LAST MINUTE EXAM PRACTICE…

If you are panicking last minute and want some extra practice for the exams next week, then read this blog post is for you…

Grammar and Vocabulary Practice

Click here for the interactive exercises from unit 3 of the coursebook New English File  Pre-intermediate.

Extra Listening Practice

For those of you who don’t have a copy of unit 3 audio, here are the two listening tracks for the ‘What can you do?’ section on page 39 of the New English File Pre-intermediate.  Click here for 3.20 and here for 3.21.

Writing

Do you remember the Christmas homework?  Here’s a model answer.  Notice how I use the present continuous for future plans and ‘will’ for decisions and offers.  Also look at the format.  Compare your letter to this one.

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Speaking

Finally, if you enjoyed the board game we did in class, then you can practise speaking for 2 minutes on any of these topics:

Sports that I like/don’t like;  last weekend;  your plans for next weekend; a film that I really liked/didn’t like; my favourite food; my free time; yesterday; next summer; something I don’t like doing; my job or studies; a painting or photo I like; my favourite day of the week; am I an optimist or pessimist; why I’m learning English; the last time I was at an airport; a good friend; my last holiday; this evening; my family; music that I like/don’t like.

Can you match them with units in the coursebook?

See you next week and good luck!!!

ARRANGING TO GO OUT

Can you arrange to go out with someone in English?  What would you do if George Clooney wanted to have a coffee with you?  Or if Angelina Jolie wanted to play Tombraider with you?  This practice will help you arrange to meet them (if they ever phone you).  At least it will help you with the interaction part of the oral exam…

The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast 2011

We are honoured to share with you the Queen’s Christmas Broadcast for this year. This is already a tradition on this blog and this year is not going to be an exception. You can watch it below and read the transript here.

You can also watch on our blog the broadcasts given in 2008 and 2009. The broadcast given in 2010ncan be found here.

Do you enjoy watching King Juan Carlos‘ Christmas Broadcast? In which way is it different from the Queen’s? Do you think these kinds of messages are important or relevant? We would appreciate your answers.

And…

Merry Christmas!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

 

From all of us at EOI Santa María de Guía, we wish you a happy Christmas and a happy new year!  Here are a few Christmas links so you can practise your English over the holiday period.

If you want to know more about Christmas carols, then the website www.carols.org.uk is the website for you.  On the same website you can also do a Christmas quiz and there is another quiz on the BBC website.  But if you really like singing carols and other Christmas songs then visit the karaoke site tistheseasonto.be.

And here’s a Christmas joke:

-  What’s the difference between the ordinary alphabet and the Christmas alphabet?

-  The Christmas alphabet has Noel!

If you want to read more corny jokes then go to www.theholidayspot.com/christmas/jokes/.

To find out more about how Christmas is celebrated, Woodlands School in Kent, England has a fantastic website.  I think it is the best website about British culture on the Internet. Click here to visit it.

Now there will be no excuse to say you were bored over the holiday.  See you next year!

Offers, Promises and Decisions

If you’re confused about all the uses of ‘will/won’t', then here’s some extra practice.  First of all, look at this Powerpoint about offers, promises and decisions and guess what the sentences are.

Now look at these exercises from the Oxford New English File Pre-intermediate website.  Click here and here to practise ‘will’ for offers, promises and decisions, and here and here to practise will/won’t for predictions.

And for the best promise made in a film, here’s Whitney Houston singing, ‘I Will Always Love You’ in ‘The Bodyguard’.