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

Likes and Routines Questions, by the GR2 students at IES Joan Oliver

Today the GR2 students at Joan Oliver Secondary School in Sabadell have asked each other a few questions about what they like and some habits.

Thanks for your willing collaboration, kids!


Now you can practise the simple present with these exercises: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Routines & habits. (1) Everyday life; (2) JOBS, "What do you do?"

Everyday Life.


What do the people do for a living? Just guess and listen for the first 4 minutes. Next the video is subtittled.


Now you can practise the simple present with these exercises: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Let's compare! Comparatives & superlatives

Opinions about the size of cities; other comments on geography; abilities like cooking, the beauty of languages... All of this by comparing and making statements in superlative terms.

Some comparatives in songs:


Do you prefer to watch this video subtitled?


 This is an audiovisual lesson just in 1 minute and 20 secs.
Scarcely in 2 minutes get the point of the use of the comparatives and superlatives. You can also do a speaking activity by using the pairs of photos provided.
  Don't forget to practise the comparatives and superlatives by doing these exercises: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

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?

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