Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Básico 1- The house

I have just come across this fantastic site esolcourses.com. There are all kind of exercises for you to practise: reading, vocabulary, listening... And it's FREE.
Song: California Dreaming
Irregular verbs
quiz 1
quiz 2


Aquí tenéis un crucigrama para revisar los pasados irregulares. Pinchad en el número para ver la pista.
Practicad la pronunciación del vocabulario de la casa. Descargad la presentación, abridla y pulsando la tecla F5 la veréis. Al pasar el ratón por encima de las palabras podéis oír su pronunciación.
Este archivo de powerpoint tiene un listening. Para escucharlo pinchad en los altavoces, pero si no se oye tenéis las pistas en esta carpeta Home, sweet home.



Podéis encontrar muchos ejercicios para practicar there is / there are en este enlace.

Básico 2- Revision

If you want to revise using games, try these:
You can start practising for the oral exam. I hope these tips help you.
On this site there are many conversation questions that you can use to prepare your monologue.
For each topic choose 3 or 4 questions and use them to organise your speech.




And this is some extra writing practice adapted from OpenMind (Ed. Macmillan).

Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Basico 2 - Listening

Listening

Cristina Cabal's blog is a great place to practise listeningnew

Jobs. Quite easy. You can find similar listenings if you click here.
Fears (phobias).
World traveller new
Japanese Life new
British Council. Listening with varied exercises. Los primeros 3 minutos o un poco más no necesitáis escucharlos, suelen referirse a episodios anteriores. Hay un resumen sobre el tema en castellano, así que podéis elegir lo que más os guste.
School in Mongolia

British Council Games
British Council listening exam practice.
BBC Learning English
ESOL Courses Choose among the list, pay attention to the level

Saturday, 14 March 2015

Básico 2- Listening and quantifiers

Listening

  • Making plans. Pay attention to the expressions they use. They are very useful for your oral practice.
  • Small talk. You are given a question and you have choose the best answer. You can read the script at the bottom of the page.
  • Clothing and fashion.
I've just come across a nice website to improve your English. Have a look at englishpond.com. The speaking section is good: there are categories with useful expressions and you can listen to them. Pause the recording and repeat.

Quantifiers






Comparison: lots of exercises

Básico 1. Personal pronouns, was-were, listening

Personal pronouns
Play this game and revise personal pronouns. There are more games at the bottom of the page. Don't do the games for "possessive pronouns".
And this is another game.

Was / were
And this is to practise "was / were". Some words are difficult, sorry.
Was were exercise: not very funny. But there are many more here.
Use these videos to practise pronunciation.



Listening:
This is an interesting website: englishpond.com. There are grammar, listening and vocabulary exercises. Have a look (echad un vistazo)

Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Básico 2. Comparatives and shopping

Here you are some advice for your oral exam. Read this article.
And there are many more suggestions here.




Shopping: reading activity.

And enjoy this song! Worksheet

You can try to do this crossword. The answers are on the second page.


There are some extra activities on this link: Comparison of Adjectives, by Victoria-Ladybug
Find this and other comparatives/superlatives exercises in English Exercises .org