I'll be there for you (sing along!)

Here you have the official video of the song we sang in class. Enjoy!

More Idioms!

Here we have the teacher again teaching us some interesting idioms. This time, he presents three different 3 different idioms related to the topic of vegetables. Enjoy!

"It's a hot potato" = a delicate issue where people don't agree.

"A carrot and stick" = when someone tries to persuade us to do something using an incentive and a threat.

"To be like two peas in a pod" = when two people look very similar to each other.

You can follow the video with the script by clicking on the link below:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/the_teacher/teacher_071011_vegetables_transcript.pdf

Transcripts of the "Eye Idioms video"

Instructions: Read and listen to the video at the same time.

Hello. I’m a very interesting and intelligent man.
And today these eyes and I will be getting together to teach you some English idioms.
These eyes and 'eye'! Get it? These eyes and EYE! Ha! These eyes and 'eye'! I’m so funny.
'Eye' am so funny, ho ho!
Anyway. Enough of that.
Today I have to do something very difficult.
It’s… a baby.
My boss’s wife is sick so he's had to bring his baby into work.
But now he’s gone out for lunch so he's asked me to keep an eye on the baby.
Cootchie coo…
In English, if we want someone to look after something or to watch it closely, we say “keep
an eye on something”.
To keep an eye on something.
Well, here I go…
And now for… our next eye idiom.
But first you’ll have to stop messing around and start paying attention.
You think because I’m not facing you that I can't see what you're doing… but you’re wrong!
I’ve got eyes in the back of my head.
In English, if someone knows everything that’s happening around them, even though they
can’t see it, we say they have eyes in the back of their head.
To have eyes in the back of your head.
Ah, that’s better.
My boss is a little… fat.
He thinks eating a lot makes him a real man. Yesterday for lunch he ordered bread, soup, fish,
steak, pork, potatoes, pasta, cake, and pie…
But he couldn’t finish it all. That’s right… his eyes were bigger than his stomach.
In English, if someone takes too much food and then can't eat it all, we say “his eyes were
bigger than his stomach”.
His eyes are bigger than his stomach.
His eyes were bigger than his stomach. Not like me …

Eye Idioms

In this video the Teacher shows us the following idioms:

"To keep an eye on something"= to look after something/someone or watch it closely.
"To have eyes in the back of your head" = When someone knows everything that's happening around them, even though they can't see it.
"His eyes are bigger than his stomach"= When someone orders too much food and then can't eat it all.

Grammar exercises: Possessives

Different websites to practise online: personal pronouns and possessives (adjectives and pronouns)

http://www.carmenlu.com/first/grammar/possessives14.html

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/poss1.htm

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/poss3.htm

http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~adelegc/grammar/possessive_adjectives/possessiveadjectives.html

Present Simple exercises

Practise the use of Present Simple online.

http://www.isabelperez.com/pr-simple-neg.htm

http://www.english-room.com/presentsimple_02.htm

http://www.carmenlu.com/first/grammar/present1_1ynq.htm

Karaoke

Do you like Karaoke??
Here you'll find a great website to practise your English pronunciation with songs! Some of the videos are just amateur's, but still you can practise singing along with them. You have to select your favourite author (they are in alphabetical order) and then search your song. Have fun!

http://www.agendaweb.org/songs/songs-lyrics.html

If you don't like singing, you can also do listening exercises while you watch/listen to the video:

http://www.agendaweb.org/songs/learn_english_through_songs.html

Football idioms

Here you can start learning some useful idioms so that you are prepared for the 2010 Football World Cup.