Third Conditional Grammar Explanation

Third Conditional grammar explanation

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Exercises to practise the third conditional:

Mix and Match
Would have or had
Complete the sentences
Put in order
Complete the other half.
Complete the gaps

COPE WITH - VOCABULARY - INTERMEDIATE

Podcast which explains how to use 'cope with'. A phrasal quite similar to 'deal with' but with a slight difference. The narrator tells different pieces of stories to explain its meaning. 

Lord Lucan cannot cope

SPEAK OUT - HOLIDAYS - BASIC LEVEL

This video is about people's holidays. They tell about their last holidays and their favourite places to go on holiday.

SPEAK OUT - VIDEO USING THE PAST - BASIC LEVEL

Listen to what people say about their lives using the past.

EPISODES FROM HEADWAY ELEMENTARY - BASIC LEVEL

This is a short film about a day in London. It was specially designed for elementary students. It has ordinary conversations and it is easy to follow.


This second video is about both a train driver and a teacher. It can be a bit more difficult but I think you can understand most of what it is said.

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES - BASIC LEVEL

Comparatives  grammar explanation

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Watch how the comparatives are used in songs:

FIRST AND SECOND CONDITIONALS - INTERMEDIATE

More about these two types of conditionals. These are different ways to study them.
This could be a nice way to remember the second conditional:


Bits of tunes where conditionals are present:

GALA DE SAN VALENTIN

Éstos son los doblajes ganadores de Inglés, Francés y Alemán junto con las cartas ganadoras. Intentaré subir, durante al próxima semana, toda esta información a la página web de la escuela. En principio, este es un adelanto.

Titanic - Basic Level

Pretty Woman - Intermediate Level

It is a wonderful life - Advanced Level

Casablanca - Alemán

The bodyguard - Francés

Carta de amor - Alemán

Liebe mutter

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VOCABULARY GAME - BASIC LEVEL

Read and listen to the word, then click on the image. You have to be very fast if you want to get a lot of points.
Fast hands
Desert Drag

Find the pairs in a concentration game.
Concentration

Here you can find a lot of games, depending on your preferences
Games to learn English

CONDITIONALS EXERCISES - INTERMEDIATE

Links with exercises and grammar points on conditional sentences:

Zero and second conditional
Second conditional
First conditional
First and second conditional

THE PEOPLE WATCHERS - INTERMEDIATE

We have read about 'The People Watchers' but now it is time you learned a bit more about this British programme:

'The People Watchers' is a 20-part programme that aims to explain why people behave the way they do by performing experiments involving members of the public. Presented by Richard Wiseman, Emma Kenny, Jack Lewis and Sara Clarke.

LISTENING COMPREHENSION - INTERMEDIATE

Watch this short video about some of the work that goes into preparing for the great North Run to find out more. Then answer the questions.
Preparing for the Great North run

CONDITIONALS- ZERO, FIRST AND SECOND - INTERMEDIATE

This is a classroom game where students answer questions to win billions.Review conditional sentences, first, zero, second and third conditionals in this billionaire game- Wait for game to fully load before playing.


Do you want to be a billionaire? Conditionals

PRESENT SIMPLE, PRESENT CONTINUOUS AND SIMPLE PAST - BASIC 2

Welcome to the Snakes and Ladders game. Very simply, all you need to do in this game is answer questions correctly to get a chance at rolling the dice. Click Start to begin and Good Luck!
Snakes and Ladders -present simple vs continuous
Simple Past

This game is a hangman. A panel at the bottom provides (gives) you with the letters of the English alphabet and numerals zero to nine. Click on the letters and numbers to complete the sentence. After your sixth incorrect entries, the hangman says the answer. If you get the right answer, you are free of the noose and move on to the next question.
Escape the hangman

This is a word game where you need to form and spell irregular past tense verbs by reading the clues.All the best!
Irregular past tense

Pactice differentiating past tenses from present tenses by classifying them into the right groups. Tenses : Present simple, Present progressive, Past Simple, Past Progressive.

English Present vs Past Tenses

Pactice using the past simple by playing this television style jeopardy betting game. Read the sentence and enter the correct form of the verb in brackets. The game is timed.

Past Simple Betting Game

PAST SIMPLE - BASIC 2

These are some activities that you could do to practise the simple past:


Reading and listening comprehension. I recommend you not to read the texts. The first two times, just listen to them. If you consider it is necessary for you, you can listen and read it a third time.

1. Rafa Nadal
2. JK Rowling
3. The Opium Wars

Videos and Irregular verbs

1. Video Lesson - Verb Families
2. Irregular Verbs - Crossword 1
3. Irregular Verbs - Crossword 2
4. Word Order

CONDITIONALS - ZERO, FIRST AND SECOND - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

This is a powerpoint presentation to learn how to use conditionals (zero, first and second)

Conditionals - Grammar explanation

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LOVE

Valentine's Day is round the corner. This is the first of so many activities we are going to enjoy these coming days. Love is around us and is a feeling that can cause strong feelings on us.  This is a humble contribution made by Misael, Intermediate 2. I hope you enjoy this presentation.

PAST SIMPLE - BASIC LEVEL

SIMPLE PAST

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MUSIC - ALL LEVELS

Practice for TOEFL with English, baby!

PHONETICS - ALL LEVELS

Here are videos to show you how to pronounce the different sounds in English. The site is very clear and can help you pronounce those new difficult sounds.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/vowel_short_5.shtml

LISTENING - ALL LEVELS

Hundreds of free exercises to learn English online. Give it a try and improve your listening skills. If you are nosy, why not try other sections on the site?
http://www.agendaweb.org/listening/elem_interm.html

PHONETICS - /e/ /æ/ /ʌ/ - BASIC LEVEL

This is the link from BBC learning English to practise the pronunciation of these three sounds. The activities are fun. There are a lot of examples to do.

Egg, Cat and Cup

CHRISTMAS IN FILMS - ALL LEVELS

These are segments of films that show what Christmas is about.


What Christmas is All About







Mashups



— MOVIECLIPS.com

SHORT STORIES - ALL LEVELS

As I know you love reading in English, I thought you could enjoy these websites which I took from another teacher. I hope you can have fun reading these short stories.
http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/britlit

DICTATION - INTERMEDIATE AND BASIC

A fellow teacher of English posted this link on his Facebook account and I thought it could be really useful to help you recognise English sounds.
http://www.dictationsonline.com/

ADJECTIVES - INTERMEDIATE

How many adjectives do you know? Test your knowledge with these interactive quizzes. Move the adjectives on the right to match the words with the oposite meaning on the left.

Opposites Quiz 1
Opposites Quiz 2
Opposites Quiz 3
Opposites Quiz 4
Opposites Quiz 5

PEOPLE AND PLACES - BASIC

This is another video which you can find in Speakout. People speak about their houses, families, friends, etc. It is a good practice to revise structures we have studied these last months. Try to answer the questions and use the vocabulary you can hear in the videos.



This is a video about places where people live.

DAILY ROUTINES - BASIC

Listen and watch this video from Speakout in which you can hear people talking about their daily routines.

CHRISTMAS VOCABULARY - BASIC LEVEL

Learn these English words for Christmas.
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/christmas/beginner-christmas-vocabulary.html

These are words related to Christmas shopping. Do you buy them for Christmas as presents?
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/christmas/christmas-shopping-picture-quiz.html

Now, do this matching exercise. You have to match pictures and words. Click on the word and drag it to the picture.
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/christmas/beginner-christmas-picture-quiz.html

Here is a short reading about Christmas traditions
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/christmas/elementary-christmas-reading.html

This is a bit longer but you can try reading it too. It also has got questions to answer.
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/christmas/intermediate-christmas-shopping-reading.html

Finally, this is a famous carol for you to sing along.
We wish you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 

CHRISTMAS - ALL LEVELS

If you love Christmas and want to know a bit more about Christmas in the UK or the USA or you want to learn more vocabulary or even sing along Christmas carols, this is your website: http://www.esolcourses.com/topics/christmas.html

WHAT TIME IS IT? - BASIC LEVEL

These are some entertaining activities that you can use to learn the time in English.
Match the times with the clocks

DEALING WITH WORK - INTERMEDIATE 2

Do you know anything about working in the UK? Here there is a quiz to test you what you really know about UK employment law.
UK Employment Law

This short information video about fair treatment at work will help you to practise your listening skills.

Click on the play button to the bottom left of the screen to watch the video. You can pause the video, or rewind it and watch it over again as many times as you feel you need to.
When you have watched the video, scroll down the page and do the quiz to test how much you have understood. If you get stuck on any of the questions, you can watch the video again to help you with the answers.
Your Rights at Work

These is useful information about English Law relating to fair treatment at work
Rules and Regulations

If you are interested in some other lessons on work, you will find plenty of them here.
English for work

USED TO / GET USED TO / BE USED TO

This is the powerpoint presentation that explains how to use them and what they mean.

Used to / get used to / be used to

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MODAL VERBS - INTERMEDIATE

English modal verbs are special verbs that are used to show possibility, ability, permission, and so forth. Really Learn English! provides you with excellent explanation to help you understand them better.

CAN / CAN'T - BASIC LEVEL

How well do you remember this modal verb that expresses ability? Can you remember everything or can't you remember anything? Try this exercise to find out! In each sentence choose which answer is needed to make correct sentences.

Learn English - can or can't

Note: Sometimes we replace 'can't' with 'cannot'. They have exactly the same meaning but can't is much more common.

CHARACTER TRAITS - INTERMEDIATE 2

As we have been dealing with adjectives related to the character traits, I thought you might need some help to review those adjectives and look up their pronunciation. On the links below, you are going to find a lot of those adjectives. Open up those pages and try out pronouncing them.

Characte traits - A-B
Character traits - C
Character traits - D-E
Character traits - F-G
Character traits - H-I
Character traits - J-M
Character traits - M-P
Character traits - P-R
Character traits - R-S
Character traits - S-T

WINTER CLOTHES - BASIC 2

Vocabulary for elementary learner. These pages have exercises about winter clothes and weather.
Esol courses - winter

IRREGULAR VERBS GAMES

Do you want to play and learn the irregular verbs? I found this game on a website called letshavefunwithenglish.com. This game is only for past tenses.

This game is for past participles

ADJECTIVES AND JOBS - INTERMEDIATE 2

Feelings Adjectives:

Who’s that outside the school?

Lots of adjectives to do with feelings are highlighted throughout the article and there is a glossary to help you understand them below the article.

WHAT ARE PEOPLE LIKE? - BASIC

I have found these videos about what people are like. Listen to them and do the exercises:
What are the Americans like?
What are the British like?
What are the Italians like?
What are the Germans like?

But what are the Canarians like? Leave your say in comentarios

ADJECTIVES - BASIC 2

This is a listening activity. You listen to the adjectives and then find their opposite. ESL GAMES OPPOSITES

LISTENING PRACTICE FOR BASIC 2

This website has got a lot of short listening texts. The audio goes slowly and there is also a transcription of the audio. It can be good to get better at English. The link is Super Easy Reading for Beginners. There are 100 different texts.

INTERNET ADDICTION - INTERMEDIATE

We have dealt with the topic in class but now you can continue your practice from home. Listen and do some of the activities designed for this topic.

South Korea's internet addicts

And now, after watching the video, would you say you are a web junkie?

PHONETICS - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

This is a pronunciation quiz to see how well you can do it in phonetics.

Pronunciation quiz

MEANS OF TRANSPORT - BASIC LEVEL

Activities to remember the means of transports. It is fun.

Means of transport 1
There are two exercises. When you finish the first exercise, you have to click where it says 'exercise 2', at the top of the page on the right.

ADJECTIVES - BASIC 2

These are games to find the pairs. You can learn and play at the same time. Click on the links.
Opposites
Opposite game 1
Opposite game 2
Opposite game 3
Opposite game 4

Synonyms
Synonym game 1
Synonym game 2
Synonym game 3
Synonym game 4

NARRATION - INTERMEDIATE 2

For those of you who have not come to school lately, here is the notes on how to write a narration.

How to write a narrative text

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LISTENING FOR INTERMEDIATE

Click on the link and enjoy a wide range of exercises.

Mosaic

The Mosaic project is designed for the EOI second level students (A2 or Pre-Intermediate) to practice, expand and consolidate the contents seen in the classroom. With the new curriculum for EOIs sometimes there is no time to do in class all the listening activities we would like to since they can be too time-consuming but essential to the student. Therefore the aim of this project is to fill this gap.

LISTENING FOR BASIC 2

Click on the links below to listen and answer the questions.

Family
A bad day
Reading preferences
coffe in heaven
At the tourist office
What city would you like to see?

HALLOWEEN - BASIC LEVEL

First some vocabulary


And now a bit of story about Halloween. This can help you understand the story of this festivity both in the UK and the USA.

ADJECTIVES - BASIC LEVEL

PREPOSITIONS - ALL LEVELS

This Sesame Street video shows the prepositions to children. I thought it could help you understand them better.