Why Lemn Sissay holds Christmas dinner for 500 strangers

- An inspirational story:Why Lemn Sissay holds Christmas dinner for 500 strangers

- Listen to an interview with Lemn Sissay, poet and playwright
- The Christmas dinner
-  His Ted Talk

Thank you, Ana 

Gerunds and Infinitives

• Link 1
• Link 2 
• Link 3
• Link 4 

Merry Christmas!

Have a great Christmas and a very happy New Year!

Xmas Party Activities

Inverted conditionals exercises

PDF with answers here

Listening practice

Very good listening practice for you:

Punctuation marks

A visual aid for punctuation rules

What is a weather bomb?

Inhaling history and smelling the future

Conditionals

• Conditional sentences
• Conditionals Revision Game
• Game 2 
• Mixed Conditionals

I wish and if only

Here are some great worksheets with answers: 
- Link 1
- Link 2
- Link 3

Vaccines

Talking about the past

• Past Simple or Past Continuous Exercise 1
• Past Simple or Past Continuous Exercise 2

• Choose the Past Perfect or the Past Simple

• Past Perfect Continuous or Past Simple Exercise 1

• Choose the Past Simple or Present Perfect Exercise 1
• Choose the Past Simple or Present Perfect Exercise 2

•  Choose the Present Perfect Simple or Continuous 1
• Choose the Present Perfect Simple or Continuous 2

• Past Perfect Continuous or Past Simple Exercise 1

1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic

An article 
A video:
 

Be to + INFINITIVE

Explanation
Exercises

How to adapt to the end of the Summer Saving Time

As or like?

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Rise, raise, arise

• Explanation
• Exercise

Modal verbs

• Exercise 1
• Exercises 2
• Exercises 3

Donald Tusk receives Princess of Asturias Award for Concord on behalf of the EU

Leonard Cohen's Prince Of Asturias Speech

 Thank you, Ana, for sharing this video. It's quite moving.

A Challenge

Some links to News & documentary sites

• BBC News (downloadable)
• BBC Earth
•  BBC Panorama
• El Pais in English 
• National Geographic
• The Guardian International
• Time Magazine 

This is our coursebook this year:

Gapped texts and clozes

Here are sites with exercises to practise both:

• gapped text 1
• gapped text 2
• gapped text 3
• gapped text 4
• gapped text 5 

• Cloze 1
• Cloze 2 

Vocabulary for different topics

I've found this great post which should be really useful both for the writing and speaking papers, as it has vocab for a number of usual topics.
Link

Refresher courses

Here's the info for the refresher courses on offer next year.
The application button will be active on July 1st.

Useful links to keep practising

Here's the section with lots of useful links to keep practising
Here's the CAE exam section with lots of activities 

Preparing for your speaking exam

Here are a couple of links to posts with phrases for your presentations and a handout with topics to practise for the interaction task 

WannaCry Ransomware Infects the World

'Sugar tax' on soft drinks

Some more John Oliver videos

• video on Predatory Lending 
• video on Native Advertising
• video on Student Debt
• video on fashion
• video on Trumpcare

Bad habits

Here's the link to the video

Health

Here's a mindmap about health

Business and money

French elections

Watch the John Oliver video here

Conflicting drug laws in the US

Watch the video here

How to argue

I wish you would

Here's the video

Daylight Saving Time

Watch the video here

If You Were A Sailboat

Why we have too few women leaders - Sheryl Sandberg

Watch the video here

Inversion

• Inversion explanation
• Inversion 1
• Inversion 2
• Inversion 3 

Learn about mayhem

Learn about mayhem here

Links to C1 exams from different communities

I've included some links to C1  exams from different communities in the Useful Links Section

Michael Moore predicted Trump's Win

Read the article here
Also The Michael Moore Easy-to-Follow 10-Point Plan to Stop Trump

The Resistance with Keith Olbermann

Vocab: to be bused in: to be taken by bus

Spain's Princess Cristina found not guilty in fraud case

Watch the video here
SPAIN'S URDANGARIN ESCAPES JAIL PENDING APPEAL here

Leslie Morgan Steiner's story

Watch here the ted talk Eva told us about in class. Thanks, Eva!

verbs + preposition

• verb +preposition dictionary 
• exercise 1 +key
• Exercise 2 + key
• Exercise 3 + key

Nouns + prepositions

• Nouns and prepositions
• Nouns + prepositions exercises 

Prepositions after adjectives (some with key)

• Worksheet 1
• Worksheet 2
• Worksheet 3

Mixed Conditionals & Inversion

• Explanation of inversion in conditionals
• Inversion in conditionals
• Mixed conditionals explanation

PMQs

Here you can find more videos for the MPQs

Common Political Terms

• Common Political Terms
• More terms
• a video of political collocations

Double Comparatives

Watch the explanation

Do the exercise here
A worksheet

Brexit explained

Thanks Alex!

The American Health system

Video here

Friends Reunited Cloze Key

1. A 2. D 3. D 4. A

5. B 6. C 7. B 8. A

9. D 10. C 11. B 12. D

Review Phrase Sheet

Here you can find great expressions for your review

Spain seeks to shorten 11-hour working day

Read one or both of these articles:
Telegraph article
Guardian article
We'll discuss them in class.

Audio Books

Here's a site with lots of free audio books

Whereby & thereby

Find out the difference:

• Whereby & thereby
• another explanation