ANOTHER GREAT BRITISH COUNCIL WEBSITE FOR ADVANCED LISTENING PRACTICE (LEVEL 3)

With these Professional podcasts, you can do online listening exercises, download and print activities or even discuss the topics with interesting questions for discussion!

THE LATEST AND AMAZING NEWS ABOUT MUSIC!

As a music lover I've always believed in the magic and power of music and now, thanks to science and technology, we seem to unveil more and more of its secrets! Let's look at some amazing information from BBC News:

1.Why do we like the music we do? It depends on your personality: are you an empathiser or a systemiser?

2.Could technology turn you into a virtuoso - even if you have no musical training?! Watch this video, it sounds possible, doesn't it: it would be my dream come true! So, if you are a musician and need a guinea pig to play music with another brain, I'd be delighted to share the experiment!

FOR LITERATURE LOVERS: FREE ONLINE LITERATURE TO READ AND LISTEN!

How can you read and listen to your favourite writers?

Here's a suggestion:

Step 1: Go to Project Gutenberg, and search for your favourite text, for example, the Importance of being earnest by Oscar Wilde

Step 2: Another option is trying Bartleby to find a text.

Step 3:Now go to librivox and choose the same text

You're now ready to read and listen to your chosen book!

PRESENT AND PAST MIXED TENSES FOR LEVEL 1

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3 

Exercise 4

Exercise 5

A DAY WITHOUT LAUGHTER IS A DAY WASTED! (Charlie Chaplin). GREAT LISTENINGS FOR ADVANCED

BBC English/6 minutes English is a great website to improve your listening skills with lots of different topics to strenghen your vocabulary and pronunciation, too:

For example: a few days ago, two students and I were talking about the power of humour, it may seem amazing but psychologists say that learning is easier when there are smiles or even laughter in the atmosphere.
So, in order to laugh and learn at the same time, I suggest the following:

1.Read these quotes about laughter, which is your favourite?

2.Now listen to these two BBC English/ 6 minute English texts, answer the question they ask, read the text to check while you listen at the same time, and finally...............choose your own conclusions about the power of laughter! :)   :)   :)

A.Laughter is bad for you

B.Laughter yoga

EXPRESSING PURPOSE FOR LEVEL 3

There are different forms of expressing purpose in English.

To become familiar with them, try the following exercises:

1.Read the grammar 

2.Do this exercise

3.And now the next one

GETTING READY FOR YOUR HOLIDAYS!

Englishgem is getting ready for a "school trip" to Ireland. :
These are some of the preparations for:

the language:

the country:


the atmosphere!:

MORE LISTENING EXERCISES FOR LEVEL 2 AND UP

If you are working on improving your listening skills, try the following listening exercises:

Activity 1

And when you finish you might try
Activity 2

IMPROVING YOUR WRITING (LEVEL 3)

If you are improving your writing skills and need more practice, reading examples written by other students can be really useful in order to identify your problems.
Here's an interesting website with great practice!