Reported speech activities

https://www.cristinacabal.com/?p=3060

Reported speech . How to tell if your boyfriend is a slob.

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/how/how-tell-if-your-boyfriend-slob

Brexit 2. listening. Should I stay or should I go?

Should I stay or should I go?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ibXgd_ORT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1WwnEDWAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGIFublvDes

Listen attentively. Rewrite the sentences so that the stanza is in order.

If you say that you are mine                     ____________________________

Should I stay or should I go?                   ____________________________

I’ll be here ’til the end of time                    ____________________________

Darling you got to let me know                 ____________________________

Should I stay or should I go?                    ____________________________

So you got to let me know                        _______________________

Brexit 1. listening. British expats in Spain count the Costa Brexit

British expats in Spain count the Costa Brexit

How do the largest community of British expats living in Spain feel about Brexit?

There is a huge community of Britons living in Orihuela Costa, Alicante – ‘effectively a British enclave’ –  and they give their views  in the following video. Watch it and answer the following questions:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2017/mar/16/british-expats-in-spain-count-the-costa-brexit-video

https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/videos/652881481566285/?v=652881481566285

1. Why can´t  they leave the coast?
2. What do they think about the Spanish health service?
3. What did Eddie vote in the referendum? Why?
4. Will he move back to the UK?
5. Will the young lady´s parents and grandparents be able to get the  Spanish nationality? Why? Why not?
6. Why did they laugh at the Spanish man? What did he think about it?
7. Does the last man in the video want to go back to the UK? Why? Why not?

Reported Speech 1

Reported Speech . Warm up.

https://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/search/label/reported%20x%20direct%20speach?m=0

Reported Speech Exercises

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercises.html

http://englishgrammarexercise.com/reported-speech-exercises/

https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Reported_speech/Reported_Speech*_Questions,_Commands,_Requests_-_Reporting_Verbs_mp837xj


https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=5381#a

Shopping. Vocabulary 2

Circle the correct alternatives.
1 Can I borrow/lend €50 from you? I’ll pay you back tomorrow.
2 How much money did you spend/buy on rides at the fair last weekend?
3 I don’t have much money so I’m a window shopper/seller at the moment.
4 We didn’t buy any new furniture. We got it all at a second-hand/bargain shop.
5 We got a bargain in the January sales/sells – everything in the shops was so much cheaper!
6 There are two customers/clients waiting in the shop. Can you go and serve them, please?

Complete the sentences with the following prepositions: 
off    back    up    out    away
1 I recently cleared ______________ the cupboards upstairs. They are all empty now.
2 The shopkeeper charged me far too much for this. I think he ripped me ______________.
3 We have signed ______________ two new members to the dance club.
4 I took the shirt ______________ to the shop because it was the wrong size.
5 We mustn’t use ______________ all our natural resources.
6 Amanda gave ______________ all her old unwanted dolls to the charity shop.

Make nouns using the words in the box and the suffixes.
prefer    professional    consumer    popular    attract   
press    generous    depart    possess    environmental
1 -ism ______________ ______________ ______________
2 -ion ______________ ______________
3 -ure ______________ ______________
4 -ity ______________ ______________
5 -ence ______________

Complete the sentences with words from the previous exercise.
1 There is a lot of ______________ in today’s society. We all shop and buy things all the time.
2 My sister put me under a lot of ______________ to come to the party. It wasn’t easy to refuse.
3 Sandy is interested in ______________. She’d like to work in a job that involves looking after nature.
4 I was surprised by my grandmother’s ______________. She gave me €50 to spend on my holiday!
5 The ______________ time of the last train meant that we couldn’t get home that night.
6 Millions of people love reality TV programmes. Their ______________ is much greater than that of documentaries.
7 In the past athletes were amateurs, but today there is a lot more ______________ in sport.

Shopping. Vocabulary 1

Match the words to the definitions.
1 label a money in notes and coins
2 trolley         b a reduction in price
3 receipt         c something attached to a product with information about it
4 discount d a document from a shop showing how much you paid
5 cash e a large container with wheels for the products you buy


Write words for the definitions.
1 A person who is addicted to shopping.
______________________________
2 Someone who looks for products with a discount.
______________________________
3 A person who looks at products but doesn’t buy them.
______________________________
4 The person looking at and buying products in a shop.
______________________________
5 The person selling products and helping people in a shop.
______________________________

Complete the sentences with words from Ex 1 and Ex 2.

1 A ______________ shows what you have bought and how much you paid. You’ll need it if you want to take something back to the shop.

2 On the ______________, it says this sweater is a medium, but I think it’s a small.

3 My friend Jay is a ______________. She says shopping makes her feel good. It’s an addiction for her.

4 In the school holidays I work as a ______________. I serve customers in the local department store.

5 This laptop is slightly damaged but I’ll buy it if you give me a 10% ______________ – that’s €90, not €100.

6 I have a credit card but no ______________, and this shop will only accept notes and coins.

7 We can’t buy anything else – the ______________ is full and it’s getting too heavy to push!

REPHRASING PRACTICE : CONDITIONAL SENTENCES.

http://www.xtec.cat/~ogodoy/sac/rephrasing/rephrexercises.htm

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7nkfix7wr6v217d/Conditionals.pdf?dl=0

PRONUNCIATION EXERCISES FOR THE ABAU EXAM

http://hrhgabrielatorrens.blogspot.com/2016/06/more-pronunciation-exercises-to.html