28/02/2012
Intermedio 2 - Conditionals
Click here if you want to do some rephrasing exercises on conditional sentences.
Choose Conditionals 1 on the left-hand side of the page. There are four exercises, click on next activity when you've finished each of them to go on.
26/02/2012
Avanzado 1 -Listening on money matters
This listening exercise is good practice and also teaches you some more expressions related to money such as:
• strapped for cash (idiom): have no money available
• pinch pennies (idiom): be careful with money
• in the hole (idiom): in debt
• pay through the nose (idiom): pay an excessive amount of money
• blow (verb): spend thoughtlessly or wastefully; throw away
Click here to do the activity. You can also read the transcript afterwards.
• strapped for cash (idiom): have no money available
• pinch pennies (idiom): be careful with money
• in the hole (idiom): in debt
• pay through the nose (idiom): pay an excessive amount of money
• blow (verb): spend thoughtlessly or wastefully; throw away
Click here to do the activity. You can also read the transcript afterwards.
19/02/2012
Intermedio 2 - Grammar Review page 62
Here are the answers:
A 1a 2a 3c 4c 5c 6b 7a 8c
B 1 I had my passport stolen while I was on holiday. 2 She can't have heard you. 3 They might be waiting outside. 4 Advertising aimed at children should be banned.
C 1 was sitting 2 opened 3 looked 4 was 5 had caught 6 saw 7 were doing 8 ran off 9 chased 10 had to
A 1a 2a 3c 4c 5c 6b 7a 8c
B 1 I had my passport stolen while I was on holiday. 2 She can't have heard you. 3 They might be waiting outside. 4 Advertising aimed at children should be banned.
C 1 was sitting 2 opened 3 looked 4 was 5 had caught 6 saw 7 were doing 8 ran off 9 chased 10 had to
13/02/2012
Avanzado 1 - Revise & Check Unit 3
Here are the answers:
GRAMMAR
a 1 Not only did we see the sights 2 I think he might have got lost 3 correct 4 The waiter probably didn't notice 5 it's time you went to bed 6 correct 7 correct 8 must be making 9 correct 10 I'd rather you came
b 1 to arrive 2 were we 3 to have heard 4 had they got/ did they get 5 hadn't bought 6 be trying 7 started 8 had I seen 9 work 10 you didn't park
VOCABULARY
a 1 bite my tongue 2 beyond her means 3 behind my back 4 cost a fortune 5 spends money like water 6 can't make ends meet
b 1 slammed 2 whispered 3 whistled 4 sighed 5 rattled 6 screeched
c 1 buzz 2 drip 3 small talk 4 thought-provoking 5 bland 6 fare 7 shares 8 budget 9 fee 10 intriguing
d 1 wealthy 2 implausible 3 tight-fisted 4 penniless 5 vast 6 adhere to 7 profoundly 8 vast
GRAMMAR
a 1 Not only did we see the sights 2 I think he might have got lost 3 correct 4 The waiter probably didn't notice 5 it's time you went to bed 6 correct 7 correct 8 must be making 9 correct 10 I'd rather you came
b 1 to arrive 2 were we 3 to have heard 4 had they got/ did they get 5 hadn't bought 6 be trying 7 started 8 had I seen 9 work 10 you didn't park
VOCABULARY
a 1 bite my tongue 2 beyond her means 3 behind my back 4 cost a fortune 5 spends money like water 6 can't make ends meet
b 1 slammed 2 whispered 3 whistled 4 sighed 5 rattled 6 screeched
c 1 buzz 2 drip 3 small talk 4 thought-provoking 5 bland 6 fare 7 shares 8 budget 9 fee 10 intriguing
d 1 wealthy 2 implausible 3 tight-fisted 4 penniless 5 vast 6 adhere to 7 profoundly 8 vast
10/02/2012
02/02/2012
Intermedio 2 - Narrative tenses and world weather forecast
Click on these exercises if you want to revise narrative sentences:
exercise 1 (the one we did in class)
This is the track we listened to in class: world weather forecast
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