Christmas

Darren's talks about his feelings for Christmas season.

Listen to him and answer the following questions.

1. What does he like about Christmas?

2. What doesn't he like about it?
3. In his opinion what is the true meaning of Christmas?
4. What does he like to eat and drink at Christmas?
5. Does everybody like Christmas pudding?
6. What is it made of?

Do you agree with him?

Give your opinion. You can either write it down here in the section for comments or/and speaking on your own.

Cell

Cell

New broadband for Africa?

Battle of the phones

Taking a gap year/taking a year off

 Have your ever taken a gap year?

 Where and what did you do?

 If you could take a gap year what would you do?

 If you could spend a gap year anywhere in the world where would you go?

 What would you like to do there?

 What problems do you think you might have?

Taking a gap year

Listen to Kate Harris talking about her gap year in Kenya

Talking a gap year/ taking a year off

Listen to four people talking about their plans for a gap year. Complete the missing information with up to three words.

1. Sarah thinks there are more ____________________________ in Rome, that’s why she’s going to try there first.

2. Adam wants to do something useful with _________________________ .

3. Adam’s going to do a training programme on _____________________.

4. Raff doesn’t ____________________________ doing much.

5. After some time on the beach Raff will probably ____________________________ the country a bit.

6. Karen thinks it’s not necessary to go abroad to do _________________________ you can do as much good in your own country.

7. Karen is going to stay at home helping the ________________ and the __________________ and people with drug problems

Listen to Sarah, Adam, Raff and Karen.

Present perfect continuous

Tim is being interviewed por a new position at a department store.

Present perfect continuous

Strong adjectives

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