Relationships phrases

1. Learn the phrases.

2. Write a story about a couple you know:

fancy smb                get divorced            fall in love                    ask smb out
go out with smb       chat smb up            get married to smb       chat smb up
get back together      fall out with smb    make up

Useful language for hotel check-in

Полезная лексика, которая поможет при поселении в отель:

Types of accomodation
Types of rooms
Things and services at the hotel
Useful phrases
Receptionist's questions.

About tsunamis

Listening practice for upper-intermediate  

In this video from National Geographic you will learn more about tsunamis:
-what causes them and what can be done to minimize their impact
- how they start and develop
- which tsunami in history caused the most deaths

The video will stop and the questions of the quiz will appear.
Answer the question and press 'Continue'.
You can press ' Rewatch' and watch the bit again if you can't answer the question.




Useful words from the video:
a natural disaster
to be flooded
floating debris
to strike with little warning
to be triggered by
volcanic eruption
earthquake
to break and crest (about waves)
to crash over the coastline
to drag everything back to the ocean
to alert vulnerable coastlines

Flowchart: Past Simple or Past Continuous?

Flowchart: Present Perfect or Past Simple?

Inviting and making arrangements

To be able to invite your business partners or arrange meeting with foreign friends you need to learn some phrases.

1.Learn the phrases:

Checking someone is free

Are you free?

Are you doing anything?

Is (Sunday) any good for you?

Making invitations

Would you like to…?

Do you fancy + verb + ing?

Accepting invitations

Sounds great!

Yeah, I’d like/love to…

That’s be lovely!

Refusing invitations (apology + reason)

I’m afraid I can’t make it because…

I’m really sorry, but I can’t … because…

Suggesting a time/place to meet

Shall we meet outside the restaurant at eight?

Suggesting a different time/place to meet

How about +  ing… instead?

Could we meet… instead?

Nationality idioms

 Sometimes English people use the name of nationalities in their common everyday phrases.

1. Learn these idioms:

to go Dutch

=everyone pays for himself in a pub or a restaurant.

Dutch courage

= confidence gained after you drink some alcohol

Idioms for ordering food in a restaurant

1.  When you eat in a restaurant with your friend, do you usually:

• go Dutch (split the bill  in half) 
• treat your friend (pay for him/her) ?

2. Listen and read the conversation. Pay attention to the words in bold.

  

How to describe objects

   1. Which three possessions are very important to you?

________                Somebody special gave it to me.
________                It makes me feel happy.
________                It makes my life easier.

2.  Look at these pictures and learn the words.  If you are not sure about their meaning, look up the new words in the dictionary.

brand new

antique /ænˈtiːk/

heavy /ˈhev.i/

Idioms for making small talk

1. Listen and read the conversation. Pay attention to the words in bold.

A: What’s eating you?

B: What do you mean? I’m fine.

A:No,you aren’t. Come on,whatever it is, get  it off your chest.

B:Well… see that woman over there?Her name is Elizabeth. I’ve been trying to find a way to meet het for months, and now, here she is. But I don’t have the guts to walk over there.

A: Come on,Bill! This is your chance. Just give it shot. What do you have to lose?

Do something new for 30 days

1.  Look at Matt Cutts, a top manager at Google.

Matt Cutts

What changes has he made to his lifestyle?

He:

• has written a novel
• has climbed a famous mountain
• has learnt a new language
• has given up eating meat
• has given up sugar
• has started cycling to work  ?

2. Watch and check your ideas.

Internet activities

1. These are things you can do online:

to be  online( to go online)

to tweet

to blog 

to do research

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Talking about age

1    You are as old as you feel. Let's learn today useful words and phrases how to talk about age. 

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1. Do the exercise and learn more vocabulary to talk about age.

  2.These are celebrities who don’t look their age. Look at the photos of people and guess their age.

      a)Jared Leto

A photo by Machohairstyles, May 26.2016

Telling a story

    1. Think of your answers to the following questions:

Why do we tell stories?
What kind of stories do you like?

2. Read  the story and put the events in the correct order?



Which words helped you to decide?

Adjectives for describing feelings

1. Look at the faces. Can you guess this woman's  feelings?

A photo by Katy

2. Learn the adjectives for feelings

Likes and dislikes

    Learn the words which will help you to talk about your hobbies:

I'm not keen on...
I really love...
I'm really into...
I prefer...
I can't stand...
My favourite ... is...
I'm really interested in...
I don't mind...
I quite like...

We generally use a noun or verb +ing after likes and dislikes phrases:

I like swimming in the sea.

Songs to practise Present Simple and Continuous

       Прослушивание песен-прекрасная практика навыков понимания речи на слух и закрепления грамматики. Это занимательный способ практиковать скучную грамматику.
 Данная подборка направлена на тренировку таких структур как Present Simple and Present Continuous. 

Films and TV series with different accents of English

To be a successful speaker you need to be able to differentiate accents of the English language: Received pronunciation, Scottish, Irish, American, Canadian, Australian.

The easiest way to get used to people speaking different accents is to watch films. Let’s look at some features of accents and examples of movies illustrating them.

Standard British or Received pronunciation(RP) is a “classical” variant or “gold standard” British pronunciation.

Characteristic features:

• most of the sounds are produced in the front part of the mouth 
• emphasis on long sounds [a:] dance [dɑːns] 
• drop of “r” at the end of the words: mother, river [ˈrɪvə] 
• short sound [ɪ] in –ry : secretary /ˈsek.rə.tər.i/ 

Want to listen to it? Watch "Great Expectations"(2012)

Confusing verbs plus prepositions

Look at the pictures and read the sentences. Can you work out the difference?
 

Dream OF    and  dream  ABOUT