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, 11 de enero de 2011

Drinking Tea in the UK


Yvonne and Alice talk about how tea became a very popular drink in the UK and and we hear how many cups of tea British people drink every day.

This week's question:

Some people say Britain is a nation of tea drinkers. According to the UK Tea Council, how many cups of tea are drunk by the British everyday? Is it:

a) 12,000

b) 120,000

c) 120,000,000

Listen out for the answer in the programme.

jueves, 16 de diciembre de 2010

Cockney Rhyming Slang


Today we are going to learn something about Cockney, which is a type of English spoken in London. It is very funny, and I hope you will enjoy it!


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