PODCAST: TOP HOLIDAY SPOTS

Simon is being interviewed about his favourite places to go on holiday. There are two places he loves: Paimpol and Madeira.

Copy down these questions and read them carefully before listening to the podcast. Then answer them

1. Where is Madeira?

2. Which language do people from Madeira speak?

3. Why do people like to go to this island? (write three adjectives)

4. What can people do there? (2 things)

5. What surprises the interviewer about this island?

6. What’s the weather like?

7. Why is March the best time to visit Madeira?

8. Has Simon ever been to this place in March?

9. Where is Paimpol?

10. Who is it a good place for?

11. Which is its major attraction?

12. Why does Simon like going to Paimpol ?

1ST ESO TERM ONE

1. Read and listen
2.The alphabet
3.Countries and Nationalities
4.A rhyme
5. Christmas vocabulary
6. A Christmas poem
7. Rudolph is missing








(lyrics on page 45)

PROFESSIONS

1. jobs (with audio)
2. job quiz
3. crossword
4. listening exercises

A PRESCHOOL TEST

Draw this picture and copy the question, then answer it -in English, of course!- and give an explanation.

TONGUE TWISTERS

Practise these tongue twisters to improve your pronunciation

USEFUL LINKS FOR 1ST BACH

• Extra listening (3)
  
• Gerunds and infinitives
• Used to/get; be used to
• Phrasal verbs
• More phrasal verbs
• A supermodel biography
• Alek Wek speaks on behalf of Sudanese refugees
• Alek Wek in Sudan
• Memories of the Sudanese civil war
• Is fashion important to you? (listening exercise)
• How to write a biography
• Present Perfect
• Verb Tenses
• Future Tenses
• Future Tenses (2)
  
• Future Tenses (3)
• More Verb Tenses (includes modal verbs)
• Relative clauses (tutorial)
  
• Relative clauses 1
• Relative pronouns (omission)
• Relatives pronouns : which, where
• Relative pronouns : that, what
• Conjunctions (3 exercises.)
• Connectors (contrast)
• Connectors (addition)
• Connectors (cause and result)
• Reported Speech (tutorial)
  
• Reported Speech
• Reported Speech
• Reported Speech
  
• Reported Speech
• Reported Speech 2 (answers)
  
• Revision April
• Revision April (sol)
• Discourse Markers. (linking words tutorial)
• Clauses of purpose (Spanish)
  
• How to express purpose
  
• Conditional Sentences (mixed types)
• Passive Voice (exercises)
• Passive Voice (verbs with two objects)
• Passive Voice (verbs with two objects)
• Personal Passive (people say, think, believe ...)
• Passive Voice (mixed)
  
• Have/get Causative (tutorial and exercises)
• Make/do Collocations
• ALUMNOS SEPTIEMBRE
  

LET'S PLAY SOME MUSIC

Here there are some links where you can practise and improve vocabulary related to music.

• musical instruments 1
• musical instruments 2
• families in an orchestra . You can listen to the instruments

SOME SONGS I LOVE

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• Me and Bobby McGee lyrics
• Janis Joplin biography

lyrics

VINCENT MALLOY

Watch this video and answer the following questions:

• How old is Vincent Malloy?
• Is he an obedient boy?
• Who does he want to be?
• Which animals has he got at home?
• What does he imagine when his aunt comes to visit him?
• Which are his hobbies?
• What does he think his mother's flower bed is?
  

WHAT'S THE WEATHER LIKE TODAY?

You are going to listen to 14 people answering this question.

• Write down their answers in your notebook
• Watch the video again. This time the video is subtitled so that you can check your answers.
• There are some words you don't know: -overcast, brick, crisp, dull
• What do they mean? Look them up in a dictionary and add them to the other terms related to the weather you already have .