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Sunday, November 11, 2012

PHONE NUMBERS AND PERSONAL QUESTIONS

Good afternoon class!
Please click on PHONE NUMBERS, EXERCISE 1 and PHONE NUMBERS EXERCISE 2 to practise a bit more your listening skills.

Also, there is a part of the Oxford University Press website with easy dialogues for you to listen and practise. This one is about PERSONAL QUESTIONS.

Have fun!

Thursday, November 8, 2012

THE ALPHABET AND SPELLING

HELLO GUYS!

In this installment of Real English videos the alphabet is dealt with. Watch the video to revise how to pronounce the alphabet.

Pay attention to the following:

As the speakers are American, they spell the letter Z as / zi: / and not / zed / as the British do.

The second speaker, Gillian (28"), gives us a very practical way to memorise the alphabet. She recites the alphabet according to the vowel sound the letter has:

/ei/ A H J K
/i:/ B C D E G P T V (Z)
/e/ F L M N S X Z
/ai/ I Y
/əʊ/ O
/u:/ Q U W
/a:/ R

Some of the speakers show a tendency to spell their names in groups of three letters, pausing for a split second to let the listener figure out the word being spelt.

You can watch the same video with subtitles on the Real English web page here.

Real English also provides this video to test our ability to understand words/names being spelt.

Again, you can watch the same video with subtitles on the Real English we page here.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

BASIC REAL ENGLISH

Hello class!

Welcome to the 2012-2013 school year. To start, here is a wonderful website with videos about basic vocabulary: numbers, nationalities, possessives, etc. Enjoy!

http://www.multimedia-english.com/contenidos/listado/basic-real-english

Monday, May 28, 2012

Hi guys!

Here it is at last! Take a look at all the videos. It took so much work! However, it paid off . I hope you

enjoy them as much as I have!

and the making of...

and the superb work of the secciones!

Monday, May 21, 2012

George and Winifred Seymour

Read the text and complete the chart below with a word from the list you have after the text. Every word can only be used ONCE. There are some words that you do not need to use. Question 0 has been answered as an example. Key at the bottom!!!

George and Winifred Seymour

George and Winifred Seymour (0) _have__ just won the prize for being the couple with the (1) ______ marriage in Britain. The couple have been married for more (2) ______ 80 years. They (3) ______ when they were teenagers and married in 1920 when George (4) ______ 16 and his girlfriend, Winifred, 17.
The couple have four children, nine grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. They have lived in the same village for all of their married life and have never travelled (5) ______. Mr Seymour said, ‘We've (6) ______ to London three times and we went to Birmingham to see my sister once.' His wife added, 'I've never liked trips, I like (7) ______ at home with my family around me. I've never wanted to go very (8) ______.'
Their oldest son, Bertie, 79, said, ‘It's great to see them still alive and so happy together after all (9) ______ years. They have enjoyed good health all their lives: my father worked on a farm all his life and my mother has always worked (10) ______ in the home. They have never smoked and they haven't had (11) ______ wine or beer in their lives. (12) ______ Sunday we are going to give them a great party! A lot of people (13) ______ coming for this celebration. First we are going to church and (14) ______ we are going to have a meal at a hotel.’
Our reporter asked Mrs Seymour what she liked about her marriage and she said, 'I've been very lucky. I saw George was (15) ______ unique man. He was my (16) ______ boyfriend and we've had a very happy marriage.’

A ARE ~~HAVE~~ MET THAT ABROAD BE HARD ON THE AFTER BEEN IS ONLY THEN AN BEING KNEW OLDEST THESE ANY FAR LONGEST THAN WAS

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1. LONGEST
2. THAN
3. MET
4. WAS
5. ABROAD
6. BEEN
7. BEING
8. FAR
9. THESE
10. HARD
11. ANY
12. ON
13. ARE
14. THEN
15. A
16. ONLY