Revision

A few interesting things to revise before the exam.
Good luck!

RELATIVE SENTENCES
Theory
Exercise 1
Exercise 2

CONNECTIVES
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Quiz

LIKE / AS
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Sandwiches

Everyone likes sandwiches. This snack is a significant part of the diets of many millions of people around the world. Would you like to learn a little more about the story of the sandwich?

Sandwiches

Sandwiches_Glossary

Sandwiches_Answers

You can read an article and watch a video about an attempt by cooks in Iran to make the world’s longest sandwich.

Christmas Jokes

- Mum, can I have a dog for Christmas?
- No, you can have turkey like everyone else!

- Knock, knock
- Who's there?
- Mary & Abby
- Mary & Abby who?
- Mary Christmas & Abby New Year.

- Knock! Knock!
- Who's there?
- Arthur!
- Arthur who?
- Arthur any mince pies left?!

- Why was Santa's helper feeling blue?
- He had low elf esteem.

Darth Vader: "Luke, I know what you are getting for Christmas - I have felt your presents"

- Doctor, doctor, my problem is that I keep stealing things when I go Christmas shopping. Can you give me something for it?
- Doctor: Try this medicine...and if it doesn't work come back and bring me a new video camera.

Extra listening exercises

Hi everyone,

I found some listening exercises on the Intenet. I hope you find them useful.

Cooking

Taxi ride

Pizza delivery

Weekly activities

Good luck!

UP

I absolutely love animated films and UP is one of the best I've ever seen. It was the first animated film to open the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

I've found an interesting reading exercise that you can do, but first, watch this video. Have fun!

• UP_Reading
• UP_Glossary
• UP_Answers

Elia Kazan at the Faculty of Science

This November and December there is a season of Elia Kazan films at the Faculty of Science. All films are in English with subtitles in Spanish. For more information, click here.

Sesame Street

Let's celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street with a video. Enjoy!

Back to school

Here is a text you might find interesting. Read it and do the exercises:

- Back to School

- Back to School_Glossary
- Back to School_Answers

Then, you can do this quiz from the BBC Learn English website:

In the classroom

A couple of interesting websites:

A guide for teenagers (A guide for teenagers on coping with going back to school. )

Long school holidays should end (A BBC article (2008) about a study suggesting that some school pupils in the UK are falling behind in class because the summer holidays are too long.)

Radio in English / Vocabulary

If you are interested in listening to the radio in English, then Screamer Radio is what you are looking for. It's a free programme that you can download onto your computer and with it, you can listen to radio stations from all over the world (in English and other languages).
http://www.screamer-radio.com/

Now some quizzes from the BBC Learning English website:

Agreeing

Family

Adjectives describing character

And a crossword from the BBC Learning English website:

Family

Sports / Past Tenses

If you want to learn more about olympic sports, try these websites:

• Olympics 2008
• International Olympic Committee

Why don't you test your knowledge of sports with this quiz? You can try this game too. Another quiz: Do, play or go?

In the past, a quiz from the BBC Learning English Website.

And remember that you have lots of resources on this website:
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/intermediate/