Tuesday 12 March 2013

Friends and Money


Paul and Katia discuss the difficulty of lending money to friends.Listen



Talking about your best friend

Friends Reunited

Used to / didn't use to

Friends

1. How important are friends to you? Why?

2. What makes a friend the best friend? Explain it?
3. Talk about your best friend.



Vocabulary of friendship

Monday 11 March 2013

Her best friend


Rebecca talks about her best friend and where and how they met and why they like each other.

Tuesday 22 January 2013

Topics for the oral exam

1st part : Monologue  One topic, you'll have some questions to help you go on speaking.
2nd part: Discussion   You'll have to make questions with the words given ,then take turns making the questions in such a way that you hold a conversation with your partner about the topic given.


For both parts of the oral exam the topics are the following:

1A  Food/restaurants/eating habits
1B  Sport/exercise
1C  Family and personality
2A  Money and charity / spending / wasting money/ buying/selling online etc.
2B  Changing your life/ taking a gap year/ a year off
2C  Transport and travel/ your favourite means of transport both to travel and  to move around the city
3A  Mobile phones/ good/bad manners/culture shock
3B Appearance
3C Something you can do and something you would like to be able to do.

Learning to drive


can, could, to be able to - Exercise


PET online practice test

Tuesday 15 January 2013

How do I look?

Listen to these people talking about the clothes they like wearing and answer the questions.
Annie
- Does she like changing the colour of her hair?
- Does she spend a lot of money on clothes?
Sara
- Is it necessary for her to wear a skirt for her job?
- Is she a business woman?
Liz
- Does she feel comfortable in smart clothes?
- Does she have to wear a suit to work?
Mike
- Does he have to wear formal clothes?
- Does he like wearing formal clothes?

Monday 14 January 2013

Appearance

  • How important is appearance for you?
  • How important is appearance in our society?
  • Do you think you usually make a good first impression? Why or why not?
  • What do you think is most important- your clothes and general appearance, how you sound, what you say or think, body language....?
  • Talk about the clothes you like wearing. Do you dress according to your personality?
  •  Do you think people judge each other too much on appearances?

Thursday 3 January 2013

Homework

Reading on page 38 "Culture shock"
Grammar bank unit 3A