A day without cars, could you imagine that?

A day without cars

Carnival in August

For different reasons the last weekend in August is time for Carnival in London. If you want to see what was going on go to this link.

Out of the blue

If you checked the dictionary for the meaning of this expression, you would find this:

out of the blue:

unexpectedly; without warning  "The decision came out of the blue." (From the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary

  

That same dictionary defines an  IDIOM as:  "[countable] a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words"

The task I would like you to do is to leave  the idioms you know on the comment box.

Shakespeare said it first.

April is almost gone. It is in this month we celebrate the Book day on the date this genious died back in 1616.

I have come across this and I wanted to share it with you. By Dictionary.com

International Day of Happiness

Today it is the International Day of Happiness, watch these videos and take part by writing in the comment box the song that makes you happy, it could be more than one.

Here you have the link for the official page.

Have a Happy Day of Happiness!!!!

Making things simple

We are studying a new structure, but we can consider ourselves lucky since Clean Bandit have made a song to make it simpler.

And if you are curious you can check something else.

An old song with a different approach

This is a typical exercise to fill in gaps but the words given are with the phonetic transcription.
Do you want to take up this challenge? Click here for the music.

Carnival

This morning, in class, we have learnt about Notting Hill Carnival. I would like you to find out a bit more about  this Festival in the Anglosaxon world. Leave your results in the comment box.

Get away with it

With this post we are going to try to get the meaning of the phrasal verb "get away with something".
It is your turn to work, since it is you who are going to look it up and leave your conclusions on the comment box. Good luck!!!

Blue Monday

It seems somebody took the pain of thinking of the worst Monday of all the possible Mondays in the 52 weeks the year has. I don't feel blue at all today (hence the image), but ..... since it is on the news, it won't harm you to read about it. Here you have the article of the Daily Mail

I expect you leave your opinions on the comment box.

let's dream!

As a way to wish you the best for this brand new year, I want to share the article that appeared in The New York Times, in the Travel section.The New York Times, in the Travel section.

I would like you to vote your favourite place and tell us your reasons why.

Merry Xmas!!!!!

if you liked it you could also listen to:

Because it's almost Xmas II

This time with a bit of homework.
What is Christmas for you?
Leave your answers in the comment box.

Do they know it's Xmas ... 2004 vs 2014

These two videos are 20 years apart. I would like you to do some research and tell me something about them. Le'ts give some food for thought to the readers of this blog!!!

Because it's almost Xmas ....

Thanksgiving Day

This is an important festival in the US learn about it courtesy of  Studies Weekly. And check the delicious dishes all arround the different States

sky full of stars

Let me share this music with you. Of course it has teaching purposes. I want you to listen to it and enjoy the pronunciation, then, in a few days you will have an exercise to do with it.

Happy Halloween!

Dear students, these are some videos for you to know some facts about this festivity.

Let's test some phrasal verbs

Learn English Today is a site with lots of useful resources. Let´s see if you like the one I have selected for you.

And ... what about writing in the comment box the connection between the pic and the exercise?

New Ears

Today I want to challenge you with a new experience. Let's see if we can do it together. I would like you to listen to this song. However,  instead of focusing your attention on what it says I'd rather you could just listen to the sounds. Let's start with the short i /ɪ/  just  check the way she says  "kiss" or "me" and see how many more examples of  that sound you can find along the song.