Take a seat & make a friend

I came accross this video on the internet and I remembered we talked about friends in unit 1. Here you have a new way of making friends...

What do you think about it?

Liverpool Football Club

A few days ago in class we listened to a podcast about Liverpool Football Club. You can download the podcast and the activities here so you can practise at home.

Do you like football? Do you ever watch football on TV? What about Liverpool FC? Do you know anything about them?


We will now do a little activity about Liverpool FC so you will have to look for some practical details in their website.

First all go to their website and familiarise with it. On the top menu, go to the "Team" section.

Can you find the following information?

1. How tall is Steven Gerrard?

2. How heavy is Henderson?

3. Where about England was Lambert born?

4. Which position does Jones play?

5. When was Lucas born?

6. What nationality is Allen?

7. How many goals has Johnson scored?

8. Who is the manager?

9.What is Can's first name?

10. What is Borini's squad number?




Do you follow the Premier League? Do you know any other English teams?

Tell me in a comment ;-)






ANSWERS:
1. 1.83 m
2. 67 kg
3. Kirkby
4. Goalkeeper
5. 09/01/1987
6. Welsh
7. 8
8. Brendan Rodgers
9. Emre
10. 29

Coffee OR tea??

What do you prefer coffee or tea?


Listen to some people answering this question:

I'm a coffee person! I like drinking my coffee every morning in front of the computer, but sometimes I also enjoy a nice cup of tea.

What about you??

I am what I am - Gloria Gaynor

1. Watch the video and listen to Gloria Gaynor singing I am what I am.

2. Now listen again and complete the blanks with a word from the list. 

Listen to the song twice and try to fill in all the blanks.

 strong     needs (x2)     think      true     sometimes (x2)     want     open     somebody     see 

I am what I am
I don't want praise I don't (1)________ pity
I bang my own drum
Some (2)________ it's noise I think it's pretty
And so what if I love each sparkle and each bangle
Why not try to (3)________  things from a different angle
Your life is a shame
Do you can shout out I am what I am
Do you can shout out I am what I am

I am what I am
And what I am (4)________  no excuses
I deal my own deck
Sometimes the aces (5)________  the deuces
It's one life and there's no return and no deposit
One life so it's time to (6)________  up your closet
Life's not worth a dam till you can shout out
I am what I am
I am what I am

I am what I am
And what I am (7)________  no excuses
I deal my own deck sometimes the aces (8)________  the deuces
It's one life and there's no return and no deposit
One life so it's time to (9)________  up your closet
Life's not worth a dam till you can shout out
I am what I am

I am I am (10)________ 
I am I am strong
I am I am somebody
I am I do belong 
I am I do belong 

I am I am useful
I am I am (11)________ 
I am I am worthy
I am as good as you
I am as good as you

I am I am good
I am I am strong
I am I am (12)________ 
I am I do belong

2. Now check your answers in this video where you can read the lyrics.

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What makes children unhappy?

Listen to some children answering the question: 

"What makes you unhappy?"

What about YOU? What makes YOU unhappy?

When you're down, what makes you happy?

Listen to some people answering the question:

When you're down, what makes you happy?

Listen to Pharrell Williams' song Happy. Do you like it? Does it make you happy?

What makes you happy?

Tell me in a comment :-D

St Patrick's Day

Watch the video and listen to the song to find out more about St Patrick's Day.

What's the best and worst thing about shopping in London?

Listen to different people answering this question:


What's the best and worst thing about shopping in London?





Have you been to London?

Have you been shopping in London?

What's the best and worst thing about shopping in London?

Tell me in a comment!

VIDEO: Shopping is great 1

This is the video we watched in class today.

You can read the transcript here. 

London

As you already know I am staying in London, Wimbledon to be more specific, for a week with a group of students from the EOI. They are attending an English course in the morning and visiting London in the afternoons.

Those who know me well know that I'm madly in love with London probably because when I was 17 I spent three months on my own in Wimbledon studying English at Wimbledon School of English.
The experience was just great. Imagine, a teenager in London! I got to go to the Tennis Championship, to all the attractions in London, to the famous nightclub Ministry of Sound. It was absolutely fantastic.

Now, listen to some people talking about how they feel about London.

 Have YOU been to London?

How do YOU feel about London?

Social Life

Do you like going out? Did you go out last night?

Listen to some people answering these questions 

You can answer the questions in a comment.

What do you do outside the classroom to learn English?

First of all I have to congratulate all of you who sent me the audio file. I know this task was very complex and unusual but once again you surprise me with your responsibility and the quality of your homework.

I made a podcast with some of your answers. Unfortunately I couldn't use all the files due to the format and the quality of audio, but do not worry if you cannot hear your voice this time you will do it next time. There's always more to come! ;-)

Here you have our very first podcast!!! Well done everyone!!

Click here to download it and listen to it.


And YOU? What do YOU do outside the classroom to learn English?

My favourite Christmas songs

1. Santa Claus is coming to town, Bruce Springsteen

2. All I want for Christmas is you, Mariah Carey

3. Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Michael Bublé

4. Last Christmas, Wham!

What is your favorite Christmas song???

Let me know in a comment ;-)

Hurricane - Bob Dylan

Listen to the song and put the verbs in the correct verb tense past simple or past continuous.

Bob Dylan - Hurricane

Pistols shots ring out in the barroom night

Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall

She sees the bartender in a pool of blood

Cries out "My God they killed them all"

Here comes the story of the Hurricane

The man the authorities (1)__________ to blame (COME)

For something that he never done

(2)__________ him in a prison cell but one time he could-a been (PUT)

The champion of the world.

Three bodies lying there does Patty see

And another man named Bello moving around mysteriously

"I didn't do it" he says and he throws up his hands

"I (3)__________ only the register I hope you understand (ROB)

I (4)__________ them leaving" he says and he stops (SEE)

"One of us had better call up the cops"

And so Patty calls the cops

And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashing

In the hot New Jersey night.

Meanwhile far away in another part of town

Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are driving around

Number one contender for the middleweight crown

(5)__________ no idea what kind of shit was about to go down (HAVE)

When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road

Just like the time before and the time before that

In Patterson that's just the way things go

If you're black you might as well not shown up on the street

'Less you wanna draw the heat.

Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the corps

Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowling around

He (6)__________ "I saw two men running out they looked like middleweights (SAY)

They (7)__________ into a white car with out-of-state plates" (JUMP)

And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head

Cop said "Wait a minute boys this one's not dead"

So they (8)__________ him to the infirmary (TAKE)

And though this man could hardly see

They told him that he could identify the guilty men.

Four in the morning and they haul Rubin in

Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs

The wounded man looks up through his one dying eye

Says "What do you bring him in here for ? He ain't the guy !"

Yes here comes the story of the Hurricane

The man the authorities (9)__________ to blame (COME)

For something that he never done

(10)__________ in a prison cell but one time he could-a been (PUT)

The champion of the world.

Four months later the ghettos are in flame

Rubin's in South America fighting for his name

While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game

And the cops are putting the screws to him looking for somebody to blame

"Remember that murder that (11)__________ in a bar ?" (HAPPEN)

"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"

"You think you'd like to play ball with the law ?"

"Think it might-a been that fighter you (12)__________ running that night ?" (SEE)

"Don't forget that you are white".

Arthur Dexter Bradley said "I'm really not sure"

Cops said "A boy like you (13)__________ use a break (CAN)

We got you for the motel job and we're talking to your friend Bello

Now you don't want to have to go back to jail be a nice fellow

You'll be doing society a favour

That son of a bitch is brave and getting braver

We want to put his ass in stir

We want to pin this triple murder on him

He ain't no Gentleman Jim".

Rubin could take a man out with just one punch

But he never (14)__________ like to talk about it all that much (DO)

It's my work he'd say and I do it for pay

And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way

Up to some paradise

Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice

And ride a horse along a trail

But then they (15)__________ him to the jailhouse (TAKE)

Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.

All of Rubin's cards (16)__________ marked in advance (BE)

The trial was a pig-circus he never had a chance

The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums

To the white folks who (17)__________ he was a revolutionary bum (WATCH)

And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger

No one doubted that he pulled the trigger

And though they could not produce the gun

The DA said he was the one who did the deed

And the all-white jury agreed.

Rubin Carter was falsely tried

The crime was murder 'one' guess who testified

Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied

And the newspapers they all (18)__________ along for the ride (GO)

How can the life of such a man

Be in the palm of some fool's hand?

To see him obviously framed

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land

Where justice is a game.

Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties

Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise

While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell

An innocent man in a living hell

That's the story of the Hurricane

But it won't be over till they clear his name

And give him back the time he's done

Put him in a prison cell but one time he could-a been

The champion of the world

ANSWER KEY:

1. came 2. put 3. was (only) robbing 4. saw 5. had 6. said 7. jumped 8. took 9. came 10. put 11. happened 12. saw 13. could 14. did 15. took 16. were 17. watched 18. went