TIPS FOR PHONE CONVERSATIONS (Intermediate)

Listen to this guy in these two videos. Can you tell me what he is advising us to do and not to do? In the first video, he mentions his website, where you can see an actual example of what he is trying to show. Click here for a quick access to it. You might find some vocabulary you don't know like 'weapon', 'whole', 'long-term', 'confidence' or 'sarcasm.'
About the second video, some of the words are the following: spice up, set up a date, come up, plain, crack up, flirtatious, accomplish.
It might be the first time you hear some of these words but try to get their meaning by listening to the videos first, before looking them up. If you see them in a context, you will understand.
Do you agree with him? Are they good pieces of advice? Be ready to comment this in class next day or... post a comment here!

Small Town Girl (INTERMEDIATE)

So... back to work, then.
I hope you've had very good holidays and lots of fun... but it's time we started working again! Didn't you miss English classes a lot? OOoops. Yeah, probably not much...
Anyway, next topic in class for the Intermediate group has to do with different types of dwelling and I found a very interesting website with an MP3 file to listen to. It is about a girl from Canada talking about her hometown. The whole recording is divided into different segments, so if you can't understand a part of it, you can restart that very segment and listen to it again. Follow the instructions and answer the questions in the quiz. If you need help, go to the transcript.
Click here to start listening to it

WHAT FOOD DO YOU LIKE? (intermediate)

hi, try to watch this video about food. Before the video, you will be given some vocabulary so that you can understand the whole of it.
It's very short but it's very good because you have to follow the instructions, and pay attention to vocabulary, pronunciation and quantity phrases...