Friday 24 November 2017

A2-extra listening with quizzes

If you want to improve your listening skills and prepare yourself well for the exam click this LINK

To benefit from these on-line activities (there are 34), it is important that you take the following steps:  


1. Click on Quiz Video-Questions

2. Have a look at the questions
3. Click on Listen to the Dialogue to hear the recording. 
4.Choose the correct option to the question 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

Tuesday 14 November 2017

TO BE GOING TO + VERB to express future plans and predictions

1. Watch this short video on how to use to be going to + verb to express future plans.



2. Do the following online exercises to practice this form

Friday 10 November 2017

A2-Simple past vs past continuous


1. Watch this VIDEO-TUTORIAL to study how to use past continuous vs simple past




To have some practice on this language point, you can do the following online tasks: 

A2-Listening Tasks_1

Try the following listening activities:
    • Quiz 1: The new class
    • Quiz 2: Making apple pie 
    • Quiz 3: On the Plane
    • Quiz 4: At the Department store
    • Quiz 5: Telephone numbers
    • Quiz 6Conversations (There are four conversations) 
    • Quiz 7: Telephone conversations (there are two) 
    • Quiz 8: Directions on the telephone (there are two exercises) 
    • Quiz 9: Conversations. Multiple choice (there are three exercises) 
How to download listening quizzes 1, 2, 3 and 4

    Thursday 9 November 2017

    Pronunciation of irregular past tenses

    1. Here you have a video lesson about how to form the past tense in English.



    2. If you want to practise pronunciation of some irreguar verbs, you can watch this other video. 





    3. Would you like to have fun and practice irregular past tenses at the same time? If the answer is yes, please try the following on-line games. You will have to be very fast though because there is a watch ticking away

    Game 1

    Game 2
    Game 3
    Game 4
    Game 5

    Friday 3 November 2017

    What's the weather like?

    This video will help you to revise and learn new vocabulary to talk about the weather. To complete this listening task, follow these steps.

    Step 1. Watch the video without taking notes, just listen to what people are saying.


    Step 2. Complete this chart.

            •  What's the weather like for these people?
    1. Chuck
    2. Dave and Diana
    3. Steven
    4. Ghia
    5. Colin and Chris
    6. Eric
    7. Minda
    8. Sandra
    9. Anthony
    Step 3. Watch the video with subtitles to check your answers. 

     



    Step 4. Write the new words that you have learnt with this video. If there is a term you don't understand, look it up in a dictionary. 

    Thursday 2 November 2017

    A2-Connectors: Although, But, Because, So and connecting time


    If you want to practice this grammar point, you can do the following online activities