English Situations: The Weather, Telephoning, At the Restaurant ...

Week 24^th – 26^th February, 2015

Hi everyone!

How are you? Are you enjoying the weekend?

Last week we revised the vocabulary and expressions used ‘At a restaurant’. You can watch the video again here:

Remember to use these expressions to order food:

I’d like …= I would like       I’ll have …= I will have

And these ones to make requests (ask for something politely):

Could you …? Can I have …?

Then, we learnt how to leave and take messages on the phone. We did a listening exercise and we role-played the conversations afterwards.

·         Would you like to leave a message?

·         Could you tell her to ring me back when she gets back?

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·         Mr. Costner isn’t in, I’m afraid. Can I take a message?

·         Would you tell him I called?

·         Certainly. Your name, please

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·         The manager is busy at the moment. May I take a message?

·         Tell him I sent the invoice by mail, please.

·         Where are you calling from, sir?

·         From Johnson Ltd.

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                                                                           Remember the object pronouns.                      

Subject pronouns  (before a verb)	Object pronouns (after verb or preposition)
I	me
you	you
he	him
she	her
it	it
we	us
you	You
they	them

Practise the pronouns with this exercise.  Click here

Week 17^th –19^th February, 2015

This week we finished talking about the weather.

We read about the weather in Britain.

We read, although we already knew it, that the weather in Britain is very changeable. It rains a lot but the sun also shines, too. Winters can be cold with an average temperature of 5ºC in the south. There’s often snow.

Summers can be cool or warm, but the temperature does not usually go above 30ºC. It is often cloudy and there are usually grey skies for days or weeks. There’s sometimes fog, but not so often as foreigners think.

We did a crossword to learn more vocabulary.

And we finished the topic listen to the song by Geri Halliwell ‘It’s raining men.’

We also listened to the original version which was recorded by ‘The Weather Girls’

   And that reminds me of another song called ‘The sun always shines on TV’ by a-ha.

You can enjoy it here!

See you on Tuesday!