FILE 3A

THE GENERATION GAP

Live, life, alive... What the hell is the difference?? Click here and find out!!

Click here to learn about the stages of life vocabulary and then learn some more!!.

PROFITING FROM REDUNDANCY

I know that most of you have found the last video we saw in class really difficult, so here it is... Watch it and then try the activity below as many times as you like!! For those of you who missed the class, this is a video about a man who became rich after using his redundancy money to buy the factory he used to work for. Watch the video and decide whether the statements below are true or false:  

1. Len Blanchard used to work for a company owned by German investors.

2. The company made paper out of wood.

3. He got his first benefits after just one year.

4. The couple has already paid their mortgage off.

5. Len was 45 when he was made redundant.
6. The couple think it’s never too late to start all over again.

PAST SIMPLE VS. PAST CONTINUOUS

Here is a brief description and a series of exercises for practising the past simple and the past continuous in order to improve your knowledge of those grammar points.

And if you think you need extra help with the pronunciation of the final -ed of regular verbs in the simple past, you can review this lesson






USED TO

Click here to practise the use of "used to". Good luck!!

OLD AGE IN BALLYMONEY

Here is a video activity about Ballymoney, a place in Ireland where people live longer than anywhere else. It is a short extract of a documentary from BBC about the place, so don't panic if you don't understand all of it!!

Just listen carefully and fill in the gaps with 1-3 words so the statements are true according to what you hear. Click here to watch the video.

a. "The secrets of long life” is a question that has puzzled many of the (1) _____________ ______________ in the world but not the people who live in Ballymoney because residents there live longer than anywhere else in the whole of the island. The (2) _____________  _____________    _____________ for women there is 82. 

b. One of the (3) _______________ in Ballymoney is the beautiful Belltower. 

c. You can save the time you spend in the gym and the money you spend on Botox just by (4) _______________    _______________    _______________ to Ballymoney.  

d. Molly Holmes first arrived in Ballymoney with his parents in (5) _______________. Her father had a (6) _______________    _______________ there which is still open today. 

e. The car driver thinks that people there take it easy and there is (7) _______________  _______________ because life in the place is slow and relaxed.

f. There is no doubt that the town´s mayor is Ballymoney´s biggest (8) _______________. 

g. If you eventually decide to move to Ballymoney, you can forget the (9)__________  ____________, exercise or creams and live to a very old age, anyway.


THE MOSQUITO TONE TEST... OR HOW TO TELL YOU'RE STILL YOUNG!!


The mosquito tone is a sound that is inaudible to adults because they can't hear very high pitched sounds. It has been used as a deterrent to keep teenagers from loitering in shopping centres and shops. It is also commonly used by youngsters to get messages in class without their teachers even noticing!!

The sound is very similar to that a buzzing mosquito makes and people over 25 often cannot hear the sound. If you are interested in finding out whether your ears can hear a sound only young people can, why not trying this test? Let us know about how old you are according to it on the comments below!! Guess what... they say I´m only 39!!

AGE ACCORDING TO KAHOOT!!

Enjoy the game we played in class to find out more about age and life in general.

UNIT 3A_WRITING TASK

Here is the writing task for this unit. Be careful with your use of the pasts and do not forget to use the right linking words to to build a logical argument in your assignment. Click here if you think you need extra help with that.