Here you will learn the grammar and vocabulary that will allow you to talk in English about travel, personality, your home, express wishes and many other things.There are many links here to original material for you to explore. Remember, you don't need to understand eveything - just do what you can.
This level corresponds with CEF level B1.2
The following books and courses are recommended for this level. Just click to find out more:
face2face Intermediate
New Cutting Edge Intermediate
New English File Intermediate Plus
3 tips:
Be patient. you don't need to learn or understand everything at once. Take one step at a time.
Practice, practice, practice! The more you use the language, the easier it becomes.
Take notes. Make your own examples with what you learn. That makes it easier to learn and understand.
Ready? Just click on the first link and away we go.
Question forms
Explore this website on positive psychology. Take a questionnaire about your happiness.
Explore this website to read and watch videos about what really makes us happy. Tell us what you found most surprising here
likes and dislikes
watch a video on sentence stress
further adjectives of feelings
watch another video on sentence stress
adjectives and prepositions 1
adjectives and prepositions 2
Explore this website on laughter yoga. Do you think it could work for you? Tell us here
watch a video lesson on question tags
question tags 1
question tags 2
Read about one person's view of the five best cafés in Madrid.
Write a note with your top five, explaining your choices here
watch a video lesson on pronouncing the schwa /ə/
be able to
be allowed to
be supposed to
read about the Slow Movement. What aspects of going slower in your work and home life do you think could benefit you? Share your ideas here
kitchen vocabulary
present simple and continuous
Explore the website to find out more about cooking. Why not watch a video and try a recipe?
strong adjectives and intensifiers
sleep
Watch a video on getting a good night's sleep. Which ideas are considered the best? What works for you? Tell us here
giving advice
making suggestions and showing concern
read the advice given to people with different problems. What advice would you give?
Invent a problem and ask for advice, and give advice on other's problems here
present perfect simple
phrasal verbs for travel
write about where you've travelled to and what you did there. Tell us here
present perfect continuous (1)
present perfect continuous (2)
present perfect simple and continuous (3)
noun suffixes
adjective suffixes
choose a destination for a holiday. Find a positive and a negative review.
Think about a holiday that you have been on. What were the best and worst things about it? You can write a short review here.
Some people are looking for recommendations for their visit to Spain. Can you help? Tell us here
Watch a video recommending attractions in Madrid. Write a note saying what you would or wouldn't recommend to visitors here.
past simple and used to
past simple and past continuous
Character adjectives 1
past perfect 1
past perfect 2
past perfect and past simple
Look at some recipes for making your own natural medicine.
Which remedies could you make at home, and which would you like to try? Tell us here
Watch a video with more recipes and advice on natural medicine.
What remedies does James prepare, and for what health problems?
Character adjectives 2
watch a video on the character of Andalusians. Which points do you agree or disagree on. Which characteristics do you think are impossible to generalise? Tell us here
Homes vocabulary 1
homes vocabulary 2
comparatives and superlatives
comparatives and superlatives with degree
Household items
phrasal verbs extended practice
phrasal verbs
the future
will / going to
present continuous for future
Watch a documentary on Ikea. Make a note of five facts in the following areas; history, design, testing, distribution and sales.
Materials and containers
Take a look at this online supermarket. Choose ten typical items that you would like to buy, and imagine that you don't know the names for them. In a note, describe what you want to see if someone can tell you the names of the items here.
Explore this website giving advice on home renovation.
Watch a video or read the articles to find the relevant information.
make and do
first conditional 1
first conditional 2
future time clauses
future time clauses 2
Reflexive pronouns
zero conditional 1
zero conditional 2
zero conditional 3
watch a video on The Luck Factor.
Which points could you apply to make your own life luckier? Tell us here
Take your pick from a selection of podcasts from BBC Radio 4 discussion programme Any Questions?
Don't worry about understanding every word, and try instead to focus on the main points and the language the speakers use in their discussion to agree or interrupt etc. Copy the polite intonation of these phrases.
Computer vocabulary
modals of ability
Household appliances
second conditional
first and second conditionals
zero, first and second conditionals
Articles 1
Articles 2
Articles 3
Articles 4
weak form pronunciation
indirect questions 1
indirect questions 2
polite intonation
Are there any downsides of so much technology in our lives?
Write here about the following issues:
Does technology adversely effect your everyday life?
What could you do to address the problems?
weather vocabulary extended quiz
weather report
The passive 1
The passive 2
containers 1
containers 2
quantifiers 1
quantifiers 2
Prefixes and opposites
word formation
prefixes and suffixes
Do you know how to survive a shark attack?
Watch this video to find out.
Modals for advice
Watch videos on safety in a National Park, note the advice and warnings that you have learned here, and give some advice of your own.
watch this video.
watch this video.
Health
relative clauses 1
relative clauses 2
Explore this website on juice fasting.Tell us here what you think of the diet, and whether or not you would follow it yourself, saying why or why not.
Present Perfect Active / Passive
Listen to the news from the BBC. Don't worry about understanding every word, but focus instead on the main points.
Doing this regularly will greatly improve your English.
Write a brief news summary here. You can use real events or invent your own. Use the present perfect simple in the passive to give the main points.
Connectors
Try this online test to see if you can tell who is faking it. Tell us your results and what you thought of the test here.
Health problems 1
health problems 2
health problems 3
Listen to the medical information given in the videos, then summarise the advice.
watch this video.
watch this video.
Future in the past
Explore this website of how people in the past envisaged the future.
Choose a topic to read or watch a video on and write a summary here saying what people thought was going to or was
supposed to happen.
/t/ and /d/ pronunciation at the end of words
Watch a short film on marriage and divorce advice from the 50's.
How does advice today differ from that given in the film?
What advice what you give to a friend thinking of getting married today? Write your thoughts here.
reporting verbs
Read a transcript of a call to the police. Imagine you have to write a report. Summarize the conversation, changing the direct speech to reported speech.
Explore this website on changing careers.
Find what you think is the best advice for doing a job that you love and note the information here. Also, tell us what would be your dream job, why, and what you would need to do to change your job.
wishes 1
wishes 2
informal words and phrases 1
find 10 informal phrasal verbs from this list that are new, useful, suprising or just funny. Note your selection here and compare your choices.
word formation 1
word formation 2
Watch a video on the climber Alain Robert. How do you feel about what he does? Is he a real life superhero or a dangerous criminal? Write and compare your answers here.
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