SUMMER REVIEW

Here you are a link to beginners' review. It's very useful for those who passed and didn't. It's interective:
N.E. File Beginners

Practise listening comprehension exercises listening and watching this soap opera (culebron) on the net.
Podcast for beginners

You can also practise and revise your English with these tests. It includes exam papers, results and audios.
Speakout beginners

Examenes septiembre

CALENDARIO EXÁMENES           SEPTIEMBRE 2013- GUARDO


CURSO Y DÍA          EXPRESIÓN ESCRITA            COMPRENSIÓN ORAL               COMPRENSIÓN LECTORA

3 SEPTIEMBRE
1º N. BÁSICO           16.00-16.45(45’)                16.45-17.05(20’)                   17.05-17.35(30’)


5 SEPTIEMBRE
1º N. INT.                   16.30-17.30(60’)               17.30-18.0(30’)                     18.00-18.45(45’)


ORAL EXAMS      4TH SEPTEMBER- 17.00HRS

NOTAS EXAMENES JUNIO

Ya están publicadas las notas de la prueba inglés junio para 1NB

CLAVES:
NP-  NO PRESENTADO
NA- NO APTO IMPORTANTE:
1. PARA PODER SUPERAR EL CURSO CON ÉXITO TIENEN QUE ESTAR   APROBADAS TODAS LAS DESTREZAS
2. EN CASO DE HABER SUSPENDIDO ALGUNA PARTE DEL EXAMEN,
SOLO DEBERÁ PRESENTARSE A DICHA PARTE EN SEPTIEMBRE.
3. LAS CIFRAS INDICAN UN VALOR SOBRE 20
4. PARA APROBAR HAY QUE HABER OBTENIDO AL MENOS UN 12 SOBRE 20.

REVISION DE EXÁMENES. 25 JUNIO, 16.30HRS

PERIODO MATRÍCULA DEL NUEVO CURSO PARA AQUELLOS QUE HABÉIS SUPERADO TODAS LAS DESTREZAS EN JUNIO: 1-15 JULIO

More listening comprehension practice

listening and grammar review
review exercises
Listening 1
Listening 2
review exercises- answer key

key to exam review

cloze tests- key

Listening- KEY
1.
1A  2C  3C  4B  5B
2.
1B  2C  3C  4A  5B

cloze tests and audio

Here you are a likn to 4 cloze tests. Next week I'll publish the answers.
Practice-cloze tests
Listening practice -junio 2013
Listening 1
Listening 2

30th May

Class review 2
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3

28th May

Class review 1
Listening 1
Listening 2
Listening 3

23rd May

We completed the coursebook revising the grammar and vocabulary points.
We also practised the pronunciation classifying words according to stress (t.14.5-14.7).
Then, we read 3 different texts discribing 3 people's lives and the students had to ask and aswer questions about them.(t.14.8)
Finally, we reviewed tenses and questions in English.

Homework: Write a short text about you: where and when you were born, grew up, studied...where you live, what you like and your plans for the future (80-100 words).
WB, unit 14, ex.4-6, 9-12
Unit test 14, Skills test 14, progress test 3, stop and check 4

21st May

During this class we completed the vocabulary section. We studied opposite verbs and how to express feelings.
First, we completed a list with some opposite verbs and completed 7 different situations with the correct verb and tense, then we listened to 6 different conversations and identified the opposing verbs (t.13.10).

After that, we studied how to express feelings: I'm bored, I'm worried... and to give some advice (Why don't you...?)

Then, we started to review the vocabulary learnt throughout the course. In the first exercise, the students had to match verbs and nouns and then create a meaningful sentence:

travel+by train

I'm going to travel by train next week.

Homework: p.107, ex.2,3

                    WB, unit 13, ex.8-16, Unit test 13, skills test 13

                    WB, unit 14, ex.7,8

16th May

We finished the coursebook studying the grammar point "be going to" to express plans and predictions about the future.
We practised asking and answering questions using this new structure and listening and completing a gapped text from p.106 (t14.4)
To finish, we did a series of oral exercises to consolidate the grammar topic.

Homework: Unit 14, WB ex.1-3
                   Read text A,B or C on p,108 and answer the questions in ex.4

14th May

During this session we continued working with the text about Nigel'l holiday. We completed the questions on p.99, we asked and asnwered them in pairs. Then, we listened and checked.(t.13.7) We also filled the gaps of a series of sentences with the correct verb form.
Then, we corrected the comprehension exercises from the text on p.100, "The secret millionaire", and listened to 4 different conversations. The students had to identified the speakers and the content of the conversation.
After that, we moved to unit 14 to study the last grammar point of the course : be going to. This verbal form is used to express future plans and predictions. It 's formed by the present simple of the verb to be, followed by going to and the infinitive of the main verb

He's going to pass the exam

Homework: Unit 13, WB ex.6

                     Ex. 2, photocopy going to

                     Coursebook, p.105, ex.3

9th May- No hay clase...estaremos apoyando la escuela pública...en especial la enseñanza de idiomas pública y de calidad. Nos vemos el 14Th May. Gracias.

7th May

During this session we studied how to form the present continuous in English and its uses.
This new tense is formed by the verb "to be" in the present tense, followed by the main verb in the -ing form.

                     

 am/is/are+verb-ing

I'm wearing

You're wearing

He's wearing

First we read the text in the coursebook, on p.97. We looked at the scene and complete the gaps with the colours and clothes.(t.13.2)

After that, we put into practise the new grammar point describing someone's clothes in the class and then, our own clothes.

We also learnt that to describe what someone is wearing we use the verb "to wear " in present continous: I'm wearing a T-shirt", and to talk about complements like bags or umbrellas we use "to carry": I'm carrying a black handbag".

The main use of the present continuous in English is to describe an action which is happening at the moment of speaking, and it's usually found with expressions of time like: now, right now, at the moment.

To consolidate the use of the present comtinuous, we asked questions about the pictures on p.98. The question to ask was: What are they doing?

After that, we played a miming game. The students read one card and had to act out the action.

We finished the class, comparing the present simple and continuous. The main difference is that we use the present simple to describe routines, daily habits...and the continuous to describe something that is happening now.

We completed one text on p.98 with the correct verbs, and then, we listened and read other text and wrote true sentences about it.

Homework: WB- Unit 13, ex.3-6

                   Read the text on p.101 and complete exercises 3,4

2nd May

During this session we finished unit 12 talking about common signs.
The students first, identidied the places where they could find the signs and then matched them with their meanings.
After that, they listened to some lines of conversation and wrote the letter of the sign they went with (T.12.10)
Then, we studied the differences between countable and uncountsble nouns in English and learnt that we use:
a/an for singular countable nouns, for example, an apple, a bottle...
some for plural coountable nouns, some apples, some bottles in affirmative sentences
         for uncountable nouns, some money, some sugar in affirmative sentences
any, for plural countable nouns, any apples, any bootles,  in interrogative and negative sentences
       for uncountable nouns, any money, any sugar, in interrogative and negative sentences.

And finally we studied the vocabulary related to colours and clothes.

Homework, WB, unit 12, ex.12-15
                   Unit Test 12, Skills test 12

30th April

During this session we studied the vocabulary related to food and restaurants.
To start with, we matched the food and pictures on p.92. Then, we answered the comprehension questions about the people from 3 different countries.
Then, we listened to Liam and Mandy ordering at the Café fresco (T.12.9). We matched the sentences to the person who pronounced them and after that, we role-played a similar conversation using a real menu.

Homework: WB Unit 12, ex.8-11
                   Coursebook, p.95, ex.1,2

25th April

During this session we continued working the differences between would like+noun, would like to+verb.

We started the class listening to a couple talking about his birthday, the students had to tell why the man was not happy and what the woman wanted to do. After that they need to complete the blanks in a dialogue.
Then, we listened to 3 people talking about their birthday wishes and they students completed a chart. To consolidate these 2 structures, they students had to interviewed their partners asking:

What would you like for your birthday?

What would you like to do on your birthday?

After that, we studied another important structure: Like+verb-ing, like+noun

First we listened to 2 dialogues and the students decides which conversation was about what you like day after day and which conversation was about what you want to do now.

To finish the class, we did two oral activities. In one of them, the students talked about what they liked doing, theiir hobbies,etc...ANd so, we could practise the structure like+verb-ing
And in the other one, we consolidated the structure would like to+infinitive verb, to talk about our dreams in the near future.

Work online the grammar and exercises:
like and would like

Homework: Photocopy like+ing, exercises a,b
                     WB unit 12, ex.6,7

18th April

Today, we finished unit 11 doing a role-play actvity. The students had to write a dialogue about a problem, and the read it out in class.
After that, we started a new unit. In unit 12 we talked about places (shops) and the activities you can do in those places. We listened to Adam shopping and tried to completed the conversations (T.12.2)
We learnt about a new structure: I'd Like...(I would like). We use this phrase to ask for things politely in a shop:

I'd like some ham, please

Or we can also ask for things or offer them with a question:

Would you like anything else?

Would you like something to eat?

We also remember when to use some/any:

some: affirmative

any: negative and questions

But we noticed that when we want to offer something to a friend we use some and not any in the question.

Would you like some cake?

This is because we expect a positive answer and we want our friend to feel comfortable.

We continued with another listening comprehension exercise, ex.2, and we completed 2 dialogues between Adam and a friend of his. To consolidate this new structure we role-played a situation with a classmate: we had to make our friend feel at home and offer him something to eat, drink or do.
We finished the class starting the grammar exercises form the photocopies. They need to be completed at home.
Homework: WB unit 12, ex.1-5
                   Read texts on p.92, A,B or C, and do ex.2

16th April

During this session we kept on working with the verb CAN. In this case, we read a text about Internet and the different things we can do on the Internet: you can chat with friends, you can send emails, you can listen to music,etc...
We answered some comprehension questions and correct some wrong sentences about the text.
And after that, we listened to 6 peope to talk about when and why they use Internet (t.11.9).
Then, we talked about everyday problems. We looked at some pictures on p.87 and tried to guess what the problem was., then, we match some sentences with the pictures and finally, we listened to some conversations and completed the gaps in the dialogues.
We finished the class, listening to more problems. First, we identidied the place where they happened and then, we answered the following questions in each case: What's the problem? What happens?

Homework: WB unit 11, ex.11-16
                   Unit test 11, Skills test 11

answer key- photocopies of grammar

Here you have a link to the answer key for the grammar exercises (photocopy unit58...):
fotocopias gramatica- soluciones