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Category Archives: Intermedio 1

Here you are some interactive websites to revise writing. Try them because they are pretty useful. We have to thank the teachers Ana Enriquez, Gloria Ferreira y Yolanda Marín (TIC: Expresión Escrita en inglés) from EOI El Fuero Logroño for creating this useful material. Click on each picture to see the different websites.

Básico

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Intermedio

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Advanzado

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Certificate exams and final exams are round the corner and this blog is full of recommendations for you. Let’s talk about all the possibilities we offer here once again. Don’t say you don’t know where to start from!!!

speaking

  • Watch these videos of students taking their English exams, revise the teachers’ notes and try to improve your skills.
  • Watch these videos by the British Council, they give you advice about what to do and what not to do during your speaking test.
  • Saro Rosales, a teacher at EOI Las Palmas GC wrote an article for her students giving advice for the speaking test, don’t miss it.
  • Would you like to do a language exchange? Here you have a list of sites where you can do them.
  • Intercambio de idiomas, a website where you can find out about places to practise English with other learners and native speakers. People gather together to practise while having a drink.
  • Finally, here you have a list I wrote for my students back in 2009, why don’t you take a look at it?

vocabulary and expressions

  • Read this document written by my friend María Valdés, it contains expressions that can help you both with your writing and with your speaking.

writing

  • This post contains a slideshow presentation with a summary of the different types of texts you could find in your certificate exam.
  • Guidelines for writing, a slideshow presentation with lots of tips.

assorted skills

  • Try to follow the advice given in this article, where you can find tips to practise listening, writing and reading.
  • Do you know ELLA? Here you can practise all skills.
  • Busuu helps you with all skills, and you can even practise Engish with other students and native speakers. It’s a great community to learn different languages.

listening

All levels:

Básico:

  • Randall’s Cyber ESL Lab: Listening activities – do the activities for the easy level.
  • Podcastsinenglish.com: Weekly podcast with video and activities. Do the activities for Level 1. Podcasts are free, but to download activities you need to pay for a subscription.
  • mansioningles:  listenings with differentiated tasks – do the activities for level ‘Básico’.

Intermedio:

  • ELLLO: Real life conversations with different accents. Good for Intermedio 1 and 2, y Avanzado 1
  • Global English Salon: Artículos actuales que se pueden escuchar (con acento americano) y leer
  • Breaking News English: news articles for reading or listening. Good for Intermedio 2 and above.

Avanzado 1 and 2:

Certificate exams

Remember that the Consejería de Educación del Gobierno de Canarias has published some examples which contain the certificate exams used last year. You can see them here, and if you want to practise even more, please visit these links, which contain examples from all over Spain.


Have you been to an English or French-speaking country?  Did you take any photographs?  If you did, then why not enter our photography competition:  ‘Una Mirada Dentro y Fuera’?  If you haven’t been to any of these countries, don’t worry, you can enter a photograph of the northwguía londonest of Gran Canaria (Guía, Gáldar, Agaete, Moya and La Aldea de San Nicolás).  You can get a copy of the competition rules in the EOI office or download them here.  Fantastic prizes for the 3 winners and ALL photos will be exhibited at the Casa de Cultura in Guía from 11th to 22nd of March!  Hand in your photos to the EOI office in A4 (folio) size print or on a pendrive and we will print them for you.  You have until February 28th to hand in your photos.  Good luck!


I’m sure you all know Google is an awesome tool and both teachers and students can find lots of utilities among their services: Google search, images, videos, blogger, maps, drive, docs, etc.

Today we are presenting a way to search texts by their reading level. The tool is not 100% efficient, but can help. Just follow the steps on the image and you’ll find texts adapted to the level you are looking for.


Dear students,

This year we would like to build an enourmous Christmas Tree full of wishes for 2013. Would you like to help us? You only need to follow the steps described in the following slideshow presentation. We appreciate your participation.



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