BUCKET LIST

¿Sabes qué es una "bucket list"? ¿No? Pues no dejes de visitar la siguiente página donde podrás escuchar un texto en el cual tendrás que completar huecos, además de practicar el futuro perfecto:

http://efllecturer.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/whats-on-your-bucket-list.HTML

LOVE VOCABULARY (VOCABULARIO RELACIONADO CON EL AMOR)

¿Quieres conocer nuevas expresiones y aumentar tu vocabulario? No te pierdas entonces estos enlaces!!!

The language of love. Match the idioms with the expressions:
 http://www.learning-with-ease.net/LangofLoveMatch.pdfLo

 Love vocabulary with translation into Spanish:
http://lingolex.com/swom/wom-love.htm

Love vocabulary. Very useful:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/episode29/languagepoint.shtml

Love vocabulary:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/chill-out/quiz/love-test/vocabulary

Words of love:
http://www.english-zone.com/holidays/val-words.html

Love and romance expressions with pictures:
http://www.eslflow.com/Love---romance-vocabulary---speaking-activity.html

LOVE, DATING & MARRIAGE (CONVERSATION QUESTIONS)

• About how many guests attended your wedding?
• How many guests would you invite to your wedding?
• At what age do most people in your country get married?
• At what age do you want to get married? At what age did you get married?
• Describe a perfect date.
• Describe the appearance of the person you would like to date?
• Describe the character of the person you would like to date?
• Do women usually work after getting married in your country?
• Do you "go Dutch" when dating?
• Do you know what it means to 'go Dutch'?
• Is it usual for people in your country to 'go Dutch' if you go out together?
• Do older girls/boys have a problem dating younger girls/boys?
  • Do younger girls/boys have a problem dating older girls/boys?
• Do you believe in love at first sight?
  • Do you think some people know that they will fall in love with someone the first time they meet?
• Do you know what a 'blind date' is?
• Have you ever been on a blind date?
• Did you ever arrange a blind date?
• Do you drive or take the train when dating?
• Do you get along with your in-laws?
• Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?
  • Where did you meet your him/her?
  • What does he/she look like?
• Do you know anyone who has had an arranged marriage?
• Do you know someone who has gotten a divorce?
• Do you know the difference between love and like?
  • Can you still love your partner and not like him/her?
• Do you think a boy should pay for everything on a date?
• Do you think arranged marriages are a good idea? Why or why not?
  • What is your opinion of arranged marriages?
• Do you think fairy tales influence our choice of a partner?
• Do you think getting married means giving up freedom?
• Do you think if you get married that you will change?
• Do you think it is better to be single or to be married?
• Do you think it is good to get married?
• Do you think it is okay for a couple to live together before getting married? Why or Why not?
• Do you think it is okay to marry someone of a different race?
• Do you think it is okay to marry someone with a different religion?
• Do you think it's OK for a man to have two wives?
• Do you think it's OK for a wife to have two husbands?
• Do you think it's okay for a man to have a mistress?
• Do you think it's okay for a man to hit his wife?
• Do you think love is necessary to have a good marriage?
• Do you think marriage is necessary?
• Do you think marriages based on love are more successful than arranged marriages?
• Do you think marriage is very stressful for women? How about for men?
• Do you think people change after getting married?
• Do you think religion influences marriage? If so, in what ways?
• Do you think that all adults should be married?
• Do you think that you can you find eternal love through the Internet?
• Do you want a husband or wife who is older, younger or the same age as you?
• Do you want to have children?
  • If so, how many?
• Have you ever been to a school dance?
• Have you ever had a crush on someone?
• Have you ever hated loving someone?
• Have your parents ever disapproved of any of your relationships?
• How long do you think couples should know each other before they get married?
• How many children would you like to have?
• How often would you like to go out on dates?
• How old were you when you had your first boyfriend or girlfriend?
• How old were you when you went on your first date?
  • Where did you go?
  • What did you do?
  • Who did you go with?
• How old were your parents when they got married?
• If your husband or wife has an affair what would you do?
• If your parents did not approve of a person you loved and wanted to marry, would that be a difficult situation for you? Why or why not?
• Is going out on dates important for you?
• Is there a such thing as a perfect relationship for you?
• If you could go out with anyone, who would it be?
• If you are a man, and a woman asks you for a date, do you feel you should pay, or that the woman should pay?
• If you had to marry either a poor man whom you really loved, or a rich man whom you did not love, which would you choose?
• If you had to choose to live with someone who truly loves you but you don't love him back or to live alone for a rest of your life loving someone that doesn't love you who would you choose?
• What advice would you give to someone whose partner hates their best friend?
• What age do you think is best for getting married?
• What are some dating and marriage customs in your country?
• What are some of the main reasons people get divorced?
• What are some popular places to go on a date?
• What are some qualities that you think are important in a spouse or partner?
• What characteristics do you look for in a girlfriend or boyfriend?
• What do you consider cheating in a dating relationship?
• What do you like to talk about when on a date?
• What do you look for in a girlfriend or a boyfriend?
• What do you think most people talk about when dating?
• What do you think of people who get divorced?
  • Would you ever consider getting divorced?
• What do you think of same-sex marriages?
• What do you think of single mothers?
• What is a wedding ceremony like in your country?
• What is the best way to keep your spouse happy in the marriage?
• What kind of boy or girl do you like?
• What kind of clothes do you wear on a date?
• What kind of man do you want as a husband?
• What kind of person do you want to get married to?
• What kind of woman do you want as a wife?
• What makes a good husband/wife?
• What makes a happy marriage?
  • What do you think are some things that contribute to a successful marriage?
• What qualities are important to you in a boyfriend or girlfriend?
• What qualities in a partner are important to you?
• What was the most boring date you've ever been on?
• What was the most interesting date you've ever been on?
• What would you consider "the perfect date" for you?
• What would you do if your soon to be mother-in-law seems to hate you?
• What would your parents think if you don't get married?
• When did your parents get married?
• Where do you want to go for your honeymoon?
  • Where did you go for your honeymoon?
• Where do you want to go on your honeymoon?
• Where is a good pace to go on a date in this town?
• Where would you like to go on a date?
• Which is more important for you, your job or your marriage?
• Why do people break up with their partners?
• Will you continue working after you get married?
• Would you date someone you really liked if your parents did not like him or her?
• Would you ever marry someone who has been divorced twice?
• Would you introduce your date to your family?
• Would you live with your parents after you get married?
• Would you marry someone from another country?
• Would you marry someone ten years older than you? How about ten years younger than you?
• Would you marry someone that your parents didn't like?
• Would you marry someone who couldn't speak the same language as you speak?
• Would you mind if your boyfriend or girlfriend went out to party without you?
• Would you prefer to go out with a quiet or a talkative person?
• At what age do you think that dating should begin?
  • Do you think there is any age when a person is too old to date?
• Do you know a happily married couple?
• Can you name a famous happily married couple?
• What do you think is the most important ingredient in a good marriage?
• How long is the marriage ceremony in your country?
• Who designed the marriage covenant?
• What do you think about dating a friend's ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend?
• Does your first love still hold a special place in your heart?
  • Do you believe that he or she will always have a special place in your heart?
• What qualities do you look in your partner?
• Do you think its possible to wait for the man or woman you love while he or she is in jail?
• What is your definition of love?
• Would you wait on a person you were dating for a long time if they joined the army?
  • How about if they went to prison?
• What is the best season to get married?
• Do you know anybody who has two families at the same time and supports them both?
• How many families can you have in your country?
• Are there any superstitions on making someone fall in love with you?
  • Have you heard of any successful "love potions?"
• Have you ever returned a gift to your boyfriend or girlfriend and later find out that he has given it to his or her new mate?
• Do you know of any superstitions connected with weddings?
• Would it be important for you to have a "white wedding dress'?
• Can you control your partner by playing games?
• Why do you think the bride's maids wear white.
• When should you introduce your boyfriend or girlfriend to your parents?
  • When you begin dating
  • After you have been together for a while
  • Only when the relationship is serious?
  • Why?
• Do you like to have boy friend or girl friend in your school or in your classes?
• Do you think it is right to continue seeing a person if he has not introduced you to his family yet?
• In your opinion is marriage for life?
  • Do you think when people get married it is really until death?
• How long does it take for dating to become a relationship?
• Is it important to be punctual in your first date? Why?
• Would you dress up for a first date? What clothes would you wear?
• What kind of place do you think is the ideal for a first date? Why do you think so?
• What are your country's norms or laws on displays of public affection?
  • Do you think it is okay for couples to kiss in public?
• How would you feel if your boyfriend liked to keep company with a female friend when you're not there?
• How would you feel if your girlfriend liked to keep company with a male friend when you're not there?
• If you could go back to your past love, and change what went wrong, who would it be?
• Who do you love?
• If you had to choose to live with someone who truly loves you but you don't love him back or to live alone for a rest of your life loving someone that doesn't love you what would you choose?
• What would you change, if you are given only one chance to do it ?
• Whose heart did you break most ? Did you apologize from him\her ?
• Have you ever met someone you love a lot but never expressed it?
• If your parents forced you to get married with a person who you don't love, what would you do in this situation?
• If your boyfriend/girlfriend dated another person, then he/she wanted to return and date you, would you date again?
• If your boyfriend/girlfriend dated your close friend, what would you do?
• Do you believe that having a permanent love between two person who are living in two different countries is possible?
• Do you want your husband to know how you looked as a child? Why or why not?
• Do you believe in love at first sight or love after the first night?

WHO WAS SAINT VALENTINE?

¿Quién fue San Valentïn? ¿Quieres resolver todas tus dudas? Entonces no debes dejar de leer este texto:
http://www.linguatics.com/StValentine.html

INSPIRING WRITING

En esta página encontrarás montones de temas inspiradores para escribir, no dejes de visitarla:
http://eslchestnut.com/tag/writing/

Montones de temas interesantes sobre los que escribir:
http://eslchestnut.com/2012/09/22/writing-prompts/

THE LOTTERY OF LIFE. IF YOU WERE NOT BORN IN THE COUNTRY YOU WERE, WHAT WOULD YOUR LIFE BE LIKE?

 Si no hubieras nacido en el país donde lo has hecho, ¿cómo sería tu vida? ¿Te lo has planteado alguna vez?
 
http://eslchestnut.com/2014/01/25/if-you-were-not-born-in-the-country-you-were-what-would-your-life-be-like/

LANGUAGES (CONVERSATION QUESTIONS)

• What language is spoken the most in your country?
• Do you have a second language in your country?
• How many languages do you speak fluently?
• Does your language have words adopted from English?
• Is English important for an individual in your country?
• Why are you studying English?
• What language you like speaking in?
• What language do you least like speaking in?
• What's your favorite language?
• What's your least favorite language?
• What's the native language spoken in China?
  • Brazil?
  • Mexico?
  • Switzerland?
  • Australia?
  • Canada?
• What's the strangest language have you ever head?
• Do you wish your country has another language instead of the present one?
• Do you have pen-friend? If yes, what languages do they speak?
• Can you name any languages that are no longer spoken?
• What language do the neighboring countries of where you live speak?
• What would you do if you had to travel to a country where it's people don't know how to speak neither your language nor English?
• Do you think that disappearing languages should be protected or should we just let them fade away?
• What languages are spoken the most throughout the world?
• Which do you think is the most difficult language?
• How many languages do you speak?
• Do you know anyone who is monolingual?
• Do you know anyone who is bilingual or multilingual?
• Would you like to raise multilingual children?
• Can you think of some disadvantages of being monolingual?
• Have you ever visited a society where most people speak only one language?
• Have you ever visited a society where most people speak more than one language?
• Does your country have any official languages? What languages are official?
• What other languages are spoken in your nation, including minority groups and the languages of immigrants?
• Do you think foreign language study should be required?
• Do you think foreign language study should start as early as possible, or is it okay to start later?
• Do you think all people should be required to study the same foreign language, or do you think there should be some choice?
• Why is English used in so many places?
• Do you think that a language other than English should be used as an "international language"?
• Do you think language affects thought?
• Do you enjoy studying grammar?
• Do you think studying the grammar of your native language is important?
• Do you think studying the grammar of a foreign language helps you to speak it?
• What grammar question have you had lately?
• When you study a language, do you like to study reading, writing, speaking and listening?
• Have you ever had an emotional discussion in a language that you don't speak well?
• When you learn new words, is it generally easier for you to remember "silly and useless" words, or "common and useful" words?
• If you study a foreign language, do you use a dictionary written in the language you are studying?
• Have you ever used a concordance to study language?
• Do you have a large vocabulary?
• Is increasing your vocabulary important to you?
• What techniques do you use to remember vocabulary?
• What dialects does your language have?
• Do you know the saying, "a language is a dialect with an army"? What do you think this means? Do you agree?
• When you are getting an important message for the first time, are you more comfortable hearing it, or reading it?
• Is this different for you in your native language and your second/foreign language?
• When you produce language, are you more comfortable writing it, or saying it?

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If you can think of another good question for this list, please add it.

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Thanks to Morin Coaches who suggested this topic and contributed the first 35 questions in April 2008.
Copyright © 1997-2010 by The Internet TESL Journal

LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (CONVERSATION QUESTIONS)

What is your mother tongue?

How many languages do you speak?

How did you learn your second language?

What's the best way to learn a foreign language?

What methods do you use to remember vocabulary better?

Is it necessary to write words down?

Is it possible to understand and write well but not be able to have a conversation?

What is value of learning languages?

Why do some people have more difficulty than others when learning a language?

To what extent do you agree that it's better to learn language as a child? Why or why not?

To speak its language well, how important is it to know something about the culture of a country?

Are there some words that are similar in different languages?

As a beginner, what are the first things that you need to be able to say?

What are the problem areas that an intermediate learner may have?

What are the problem areas that an advanced learner may have?

When you travel to a foreign country, is it always easy to use your foreign language?

How can the Internet be a helpful tool when learning a foreign language?

Some people say that if you can teach something about your foreign language, then it you to understand it better. Do you agree?

Have you ever tried learning a new language from a textbook with audio tapes?

Is it good to sit an exam that shows your level in English?

What do you know about IELTS and TOEFL?

Can you learn a language by watching television?

Do you use free language-learning exercises on the Internet?

Have you ever paid for 1:1 lessons?

Would you like to be a translator? Why? / Why not?

Is the classroom the best place to learn?

Can a good teacher influence how well you enjoy learning a language?

Is it possible to teach yourself a language?

What careers are possible if you speak a foreign language?

What languages would you like to learn in future?

What different techniques do you have for learning vocabulary?

Do you need to write in a foreign language?

Do you need to use your foreign languages at work?

Do you think that knowing a foreign language might encourage you to live abroad in future?

Is it a good idea to learn a language from a non-native speaker of that language?

• Are there any disadvantages?

Do you know how large your vocabulary is in your foreign language?

Could you teach your mother tongue to someone else?

What personal qualities do you need to be an effective language learner?

What tools can help you learn a foreign language?

Have you ever made a telephone call in a foreign language?

• If yes, how did it go?

Do you ever read websites in a foreign language?

Is it possible to learn a language without studying grammar?

Is knowing grammar more important than knowing vocabulary?

Have teaching methods for language learning changed over the last 50 years?

To speak a language well, why is it important to have an understanding of idioms?

How did your best language teacher help you?

Have you had any particularly poor language learning experiences?

How old should a child be when a school introduces the first foreign language?

Are teenage language exchange programs useful? Why? / Why not?

Some people say "I'm no good at learning languages".

• Is this just a question of attitude (because of a previous bad experience) or were some people born lacking the ability to learn a new language?

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If you can think of another good question for this list, please add it.

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http://iteslj.org/questions/ Copyright © 1997-2010 by The Internet TESL Journal

BENEFITS OF LEARNING ENGLISH

¿Cuáles son las ventajas de aprender inglés? En este enlace encontrarás muchas de ellas:

http://www.ehow.com/about_5230958_advantages-learning-english.html

http://www.ehow.com/about_5042474_benefits-learning-english.html

LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Lee los siguientes consejos sobre el aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera.

http://www.omniglot.com/language/index.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/learn/index.shtml#why

HOW TO LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

¿Qué errores cometemos cuando queremos aprender una lengua extranjera? Lee el siguiente artículo publicado en el Daily Telegraph y averígualo.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationadvice/9750895/Learning-a-foreign-language-five-most-common-mistakes.html

TRINITY QUESTIONS

He aquí algunas de las preguntas que os podéis encontrar en la segunda parte del examen oral:

IMPORTANT! These are only example prompts. The real exam will contain other questions.

Have you ever ....?

How many times have you ....?

How long did you .... for?

How long have you .... for?

How long will you .... for?

Do you think you‘ll ever ....?

How long do you think you’ll ....?

When do you think you’ll ....?

Where do you think you’ll ....?

Why?

Tell me about why you ....

Tell me about _________which you prefer: X or Y?

Why?

How has .... changed in the last 2/ 5/ 10 years?

Have you ever ....? Tell me about it.

Have you ever been to ....? Tell me about it.

Why ....?

Why do you prefer ....?

Tell me what you must/mustn’t do.

What did you need to do when you ....?

What do you need to do when you ....?

What will you need to do when you ....?

What’s your opinion of ....?

What do you think of ....?

Tell me what you were doing when you ....

What do you do if ....?

What do you think you’ll do if ....?

What might happen if ....?

What were you doing this time last week/ month/year?

What did you have to do when you ....?

Do you think you might ....?

What do you have to do to ....?

Next month, I’m travelling to ....

What about you?

Why do you do it? To .... or to ....?

What were you doing when you ....?

CLOTHES (LA ROPA)

Aquí encontraréis todo el vocabulario relacionado con la ropa y los accesorios:

http://www.lingolex.com/clothes.htm

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/lists/clothes.html

http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/blwordgroups_clothes.htm

ARE YOU A FASHION FAN OR A FASHION SLAVE?

¿Eres un fan de la moda o un esclavo de ella? Lee el siguiente texto y decide:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/britain/fashion.shtml

WHAT'S IN FASHION AT THE MOMENT? (¿QUÉ SE LLEVA AHORA?)

Si estás interesado en la moda, quieres saber qué se lleva y aumentar tus conocimientos con respecto a este tema, no te pierdas esta página:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/britain/081118_what_to_wear.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/expressenglish/2011/10/111010_ee_fashion_1.shtml

WRITING AN INFORMAL LETTER OR AN EMAIL

En esta página encontrarás la estructura de los emails y las cartas informales. También podrás aprender vocabulario básico de ambos tipos de textos:

http://www.carmenlu.com/first/writing/emails_letters1.pdf

TRAVEL VOCABULARY

Si queréis aumentar vuestro vocabulario relacionado con los viajes, no os perdáis las siguientes páginas:

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/lists/tourism.html

http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/blwordgroups_travel.htm

TRAVELLING (MIND MAP)

Échale un vistazo a esta mapa conceptual para aprender vocabulario relacionado con los viajes:
http://www.jonathansenglish.com/2011/11/vocabulary-mind-maps-travel-and.html