More links to revise grammar and vocabulary

Well, we are almost done. But you have a couple of weeks to revise and this blog will help you. Don't forget to visit it as I will try to post interesting links to help you with practice. Here are a few more quizzes that are good to revise some of the topics we have dealt with.

• Health
• Business
• Time clauses
• Crime and punishment
• Crime verbs and prepositions
  
• Do and make
• Multi-word verbs
• Future
• Politics

Enjoy.

A link to more listening activities

Check this one out. It has different levels of difficulty and exercises. American English. And I found it browsing through Sara's web, which I strongly recommend. Don't get frustrated if you don't understand, just click on the easy ones. Enjoy and learn!

Permanent link to Sara's web

I like it so much - and I'm not the only one, Mª José, student of mine told me yesterday she had enjoyed thoroughly Rowan Atkinson's sketches - that I've asked her permission to post it here as a permanent link. Thank you Sara, for your excellent work, enthusiasm and sense of humour.

Listen and laugh!

Here is a link to a hot potato created by a dear friend of mine, Sara Pro, teacher at the Drassanes EOI in Barcelona -I hope I spelled it right.I also hope the link works. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

A gender joke

Thanks to Concha Lana for sending this joke.

THE HUSBAND STORE


A store that sells new husbands has opened in Cheltenham , where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:

You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

Floor 1 - These men Have Jobs.

She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 2 - These men Have Jobs and Love Kids.

'That's nice,' she thinks, 'but I want more.' So she continues upward.

The third floor sign reads:

Floor 3 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, and are Extremely Good Looking.

'Wow,' she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the fourth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 4 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous and Help With Housework.

'Oh, mercy me!' she exclaims, 'I can hardly stand it!'

Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 5 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, Help with Housework, and Have a Strong Romantic Streak.
She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.

PLEASE NOTE:

To avoid gender bias charges, the store's owner opened a New Wives store just across the street.
The first floor has wives that love sex.

The second floor has wives that love sex, like beer and have money.

The third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors have never been visited.

To improve your pronunciation. Part II.

Thanks to Fernando Viñuelas, Year 4 student, for sending me the following links to practice pronunciation:
Link 1.
Link 2.

Very helpful for vowel sounds.

The great quizz?

Very short quizzes. It won't take long to do them, I promise.

To revise :

- grammar.

1. "need + -ing " and "have something done"
2. conditional sentences,
3. conditionals and modals
4. relative clauses

- vocabulary for

1. crime and criminals, click here
2. the house, click here
3. clothes, click here