jueves, 24 de diciembre de 2009

Everything I Do, I Do it for You

miércoles, 23 de diciembre de 2009

What do you like to do for fun?

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 29:

What do you like to do for fun?

"Like to Do" and "Like Doing" Part 1 of 2

Level: Intermidiate



Exercises

jueves, 26 de noviembre de 2009

What kind of music do you like?

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 28:

What kind of music do you like?

Level: Intermidiate




viernes, 13 de noviembre de 2009

What do you do for fun?

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 27:

What do you do for fun?


Level: Intermidiate

jueves, 12 de noviembre de 2009

Time and Frequency

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 26:

When do you start work?
When do you finish?
How often do you drive your cab?


Level: Pre-Intermidiate

jueves, 8 de octubre de 2009

jueves, 2 de julio de 2009

That's what friends are for

martes, 30 de junio de 2009

The ice hotel

sábado, 27 de junio de 2009

domingo, 21 de junio de 2009

Sing a song with U2

sábado, 20 de junio de 2009

What's your job?

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 24: What's your job? What do you do for a living?

Level: Pre-Intermidiate




Exercises

sábado, 30 de mayo de 2009

Have got

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 23: Have got

Level: Pre-Intermidiate



Exercises


martes, 12 de mayo de 2009

Introduction to the Present Simple

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 21: Introduction to the Present Simple

Level: Pre-Intermidiate



Exercises

sábado, 2 de mayo de 2009

Lost in England - Giving Directions

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 19: Lost in England - Giving Directions

Level: Beginner



Exercises

martes, 28 de abril de 2009

What are the Italians like?

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 17: What are the Italians like?

Level: Beginner



Exercises


viernes, 24 de abril de 2009

What are the French like?

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 16: What are the French like?

Level: Intermidiate



Exercises

jueves, 16 de abril de 2009

Can - To be able to do something

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 15: Can-To be able to do something
Level: Beginner



Exercises


viernes, 3 de abril de 2009

What are they like?

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 13: What are the Americans like?

Level: Beginner



Exercises

Lesson 14: What are the British like?


Exercises

jueves, 2 de abril de 2009

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 12: What's the weather like?

Level: Beginner



Exercises

martes, 31 de marzo de 2009

Are you married?

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 11: Are you married?

Level: Beginner



Exercises

jueves, 26 de marzo de 2009

The Jones family

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 10: The Jones Family

Level: Beginner




Exercises

sábado, 14 de marzo de 2009

Telling the time

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 9: Telling the time

Level: Beginner



Exercises

miércoles, 11 de marzo de 2009

Cardinal and ordinal numbers

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 8: Numbers

Level: Beginner



Exercises


Exercises

domingo, 22 de febrero de 2009

What's your Astrological Sign?

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 7: What's your Astrological Sign?

Level: Beginner


sábado, 14 de febrero de 2009

We love snow!


By Peter Carter.

When English people meet each other, they generally start their conversation by talking about the weather. “It’s nice weather we are having”, they say. Or, “It’s a bit cold for the time of year.” This week we have had a big national conversation all about the weather. It has snowed.

If you live in Scandinavia, or Germany, or Russia or Canada, you are perhaps saying, “It is winter. It snows in winter. Why are the crazy English obsessed with the snow? What is the problem?”

The problem is that, in recent years we have had very little snow. Our winters have been wet and windy, but in most places they have not been cold and snowy. This week has been different. We have had the heaviest fall of snow for 18 years. The snow has come on east winds all the way from Russia. It has been particularly heavy in London and the south-east of England.

We do not know how to cope with snow in England. In other countries, normal life continues even in the snow. On Monday this week, however, London came to a complete standstill. There were no buses. There were hardly any trains. The airports were closed. People could not go to work. Children could not go to school. It was like an extra public holiday. The TV news had interviews with tourists who were visiting London. They were puzzled. They said that they had come to London to do some shopping, but all the shops were shut.

Later on Monday, the snow came here to Birmingham, and then moved further north over the rest of the country. We woke up on Tuesday to see the sun shining on a world which was sparkling white. Then came the really wonderful news – all the schools in Birmingham would be closed for the day.

But today, Wednesday, the national conversation about the snow has turned into a national argument about the snow. Why does normal life come to a standstill in England whenever we have even a little bit of snow? Surely we could do more to keep the roads open and the trains and buses running. What must the rest of the world think about this country, when they read or see on TV that everything in London has stopped because of some snow? And why were so many schools closed? Surely most children and most teachers could have got to school, even if they had to walk.

Some older people remember – or think they remember – winters in the 1950s and 1960s when there was lots of snow. They have become national experts on snow, and they have been on TV telling us how they used to go to school through snowdrifts 2 meters deep, and things like that.

While the adults have been arguing, the children have been enjoying themselves. Until this week, most British children had never seen real snow, lots of snow, snow to make snowmen and snowballs. Tuesday was a wonderful day – cold and sunny – and because so many schools were closed, the children could go out into the gardens and the parks to play in the snow, and sledge down the hills. This is much more useful than a day in school, in my opinion. The children will remember this winter for the rest of their lives.

And the weather forecast is – more snow. Good.

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domingo, 1 de febrero de 2009

Introducing people

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 6

Introducing people
Introducing yourself


Level: Beginner



Exercises

sábado, 31 de enero de 2009

What Nationality are you?

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 5

What Nationality
are you?


Level: Beginner




Exercises

sábado, 10 de enero de 2009

The alphabet

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 3

The alphabet

Level: Beginner




Exercises

viernes, 9 de enero de 2009

Where are you from?

Real English
By Mike Marzio

Lesson 2

Where are you from?

Level: Beginner




Exercises


miércoles, 7 de enero de 2009

Formal and informal greetings

Mike Marzio runs a language school in the south of France. He has also built a large collection of short video clips of people speaking English, in the streets in America and in many other English speaking countries. Many of the videos are linked to quizzes, so that you can test how well you understood what the people in the video were saying.

I think it's a really good idea to improve your understanding of the different accents.

If you are interested, I'll post some of the lessons from time to time. You can also visit Mike Marzio's website and follow the lessons there.

Let's try the first unit about formal and informal greetings.

Unit 1: Hi! How are you doing?
What's your name?
Level: Beginner



Exercises