Asking and Giving Directions

1. After watching the video, just listen to the dialogues again, without watching. Then try to draw a map illustrating the directions given in each dialogue.



2. Can you make up a dialogue for this scene? What does the dog ask? What does the elder man tell the dog?

3. Have a look at the map. Make up new dialogues asking and giving directions. Take into account the expressions below:

- Excuse me, can you tell me where the ... is, please?
- Go straight ahead.
- Take the first/second/third... right/left.
- The (cinema) is oppositte/next to (a supermarket).
- Thanks / You're welcome.

Greeting - in a business meeting, your classmate, at a party, someone you met unexpectedly

Dates of birth - American English

Take it as a dictation of dates of birth.

1. Just listen - don't watch the video yet- and write down the dates with numbers only.

2. Finished? OK, now watch and correct your notes.



With this second video, you can use either the dates of birth or death, or both. Say them aloud as follows:

Elvis Presley was born on ...
He died on ...

Introducing yourself

Make a table that includes the personal information in the examples provided. 

Greetings and introductions

1. Watch the video.


2. What do you know about the people 1-6? Write it down in your notebooks.

3. Watch it again and write down the dialogue involving people 2 and 3.

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.

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.

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.