ORDERING IN A RESTAURANT

Here you have some excellent practice from VOA News; you will learn how to order coffee in formal and informal English as well as how to order breakfast and some advice on tips in the USA. You can also learn how to order lunch and how to order dinner.

Besides, you can improve your pronunciation (by listening and repeating) and listening. Just follow the instructions and do the activities. It's American English. Enjoy! 

A bit hard of hearing?

If you have problems to understand the listenings we are doing in class, maybe the information is this old post can help you (VOA News)

In any case, these are the 2 videos from the Real English page we saw un class:

PRESENT SIMPLE OR PRESENT CONTINUOUS?

Hi!
This is the presentation we used to revise this grammar point in unit 1. I hope it helps you
Pres Cont vs Simple

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!

Hellooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
Halloween is here again. Are you ready?


elcivics has some interesting information for you to read, just click here. Have a look at the first 3 pages.


This is a long story about a witch. You can listen to it or read it while you listen, you choose. The script is a little below the picture, where it says "Katie’s Halloween Aunt"


How about a Halloween song? Enjoy this one from the "Nightmare Before Christmas" (I think..)

I'd like to buy a hamburger

This is a short explanation (in Spanish) with examples and with a small exercise.

You can also visit this page, it will help you understand the difference between WOULD LIKE TO + INFINITIVE  and LIKE + ING. Finally, you can also do some exercises here and here.

For some fun, watch this video from the film "The Pink Panther", where inspector Cousteau tries to learn how to pronounce properly so that he can avoid suspicion in the USA... he tries to say... "I would like to buy a hamburger". Really funny!

comparatives & superlatives

Watch this presentation:

Comparative and Superlative

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For exercises to practise comparatives go here and here. For superlatives go here and here.

You're GOING TO learn something about the future

Hello and welcome!
Today we are going to revise the future with "be going to"+ Infinitive. Remember, we use it to...

1. - express intentions and talk about things we have decided to do in the future:

       What are you going to do tomorrow?

       I'm not going to watch TV, I'm going to do some sport

2. - predict the future, using information that we know now (present evidence):
       I've eaten too much, I'm going to be ill


To see the grammatical explanation and do some exercises to practise, please go here or to englishgrammarsecrets.


This is a listening from Randall's esl-lab page, to start practising.