Language Snippets - Wakey - Wakey (Slang)

Language Snippets. Slang: A Couch Potato

B2. Vocabulary: another and other

Watch the following video to practise the difference between another and other:

B2. Extra listening

Click on the links below to do more extra listening:

- Bocaray

- Greenhouse gases

- Homeopathy

- Computers

- Technology and relationships

- Music business

- Money

- Bullying

Easily confused words

Language snippets - Descriptive words

B2. Extra listening

Click on the links below to do more extra listening:

- Lost temples

- Challenging Oil Refineries

- Landslides

- Education in India

- Victorian Britain

- Food Pyramid

- McDonalds

- The Oldest Star

Language snippets - writing

B2. Listening: Extra practice

Click on the links below to do some practice:

- Foundation courses

- Superstitions

- Neighbours

- Property development

- Phobic disorders

- Sylvia Plath

- Population growth

- Facial recognition

- Tunnels

- General questions

- Air travel

- Computer games

- A ghost hunter

- Friendship

- University

- Accommodation

- Leisure

- Traffic report

- Health

- Environment

B2. Vocabulary: Types of houses

On Thursday we also talked about the different types of houses. Watch the following video to learn more about houses in England:


 Here is the vocabulary about different housing options:


- Terraced houses

- Detached house

- Semi-detached houses

- Bungalow

- Cottage

- Hut

- Block of flats

- Skyscrapers

- A bedsit

B2. Vocabulary: clothes and fashion

Last Thursday we talked about fashion and clothes. Click on the following links to learn some more vocabulary to talk about this topic:

- clothes and fashion

- Clothes

- Fashion

Fifth year - Tuesday 26 May 2015

Summary of the class:

- Listening. exam practice

- Speaking: exam practice

- Vocabulary: life events

- Speaking: Life events

Fifth year - Thursday 21 May 2015

Summary of the class:

- Speaking: exam practice

- Listening: exam practice

- Grammar: determiners

- Vocabulary: Plastic surgery

B2. Health in Britain

Watch the following video and answer the questions:

1. What is a GP?
2. How many GPs are there in Britain? How many are women?
3. What groups of people don’t have to pay for their medicines?
4. How many prescriptions are prepared by chemists?
5. When did the NHS start?
6. What did the NHS provide when it first started?
7. What is different today?
8. What diseases have a high level in Britain?
9. How much does the NHS cost?
10. What problems are mentioned?
11. What have new medicines and better diet raised?
12. How long do British men and women live on average?

Click here to check your answers

Language snippets - At the doctor's

Fifth year - Tuesday 19 May 2015

Summary of the class:

- Speaking: exam practice

- Vocabulary: health

- Vocabulary: alternative medicine

- Speaking: alternative medicine

- Listening: exam practice


Homework:

Complete the listening activity on page 82

Complete the activities on determiners on page 86

Language snippets - first aid

B2. Vocabulary: health

Watch the following videos to practise the pronunciation and vocabulary on health:

Fifth year - Thursdy 14 May 2015

Summary of the class:

- Brainstorming: being healthy / being sick

- Vocabulary: health. Click here to see the document we worked on.



- Listening: Sicko. Click here to see the questions (I haven't been able to find the same cut on youtube, so the first scene is missing from the video you have below)

- Listening: Sicko--- health care in the UK.



- Speaking: health


Homework:

Complete the activities on vocabulary on page 82

Language snippets - Food idioms

Click on the following links for further practice:

- Worksheet 1

- Worksheet 2