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

Unit 2: Work

This unit deals with work so I've taken some links to hear people talking about their jobs. Here you have them:

• here you can find a link form BBC Learning English. Although it's difficult at first you can use the script when you've listened to it several times. Click here
• this is the opposite to work: to get redundant. You can listen to this person and his experience; click here
• here you have a game about matching  what you hear with a photo; click here
• this listening is about a dream job for a girl; click here
• a memory game about jobs; click here

About grammar you have present continuous or present simple. You can go to a previous entry in this blog; to do it faster click here

If you want to practise more or you've alredy done the other exercises, here you have some extra ones to do

• exercise 1        exercise 2
• exercise for frequency advebs: click here and here
• a video with clips of songs working with present simple; click here but I prefer the song Tom's diner by Suzanne Vega or this version of Abba's song I have a dream
• if you have children, you can use this really easy video about present simple; click here