Transport in London

 
Activity 1. Listening activity: choosing transport from Heathrow into town. 

Activity 2. Listening activity: at the ticket office.

Activity 3. Listening activity: in the underground station.  

Activity 4. Reading activity: comparing travel options.

Charity

 

Activity 1: Listen to the podcast and find out what chugging is.

Activity 2: Red Nose day. Read the text and do the exercises. Then, check your answers.

Present perfect simple or continuous?

Click here if you need to know how to use the present perfect continuous.

Activity 1: Complete the gaps with the correct form.

Activity 2: Complete the sentences.

Activity 3: Order the words in the sentences.

St Patrick's Day

Watch the video and complete the sentences. You can find the answers as a 'comment' to the post: 

1. Saint Patrick was not Irish, he was ___________________________.
2. He was _________ years old when he was kidnapped and spent ___________ years in captivity.
3. According to one myth, he drove all the ______________ out of Ireland, but it's not true.
4. It was said that he used the leaves of the shamrock to explain the Holy _____________.
5. The tradition of celebrating the 17th March with parades started in __________ (place).
6. The first parade in New York dates to __________________.
7. On St. Patrick's Day we all should wear _________________.

Present perfect simple or simple past?

• When we use the past simple, a specific time in the past is mentioned: 'Did you see the match last night?' or understood between the speakers: 'Did you see the match?' (We both know it was last night...). So, a question beginning with 'When...?' will normally be in the past simple.   
• We use present perfect for a past action where no specific time is mentioned or understood: 'I've been to Paris twice', or when there is a connection with the present: 'I've worked here for two years' (I'm still working here). 

Activity 1: Choose the correct answer.
Activity 2: Click on the words in the correct order.                
Activity 3: Complete the sentences with the correct tense.
Activity 4: For and since.
Activity 5: For and since.
Activity 6: Listen and write the verbs in the correct tense.
Activity 7: Yet, just, already.
Activity 8: Yet, just, already. 

Important people

Listen to the speakers talking about important people in

their lives and do the exercises to practise and improve your listening skills.

Future forms

• We use going to for things we have already decided to do, it's our plan or intention:

'I'm going to study Law at university next year'

It can also be used to express a prediction. It is based on evidence:

'It's late! You're going to miss the train.'

• We use present continuous for future arrangements when a time / place has been agreed (most of the times 'going to' is also possible). However, with the verbs 'go', 'leave', 'come', 'meet', 'have', we tend to use the present continuous.

'I'm having dinner with my colleagues tomorrow night'

• We use 'will', 'won´t' for instant decisions at the moment of speaking, offers, promises and predictions:

'I'll buy the blue sweater' (in a shop) INSTANT DECISION

'There's no milk left. I'll go and buy some' / Shall I buy some milk? OFFERS

'I'm sorry. I won't do it again' PROMISES

'I think families will be smaller in the future' *PREDICTIONS

*For predictions, will / won't and going to can both be used. However, when you can see that something is about to happen it is more common to use going to: 'He's going to crash' (I can see him going towards a tree)

Activity 1: Click on the words in the correct order.
Activity 2: Choose the correct answer.
Activity 3: Future plans. Choose the correct answer.
Activity 4: Will or going to?
Activity 5: Will or going to?