Homework and help

Hi Upper 2,
The homework was p.73 – 4a) and PRACTICE. If you want you can send me answers by email but I will collect the books in on Tuesday in any case.
The grammar of Present Perfect Simple/ Continuous is hard. I can try and answer your questions in class too.
Here is a webpage with worksheets [...]

Speak Up

One more link is for the magazine Speak Up. It has good ideas for the Great Britain Project if you are in a group doing it. Also it has lots of listening material, good for TOEFL practice or FCE or CAE.

Ideas for Great Britain Project

I know most of you have your ideas already but if you want to do something really interesting, may I suggest any of these. All of these are British…
Braveheart
Mr.Bean (or the actor Rowan Atkinson)
Monty Python (or John Cleese)
Hugh Grant
James Bond
Charlie and Lola
Billy Elliot
Amy Winehouse
Coldplay
Ewan McGregor
Fish’n’chips
Margaret Thatcher
Winston Churchill
Isaac Newton
Tea
I really, really, really want someone to do [...]

Media and News

In some groups we have talked about the media and news. We watched this video in Master 2. It is a really interesting new idea of how to do international news. You can find out more here at their YouTube channel.

Advanced Speaking

Hey guys,
Emanoela asked about World City Slicker, the online game we played. You can access it here. A great way to learn Geography. The site is mousebreaker.com if you want to play more games!
Also, Corrine Bailey Rae’s husband died recently from a drug overdose. That is a very sad story. Here is one of her [...]

Gever Tulley: Health, safety and childhood development

To practice listening you can watch (or if you want to simulate TOEFL – then only listen to the video!) a lecture on the website ted.com. You can access the talk by clicking here. Listen, take notes and answer these 7 questions.
1 Why does the professor say to “take all this advice with a grain [...]

Upper 2 homework

p.69 numbers 3, 4, 5, 7, 8. Send me an email with your answers. Some people still owe me homeworks from p.63, Write Better.
Test help. The test is on Thursday. Revise house vocabulary – it will help you with the reading. Also don’t forget to revise “wish” grammar (p.62) and “have something done” grammar (p.68). [...]

Visual Dictionary

Somebody recently showed me this excellent website: http://visual.merriam-webster.com/. It is a visual dictionary – lots of pictures with labels to help you learn vocabulary. Go see!

Cricket and Rugby

Hi Advanced Speaking class,
You asked me about cricket and rugby last week and I forgot to bring you some videos. But, here are some on Youtube.
Cricket is the most popular sport of India (and many other countries too). Here is a Nike advertisement for cricket that shows the passion in India for this game.
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Country House

Hi Upper Int 2, here is another funny song about houses for you. This song is by the English band Blur and it is called “Country House”. (The guy from Blur is also the lead singer of Gorillaz). You can follow the lyrics here.