Hong Kong series: My daily routine

This is the last installment in the Hong Kong series of videos. Kim, Sam and Clare, three teachers at The British Council in Hong Kong, answer the questions below about their daily routine.

Listen to what they say and note down the answers they give. Then answer the same questions about your daily routine.

What’s your daily routine?
What’s your favourite part of the day?
What would be your dream day?

Hong Kong series: My travels

Bryan, Monica and Alex, teachers at The British Council in Hong Kong, answer the questions below about their travelling experiences.

Watch the video and note down the answer they give to each of the questions. As usual, you'll get plenty of help from the on-screen subtitles.

When you have watched the video several times, try and answer the same questions about yourself.

What countries have you travelled to?

Which was your favourite and why?

Do you have an interesting travel story

I would like to draw your attention to the use Monica makes of the structure been to in the first question.
I've been to the UK = I've visited the UK

To know the difference between been to and gone to when talking about experiences, you can read this blog post.

Hong Kong series: My favourite food

Martin, Vikki and James, three teachers at The British Council in Hong Kong tell us about their culinary preferences by answering the questions below.

Watch the video several times until you are able to understand the information comfortably. Then answer the same questions about yourself.



What food do you like?
What food don’t you like?
Do you cook at home?
What’s the worst meal you have ever had?
What is your favourite restaurant in Hong Kong?

Hong Kong series: My career

Kim, Niki and Mike, teachers at The British Council in Hong Kong, answer the questions below about their career choice.

How long and where have you taught?
Why did you become a teacher?
What do you like about the job?
If you were not a teacher, what would you be?

As usual, you will get plenty of help to understand the answers, as most of what the three teachers say is shown in subtitles on the screen. However, today's questions are a bit more complicated grammar-wise, and will be within the grasp of Intermediate 1 and strong Básico 2 students.

Hong Kong series: My favourite film

Karen, Kaal and Sharon, three teachers from the British Council in Hong Kong, answer the questions below about their favourite film.

Remember most of what they say will be shown on the screen to facilitate the comprehension process. After you have watched the video three or four times, try to answer the same questions about your favourite film.

What is your favourite film?
What happens in this film?
Why do you like it?

Hong Kong series: My home

Dickie, Kathryn and Kate, teachers at the British Council in Hong Kong, talk about the place they live in. Listen to what they say and note down their answers to the questions below. As usual, you'll get plenty of help with comprehension with the video, as some of their answers are highlighted on the screen.

After you have watched the video three or four times, you can answer the same questions about your home.

Where do you live?
What is it like?
What do you like or dislike about your flat?

Hong Kong series -My home town

Four teachers from The British Council in Hong Kong -Kevin from Southbourne, Maria from Shrewsbury, Nishani from Durban and Tom from Ashwell- tell us about their home town. These are the questions they answer:

Where are you from?
What’s your home town like?
Why did you leave?

Hong Kong video series: My family

How big is your family?
Where do they live?
Who are you closest to?

These are the questions three of the teachers at the British Council in Hong Kong answer in this video.

Self-study activity:
Watch the video and make a note of the answers the three teachers give to the questions above. As usual, most of what is being said will come up subtitled on the screen, which is very helpful for comprehension purposes.

After watcing the video, answer the same questions about you. Try and use some of the phrases you heard in the video.

Hong Kong series: What's your hobby?

What’s your hobby?
Can you tell us a bit about your hobby?
Why do you like your hobby?

These are the questions three teachers from The British Council in Hong Kong answer in today's videocast.

The activity is suitable for strong Básico 1 students, and for Básico 2 and Intermediate 1 learners.

Self-study activity:
To develop your listening skills, just minimise the computer window and see if you understand the way the teachers answer the questions above.

Then you can check the answers by watching the video in a normal way. Many of the phrases the speakers use are subtitled on the screen.

Finally, you can practise your pronunciation by trying to say some of the phrases on the screen in the same way as the speaker has pronounced them.

As a follow-up you can answer the questions on the video about yourself.

Hong Kong series: My Hong Kong

We start here a new series of videos which are suitable for Básico 2 and Intermediate 1 students.

The videos have been made by teachers at The British Council in Hong Kong, and deal with aspects of their life there like their routine, hobbies, family, favourite food, career, trips and so on.

The first video on the series is entitled My Hong Kong and it features several teachers' opinions about the city. These are the questions they answer:

When did you come to Hong Kong?
Which places do you like about Hong Kong?
Do you find anything unusual here?

No real task beyond understanding the teachers' answers to the questions above. You will get plenty of help with understanding through the highlighted phrases you will be able to see on screen.

Once you have watched the video two or three times and you are familiar with the information the teachers convey, try to improve your English pronunciation by freezing the screen and echo some of the phrases on screen.