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Food and health - Modal verbs

susana — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:01:43 +0000

We`ve talked about modal verbs in class.

Now let`s do some more exercises about them!

Remember you can go to the blog`s Grammar page to check out the meaning and uses of modal verbs!

Click here!

8 Food and Health - Comments

susana — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:34:56 +0000

Where do you normally have your meals?

Do you prefer fish or meat?

What is your favourite dish?

Do you like going to restaurants? Which are your favourites?

Are you worried about your health?

Do you only eat healthy food?

What food should people eat to have a healthy diet?

7 Food and Health - 1

susana — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:25:11 +0000

Start off by watching this videoclip and writing down on your notebooks at least five words you can hear in the song!

As you have probably understood today we are going to start talking about food and health.

So you can remember some of the vocabulary related to meals and food see if you can solve this matching exercise!

Do you like fruit and vegetables! They are essential!! See if you know what they are in Portuguese with this translation exercise.

A healthy diet is very important to our health.

Answer this quiz to find out more about food and health:

“You are what you eat”

Now take a look at this video to see what we shouldn`t do if we want to be in good health.

“Super Size Me”

Let`s see if you understood the most important ideas from the video…

Do this matching exercise to check!

6 Best mates

susana — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:10:05 +0000

You are going to listen to an interview to two best friends, where they are going to talk about their friendship.

Download the podcast and while you listen to the text complete the missing questions.

When you have finished keep the text window open, listen to the podcast again and figure out who said what by completing a matching exercise.

To finish the text comprehension complete these sentences about it.

5 Friends and friendship

susana — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:05:58 +0000

Today we are going to talk about friends and friendship.

So you can learn some new vocabulary and revise the rest i prepared some matching exercises about the characteristics of a good friend and the things you most admire in your friends.

In the first one you can match the adjective with its translation.

In the second one you can find the pairs of words constituted by the adjective and the correspondent noun.

Enjoy!

4 Sports preferences

susana — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:26:18 +0000

What is/are your favorite sport(s)? Why do you like it/them?

Do you have a favourite sportsman/woman? What do you admire most in him/her?

Do you practice any sport(s)?What? Why?

Leave your comment here!!

(Don`t forget to use some of the adjectives + preposition we learned last lesson!)

3 Football - Vocabulary

susana — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:30:45 +0000

As you know football is one of the most popular sports in the worl, if not the most popular! So, let`s learn some more vocabulary about it.

Activity one

I`m sure some of these expressions are already familiar to you but others will be new!

Be sure to read the sentences carefully so you understand their context!

Fill in the gaps!

Activity two

Some more useful words! Click on a number in the grid and read the clues to complete the crossword puzzle!

Activity three - Grammar work

After some adjectives we can use a preposition (e. g. at, on, of, in, about, for).

Being a sportsman

Download the podcast to your computer and fill in the gaps with the missing prepositions. In the end check your results.

2 World at your feet

susana — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:00:47 +0000

Now that you`ve seen all these sports we`re going to talk about one in particular.

Some people call it the “king” sport, do you know what i`m talking about…?

Well, king or not, it`s football i`m refering to. Do you like it? Why? What is your favoutite team? Do you considerer yourself a true fan? Do you cry when your team looses?

If you want, be free to write your comments here!

Let`s continue working!! Here is a song about football. It was written for the football World Cup of 2006.

Activity one

Download the podcast to your computer, listen to the song and complete the activities that follow. If you like you can read the lyrics of the song while you listen.

World at your Feet

You’re the first in my life

To make me think that we might just go all the way

And I want you to know we’re all hanging on.

They’ll come, and yes they’ll try

To break us down

But we know that we’ll never lose

If we keep moving forward

And don’t look back.

(chorus)

With the world at your feet

10? There’s no one you can’t beat,

Yes it can be done.

With the world at your feet

There’s no height you can’t reach. This could be the one.

15 It’s calling,

It’s calling you now,

You know it’s gonna be your time

‘Cause the world is at your feet,

Yeah, the world is at your feet.

20? Like stars in the sky,

Burning bright,

Seen by a billion eyes,

No, I want you to know We’re all turned your way.

(chorus)

25? It’s calling,

It’s calling you now,

You know it’s gonna be your time ‘Cause the world is at your feet,

Yeah, the world is at your feet.

30? With the world at your feet

There’s no one you can’t beat,

Yes it can be done.

With the world at your feet

There’s no height you can’t reach,

35 This could be the one.

World At Your Feet, Embrace (shortened)

Activity two

Now with the help of the lyrics of the song do this matching exercise!

Activity three

Next let`s see if you understood the content of the song with this little exercise…

Activity four

In this activity you must look up in the song the words mentioned so you can decide on what they are refering to! Remember the lines of the song are numbered so it`ll be easier to locate them! Complete the exercise!

1 Sports

susana — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:19:16 +0000

This term we are going to start by talking about sports. Let`s see if you remember a lot of them or not!

Solve this wordsearch and if you have any doubts on what a sport is check out the picture gallery bellow

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Welcome to our blog!

susana — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:10:48 +0000

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