How good are you at managing money? Do you spend all your earnings before the end of the month, or are you what your friends generally refer to as ‘tightfisted’? In this personality quiz, you will be able to brush up on some money expressions and learn some more because this week we are dealing… The post B2 Personality quiz Are You a Money Maestro? appeared first on Serena's blog ..read more

For this post, I’ve set up a role-play for my students (but here’s a copy for you). We’ve been talking about jobs around the house, advantages and disadvantages of living in certain areas and so on. So now it’s time for a role-play and ever since Cristina Cabal started ‘having fun’ ? with Mizou, I’ve… The post B2 Role-play Buying a property appeared first on Serena's blog ..read more

If money were not a problem and you could choose where you wanted to live, are you sure you would make the right choice? While you’re climbing up that property ladder or not, you may want to take this personality quiz after all, not all houses are homes, are they? By assigning personality quizzes to… The post B2 Personality quiz: Finding the Perfect Home appeared first on Serena's blog ..read more

Just for a bit of fun and to encourage my B2.1 students to practise asking questions related to housework using the song “The Boy Does Nothing” by Alesha Dixonand while also learning how to use ‘nothing’ and dropping the habit of leaving out ‘do/does’ in questions. By engaging with these questions, students can deepen their… The post Learning English with songs: Alesha Dixon – The Boy Does Nothing appeared first on Serena's blog ..read more

I’ve just come back from a week’s stay with my mum in the UK. And as she’s been a bit under the weather, we spent our afternoons watching TV, chatting, and drinking cuppas. Then, last Wednesday, a programme about what this amazing woman was doing to her hometown just caught all my attention, and I… The post B2 Listening and speaking about neighbourhoods appeared first on Serena's blog ..read more

In this post I would like my students to learn a little history of the country where the English language originally came from. It’s true that the coursebook mentions the Battle of Hastings, but I thought that it would also be a great opportunity to do a listening with this video by the BBC. For… The post B2 Listening The Battle Of Hastings appeared first on Serena's blog ..read more

After days and days of messing around and sending umpteen emails to WordPress support, with absolutely no reply whatsoever, I’ve finally managed to get the quizzes back to normalcy. Having over 400 quizzes glitched and not being able to use the content has been quite an annoying issue, but it seems that the worst is… The post Quizzes working again!!! appeared first on Serena's blog ..read more

As it seems, I’ll have to be really patient about dizzy quizzes. It’s been like this for over a day and I’m just not getting anywhere. Be back soon!!! Serena The post QUIZZES STILL SPINNING appeared first on Serena's blog ..read more

For this class, my students are going to talk about present-day work conditions, so I thought that it would be a great opportunity to introduce them to some cultural aspects of Britain, to be absolutely precise, Victorian Britain. In this post, I created a video with a set of Victorian characters speaking about what it… The post B2 Listening and Speaking about Work Conditions appeared first on Serena's blog ..read more

Here’s a message for those people who happen to be looking around for something to read in English and can’t afford a book, or for bookworms that already have their bookshelves jam-packed with books and can’t squeeze in any more (Yes, modern flats don’t even have enough room to swing a cat!). I just wanted… The post Reading appeared first on Serena's blog ..read more