First year - Listening: how old are you?

Watch the video and answer the question: How old are the people? Do the exercise. The video is played again at the end of the first part, and you can check your answers with the subtitles. (El video se repite con subtítulos más tarde y así puedes comprobar tus respuestas)

First year - Listening: phone numbers

Watch the video and answer the following questions: What are their telephone numbers?




Now watch the same video with subtitles to check your answers.

First year - Listening: introductions

Watch the video below to practise introductions in English.

Fifth year - Listening: a green bedroom.

Watch the video below and answer the questions




Questions:

1. Why do decorators advice to use paint?
2. Why is paint unhealthy?
3. What does VOC stand for?
4. What materials are recommended for rugs?
5. How do traditional bulbs work?
6. What are the advantages of CLFs?
7. What beneficial effect is produced if you buy a mattress made of organic cotton?


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First year - listening: introductions

Watch the video below and complete the information:



- Mia

Age: .............

City: ...........

- Toby

Age: ............

City: ...........

- Amy

Age: ............

City / Country: .........


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First year - Where are you from?

Watch the video below, and listen to people saying where they are from:

Fifth year (B2). Listening - Renewable energies

Watch the following video, and answer the questions below.



1. How many people have little/no access to electricity?
2. What consequences has the mirgration of people to urban centres?
3. What percentage of electrical production causes pollution?
4. What is bound to happen to fossil fuels over the 21st century? What is already happening?
5. What is Buckminster Fuller's theory?
6. Complete. Sharing electricity through power grids allows...
7. What are the advantages of renewable energies?
8. Complete the nations/areas in the world that are using the following renewable resources...

• Hydro power
• Wind power
• Biomass energy
• Geothermal

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First year - Introductions

Watch the following video which shows different ways to introduce people.

El siguiente video muestra diferentes modos de presentar a gente entre sí.

St Patrick's Day

Watch the following video to learn about St Patrick and the different traditions related to this day.






Vocabulary:

- Lent: Forty days before Easter

- to waive: not to apply something

- reveler: a person who enjoys having fun

- dye: to colour sth

- cranky: angry

- features: characteristics

- fiddle: similar to a violin

- Irish jig: traditional Irish dance

- mind: to look after

- priest/bishop: religious people

- banish: to send away

Fourth year - Listening: koalas

Watch the following video and answer the questions below. More than one can be correct.




1)How are koalas described?
They are always asleep.
They resemble toys.
They are loved all over the country.
They look very strange.
They destroy forests.
2) Why are the forests destroyed? Because …..
The land is needed for agriculture.
More and more roads and houses are built.
The koala population is growing rapidly.
More and more people move to these areas.
Koalas cannot be moved to zoos.
3)Where does Ms Deborah Tabart work?
National Koala Act
Australian Koala Foundation
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary
Australian Forestry Agency
4)How much of the original koala habitat has been destroyed in the last 200 years?
20%
50%
80%
90%
5)What effect would the National Koala Act have?
No more eucalyptus trees would be cut down.
Land owners would be forced to plant eucalyptus trees on their farms.
The clearing of forests would be controlled.
Australians would have a vision of the future.
6)How many koalas are there in Australia now?
10 million
1 million
100,000
10,000


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Fourth year - Listening and reading: love

Taking St. Valentine's Day as a reference, I leave you here three videos that tell us about history, love and marriage. Most of them are humourous references to quotations of writers adn other relevant people.

Fourth year - St Valentine's Day

As you all know, it is Valentine's Day on February 14. Here is a video in which you can practise reading and pronunciation about the origins of the festivity.

Fourth year - April Fools' Day: Hoaxes

Watch the video to listen and watch the hoaxes we read about in class:

Spaghetti harvest (Click on the link)

I could only find the one about the spaghetti harvest, but I think it's quite interesting.