Watch and listen, unscramble  the mixed tense sentences for A2 level

Zooptopia 2 - International Trailer

daily routines with Grinch, easy for the begginers

The Grinch - The Grinch's Daily Routines

Listening comprehension, gap fill, unscramble the sentences

Home Alone: Kevin's Mother Realizes They Left Kevin At Home

Students watch The Grinch Trailer #3 and complete multiple-choice questions using our Christmas vocabulary to solve each step of the activity.

The Grinch - Christmas Vocabulary

Best Christmas Ever - Doodle Monster

The main tasks are to answer the questions, fill in the gaps and choose the correct answer.

Paddington: Getting Locked Out Of His Home On Christmas Day

Practising PRESENT CONTINUOUS, PRESENT SIMPLE and TO BE

The Grinch: Mini Moments - Part 7

Ss watch the video without the quiz mode, they repeat the body words. After the video they are assigned to prepare a similiar video. They can also add their pets into the video just like the boy does in the video.

Vocabulary Tutorial - Parts Of The Body

practice english phrases with the song "Love Story"

Love Story - Taylor Swift

Watch the trailer of a movie and do the tasks

Home Alone Trailer - Past Simple

unscramble the sentences, fill in the gaps, open questions

Home Alone - Kevin 's Trip To The Store - Shoplifts A Toothbrush

Different types of tasks for PRESENT SIMPLE and TO BE

The Grinch: You're A Mean One

Watch the video and complete the mixed-grammar quiz. Pay attention to quantifiers, countable and uncountable nouns, and subject–verb agreement.

How the food you eat affects your brain - Countable and uncountable nouns

Students need to choose the right form To be

Klaus: To be

Click the correct pictures while watching the video to practice Christmas vocabulary. Try to match the words with the right images. Have fun and learn new words!

FF 2 Christmas vocabulary

Coffee is one of the world's most significant beverages, consumed globally at a rate of two billion cups daily. Its history spans over 1,500 years, beginning with its origins in Ethiopia and its development as a drink by Sufis in Yemen. The spread of coffeehouses across the Ottoman Empire and later Europe created hubs for intellectual exchange, with some historians arguing that coffee helped fuel the Enlightenment by providing a space for philosophers and new ideas.

However, coffee's history is also marked by exploitation, as its global cultivation fueled the slave trade on plantations in Haiti and Brazil. In the modern era, it became intertwined with capitalism, as companies provided coffee to boost worker productivity.

The primary active ingredient, caffeine, is a psychoactive stimulant. It works by blocking adenosine receptors in the nervous system, which counters drowsiness and increases alertness, heart rate, and concentration. These effects can last for hours and are used by athletes to enhance performance.

While moderate consumption (up to 400mg of caffeine, or about 4-5 cups daily) is linked to health benefits like reduced risks of type 2 diabetes and Parkinson's, excessive intake can cause anxiety, insomnia, and more severe toxic effects. The benefits are attributed not only to caffeine but also to antioxidants like chlorogenic acid.

Ultimately, coffee is more than a drink—it’s a $90 billion-a-year industry and a fundamental social ritual that has profoundly shaped history, economics, and daily life.

Bogacheva Y.B.: listening task, "Coffee and what it does to your body"

Choose items on the video and multiple choise questions

Simon's cat - Chrismas special

In this video, you’ll learn how Christmas is celebrated, why it's such an important holiday, and which traditions make it special for families, children, and people all around the world. 

Christmas Traditions

Answer various past tense and present continuous questions.

Plankton glue's himself to SpongeBob's tongue

Summary: Sophisticated GIC Scam Costs Senior $750,000

An 82-year-old man from Phillie lost $750,000 in a sophisticated investment scam involving a fake website. Walter Yam was searching Google for better GIC rates and clicked on a site that convincingly mimicked the legitimate "PC Financial" brand. After calling the number listed, he was offered a 6.5% rate and received official-looking documents. He then authorized his bank, CIBC, to transfer his savings.

The website was entirely fraudulent, and the money was sent to an account unaffiliated with PC Financial. The victim argues his bank should have flagged the transfer to an unverified account. While CIBC stated its staff did ask questions, it processes transactions as authorized by the client.

The case highlights how scammers now create near-perfect replicas of real financial sites. Experts suggest banks have a responsibility to verify recipient account legitimacy. The victim can file a complaint with the banking ombudsman. PC Financial has issued warnings, clarifying it does not sell GICs directly over the phone or email.

Bogacheva Y.B.: listening task, "Online banking scam"

Hi, guys! Do you have time for a few quick questions? I see you're having a lot of fun, but do you ever stop and think if what you do is sustainable? And do you know what sustainable development means?

Sustainable development is to make the world a better place for everyone now, without destroying the possibilities for the next generations. If you wonder if something is sustainable, you can ask yourself: "Can we do this over and over again, forever?"

Sustainable development means that we need to keep three things in mind at once: social progress, economic development, and climate and environment.

First of all, we have to take care of our planet. We have many natural ecosystems that must be in balance in order for us to live here. The climate system is one of them. This system ensures that the temperature is correct and that the atmosphere emits exactly the right amount of solar energy. When we emit harmful greenhouse gases, such as CO2, we clog the atmosphere. This changes the temperatures on Earth, which again affects our development. How we produce and use energy is incredibly important. Oil and coal are examples of energy we may run out of. Water, wind, and sun, however, will always be here. Using the lasting sources of energy that renew themselves is good for the planet and can provide jobs for years to come.

Economic development: almost everything we develop, buy, and trade starts with nature. The smarter we use our natural resources and the better systems we create for a fair distribution, the more sustainable we are. One way to contribute to a more even distribution is to be more aware of what we buy and how it is produced. A football is a good example: it travels far before it reaches the football players. First, the materials are made. Then they print the logo somewhere else, before a third country sees it all together. One single football sees the whole world before it reaches its goal. This journey ties us together. If we are to win the battle for a sustainable future, we have to play with fair rules. That applies to everyone.

Social progress: we humans are part of nature, but we're also important resources for the world—just like water, the forest, and the sun. We have minds that can create the strangest and most creative things. But for us to be the best versions of ourselves, there are certain things that must be in order, like having equal opportunities to education, safety, food, and medicine. This provides greater opportunities for us as human beings, but also for the planet. We just have to think in new ways.

These three must work together—that is sustainable development. And there is actually a plan for this: all the countries of the United Nations have agreed on a joint plan for sustainable development. But for the plan to work, we need to cooperate, and we need you to be on board. Are you with us?

Bogacheva Y.B., listening task, "Sustainable development"

Watch the video and complete the open cloze by writing ONE word in each gap.

The science of spiciness - FCE Open Cloze 2

Complete the tasks about past simple vs past continuous

Past simple vs past continuous

The main tasks are to answer the questions and complete the sentences.

NATE IS LATE : The Return of the Cuddly Toys

Answer the questions, choose the write answer, fill in the gaps, make up the sentenses.

Daily routine / Present Simple

listening comprehension, gap fill, answer the questions

Harry Potter couple years into living with the family

Listening and Speaking comprehension Home Alone

Home alone Kevin wakes up alone

Watch and practice irregular verbs with the "Witcher".

Pas Simple irregular verbs

Mr. Popper's penguins

Deanna: My name is Deanna, and I'm a university lecturer. I teach English literature and English language.

James: My name is James, I am a video director and editor.

Tapa Koz: My name is Tapa Koz, I'm an educational trainer in schools, and I teach finance and enterprise for a charity called My Bank.

Question: Why did you choose your career?

Deanna: Well, I've always been passionate about literature and language. I think I was very lucky because I had a very good teacher when I was at school, and he really gave me the passion for the subject. I love research, and reading books is very much about researching.

James: The reason that I decided to become a video director and editor is because I love films.

Tapa Koz: I chose this job because I did like the idea of teaching, but I felt that I wouldn't be able to handle the workload of a teacher, and I just wanted a bit more flexibility within my job role.

Question: What do you like about your job?

Deanna: I think what I love about my job is that it's varied. There are many things that I have to do during the day. So on the one hand, I am teaching, so I see my students. I work also as a personal tutor, so I actually help students with their problems, not just in relation to their studies but also everyday life. I also research, and I write articles and write books. So it is very, very different, and every day is a challenge to me, and I think this is what I love.

James: The things I like about my job are that I'm constantly learning, constantly feeling like I'm developing my skills. There's also a lot of variety in what I do, so whether I'm on set or I'm in the edit room. And also, I enjoy that there's a lot of creativity involved.

Tapa Koz: Some of the things I really enjoy about my job are the way young people respond to what we teach them. We teach finance, which at times can seem quite boring, but at the end of the day, they learn about things that they're going to learn about in adulthood, they're gonna experience. They come back and say, "It's worse that... Wow, how come nobody taught us this stuff? We should be learning this in schools." And so that alone, seeing them taking knowledge and seeing that knowledge is worth... and you see that knowledge is something they need. That is such a joy to me because it means they're learning, actually learning, not just for the classroom but for life.

Question: What skills do you need?

Deanna: Well, first and foremost, you need to be patient because, dealing with students and their questions, you really need to have a lot of patience. Of course, you need to be knowledgeable about what you're talking about. You have to be a good communicator; you have to be able to explain ideas, very difficult concepts, in simple terms. And you have to be a good listener. You have to be a psychologist and, most importantly, you have to love what you do.

James: The skills you would need to be able to do my particular job: firstly, a good eye for detail; secondly, patience; and thirdly, a little bit of creativity.

Tapa Koz: The kind of skills you need to do my job: first would be presentation skills, being able to present big concepts in a simple manner that young people can understand. Secondly, I would definitely say a dynamic personality to gain the interest of the young people because you're bringing sometimes a topic that is maybe a bit boring to them. They're often not used to learning about finances and payslips and taxes, so it has to be interesting to them. And then finally, being able to think on the spot. Sometimes we enter a classroom, and the projector's not working, the computer's not working, and immediately we need to switch on our minds to think, "How else can we present this information in a fun and entertaining manner?"

Question: Would you change your career?

Deanna: I wouldn't change my career at all. I love what I do, and this is what I always wanted to do in my life.

James: I would most likely be either in the army or a carpenter. The army appealed to me because you get to work outdoors and you're part of a bigger team, and carpentry appealed to me because you get to make things with your hands. I then realized that film could provide me with all those things in one job.

Tapa Koz: If I wasn't doing this job, I would be working in advertising as a copywriter. A copywriter... we would have someone who deals with the pictures for an advert, but I would deal with all the text and the writing. I love words, and I guess I love the English language. I knew I wanted to do that in year 8 or so when I was a young child, and then I just don't know what happened—the path just went off. But I love advertising and marketing, so I'd definitely go into that.

Bogacheva Y.B.: Listening task "Evaluating jobs"

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Lusso "vintage" tra affaroni e truffe

The speaker challenges the widespread cultural dismissal of doodling as a trivial, anti-intellectual activity. They argue that, contrary to its negative definitions—from "fool" to "doing nothing"—doodling is a powerful cognitive tool. Research shows that people who doodle while listening retain more verbal information, as it acts as a preemptive measure to maintain focus and aids in creative problem-solving and deep information processing.

Doodling uniquely engages all four learning modalities (visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic) simultaneously, making it an efficient method for processing complex information. Anthropological studies further suggest that the development of visual language through drawing is a native, universal human instinct.

Therefore, the speaker advocates for embracing doodling, especially in information-dense environments like classrooms and boardrooms. Far from being the enemy of intellectual thought, doodling is one of its greatest allies and a gateway to higher visual literacy.

Bogacheva Y.B.: listening task, "Creative thinking"

The main task of this video is either listening and focusing on boosting new vocabulary or improving the knowledge of collocations.

Zootopia 2 - Modals & Semi-Modals In Past & Present Tense

B2 - C2 Listening practice - deep listening, listening comprehension, application

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