Exam training 1

Listening

• To start,  do the following listening activities: 
• Act 1 Act 2 Act 3 Act 4 Act 5 Act 6 Act 7 Act 8  
• Click HERE for the first set of 9 listening tasks
• Click HERE for another set of 34 multiple choice tasks. To do them, you will have to do the following: 
  
  1. Click on Quiz Video-Questions.
  2. Have a look at the questions.
  3. Click on Listen to the Dialogue to listen to the recordings
  4. Choose the correct option to questions 1-4.
  5. Click on Check Answer to see your marks
  6. If you are still unsure, click on show conversation Dialogue and listen again.
  • Click HERE for some extra multiple choice listening tasks. Do the ones marked (SL-Basic English) or Easy (E)

Reading

• Try the following reading tasks: Task 1 Task 2Task 3Task 4Task 5Task 6Task 7Task 8Task 9Task 10Task 11

Homework set on November 25

I love homework!

Click HERE for a copy of the worksheet given in class. 

If you need the recording (00:30-01:58) for exercise 2, you can follow this other LINK 

Pronunciation: word stress (two syllable words)

This video will give you further practice on word stress as we do in our lessons.

You can follow these steps:

• Step 1. Listen to the first example.
• Step 2. Before you hear each of the words, stop the video and try to guess where the stress syllable is on that word.
• Step 3. Write all the words you remember on a piece of paper and pronounce them again.
• Step 4. Watch the video to check how many you have guessed and how many you have missed.

little-a little-few- a few

Here you have a video tutorial to revise the quantifiers we learnt in our lesson: little, a little, few, a few.



To practice this language point and other quantifiers (some, a/an, much/many), you can do the following on-line tasks: 

• Task 1
• Task 2
• Task 3
• Task 4
• Task 5
• Task 6

Easy listening actitivities

• Act 1 Telling the time. To revise telling the time, check here or this
• Act 2 Dates.
• Act 3 Numbers
• Activity 4 Train tickets (mixed)
• Activity 5 Hotel reservation (mixed)

A2- Talking about my family

You can revise vocabulary on family members with these on-line tasks:

• TASK 1. Watch this video to learn how to pronounce family wordS

• TASK 2. Click HERE to play a vocabulary game on the topic family.

Present Perfect + for/since

Watch this video tutorial to learn more on how to use Present Perfect + for/since 




If you want now, you can practise this grammar point by doing the following on-line tasks:

• Task 1
• Task 2
• Task 3 

Second Conditional

You can watch this video tutorial to review the use of second conditional:



You can also practise this grammar point with Pink Floyd's song If...

Homework set 20th March 2013 for exam training

To get a copy of homework set today for your Easter holiday, follow this LINK

Making arrangements to meet

Watch this video in which two women are making arrangements to meet at a future time and answer the questions below:

1. Why do they want to meet? 
2. When are they meeting? What time?
3. Where do they arrange to meet? 

Buying a train ticket

Below you will find a video tutorial on how to buy a train ticket


For extra practice on this topic, try the following on-line tasks: 

• Task 1
• Task 2
• Task 3
• Task 4

Homework 16th_17th Jan 2013

 
To download a copy of the handout set for homework today, just follow this LINK