Micronations: Bergonia

A micronation, sometimes referred to as a model country or new country project, is an entity that claims to be an independent nation or state but is not officially recognized by world governments or major international organizations.
Micronations are distinguished from imaginary countries and from other kinds of social groups (such as eco-villages, campuses, tribes, clans, sects, and residential community associations) by expressing a formal and persistent, even if unrecognized, claim of sovereignty over some physical territory.
Several micronations have issued coins, flags, postage stamps, passports, medals, and other items, which are rarely accepted outside of their own community.
The earliest known micronations date from the beginning of the 19th century. The advent of the Internet provided the means for people to create many new micronations, whose members are scattered all over the world and interact mostly by electronic means, often calling their nations Nomadic Countries. The differences between such Internet micronations, other kinds of social networking groups, and role playing games are often difficult to define.
 (wikipedia)

BERGONIA is a fictional country that was created in the Created Worlds web site.

 

Click here and find more information on Bergonia (history, geography, temperature, ecology, religion...)

Listening practice

Today, we are going to work on our listening skills.

You've got some audios to work with below. Listen to the following texts and do the exercises you'll find (matching, gap filling...). Pay attention to what you're hearing and have fun! (British Council)

Text1: celebrations

Text 2: theme parks

Once you've finished with this, you can continue with the following activities:

Vocabulary exercise about politics: here

Reading practice:

Task 1: multiple choice

Task 2:  matching

Task 3: true/false

Task 4: cloze

And now, a couple of games to practise different topics:

Billionaire (present tenses)

Billionaire 2 (past simple)

Jeopardy (past simple/ past continuous)

First conditional matching activity

Conditionals billionaire quiz

Irregular verbs wheel of fortune

Conditionals game

Tenses jeopardy

Have fun!!!



Are you into football? Do you know a lot of vocabulary about it? Check it here with a game.

Verb Patterns. Quizzes

 

Here you have some help with Verb Patterns. Click on the link below and do the quizzes.

http://random-idea-english.blogspot.com.es/2014/11/verb-patterns-quick-quizzes.html

Ze Frank: Are you human?

Second Conditional

The second conditional uses the past simple after if, then 'would' and the infinitive:

If + past simple,    would/could + infinitive

Remember to use the special form for the verb "to be":

If I were rich, I would travel around the world

When to use it:

First, we can use it to talk about things in the future that are probably not going to be true.

Second, we can use it to talk about something in the present which is impossible, because it's not true.

Now, take a look at these exercises to practise:

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Exercise 5

Exercise 6

Exercise 7

Exercise 8 (first and second conditionals)

Exercise 9

Exercise 10

Then, take a look at this video and do the activities below:

Video (bbc)

You've got a podcast to improve your knowledge of this type of conditional here.

Then, you've got a video here showing the differences between first and second conditionals.

And now, just to relax, listen to the following song and pay attention to conditional tenses (there are many, by the way). Have fun!

Games for 1st ESO

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/kids-games

https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/

http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm

http://www.funenglishgames.com/

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