Weekly Planning: 15th & 17th February

Weekly Planning: 15th & 17th February 

To start with, a game about Conditionals:

And another one to get us speaking:

And to relax after our evaluation time, we are going to watch several short movies and discuss about them:

SOAR

I FORGOT MY PHONE

i-DIOTS

And to finish our lesson, a song:

And some handy notes for home: use of much, little, few, many, ...

Mid-Term Evaluation (February)

Here you can find the materials for the EOI Mid-Term Evaluation (February 2022)

LISTENING:

READING:

WRITING & MEDIATION:

SPEAKING (DIALOGUES & MONOLOGUES):

Weekly Planning: 1st & 3rd February 2022.

Weekly Planning: 1st & 3rd February 2022.

To commence, a game to practice some speaking:

This week we are going to focus on those skills that require more practice: listening, speaking and a bit of mediation.

LISTENING:

PART 1 - LISTENING 2.13

PART 2 - LISTENING 2.14

And we can further practice our listening with this activity (you can also do the reading and speaking parts, to practice):

LISTENING 2.21

Now try to practice your mediation skills with this activity:

And finally time to speak! Try to prepare this monologues:

And to nail our dialogues, here you can find a useful video with some great tips:

(although it is meant for C1, it is also valid for B2)

Here you are some dialogue examples:

And finally, a checklist for your speaking exam:

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 (it was designed by ...)

Reported speech (some experts say that ...)

Conditionals (If I were you I would do ...)

Modal verbs (should, could, might, must, ...)

Infinitive and gerunds (Generally speaking ...)

Perfect tenses (I have been working on, it will have finished by then, ...)

Relative clauses (A XXX is a device that ...)

Comparative and superlatives (The more you study the more chances you have to pass)

Idioms (To be on cloud nine, raining cats and dogs, hold the baby, ...)

Strong adjectives (exhausted, furious, great, wonderful, awesome, amazing, ...)

Click on the image for a summary of useful expressions

For homework, try this writing:

And to finish, a motivational song:

Weekly Planning: 25th & 27th January 2022.

Weekly Planning: 25th & 27th January 2022. 

Let's start with a fun vocab game on how technology has evolved:

And it is never too late to fix some errors that we may have accumulated throughout the years:

Let's practice some reading. This time with an amazing story:

And of course, we must keep our listening skills in good shape:

Now it's time to speak! Try this conversation starters:

You can prepare as well a monologue for your EOI exams:

And our weekly dose of homework in the form of a writing: a film review.

And to finish, as usual, we can sing along:

Audio Libros - Books in English

 A great way to improve our vocabulary is by reading books.

Furthermore, when we can also listen to what we read the advantages are even more!

Hence, here you can find a great web page where to find lots of audiobooks:

Reading is always a great idea! Enjoy!

Weekly Planning: 18th & 20th January 2022.

Weekly Planning: 18th & 20th January 2022.

This week we are going to learn how to speak about people's personality.

For starters, let's watch this video about the most popular adjectives of personality:

And then, we can practice with this game:

If you want, you can also practice your listening comprehension and learn more about personality with this other video:

See this vocabulary bank about personality, as well:

And now, time to read about this topic, but this time, related to how birth order influences our personality:

And we can even practice further on, with a writing activity about it (as HOMEWORK for the weekend):

We can also take this personality test online and discuss about the results, whether they adjust to your reality or not:

Last but not least, let's watch this song about personality to practice vocab with some rhythm:

Weekly Planning: 11th & 13th January 2022.

Weekly Planning: 11th & 13th  January 2022.

Let's start with some fun about our New Year's Resolutions:

And recap about our previous year with this questions:

Since one of our NYR is to read more, let's put it into practice with this reading activity:

And let's review the use of countable and uncountable nouns:

Time to practice now some listening:

A team meeting about diversity

Here you can find the worksheet for the exercise:

And to finish, a song:

Dido "White Flag"

And for HOMEWORK: a piece of writing.