Coming back to class after Christmas holidays

Welcome to the blog! Happy New Year! I suppose everybody thinks 2021 will be much better than the previous one so let's try to make it true. This is also the time for New Year's Resolutions and one of them can be to improve your English, why not?

To start with, let's do some exercises to refresh your English:

• Listening comprehension: 
• go to this link with different levels and start from the most simple and then continue with the other levels: click here.
• This is a very funny exercise with the use of "gonna" instead of "going to" (this is common in informal speaking) about how easy it's to fail your resolutions: click here.

So remember that the aim of new year's resolutions is not to get everything immediately, but to be able to work and to be better.

I'll try to go on with the blog regularly. Keep in touch!

Unit 3.1: London for free

In this unit we are working with future wit two similar forms: Present continuous or GOING TO.
As you can see from the grammar section (p. 132) the difference is rather small and it's only depending on the inner meaning:

• I'm going to have dinner with my parents next weekend (your plans, your intention, NOT arrenged yet or not fixed but something I want to do in a close future)
• I'm having dinner with my parents (everything is arranged, with a fixed time/place)

On the book they say that GOING TO is more common when other people are not involved in the action but I prefer to explain that this form is connected to WANT TO, which indicates your intention, what you want to do in a close future.

If you want to practise you can do these exercises: exercise 1    exercise 2    exercise 3

To know something about London and practise with listening you can watch these videos:

10 popular sights in London    10 things to know about London    London (with subtitles)

You can also go to this link with a lot of material about London for English students; click here