Evaluation 1st Term

Here you can find the evaluation tests for the First Term of the course:

B1 Level Test 

(Click on the blue folder to open the content)

B2 Level Test

(Click on the red folder to open the content)

Those who cannot attend our classes this week can do it at home and hand it in next week. We will also perform  the oral tasks next week.

EOI Exams - Pruebas de Años Anteriores

A great source of information and a way to practice is using previous years exams.

                                 

Here you can find a collection of tests (PUC) from year 2018, which will offer you a good view on how the real exams are:

Tips to prepare the EOI Speaking Exam (Monologue)

Here are some tips on how to prepare for the EOI speaking test. They are organized as a checklist for your convenience:

1. Have some ideas ready to use (ready made sentences, introductions, structures, turn taking expressions, agreement, idioms, ...)

2. Prepare and use a certain amount of high-level vocabulary (strong adjectives, adverbs, specific or topic-related vocab, ...)

3. Improve your pronunciation (be careful not to repeat basic pronunciation errors and practice using phonetics and different sources)

4. Linking words (there are never enough!)

5. Use grammar structures in accordance to the level (passive voice, reported speech, conditionals, modal verbs, infinitives and gerunds, perfect tenses, relative clauses, comparatives and superlatives, ...)

And finally a video explaining in more detail this checklist:

Weekly Planning: 1st December & 3rd December 2020

This week we have learn some new idioms about "Happiness and Sadness"

And we have continued through the student's book. Today, pages 13 and 14:

And here you can find the transcript for the listening practice:

And as homework for the weekend, you have to write an informal e-mail, replying to this one that you have just received:

You can use this sample reply as a model for your own:

Remember that there will be no classes next Tuesday, so see you on Thursday!

Weekly Planning: 19th to 26th November 2020

 Weekly Planning: 19th to 26th November 2020

Today we have started learning a bit more about the weather and how to use certain expressions related to it:

We have also refreshed and practiced our vocabulary about the family. You can have a look at this video:

We also learnt some idioms about health:

On the book, we covered the contents of pages 10-13.

Regarding grammar, we reviewed the use of comparative and superlative adjectives, and the use of articles (a, an, the, no article)

And finally a piece of news to work on:

Finally, your homework for next week is to write about your plans when all this COVID crisis is finished (around 90 words)

Weekly Planning: 12th November 2020

Weekly Planning: 12th November 2020

Today we have corrected our homework about the future and talked about our plans (for tonight, for tomorrow, for the weekend, for next summer, ...) using the differente forms of future we have learnt (present simple, present continuous, going to, will, ...)

GRAMMAR:

Present Perfect and its use with for / since

Here you can find a video explaining the use of the Present Perfect in conjunction with since/for:

And a very helpful summary:

MEDIATION:

We have started to train with mediation activities, since it is a new skill to be evaluated in our EOI exams.

Here you have a video explaining the importance of mediation:

And here you can find another video about mediation. This time it is a hands-on  example, including the production and correction:

So, now that you are a bit more familiar with mediation, you can try to do this mediation exercise:

And to conclude our lesson, a song to improve our listening skills and our vocabulary:

Song: 500 Miles by The Proclaimers

Weekly Planning: 10th November, 2020

Weekly Planning: 10th November, 2020

How to express the future in English

(Present Simple, present continuous, to be going to, will/shall)

You can find more about it in this video. I recommend you to watch it! It is really good!

Here you can find a brief summary on how to express the future in English:

We have been working on this worksheet as well (click on the image to download it):

You can read and correct the exercise (page 143) and also write a similar paragraph about yourself (use the one provided as a model)

On page 145 you have to do at home the exercise about future forms.

And finally, also as homework, answer the following questions about your plans:

"What are your plans for ...?"

- Tonight

- Tomorrow

- The weekend

- Next summer

Use the "present continuous" or "to be going to" to answer.