SOMETHING TO DO AT CHRISTMAS

1. Listen to the Queen Elisabeth II:
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page5323.asp
2.Some quizzes & traditions about Christmas in the UK:
-http://www.ego4u.com/en/chill-out/games/new-year-quiz
-http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/eve.html
3. 100 short stories to listen to, read and work with them:
http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2/index.html

ADVANCED LEVEL-2

UNIT - 4:
-Want to know more?
1. Help with phobias: http://www.helpguide.org/mental/phobia_symptoms_types_treatment.htm
2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL-2

UNIT - 4:
-DO YOU WANT TO PRACTICE?
1.Past simple or Past continuous:
http://english.baladre.org/sedaviwebfront/4es3rdschedule.htm
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/pastsimpleorcontinuous/menu.php
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs3.htm
2. Past perfect simple:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/past-perfect-simple/exercises?05
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/past_perfect_simple_past.htm
3. Time linkers:
http://monkey-tricks.net/writemonkey/quiz/001_01.htm
http://www.eltbase.com/quiz/001_01.htm
http://www.eltbase.com/quiz/001_03.htm
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/curso/lesson22/06.html
4. Injuries:
http://www.englishclub.com/english-for-work/medical-vocabulary.htm
http://www.eslall.com/exercises_276_l0.html
5. Agreement & disagreement:
http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoEnglish/gr.sodo.i.htm
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/68.html
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/both-either-neither-nor
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-26838.php
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-4140.php
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-49198.php
-WANT TO KNOW MORE?
1. Lottery winners & good causes:
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/information.do?info=winnersandgc
2. British Supersitions:
http://www.norsknettskole.no/fag/ressurser/itstud/fuv/birteindresovde/
3. Autumn:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-492277/Forget-New-England-Old-England-produces-spectacular-autumn-colours.html
http://www.livinglifefully.com/fall.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A18107129

ADVANCED LEVEL-2

UNIT - 3
-MORE PRACTICE:
1. Participle clauses:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/participles/exercises?13
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/naturalenglish/upp/a_grammar/unit10/neup_grammar10_exp/ 2. A dictionary of English slang:
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
3. Work with American slang:
http://www.manythings.org/slang/
4.Expressions with "look":
http://a4esl.org/q/h/fb-vm-look.html
5. Compound Adjectives:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv224.shtml
http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=360
http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/advanced/compound%20adjectives%20match.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=1115_quiznet
-WANT TO KNOW MORE?
1. Fashion Debate:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/webcast/070308_fashion_quiz/
2. Discussion techniques:
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/discform.html
3. Play with consonant clusters. Here you have a funny game:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/clusters/blender/index.shtml

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL-2

UNIT - 3
-MORE PRACTICE:
1. Modal verbs:
http://www.englishpage.com/modals/modalintro.html
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/can/menu.php
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/could/menu.php
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/maymight/menu.php
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/musthaveto/menu.php
2. Accommodation vocabulary:
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bl_accommodation.htm
http://www.englishlanguageguide.com/english/vocabulary/accommodation.asp
http://esl.about.com/od/intermediatereading/a/r_tourism.htm
3. Listening about travelling:
http://www.carolinebrownlisteninglessons.com/traveling/menu.php
4. Polite requests:
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-51114.php
-WANT TO KNOW MORE?
1. Find a new flatmate:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/episode77/index.shtml
2. UK student life:
http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Life/Accommodation/Guide.htm
http://www.itstudies.co.uk/london4students/accommodation_files/vocabulary.htm

ADVANCED LEVEL-2

UNIT - 2
1. Practice listening:
-http://www.onthemedia.org/
2. Express your opinion:
-http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/dis04.html
-http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/youmeus/learnit/learnitv281.shtml
3. Discussion techniques:
-http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/discform.html
4.- Past habits:
-http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/episode69/index.shtml
-http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1346_gramchallenge15/index.shtml
-http://eps.emu.edu.tr/dept/mld/sct/materials/EFL117/past_habits.htm
5.- Idioms:
-http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/
-http://a4esl.org/q/h/idioms.html
-http://www.idiomsite.com/
6.- DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE?
-Vegetarianism:
-http://www.vegsoc.org/
-http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/07/food.foodanddrink
-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/09/do0901.xml

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL-2

UNIT 2
1.-If you have problems with phrasal verbs, here you will find some help:
-http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html
-http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/
& some practice too:
-http://www.stuff.co.uk/phrasal.htm
-http://www.carolinebrownenglishlessons.com/
-http://www.eflnet.com/pverbs/index.php
2.-Present perfect or past simple?
-http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/upperf2.htm
-http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/presentperfectorpastsimple/menu.php
-http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs5.htm
-http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/228.html
3.- Travelling:
-http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/survival/polite%20inquiries.htm
-http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/survival/ride%20downtown.htm
-http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/survival/checking%20in.htm
-http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/survival/can%20you%20can%20i%20modals%20for%20polite%20questions.htm
3.- DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE?
-About Australia:
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia
-http://www.australia.com/
-About UK Parliament:
-http://www.parliament.uk/
-http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/default.stm
-http://www.number10.gov.uk/

ADVANCED LEVEL-2

UNIT 1:
Useful links:
http://learnenglish.ecenglish.com/verb-tense-review-quiz
http://learnenglish.ecenglish.com/how-use-unless-and-as-long
http://learnenglish.ecenglish.com/adverbs-time
http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass/home/vernav/Europasss+Documents/Europass+CV/navigate.action
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Applications__CVs_and_interviews/CVs_and_covering_letters/Covering_letters/p!ejFdaLl
Do you want to know more?
http://learnenglish.ecenglish.com/talking-about-preferences-using-prefer-better-and-would-rather
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6241411.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-big-question-are-apologies-for-historical-events-worthwhile-or-just-empty-gestures-426138.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6492291.stm
http://www.carbootjunction.com/index.php

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL-2

UNIT 1:
Useful links:
http://learnenglish.ecenglish.com/lessons/what-are-state-verbs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/episode31/languagepoint.shtml
http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blgr_advice.htm
http://learnenglish.ecenglish.com/lessons/giving-advice
http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/grammar/Interactive/whrev1.html
http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/grammar/Interactive/who1.html
Do you want to know more?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_5020000/newsid_5029400/5029400.stm
http://www.people.com/people/brad_pitt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_pitt
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/index.htm

ACADEMIC YEAR 2008-2009

Welcome to this new academic year!
In this blog you'll find useful links and websites that you can use to improve your English and to know more about some interesting aspects of English-speaking countries.
Enjoy this course!!!
Cristina