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In British English we usually use singular nouns to refer to groups of people (team, government, committee, family…) In these cases, we use: a plural verb, the pronoun they and the relative pronoun who and not which.

For example:

My family, who live all over Spain, usually meet for Christmas.

As we can consider these words in two different ways, we can use both singular or plural as you can see in these two examples:

My family lives in Valencia. (singular: when it is seen as a group)

My family live in towns all over Spain. (plural: each individual living in a different place)

Video 1: Job Interviews

Video 2: Babysitting Job Interview

Video 3: Job Interview Tips

Video 4: Job Interview Questions

1. She never studies.
2. I usually do my homework.
3. She often watches TV.
4. We sometimes go to the cinema.
5. She always gets up at seven.
6. My parents are watching TV.
7. What are you doig right now?
8. Look! The baby is sleeping.
9. My daughter studies geography every day.
10. Do you want to come?
11. Do you play an instrument?
12. He is diving in the sea.

Weather game: match the pairs

Numbers: hangman

Food and drink

Sports

Clothes and accessories

Verbs and actions

Adjectives

Unit 4 revision

Exercise 1: a, an, some, any

Exercise 2: a lot of, much, many

Exercise 3: How much or How many?

Exercise 4: a few or a little?

Listening practice:

Listening 1: Snack time.

Listening 2: Introductions

OMG summer is over! Back to school! After having had such a great summer, time has come to start working again. A time of hopes and dreams for the new school year, although teachers are having a hard time at the moment. What people don’t see is that the time we are at work is spent with the kids, and most school work is done at home: preparing the lessons, grading assignments, correcting exams; and all this work takes place on “our own time”. And to those who feel that we are paid too much, think about this:

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.  ~John F. Kennedy

This isn’t over! We’ll keep fighting for a better public education!

Exercises

Vocabulary: The environment

Grammar Exercise

Listening / Reading: The environment

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

Video 4