British food

Watch the video and do the tasks. You can also have a look at the script.

This website- Word on the Street- has lots of great videos with activities and scripts. You can learn a lot about British culture: food, transport, fashion, where to go out at night... You can also learn about different places in Britain.

How to write....

If you need some help with the writing skill, why don’t you have a look at this website?

It has been designed for university students, but you can get information on how to use linking words (with an exercise), how to write paragraphs or how to use punctuation. You also have information on how to write essays, reports, formal letters and some samples of them.

"The Spanish Revolution"

Demonstrators gather and shout slogans in Madrid's famous landmark Puerta del Sol, against politicians, bankers and authorities' handling of the economic crisis May 18, 2011. The demonstrations began on Sunday May 15, when thousands of people gathered in several cities in Spain to demand what they called 'real democracy' and protesters have vowed to occupy central squares in several Spanish cities until the May 22 local elections.
(photo taken from the front page of The Washington Post, 19 May)

Read an article about the Spanish demonstrations.

Watch this video and answer the questions. (key in "comments")

1. How have the protesters been dubbed?
2. What have thousands of them defy? Why?
3. How do they describe the camp?
4. Is the rally taking place only in Madrid?
5. Protesters are showing their frustation at _____________ and at the economic crisis that ________________________.
6. What is a major issue?
7. What does the young girl say?
8. What does the young boy say?
9. What does Egypt's Tahrir Square seem to be for them?
10. What do the protesters want?
11. Why do thousands of people go there?

Talking about a friend!

Watch Layla talking about her friend Michelle and answer these questions. You can do something similar if you're asked to talk about a friend in the oral exam.
(answers in "comments")
1. When and where did they meet?
2. Why did they become friends?
3. How are they different?
4. Why does she say Michelle is “flaky”?
5. How are they similar?
6. Have they ever argued?
7. How often do they see each other? Why?
8. When was the last time they saw each other?
9. Why couldn’t they go to Banksy’s exhibition?
10. Where did they go instead?
11. What do they both have now?

TEXT TYPES!

- Here you have a simple classification of some texts types with some examples.
- A further complicated explanation on text types can also be found here. Also related to this, find HERE a brief different explanation on text types.

Twitter

Listen to the first part of this radio programme where they explain what Twitter is and take some notes. Then listen and read the script to check your notes.

Home

A well-known image from Arthus-Bertrand's "Earth from Above" series, the grand prismatic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States.

"Home": Watch this environmentally conscious documentary produced by Luc Besson, and narrated by Glenn Close. It presents the many wonders of planet Earth from an entirely aerial perspective and poses the prospect that unless we act quickly, we risk losing the only home we may ever have. (Unfortunately there are no subtitles, but the images are just wonderful and I don't think it's too difficult to follow).

Here's the Spanish version if you want to check what you've understood.