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Let’s learn the conditional sentences with songs.
First conditional

Second Conditidional

Third Conditional:

Listening carefully to English songs and repeat or sing the lyrics will help you to improve your pronunciation. Besides, it will increase your knowledge of vocabulary and grammar structures. You will start using thos structures in your speaking. On the other hand, you will improve your listening comprehension.

Here are some videos with lyrics:

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You can practice the pronunciation of -ed ending.

Task: find an English song that you can understand and work with lyrics. Here you have the instructions for the task.

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Very often my students are not aware of the importance of pronouncing English words correctly. The sounds of a language change the meaning of a word. For example, if you want to make the difference between the present simple and the past simple of a regular verb, you need to pronounce the -ed ending correctly.

I want- I wanted

We practised with the picture taken from https://www.woodwardenglish.com/

The film V for Vendetta deals with the historic fact of the gunpowder plot.

Working with rhymes is a good exercise for our students. They learn pronunciation and intonation.

What are the words to Remember, Remember The Fifth of November?

There are many versions of the rhyme that have survived in different parts of England since the 17th century.

Most begin with the same or very similar words. This is the basic form:

Remember, remember, the Fifth of November

Gunpowder treason and plot

 I see no reason

why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot

Bonfire Night is celebrated in Britain every year on the fifth of November.

The next videos present the origin of this celebration:

Who was Guy Fawkes?

Here you can read about Guy Fawkes:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd8fv9q/articles/zdrrcj6

Once you have understood the story, the next step is to create a comic, explaining what happens. You can use any of these tools:

Enter the story!

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I share with you this interesting article about what the world would be like without Facebook. Published on The Economist (February 16th-22nd, 2019).