NB1, NI!: HEALTH

VOCABULARY ON PARTS OF THE BODY
VOCABULARY ON HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE
PHRASES MATCHING

NB1, NI1: Telephone conversations

When you are a caller
-- Hello?-- Is that John?-- Can I speak to John? -- May I speak to John?

When you are a receiver
-- This is John speaking, who's that? -- Who's speaking please?-- Who's calling please?

When you ask the caller to wait
-- One moment please.-- Just a minute please.-- Hold on please.-- Hang on please

When you ask the caller to leave messages
-- Can you leave the message?-- Can I take your message?-- Would you like to leave a message?-- Would you like him/her to call you back?

When calling the wrong number
-- I'm afraid you got the wrong number-- Sorry, I think you reach the wrong number

When asking the receiver to transfer the line
-- Can I have extension 1234 please?-- Could you please transfer the line to Mr. John please?

When finish talking
-- Nice talking to you-- Talk to you later

SOME PRACTICE:
MAKING AN APPOINTMENT
TAKING A MESSAGE
ORDERING A PIZZA

NI1: Practice with questions tags

Follow this link to do an exercise with question tags.

NI1: Students' recommendations of websites.

Vanesa's recommendation:
http://www.okmagazine.com
Here you can be informed about the life of stars and learn English at the same time. This woman magazine has articles and videos of famous people and you can practice your English level and be a really gossip girl. You can participate by adding comments at the forum.

Micaela's:
http://lang-8.com/
This website focuses on writing in a foreign language. Native speakers will correct your writing and you caould perhaps help others learn Spanish.

Marta's:
http://www.englishtown.es/online/home.aspx
This website is a course where you can go forward through the different levels. You can find guide on grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation... and stuff like that, which helps you improve. This is a chat too, so you can talk with people from other countries.

http://www.quia.com
If you want to relax but not to stop studying English, you can use this website with a lot of interesting games. You will have fun and learn at a time.

Carmen's:
http://dailyesl.com/
It is organized by topics, and each topic has exercises, listenings, grammar, vocabulary, etc, and it is very easy to use.

http://www.esl-lab.com/
It is a website for practicing listening skills, also organized by levels.

Ángela's:
http://iwannagothere.com/
It's a blog. If you want to travel somewhere, but you are not really sure, perhaps you might know people's previous experiences.

http://www.gettyimages.es
If you need to do a photo-montage for a presentation or project in your job, to obtain the best results, what I would do is to visit this site. Here you'll find the best characters, with very good resolution, to impress your boss or customers.

Óscar's:
http://edition.cnn.com/studentnews/
Everyday, this page offers you a ten-minute video free of advertisements summarizing the current news. The presenter speaks very clearly in very understandable English. Likewise, you can read the transcripts in English as you watch the videos.

http://www.ted.com/
In this page, you can find a lot of interesting conferences in English about all kind of topics. I think that watching these videos is a good opportunity to practice English listening and learning a lot of things throught the interesting experiences that all kind of people tell in these conferences.

http://www.livestation.com/
This page offers the possibility of downloading an application that allows you to watch several free online channels in English, like BBC News, Al Jazeera, RT, Euronews, etc...

Excellently done! Thanks everyone for your recommendations. Sorry I just could select a few...

NB1: Possessive 's

If you follow this link, you'll read some explanation on the possessive 's.
And here you can do some practice on possessive 's and possessive pronouns.

NI1: Use of the articles a/an, the, or no article

For those who are still hesitating, here is a grammar explanation of when to use and when no to use each of the articles in English.
And here you have an interesting video about it. And here is some practice.

NB1: Practice with like and would like to

Click here to do an exercise in which you have to put the words in order to make sentences containing the structures:
LIKE + VERB-ing
WOULD LIKE TO + VERB (in infinitive)

NI1: Listening THE PHONE CALL

Here you have a Listening, in which a friend of yours is asking for a few favours... (Easy!) And here is another listening in which a man describes Middle Eastern Food. Listen and clcik on the image you think he's describing. (Intermediate!)

NB1: How much How many

Click on HOW MUCH HOW MANY to do some practice on when to use each of them.

NB1: Food vocabulary

Here you have a memory game to practice vocabulary related to FOOD. Have fun!