Hello and welcome to Learn English with Chris. This blog has been created in order to structure all the activities to be carried out during my English classes. I hope you will find it very interesting and useful, and why not? Enjoy me!

martes, 23 de noviembre de 2010

Dress codes: what would you wear if you....?


Yvonne and Alice talk about dress codes and what types of clothes are suitable for work. The Ukrainian government has recently published dress codes for men and women, suggesting that certain styles of dress are unacceptable for work. So what is acceptable?

This week's question:
Which African country banned men from wearing western-style suits and ties to show it had broken links with its colonial past?

a) Zaire (now known as The Democratic Republic of Congo)

b) Rwanda or

c) Uganda

miércoles, 17 de noviembre de 2010

Men are the weaker sex...




Traditionally, women are generally known as 'the weaker sex' so people say they need to be protected. However, in terms of health, women are the strong, healthy ones - so, men are supposedly the weaker sex. Yvonne and Rob have been discussing this.

This week's question:

Compared with the early 1960s, each year, the number of men who enter medical schools in the UK has doubled. But how many women enter medical school each year?

a) About the same number

b) Triple the number

c) Ten-fold


Let's review the conditional sentences:


1st and zero conditionals

- exercise 1

- exercise 2

- exercise 3

martes, 16 de noviembre de 2010

Future actions


Hello pupils!!!! This week we ARE GOING TO revise the future tenses used in order to talk about future actions and plans. First we are going to listen and then we are going to practice the grammar.

And now we are going to practice some new vocabulary we have learnt from the listening activities by listening to the following song:


Have a nice week!!!


martes, 9 de noviembre de 2010

Video of the Week

In this video our friends Beavis and Butt-Head are attending their Spanish lessons... Would you like to help them to improve their Spanish? Click here now!!!

To my pupil MªJosé

Hello and welcome back to our English lessons! Today we are going to learn how to improve our pronunciation and then we are going to practice our listening activities. See you later!

lunes, 8 de noviembre de 2010

Pinoso Pupils: Hello, Hi!!!

Hello!!! Nice to meet you!. Here you are our first listening. It's very simple and easy. Open your ears and practice the dialogue as many times as you can.