Sports: Goofy on How to Play Baseball

This post intends to be a humorous introduction to the sport of baseball, very important in the Anglo-Saxon world. You may find the language slightly complicated, but in anticipation I have tried to transcribe a large part of the language in it, so that you can read it first, look up the difficult words in a dictionary and enjoy the cartoon more after that. You will be able to download the transcript by clicking here.

At a restaurant

Watch the video below for expressions to recognise and use at a restaurant:



Here you will find the video script with blanks, the solutions and one more exercise.

Kitchen appliances and utensils

The importance of phonetics

For more practice scroll down nearly to the bottom of:

http://carballoplus.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html

Fruit and nuts

Hello, Intermediate II students!

This is my first post on the blog this school year. I hope you enjoy it.

Watch these two videos as a reinforcement of the vocabulary we have been looking at in class.

Below, a couple of sites where you can do exercises on the same topic. Please, note that what we have learned in class as "courgettes" and "aubergines" are known in American English as zucchini and eggplants respectively. Also "tomato" is pronouced differently in AmE.

http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/dictionary/vegquiz3.php

Phrasal verbs.

Here is a link with exercises with phrasal verbs.

Video on Question Tags

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO THE VIDEO: IN THIS VIDEO THEY TREAT "HAVE" AS AN AUXILIARY VERB, WHICH IS NOT STRICTLY WRONG. HOWEVER, WHEN "HAVE" FUNCTIONS AS A LEXICAL VERB ("I DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME" -POSSESSION- OR "I'M HAVING A SHOWER/A HAMBURGER" -TAKING OR EATING-) IT MORE OFTEN THAN NOT WORKS AS A NORMAL VERB THAT NEEDS THE AUXILIARY "DO" IN THE QUESTION TAG.

EXAMPLES:

HE DOESN'T HAVE MUCH TIME, DOES HE?
HE HAS A HAMBURGER EVERY FRIDAY EVENING, DOESN'T HE?

CONTRAST WITH:

THEY HAD DONE THEIR HOMEWORK, HADN'T THEY? -IN THIS CASE, "HAVE" IS A REAL AUXILIARY VERB.