Tags: people
Mobile phones
24 JanDo you think driving and speaking on the phone is safe? Try this experiment! What’s the story of mobile phones? Read and listen!
What about the special language used in texting? Click here.
Some listenings on mobile phones:
2011 in review
1 JanThe WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,900 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
CHRISTMAS SONGS
27 Dec
SOME TYPICAL CHRISTMAS SONGS
So This is Christmas by John Lennon
Kylie Minogue asks Santa for all kinds of things… Watch her performance or the lyrics
Last Christmas by Wham or watch the tacky original video…
Jingle Bell Rock by Billie Idol or the classic version with lyrics.
Travel and transport
5 Dec
Listenings: Being a pilot, Travelling options, Travelling with family?, Business Travel, Space travel.
Some explanations and listenings on travelling.
More listenings: How do you get a driver’s licence? Learning how to drive and teen driving.
Some more listenings from the coursebook Tourism by OUP
Present perfect simple and continuous
23 NovWhat a wonderful presentation!!!
A very interesting link with theory and exercises (at the end of the page). More exercises: to distinguish both and from the web of our book.
Do you confuse the present continuous and the present perfect continuous? Try this one!
Do you also have problems with for, since or ago? For, since or ago
Another highly interesting blog from another colleague teaching first intermediate, which also has a listening.
Watch this song with examples about the present perfect continuous:







living standards without (or at least with less) money? Watch this video!
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