FACES

What about the special language used in texting? Click here.

Some listenings on mobile phones:

Mobile phones can be annoying

Feelings about phones

She needs a mobile…

Pros and cons of mobiles

An English girl living in Japan

A cross-cultural relationship

Keiko, a Japanese girl living in the USA

An interesting explanation and exercises on modal verbs

Check the web from our book

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.

Click here to see the complete report.

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.

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

What 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: