Why Lemn Sissay holds Christmas dinner for 500 strangers

• An inspirational story: Why Lemn Sissay holds Christmas dinner for 500 strangers
• An interview with Lemn Sissay, poet and playwright
• His Ted Talk

Thanks, Ana!

Merry Christmas!

Have a great Christmas and a very happy New Year!

Double Comparatives

Watch the explanation
Do the exercise here
A worksheet

Xmas Party Activities

Xmas traditions

A nice article

Language for your presentations

Some signposting language here  

So & Such

Here are a couple of links to practise so & such.
They are pdf files you can download. The key is at the end,

• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• So & such .... that ...

Should have done

• Should have done practice activities  
• Watch a video

What is a weather bomb?

Tools

Tools: match the name to the tool

You can also watch this video

Notting Hill Carnival

Be bound to, due to and about to + infinitive

• Exercise on Be bound to, due to and about to + infinitive
• Another one 

Future Game

Future Game

What is BONFIRE NIGHT?

An Explanation of Booker's Seven Plot Types

Listening Game about Movies

Correspondence between Outcomes Upper-Intermediate and Advanced Grammar in Context

Click here: Correspondence between Outcomes Upper-Intermediate and Advanced Grammar in Context

El Pais in English and other sites

You can find it here

More news on BBC learning English:

• Lingohack

• 6 Minute English

• News Report 

  Others:

  • BBC magazine

  • Breaking News English 

    • Newsy

 

 

 

Our Course Book this year

Outcomes Upper-intermediate 2nd Edition 
• AUTHORS: Hugh Dellar; Andrew Walkley
• ISBN-13: 9781305093386 
• Publisher: Heinle Cengage Learning
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Vocabulary

I've found this great post which should be really useful both for the writing and speaking papers, as it has vocab for a number of usual topics.
Link

Use of English

• gapped text exercises
• clozes

Links for courses next year

Here's the link to the refresher course (the application link will be active on July 1st)
Here's the link to pre-enrol in C1 (the application link is active until June 2nd)

Useful links to keep practising

Here's the section with lots of useful links to keep practising

Preparing for your speaking exam

Here are a couple of links to posts with phrases for your presentations and a handout with topics to practise for the interaction task

Ransomware virus 'WannaCry' plagues 100k computers across 99 countries

Cloze Tests

Here is a great site with lots of cloze tests + key for you to practise:  Clozes

Money vocab

Money vocab 

A Couple of links to listen to news

• Lingohack
• Words in the news

I wish

 I wish ...

• Exercise 1  
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3

Passive & causative exercises with key

Here are some links to .pdf files.

Click to download
- Passive exercise
- Passive in questions 
- Passive with reporting verbs 
Do a quiz here 
Passive with two objects exercise here
Game 1
Game 2
CAUSATIVE
- Have Something Done exercise
 USE 1- We use "have something done" to say that someone is doing something for us.
John is having his car repaired. He is not repairing it himself, he has hired someone to do it for him.
2- We use "Have something done" when someone does something to us.
I had my window broken by a ball.

Conditionals

 

• Conditionals Game
• Conditionals Game 2
• Game 3

• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3

Loads of multiple choice clozes

• Several multiple choice clozes (different levels)
• Even more clozes
• Yet more clozes
• multiple choice cloze 1
• multiple choice cloze 2
• multiple choice cloze 3

Do you want to act as a judge?

To watch the video subtitles click where it says "cc".
the Australian version
the British version

Thanks, Cristina!

Spain's Princess Cristina found not guilty in fraud case

Watch the video here
SPAIN'S URDANGARIN ESCAPES JAIL PENDING APPEAL here

Multiple Choice Cloze

• Multiple-choice cloze 1

• Multiple Choice Cloze 2

verbs + preposition

verb +preposition dictionary 

exercise 1 +key

Exercise 2 + key

Exercise 3 + key

Nouns + prepositions

• Nouns and prepositions

• Nouns + prepositions exercises

Adjective + preposition

Prepositions after adjectives (some with key)

Worksheet 1

Worksheet 2

Worksheet 3

Modals of deduction

• Modals of deduction
• Deduction present
• Deduction past
• Audio
• guessing game 

CELEBRITIES IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW

• CELEBRITIES IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW
• English for Police
• Crime vocabulary

Trump dismisses US attorney general over immigration ban

Do the activity here

Social issues

Here's the activity about welfare
Here's an activity about the dole

Report Phrases for the next writing

You can find many useful expressions here

Audio Books

Here's a site with lots of free audio books