The Lemon Tree Question

• Can you say all the actions happening at the moment?
• Why some other sentences are in the present simple?
• Which two questions words are mentioned?
• The beginning of the song is pretty pessimistic, but by the end it has become optimistic. Which are the key sentences. Explain the use of the future tense.
• We can conclude this is a song about i-o-----n.

Survey: Why do you like Ripollet?

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My Town 3 -- Vocabulary: Places

• What's there in this town?
• Compare this with your town.

Reported Speech

Ability, Permission, Advice, Obligation/Prohibition

ABILITY:
Look around. Sometimes everything looks so disappointing. The Rolling Stones couldn't get any Satisfaction in the 60's.
1. Why?
2. What else can't you do?



PERMISSION:

Joe Cocker is playing a funny game. Let's call it "You can leave your hat on". If you don't want to play it, just listen to revise some vocabulary about clothes and the structure for permission.

ADVICE:

Listen to Should I stay or should I go? by The Clash. The vocalist is complaining about his relationship with a girl.

1. Spot the four sentences conveying an advice.
2. The guy mentions two choices about what to do. Are any of them satisfactory? Why
3. Why doesn't he know what to do?
4. The boy promises something. What is it?
5. When does she feel happy with him?
6. Do you think the girl really loves him?
7. What piece of advice would you give him? What should he do?

GLOSSARY:

cool (v) to make colder.

blow (v) to explode.

bug (v) to bother.

tease (v) to annoy someone by deliberately offering something with the intention of delaying or withdrawing the offer.

OBLIGATION:
Freddie Mercury sang with The Queen "The Show Must Go On". It was a moral inner obligation for everybody to keep on going, when he was no longer in the band. Bloody AIDS!
1. Can you think of any other things we must do?
2. Can you also say some things we mustn't do?

Countable and Uncountable Food Items

What food do you like?
Express quantities.

Past continuous

More about the past in progress.
What were they doing?



A man went back to his travel agency after his holiday. He was not happy at all. Why was he complaining?

Everybody is a suspect!

Here we are chief Clancy Wiggum. He is worried about himself and the rich, in this case, Mr Burns.
The owner of Springfield's nuclear power station disappeared yesterday at eight in the evening. Obviously, everybody is a suspect.

Answer Wiggum's questions? (Send them as a comment)

1. Where were you yesterday at 8 pm?
2. What were you doing at that time?
3. What was your partner doing?

Some practice on the past continuous: 1; 1 2 3 4

1st versus 2nd conditional

Watch the two videos. The first one is about a musician. The second one is a scene of Fiddler on the roof, where a poor man talks about his life and expectations.

1. Which video is related to a hypothetical, improbable situation?
2. Which one is related to a probable consequence?
3. Can you write down a model sentence from each video and analyse their structure, as follows:

If + Subject + ...

4. Send a comment with your 1-3 answers.

In case you need some practice on: the 1st conditional: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; the 2nd conditional: 1 2 3 4 5

Jokes

A really funny short reading activity!
Jokes for Elementary Level
Jokes for Intermediate Level
Jokes for Advanced Level

Will you please recommend us a joke? Send your comment.

Treasure Hunts

Treasure Hunt The Simpsons Movie

My Town 2

Thanks to Álex, Olga, Marc and Nil we can enjoy a new video about your home town.

Guess:
1. What do you think they like about Barberà?
2. What don't they like?
3. Share your ideas with your partner.
4. Watch the video and check your answers.

Thank you very much for your collaboration, kids!

Excuse me? Do you know where a bank is?

Finding your way around the city while on holiday can be difficult unless you know what to say. Understanding directions is a big part of this.
Revise the prepositions of place: across from - behind - between - in front of - near - next to - opposite.
Now you are ready for this listening quiz and this unscrambling activity.

My Town

There are lots of places in a town.
1. How many can you think about? Parks, ...
2. Put your ideas in common with a few classmates. Any more places altogether?
3. Take all those places into account to say what you like about your town. Follow the model of the video.


For more practice on there's/are do these quizzes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.