SPEAKING B2.1: TECHNOLOGY AND INTERNET

TECHNOLOGY, INTERNET, COMPUTERS, TEXTING, 
Lesson 5.1
Lesson 5.2: 
Lesson 5.3: on textspeak ( texting abreviations + linguist David Crystal)
Lesson 5.4: on social networks
Summary of lessons 5.1 and 5.2


ICT skills: EXPRESSIONS TO TALK ABOUT ABILITIES.

LESSON AUDIOS, Download them here.

COMEDY FUELS LAUGHTER, LAUGHTER FUELS HAPPINESS.

With his fourth stand-up special, Aziz Ansari joins a shortlist of comedians to sell out New York’s Madison Square Garden

MAKING PLANS WITH FLAKY PEOPLE
Feel free to read the article and/or some parts of the monologue script of the clip below.



TELEPHONING: 

Telephone Phrasal verbs

Talking on the phone

SPEAKING-B2.1: TALENTS, ABILITIES QUALITIES AND PASTIMES

What's your favourite pastime?

HOW TO TALK ABOUT PERSONAL SKILLS, TALENTS AND QUALITIES.

EXPRESSIONS TO TALK ABOUT ABILITIES. ( ICT skills)

LISTENING: MY HOBBY.

• VOCABULARY REVISION: HOBBIES ( A1-B1)

• ADVANCED VOCABULARY B2-C1: Describing who you are, your hobbies, talents, gifts.

• WORKSHEET ( ALL LEVELS) : HOBBIES, TALENTS AND GIFTS. ONLY PHOTOCOPY PAGE 4 AND 5.
• A LIST OF TALENTS.

• THINK YOU HAVE TO SPEND MONEY TO  HAVE FUN? CHECK THIS OUT! 100  BEST FRUGAL PASTTIMES

SPEAKING: CLASS/PAIR WORK QUESTIONS: 
PRINT YOUR QUESTIONNAIRE.

AIM OF THE ACTIVITY: I CAN TALK ABOUT MY HOBBIES, MY SKILLS, MY TALENTS AND QUALITIES.

TELLING STORIES AND ANECDOTES. USING COMPARISON.

TELLING STORIES.
TELLING ANECDOTES.
READING STORIES ALOUD.
Past tenses: match sentence beginnings with endings.

LISTEN TO A WOMAN TALKING ABOUT WHEN SHE HAD A TERRIBLE DAY. DO THE TASKS BELOW THE VIDEO.

COMPARISON.
1. Degrees of comparison.
2. Talking about equality and inequality.