House Prices in the UK - Listening Activity

This week we have been studying vocabulary on flats and houses. 
Listen to the following extract and fill in the gaps. Please, correct your answers! The answer key is part of one of the comments.

 

U.K. house prices are (1) ___________________ that a third of British people will never buy their own home. A report from the Halifax Bank said home ownership and getting on the (2) ___________________ ladder was no longer an achievable (3) ___________________ many Britons. A (4)___________________ of twentysomethings have no plans to buy. The report suggested the desire to own a home is being replaced by the (5) ___________________to  live in one. It added: "It seems that people are now beginning to accept a lifetime of (6) ___________________." 

Britain's Office for (7) ___________________ said U.K. house prices rose by 10.5% last year, with London prices (8) ___________________ by 18%. It said there were "runaway train" house prices. The (9) ___________________ was valued at $425,000 nationwide and at $610,000 in London. The report (10) ___________________of possible long-term social problems because of the haves and have-nots. It said without (11) ___________________, "the market will (12) ___________________to a standstill ". If this happens, prices will come down.

Happy World Book Day! - Listening

  Do you love reading? Why? Why not? Please, share your ideas!

World Book Day & the Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas de la Comunidad de Madrid

This is the information concerning the activities organised for tomorrow, World Book Day, by the Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas in Madrid. I know many of you have to work but here you have it in case anyone can go!    

Novelist Gabriel García Márquez dies - Listening activity

Listen to the following piece of news and fill in the gaps. (Your browser should be Google Chrome)

Post them as a comment. The answer key has been posted as a comment.

   

Gabriel García Márquez, one of the world's greatest (1) ____________, has died, aged 87. He (2) ____________ away at his home in Mexico. The official cause of death was a lung (3) ____________. The Colombian writer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, among many more top literary awards. The Colombian government has announced three days of national (4) ____________. A spokesperson said García Márquez was, "a writer who changed the lives of his (5) ____________ ". His novel ''Love in the Time of Cholera" is the best selling book written in Spanish of all (6) ____________. He also wrote many more (7) ____________. Many critics place García Márquez among the most important writers ever. He helped develop a (8) ____________ of writing called "magical realism". U.S. President Barack Obama paid a (9) ____________ to Márquez, saying: "The world has lost one of its greatest (10) ____________ writers." Former President Bill Clinton said: "I was always amazed by his (11) ____________ gifts of imagination, clarity of thought, and emotional honesty. He captured the pain and joy of our common (12) ____________ in settings both real and magical." García Márquez once said he was a (13) ____________ from a young age. He told an interviewer: "I have often been told by the family that I started (14) ____________ things, stories and so on, almost since I was born - ever (15) ____________ I could speak." Peruvian Nobel prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa said: "His novels will (16) ____________ and will continue to find new readers everywhere."

The Devil Wears Prada - Listening Activity

Watch the video that we have been watching in class again and try to understand everything! You can see the correction as a comment.

Here you can watch it in high definition if you prefer so:

http://skymovies.sky.com/the-devil-wears-prada/trailer-the-devil-wears-prada