B2 Grammar Activities
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INGLÉS
Choirboy using helium (from classicfm.com)
How do you get over the problem of your boy sopranos’ voices breaking? A massive helium balloon, of course. Here’s how it sounds in Allegri’s Miserere...
Choirboys have a pretty tough life.
For years, they’ve been praised and admired for their beautifully angelic high Cs – but then puberty comes and...no more high Cs
Luckily, The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge has found a solution for this inconvenience.
Instead of hiring a soprano to hit the top notes, they’ve discovered that a nice big balloon of helium does the job just as well.
In this stunning performance of Allegri’s ‘Miserere’, a male university student is able to hit a C6 (a soprano C, to you and me) simply by inhaling a gulp of helium from a giant balloon.
Allegri’s ‘Miserere’ was famously transcribed and brought into the public domain by Mozart in 1770.
The young composer, then aged just 14, supposedly once heard the piece at a concert, returned home and wrote down the whole thing note for note.
In all seriousness, this video was actually filmed as an April Fool’s prank in 2014.
COMPLETE:
"High …......……. ……......... have been part of the choir sound for ……....... ….......….. …….......… ………………”. "...…….. a lengthy consultation process, during …....…….we …....……. that the surgical solution was surprisingly …......….. with the choral scholars, someone in the …......……. ….......…….. came up with a …....……. …….......…. ....................-- and now all we …….….. is a very large ……....…. ……...…. ……......….”
Floods and Fires (by Linguahouse)
Suggesting ideas (By linguahouse)
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Short exercise about SUGGEST and RECOMMEND HERE.
Upper Intermediate Grammar Tests (Multiple Choice)
Test 1 HERE.
Test 2 HERE.
Test 3 HERE.
Test 4 HERE.
Test 5 HERE.
Test 6 HERE.
Test 7 HERE.
Test 8 HERE.
Test 9 HERE.
Test 10 above.
Test 11 HERE.
Test 12 HERE.
Test 13 HERE.
Test 14 HERE.
YOUTUBE CHANNEL HERE.
SIX TIPS TO PASS THE B2/C1 WRITING/SPEAKING (from friendsmilesaway.com)
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Translate this short text.
Another short text to translate into English.
Third short text to translate into English.
Fourth short text to translate into English.
Fifth short text to translate into English.
Sixth short text to translate into English.
Seventh short text to translate into English.
Eighth short text to translate into English.
Click HERE (Vocabulary for different topics)
DRIVE MY CAR (The Beatles)
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Thank you very much for your suggestion, Inés!
ALCOHOL, DRINKS AND DRINKING
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Monologue:
In the UK, the drinking age is 18, and in the USA it is 21. What is the drinking age in your country?
Why do we need a drinking age?
Do you think there should be different drinking ages for different types of alcohol?
What advice for staying safe would you give to a young person who is just about to reach the drinking age in their country?
(From linguahouse)
English Culture: Manners and how to be polite
Phonetics Exercises (Transcription)
POLLUTION
Vocabulary relationships - Two texts to translate
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Vocabulary (RELATIONSHIPS) – Translate into English:
-Nos llevamos muy bien debido a que tenemos mucho en común. Además disfrutamos mucho el uno de la compañía del otro y estamos de acuerdo (see eye....) en la mayoría de las cosas, así que raras veces nos peleamos.
-Aunque no fue amor a primera vista, (al principio éramos sólo buenos amigos que estábamos a menudo en contacto el uno con el otro, y nuestra relación tuvo sus altibajos) poco a poco nos enamoramos. Hace unos pocos días me pidió que me casara (no usar marry ) con él. Vamos a casarnos (no usar marry) en una iglesia cerca de la casa que acabamos de comprarnos, donde nos vamos a asentar.
Present continuous with the Simpsons - What are they doing?
Living in cities/Living in the countryside - Speaking
English Pronunciation Masterclass (Amigos Ingleses)
School strike for climate (video - listening comprehension)
INVERSION AFTER NEGATIVE OR LIMITING ADVERBS
Very, very beginner lesson - Verb TO BE
Lesson 2 - Contracted Forms.
Lesson 3 - Negative.
Lesson 4 - Yes/No questions.
Lesson 5 - Information questions.
Video with verb to be (questions and answers)+ countries and nationalities - HERE. (Vocabulary about countries and nationalities HERE or HERE - 1 ESO /easy/ My country).
Describing a person in English
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IMPROVE YOUR WRITING
Writing activities, tips, exercises.... in Cristina Cabal's webpage. Click HERE.