CONTENTS: STARTER AND UNIT 1

Here you are the contents of the starter unit and unit 1

JOBS SONG

This is a song called "She's not just a pretty face" sung by the American country pop artist Sania Twain. This song is included in the album UP! (2002). The lyrics contain lots of jobs and professions. Can you identify them all? Watch the video and do the exercise
You can check the lyrics here

"SING" BY TRAVIS

• Travis is a Scottish band  that included the song "Sing" in their third album called "The Invisible Band" released in 2001. Watch the video of the song without sound

• What is happening in the video? Make sentences using the following prompts
• a clock strike
• ride a bike
• wear smart clothes
• throw darts
• watch TV
• sit at a table
• serve food and drinks
• come into the dining room
• cut the lobster
• throw food
• have a food fight
• catch an olive with his mouth
• an octopus fly
• change channels

• Make a list of the food that appears on the video

• Now you can listen to the song and sing along. Check the lyrics here

DISAGREEMENT DICTATION

• You are going to watch an award winning stop motion film by Tobias Gundorff Boesen. It was filmed in a forest in Denmark. 

• Now you are going to have a dictation, but it's a different dictation. It's a disagreement dictation. Some of the information you will hear isn't correct . You have to change the wrong information to make it right according to the video.

• Now do the following activities
• tell the end of the story
• In your opinion, what's the message of the animation?
• Do you like it? Why (not)?

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Here you are the explanation of the present continuous and some exercises to do online

PRESENT CONTINUOUS from jesusmarcos42

Do you know how to use the present simple and the present continuous? Practise here

 

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WORD FORMATION

• Here you are some prefixes and suffixes used in word formation in English. Unfortunately there are no rules, so you need to practise a lot to learn them.
• This is an exercise on word formation
• These are some exercises on word formation to prepare the Cambrige exam
• Are you bored? Come on, one more
• And the last ones to prepare the First Certificate exam

• A review exercise with its key

PRONOUNS

Here you are a brief explanation of the use of pronouns in English with some links for practice