Success

What does it take to be successful?


Click here to watch a short video about what leads to success.

Click here to listen to a podcast about the same topic. You have some vocabulary and the script at the bottom of the page.

Listening practice

I. Listen to a weather presenter (fill in the gaps).


II. Listen to five different musicians talking about their job (multiple speakers).

III. Listen to a radio interview with a photographer (multiple choice).

IV. Click here and do more listening activities (parts 2, 3 and 4- there are three examples of each).

Grammar review

Some links to review some grammar points that you have problems with.

1. Articles:

Articles 1

Articles 2  When NOT TO USE the article

2. Other and Another 

3. Most

Most, the most, mostly

Most 

Exercise 1

4. Everything, all

Video practice

Click here and register (free) to practise English with videos.

Guía del candidato

Click here to get information about your exams in June and September.  

Formal letters of complaint

Click here to read some instructions and see some examples of complaint letters.

More instructions here.

Celebrities

ASPIRATIONAL from Matthew Frost on Vimeo.


Listen to a news story about a British newspaper that hacked celebrities' phones and do some activities.

The Media

Click here to learn some newspaper vocabulary.

Click here to listen to a discussion about newspapers.

Listen to Nicola talking about newspapers in Britain.

Click here to watch a video about newspaper reading and here to watch another one about newspaper headline.

Click here to do a listening activity on how false information spreads.

An opinion essay

Click here to see the instructions we saw in class.


Here there's more information and here you'll find some examples and exercises.

Surveillance

Watch the video and answer these questions. Check your answers in "comments".

1. How many cameras does Britain have?
2. What do advocates say?
3. What do privacy campaigners like Big Brother Watch say?
4. How many cameras has Britain got in relation to the whole world?
5. What are sensitive locations?
6. How often will you be filmed in London?
7. What does the campaigner from Big Brother think?
8. What does the first passer-by think?
9. What does the second passer-by think?
10. What does the third passer-by think?
11. What does Britain remain?

Click here to watch a TED video about how to avoid surveillance with your phone. You can watch it without subtitles first and then check your ideas with the script or watch it with the subtitles.

Crime and Punishment

Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2

Click here to listen to a podcast about crime and punishment. They pose some questions and then answer them.

The perfect crime
Watch the video and answer the questions. Check your answers in "comments".
1. What are they celebrating?
2. What does Henry tell her?
3. What does she tell the police she was doing?
4. What do the police think has happened?
5. What do the police need to do immediately?
6. What do they all need?
7. What does she offer her guests?
8. What does her friend wonder?



Listen and answer the questions. Check your answers in "comments"

Victim

1. Why didn’t she see what the man looked like or his clothes?
2. How did she feel?
3. What did he grab? 

Witness

1. Where was he?

2. What did the thief look like?

3. What was he wearing?

4. What does he think can be seen in the photo he took?

Accused

1. Where does he say he was?
2. Who can verify it according to him?

Lawyer

1. What does he ask the court to take into consideration?

-          The accused is __________________________________.

-          The accused had few _________________________________.

-          It’s the first time he ________________________________________.

He’s clearly sorry for what ____________________________ and he deserves to be given    ______________________________.

Judge

1. What has Mark Johnson been found guilty of?

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2. What does the judge sentence him to?

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3. How long is the sentence suspended for?

4. What will he be required to do?

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Holidays and Travelling

Click here to listen to Vikki's monologue.

Click here to see the transcript for Vikki's monologue. 

(Many thanks for your help, Vikki!!)

Crime and Punishment

Exercise 1

Click here to do a listening activity about a funny robbery. 

A video activity: 
Before watching the video have a look at some vocabulary.

VOCABULARY 

1 RED HERRING - a clue or lie to mislead someone from the truth (comes from training hounds to scent 
with a herring which is a red fish)
2 AGAINST HIS WILL - against a person ability to decide for him / herself 
3 INTRIGUE - (n) a plan or plot of something harmful or illegal
4 FRAMED - (v) produce false information against an innocent person, a plan to unfairly blame
5 BREAKNECK SPEED - a person moving so fast that he may have an accident and break his neck
6 NORTH BY NORTHWEST - a compass reading [i.e. the needle points to the middle between N (North) and W (West)]
7 SINISTER - (adj) very evil, harmful
8 APPARENTLY - easily understood, obviously
9 PERFORMANCE - (n) (from the Arts) acting a scene, an artist displaying his art
10 PLAY DEAD - (from the Arts) acting as if dead, pretending to be dead
11 ROLE - (n) (from the Arts) a character in a scene, movie etc. (e.g. Rocky, Dracula etc.)
12 SUSPENSE - an excited state or feeling of uncertainty about what may happen (as in a movie)



1. Watch the video and fill in the gaps. Check your answers in "comments".

"I'm an advertising man, not a RED HERRING. I've got a _______________ (1), a secretary, a _______________ (2), two ex-wives, and several bartenders dependent upon me. And I don't intend to _______________ (3) them all by getting myself slightly _______________ (4)." ... 
Cary Grant becomes a _______________ _______________ (5) AGAINST HIS WILL propelled at gunpoint unto the highest level of international INTRIGUE and FRAMED for _______________ (6). Cary Grant, running for his _______________ (7), searching for a man who doesn't exist, and a _______________ (8) nobody knows and finding a _______________ (9) who has all the answers. ... "Hello there." "Tell me, why are you so _______________ (10) to me?" "Shall I climb up and tell you why?" ... At BREAKNECK SPEED they race together toward the excitement that lies dead ahead NORTH BY NORTHWEST. ... "How do I know you aren't a _______________ (11)?" "You don't." ... Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason as the man of SINISTER surprises. ... "APPARENTLY, the only PERFORMANCE that will satisfy you is when I PLAY DEAD." "Your very next ROLE and you'll be quite convincing I assure you." ... The perfect setup for SUSPENSE with the perfect _______________ (12) and the perfect _______________ (13) as Alfred Hitchcock takes you North by Northwest. ...

2. Do this vocabulary activity. Check your answers in "comments".

Fill in the blanks with the most correct word or words.

against his will___breakneck speed___Apparently ___performance___suspense.

1 I won't know my final grades until next week. The __________ is diving me crazy!
2 You have a new dress! It's pretty! __________ you came into some money.
3 Jason's father is angry with him because Jason married __________.
4 That wild taxi driver drove at __________ all the way to the airport!
5 Daniel played "Romeo" in the school play. He gave a fine __________.

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