Describing people - Appearance and Personality.

Do you remember the questions to ask about a person you don’t know?

If you want to ask about people’s appearance: WHAT DOES HE/SHE LOOK LIKE? Learn more adjectives here1, here2,

Click here if you need more practice

When we use more than one adjective, we have to put them in the right order.

                                                           PERSONALITY:

If you want to ask about people’s personality: WHAT IS HE/SHE LIKE? Learn more adjectives click positive aspect here, negative aspect here, or here 3.

Clothes

Exercise1 ,
Try exercises with pictures, vocabulary etc. Exercise 2 ,
There are five exercises to practice the vocabulary of clothes,some verbs like suit,wear,fit,match,try on... some adjectives and colours.If you think that there is something that it could be better tell me Exercise 3

Questions???

Forming questions in English can be a little complicated but if you remember this simple formula you’ll have no problem:
ASI Auxiliary Subject Infinitive
Do you like football?
Does your sister work?
or QUASI
Question word Auxiliary Subject Infinitive
Where do you live?
What does Peter do?
You can use this formula in the past simple too.
Try this game to practise and click here for another question formation activity.

Present simple: daily routines

What do you do every day?

We use the present simple to talk about daily routines and every day activities.
Look at these examples:

• We leave for work at 7:30 AM every morning.
• My husband watches the TV in the evening.
• Susan often meets with her friends after school.
• They usually play football on Sunday.
• Mark rarely visits his sick grandmother.

Try these exercises to practise the different forms: affirmative, negatives and questions
For some listening practice about people’s daily routines click here and here

Listening - Elementary Podcasts.

Listening can sometimes be one of the more difficult skills. Here is a great website which is specially for your level, called Elementary Podcasts by the British Council. There are lots of texts to listen to and you can also download the mp3 files and save them on to your computer, mobile phone or mp3 player. Special packs are available with activities to do and the tapescripts.

Remember, practice makes perfect!!

Speaking.

To speak well in English or to speak good English you need to practise as much as you can, with English tourists, going to any English speaking country and of course with your teacher, your classmates and the school’s conversation assistant Maire Larkin.
By clicking here you can watch some common situations and practise your English.
In this link you can practise many everyday situation and interact with a robot.
Here you can have a virtual chat.
Here I leave some examples of monologues on basic topics and the holidays you may help you prepare for your oral exam. I also leave you with some typical monologue questions for you to plan answers for.
You can always teach your friends, watch here Pepe Reina teaching Iker Casillas some basic English.

Reading.

Reading is an excellent way to develop your English vocabulary, try these easy stories and do the exercises.
If you click here you will have access to exam type exercises.
And here you can see two nice stories with exercises.
If you want more check this out. A hundred stories about life in America with exercises.
Enjoy!