B1.2

Face2Face intermediate	While the links on CSIMextra are being updated, please feel free to use   English Formula another site with exercices and activities to help you practice and improve your English online resources
1A	Question forms Explore this website on positive psychology. Take a questionnaire about your happiness. Explore this website to read and watch videos about what really makes us happy. Tell your classmates what you found most surprising.
1B	likes and dislikes 1 likes and dislikes 2 watch a video on sentence stress
1C	further adjectives of feelings watch another video on sentence stress adjectives and prepositions 1 adjectives and prepositions 2 Explore this website on laughter yoga. Do you think it could work for you? Tell a classmate.
1D	watch a video lesson on question tags question tags 1 question tags 2
1E	Read about one person's view of the five best cafés in Madrid. Write an email to a classmate with your top five, explaining your choices. watch a video lesson on pronouncing the schwa /ə/
2A	be able to be allowed to be supposed to read about the Slow Movement. What aspects of going slower in your work and home life do you think could benefit you? Share your ideas by email with a classmate.
2B	kitchen vocabulary present simple and continuous Explore the website to find out more about cooking. Why not watch a video and try a recipe?
2C	strong adjectives and intensifiers sleep vocabulary Watch a video on getting a good night's sleep. Which ideas are considered the best?
2D	giving advice making suggestions and showing concern read the advice given to people with different problems. What advice would you give? Invent a problem and send it to a classmate, asking for their advice.
3A	present perfect simple phrasal verbs for travel write to a classmate about where you've travelled to and what you did there.
3B	present perfect continuous (1) present perfect continuous (2) present perfect simple and continuous (3)
3C	noun suffixes adjective suffixes choose a destination for a holiday. Find a positive and a negative review. Think about a holiday that you have been on. What were the best and worst things about it? You can write a short review here.
3D	Some people are looking for recommendations for their visit to Spain. Can you help? Watch a video recommending attractions in Madrid. Write an email to a friend saying what you would or wouldn't recommend to visitors.
3E	What do you think about mass tourism? Read these statements and have your say.
4A	past simple and used to past simple and past continuous
4B	Character adjectives 1 past perfect 1 past perfect 2 past perfect and past simple
4C	Look at some recipes for making your own natural medicine. Which remedies could you make at home, and which would you like to try? Watch a video with more recipes and advice on natural medicine. What remedies does James prepare, and for what health problems?
4D	Character adjectives 2 watch a video on the character of Andalusians. Which points do you agree or disagree on. Which characteristics do you think are impossible to generalise? Write an email to a classmate describing what you think are the typical characteristics of someone from a part of Spain.
5A	Homes vocabulary 1 homes vocabulary 2 comparatives and superlatives comparatives and superlatives with degree
5B	Household items phrasal verbs extended practice phrasal verbs the future will / going to present continuous for future
5C	Watch a documentary on Ikea. Make a note of five facts in the following areas; history, design, testing, distribution and sales. In an email, compare your answers with a classmate, and also tell them of your experience of buying and constructing flat pack furniture.
5D	Materials and containers Take a look at this online supermarket. Choose ten typical items that you would like to buy, and imagine that you don't know the names for them. In an email, describe what you want to a classmate to see if they can tell you the names of the items.
5E	Work in pairs. Imagine that student A wants to fit a new kitchen and student B wants to repair some water damage. You are going to give some advice to your partner. Explore this website giving advice on home renovation. Watch a video or read the articles to find the relevant information, then send an email with advice to your partner.
6A	make and do first conditional 1 first conditional 2 future time clauses future time clauses 2
6B	Reflexive pronouns zero conditional 1 zero conditional 2 zero conditional 3
6C	Work in pairs. Student A watch a video on The Luck Factor. Student B read this ebooklet on The Luck Factor. Select the 10 most interesting points from the material and compare your answers with your partner by email. Which points could you apply to make your own life luckier?
6D	Take your pick from a selection of podcasts from BBC Radio 4 discussion programme Any Questions? Don't worry about understanding every word, and try instead to focus on the main points and the language the speakers use in their discussion to agree or interrupt etc. Copy the polite intonation of these phrases.
7A	Computer vocabulary modals of ability Work in pairs. Send an email to a classmate on something you have no idea how to do but would like to be good at. Use the language from your student book to express yourself, and ask your classmate for some tips.
7B	Household appliances second conditional first and second conditionals zero, first and second conditionals
7C	Articles 1 Articles 2 Articles 3 Articles 4 weak form pronunciation
7D	indirect questions 1 indirect questions 2 polite intonation
7E	Watch a video on the downside of so much technology. Email a classmate on the following issues: What are the most surprising points made in the video? Does technology adversely effect your everyday life? What could you do to address the problems?
8A	weather vocabulary extended quiz weather report The passive 1 The passive 2
8B	containers 1 containers 2 quantifiers 1 quantifiers 2
8C	Prefixes and opposites word formation prefixes and suffixes Do you know how to survive a shark attack? Watch this video to find out.
8D	Modals for advice Work in pairs. Watch a video on safety in a National Park, then using the language from your student book to help you, email the advice and warnings that you have learned to your partner. Student A watch this video. Student B watch this video.
9A	Health relative clauses 1 relative clauses 2 Explore this website on juice fasting. Email a classmate with what you think of the diet, and whether or not you would follow it yourself, saying why or why not.
9B	Present Perfect Active / Passive Listen to the news from the BBC. Don't worry about understanding every word, but focus instead on the main points. Doing this regularly will greatly improve your English. Write a brief news summary and send it to a classmate by email. You can use real events or invent your own. Use the present perfect simple in the passive to give the main points.
9C	Connectors Try this online test to see if you can tell who is faking it. Email a classmate with your results and what you thought of the test.
9D	Health problems 1 health problems 2 health problems 3
9E	Work in pairs. Listen to the medical information given in the video, then email your partner summarising the advice. Student A watch this video. Student B watch this video.
10A	Future in the past supposed to in the past Work in pairs. Explore this website of how people in the past envisaged the future. Choose a topic to read or watch a video on and send a summary email to your partner, saying what people thought was going to or was supposed to happen.
10B	Describing people modals of deduction 1 modals of deduction 2
10C	/t/ and /d/ pronunciation at the end of words Watch a short film on marriage and divorce advice from the 50's. How does advice today differ from that given in the film? What advice what you give to a friend thinking of getting married today? Email a classmate with your thoughts.
10D	permission 1 permission 2
11A	reported speech 1 reported speech 2 pronouns in reported speech
11B	adjectives for work reported speech 3 tenses in reported speech
11C	reporting verbs Read a transcript of a call to the police. Imagine you have to write a report. Summarize the conversation, changing the direct speech to reported speech. Compare your answers with a classmate.
11D	contrastive stress explore this website on talking English on the phone, then try this challenge.
11E	Work in pairs. Explore this website on changing careers. Find what you think is the best advice for doing a job that you love and email your partner with the information. Also, tell them what would be your dream job, why, and what you would need to do to change your job.
12A	wishes 1 wishes 2 informal words and phrases 1 find 10 informal phrasal verbs from this list that are new, useful, suprising or just funny. Send your selection to a classmate and compare your choices.
12B	third conditional 1 third conditional 2 more phrases with get
12C	word formation 1 word formation 2 Watch a video on the climber Alain Robert. How do you feel about what he does? Is he a real life superhero or a dangerous criminal? Compare your answers with a classmate.