SPEAKING TOPICS - Modules 5 & 6

EXAMPLE of Module 6 oral exam (The interaction in Module 8 will be a bit different)

QUESTIONS
Living abroad
The best holidays
A gadget you can't live without
Are mobile phones bad or good?
Life in the future: housing, environment, transport


Healthy diet and habits
Fast food vs. traditional food
Eating out vs. eating at home
Going to class or studying online
Schools now and in the past
How to have a healthy lifestyle

Living in a house or a flat
Paper books vs e-books
Books vs films

Mental vs physical activities


DISCUSSIONS
Choose a country to live
Make plans for the weekend
Choose a sport activity
Plan a holiday
Choose a place to have lunch
Plan a party
Choose a present for a friend
How can you improve your English?
Choose a place to live
Problems living together
Organise a book club

Paper books and printed books

What do you prefer?

Books

My kindle
Listen to a young woman speaking about her kindle and complete the information below:

1. A kindle is an electronic book reader
2. It can hold any reading material
3. It cannot record voices or play music
4. It's as thin as a pencil
5. She has 10 samples
6. She can't download books in France
7. It's very convenient to take it everywhere
8. It has a very long battery life
9. She has screensavers of famous authors

Answers written in white select the text above to see them.

Both... either... neither

http://www.grammar.cl/english/both-either-neither.htm

Renting an apartment

Health in Britain

Watch the video about Health in Britain and answer the questions (this is an old video, some of the information may not be true anymore)

1. What's a GP? A general practitioner or family doctor
2. How many patients does a GP have? 2000
3. Who gets free medicine? Students, people over 60 and pregnant women
4. What do chemists prepare? prescriptions
5. What's the NHS? The National Health Service
6. What services used to be free but not anymore? Visits to the dentist, glasses, eye tests, prescriptions
7. What are the main problems of the NHS? People have to wait to see a specialist or have an operation
8. What has changed in the British diet? They eat less red meat and more fresh fruit and vegetables
9. Why has life expectancy increased? Because there are new medicines and people have a better diet

Answers are written in white. Select above to see them

Health - yoga

Watch, learn and try

Heatlh - Remedies

Listen to the second audio and complete the following information

1. In Saudi Arabia you drink babunej when you have the flu
2. It is made with camomile, an herb
3. You get vitamin C from the mixture
4. You use daikon for a sore throat
5. Daikon is like a white carrot
6. You put honey on it
7. In Brazil people drink water with garlic when they feel unwell
8. She doesn’t know if it works

Answers written in white. Select the text above to see them.

School rules

Education - Schools in britain

Food and healthy lifestyle

Cottage pie

Watch the video and take a quiz.
How healthy is your diet? Take a quiz.
Healthy eathing - listening
Read about unhealthy food.
Junk food discussion questions.
Healthy lifestyle discussion questions.

Food

Talking about food


Describing food

Describing food from Angela Ruiz Montero

How to Make Butter Chicken

Complete the recipe

1. Season the chicken with  _______ and pepper.

2. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and when hot begin to _______the chicken.
3. Fry the chicken for 3-4 minutes or until it turns ____________.
4. __________ the chicken. Take the chicken out of the frying pan and put it on aside.
5. Using the same frying pan melt the _______.
6. Fry the ________ with the cinnamon.
7. Add the remaining ingredients: the crushed garlic, crushed ginger, turmeric, chilli powder, almonds, peeled tomatoes, tomato paste and the natural yoghurt. Stir all of the ingredients together ____________thoroughly.
8. Bring to the boil and leave it to cook for 4-5 minutes. Then __________ and add seasoning.
9. _______the chicken. Put the chicken back into the pan and cook for 5 minutes.
10. Add the _______ coriander or spinach and stir it into the sauce.
11. Serve while streaming and eat up! Serve it with _______and Naan bread

Answers written in white: 1salt, 2fry, 3(Golden) Brown, 4remove, 5butter, 6onion, 7mixing, 8taste, 9add, 10fresh, 11rice

Food vocabulary exercises
Adjectives to describe food
Adjectives to describe food2
The Benefits of Healthy Eating (Reading Comprehension)
Fish and Chips (Reading Comprehension)
Listenings
Listening: Pancakes with Jamie Oliver
Video about Mexican food with an exercise

Conditionals

First conditional


Do some exercises
Leave a comment if you want a correction.

Second conditional


Other conditionals

Visit Lodon or New York

Do you like travelling?

Holidays

Planning a trip: lesson (superlatives)

Planning a trip - vocabulary

Travelling speaking questions
Listening: Travelling to New York
Travelling video + exercises


HOLIDAYS

TRAVELLING

Free time

Choosing a film - conversation practice

More dialogues: dialogue1, dialogue2

What do you do in your free time?


Try these activities
Check the answers below (select to see them):
Ex 1: 2 to 3 time 4 This 5 bar 6 band 7 doing 8 time
Ex 2: ✓go out to a jazz club, play football, run a half-marathon, study different languages, play the guitar,go running, go to a barbecue
Ex 3: 2A 3D 4F 5E 6C
Ex 4: B Robin Hood C relaxing D quiet E his friends’ F Sunday Ex 5: B2 C1 D1 E2 F2
Ex 6: 1 like to 2 great 3 like coming 4 enjoy/ like 5 love to6 enjoy/ enjoy

How to talk about free time

Keeping fit

Try these activities.
Check the answers below (select the text to see them):

Ex 1: 2f 3a 4e 5c 6d

Ex 2: A 2✓3× B 1✓ 2× 3✓ C 1✓2✓ 3×

Ex 3: 2e 3a 4b 5f 6d

Ex 4: 2E 3A 4D 5B

Ex 5: B1, C2, D1, E2

Ex 6: 2 keep 3 team 4 dessert 5 dancing 6 keeping

Ex 7: b a sweet tooth c watch what I eat d hectic lifestyle e get into

Future time

Past, present and future. Leave a comment like this about transport, school, food, work, relationships...

In the past, we used to ride by horse and carriage. Now, we have cars, trains and airplanes. Maybe in the future there will be flying cars and spaceships.

Sports - keeping fit

How do you keep fit?

Listening lessons
Doing basic exercises
Exercising at the gym
Walking or running
Going on a diet
Doing yoga
Speaking questions.

Plans

TALKING ABOUT PLANS


MAKING PLANS

Comparatives and superlatives

Comparatives explanation




Transcript

Smart cities

Barcelona

Top 10 Smartest Cities In the World



These are the top 10 cities in the world:
10. Barcelona - The city is a pioneer in smart city and low-carbon solutions.
9. Hong Kong - The city has also been a leader in the use and adoption of smart cards, which are already used by millions of residents for services like public transit, library access, building access, shopping, and car parks.
8. Copenhagen - The city has committed to carbon neutrality by 2025 and 40% of its citizens regularly commute via bicycle.
7. Berlin - Berlin is testing out vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies in the hopes of creating a virtual power plant from electric vehicles.
6. Tokyo - The city will create a smart town in the suburbs in partnership with major industry. The eco-burb will contain homes that integrate solar panels, storage ba  tteries, and energy efficient appliances all connected to a smart grid.
5. London - also scored relatively high across the board. London has been well-recognized for some of its sustainability innovations (i.e. congestion tax) and its robust transit system.
4. New York - New York scored higher than most other cities in the ranking in all of the categories except of quality of life, where it ranked a poor 47th. It has teamed with innovator IBM to help the city prevent fires and protect first responders as well as identify questionable tax refund claims--a move that is expected to save the city about $100 million over a five-year period.
3. Paris - Paris already has a highly successful bike sharing program, Velib, and just last month, its mayor launched a similar model for small EVs called Autolib.
2. Toronto - smartest city in NA, scored well across the board, it is an active member of the Clinton 40 (C40) megacities, which seek to transition to the low-carbon economy. The private sector is getting in on the action too, setting up a Smart Commute Toronto initiative to increase the city's transit efficiency.
1. The smartest city in the world is Vienna - Vienna was the only city that ranked in the top 10 in every category. It is establishing bold smart-city targets and tracking their progress to reach these goals with programs like Smart Energy Vision 2050, Roadmap 2020, and Action Plan 2012-2015.
A smart city is defined as using information and communication technologies to be more intelligent and efficient in the use of resources, resulting in cost and energy savings, improved service delivery and quality of life, and reduced environmental footprint--all supporting innovation and the low-carbon economy.
The rankings were determined by the cities scores on 4 global categories: Innovation, Green ranking, Quality of life and digital city

Technology

Technology lesson


Watch the video and answer the 3 questions the woman asks.



Questions for discussion
Reading: Internet safety
               Internet safety2
               Computers

Present perfect

You can find more information about the present perfect and exercises here.

Globalization

Listen a minute: Globalization
Going global

Living abroad

Stories

Groups of irregular verbs

Irregular verbs grouped by form

Speaking topics - Module 6

Discussions
Choose an activity to do with a friend
Choose a place to live
Problems living together
Plan a holiday
What to do in a new town
How to travel to work
Visting museums or going to the beach
Choose a present for a friend
Choose a film to see at the cinema
Organise a book club


Speaking topics
How to have a healthy lifestyle
Living in the city vs countryside
Living in a house or a flat
Paper books vs e-books
Books vs films
The best means of transport
Your favourite place for a holiday
Talk about a friend
Mental vs physical activities
Do you like art?
Going to the theatre vs watching TV

What's your opinion?
Do you think e-books will make printed books disappear?
Do you think alternative therapies are useful?
Do you think homes have changed in the last few years?
Do you think people read less nowadays?
Do you think your town has a good cultural offer?
Do you think attractive people’ lives are easier?
Do you think video games are bad for people?
Do you think travelling by train is better than by car?

Edinburgh and its Festivals

Watch this video about Edinburgh and do the following exercises.

Art

Listening activities about art

Videogames and children

Cambridge B1 exam - PET

How to be British

A funny video about British manners:

Party etiquette - manners

Learn about Easter

Try a quiz about the video

Easy English TV Series - Extra English

Fancy watching some more?

Another series
Level 1


Level 2


Level 3

Transport and travel

Transportation vocabulary

On these pages you will find two listening exercises with videos.
video 1
video 2

Conversation questions

Discussion: How could you travel from Lugo to Madrid?

Videos to learn English

Collaborate with our Food Bank at the EOI of Lugo

Speed dating - You never know!

Speed Dating from Meghann Artes on Vimeo.

The social media revolution

Here you have some links with video/audio and activities.

• Short listening activity about social networking.
• Listen to some people talking about friends and Facebook.
• You can see videos about how social media have changed our lives and do some activities in these links, page1 page 2.