PRACTISING COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

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PRACTISING MODALS WITH BON JOVI

WHERE DO I WANT TO LIVE? GUESS IT!

I live in a big city, many people live here. This city is very famous all around the world.

I live in the centre of the city. In front of my house it is the Public Library, it is very big and has appeared in many movies.

If you go to the right and walk two blocks, you can see the grand central station, it is very high and bright.

Now you go back to the starting point and you continue straight ahead this Avenue along eight blocks, then on your right you will see a famous church  and its holy day is in March.

Next to the church it is the biggest  shopping centre, there if you go up to the top of the building you will see the best panoramic viewpoint  of the city and if you go down, on the ground you will skate on ice.

Near this shopping center there are the TV studio offices, famous for everyone who follows series as for example: Friends, Emergency, V, Miami Vice, ….

By the way, if you go out to have a walk and you take the Avenue again and you continue straight ahead along eight blocks, you will see the biggest park in the city called: The Lung of the City. Its shape is rectangular and its measures are  4,000 meters x 800 meters.

            That’s all!!!  

IN WHAT CITY DO YOU THINK I WANT TO LIVE?  IT IS VERY EASY. 

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THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD

Could you say in English all the nations all around the world without getting lost? 

Let's try.

DISCOVERING LONDON

Have a look at this article from the Britannica on line prestigious encyclopaedia.  You will learn many things about the city, and because of the 10 videos with a perfect spoken English, you will learn about culture, main buildings and places to visit, history and much more.  Just a quick view all over this cosmopolitan city.

Click here to get access and just click the Videos label.

KEEPING IN TOUCH

And now, let's speak a bit

Do you usually write postcards or letters?

How many email accounts have you got?

Do you prefer your old telephone or your new smartphone?

What do you prefer: to write text messages, use whatsapp or make a call?

Do you have Internet in your mobile phone?

Do you know what the Apps are?  How many Apps do you usually use?
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A COMMERCIAL

What do you think about it? 

Does something like that happen in real life?

What do you think about men vs women asking for directions?

A ZARAGOZA VIDEO

Hi students,

Have a look at this video from "The Independent" called "48 Hours in Zaragoza" by Simon Calder. You will enjoy visiting your city and practising English listening.  If you want you can get access to other interesting tourist videos.

See you then,
Loli

MODALS

 Practising Modals OPEN HERE

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Join this website to work with many online exercises about Modal verbs 

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MODALS

USEFUL EXPRESSIONS ABOUT DIRECTIONS

A list of useful expressions and questions to ask and answer for directions:

-          Excuse me. Could you tell me the way to…?.

-          I´m lost.

-          Go on / go up / go down to…

-          Turn left/right   or Turn on the left/right.

-          Straight up-down/ Straight on

-          Cross.

-          Next.

-          It´s just along here and your first/second… on the left..

-          That way.

-          Up to. “Up to the traffic lights”.

-          I´m afraid, I don’t know the way.

-          Thanks a lot.

-          Excuse me. Could you help me?.

-          Thanks for your help!.

-          Can you say to me how to arrive at / in…?.

-          Can I go by car?.

-          Please, is there a bank near here?.

-          The third on the right and then the first on the left.

-          Where am I?.

-          Yes, of course.

-          …A hundred metres later you turn on the…

-          At the end of this street, you turn on…

-          It´s just there.

-          Soon you will arrive.

-          You should go to the…

-          It is near the… in front of the… next to the…

-          Should/Could/Would.

-       May/Can/Will/Must

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VOCABULARY FOR GIVING DIRECTIONS

OPEN THIS LINK AND PRACTISE THIS EASY VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS.

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TWO VIDEOS with useful expressions ABOUT DIRECTIONS

Hi,

Here you will find two videos with different and useful expressions about asking and giving directions.

 Best wishes.

VIDEO PODCAST (Asking and giving directions)

Watch this youtube video podcast to get more familiar with directions.
All the best,
Loli 

 

TASK: IN A TOWN/CITY

Hello students,

  Through this new task, we are going to ask for directions, to describe your neighbourhood, to know the main buildings in a city, to design a leaflet with tourist information, to use the modals being polite, to describe your way home, to suggest any excursion and of course to work with a list of useful expressions and vocabulary about the subject.

Here you are the tasks, choose one of them and work on it:

1.-  Descibe giving directions the way you use to walk or drive going from the Adult Centre to your house.  Could you guess where does he/she live?  Could you give the name of the street where he/she lives?

2.-  You have just arrived at La Puebla de Alfindén and you need to go to the doctor, but you don't know how to get there.   Ask a person where exactly is it.  Give as many explanations as you can.  Choose any starting point and build a dialogue in a polite way.

3.-  Make a list of useful expressions and questions to ask and answer for directions.

4.- Name and give a little description of the main buildings and services we have here in La Puebla de Alfindén.  Imagine you have been asked to prepare a tourist information leaflet.

5.-  Write some praragraphs about your neighbourhood.  You can compare the way of living in a village and in a big city, your relationship with your neighbours or whatever you want.

6.-  Suggest any excursion starting from La Puebla de Alfindén to let us know some pictoresque and interesting place full of local colour.  Give explanations about how to get there on foot or by car.

Remember you will have to explain your tasks to the rest of the class as a speaking activity.

All the best,

Loli