NEW ACADEMIC YEAR 2009-10

Dear Students,
I would like to welcome all of you to your new class. I hope that you'll enjoy the classes and you'll learn many things (and English as well!!!).
You'll find useful information, interesting links and extra activities and tasks in this blog. Visit it whenever you want and add comments after each entry. It will help me to improve it and your partners to know your opinion.
Feel free to check all the links posted here and take an advantage of all the information contained here.
Best regards,
your new English teacher: CRISTINA

ADVANCED LEVEL-2

Don't forget the listening! Here you have some good practice:
1. Listen to the radio. You can download the news:
http://www.npr.org/
http://australianetwork.com/learningenglish/default.htm
2. Reading practice: Choose a story, read it and do the exercises:
http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html
3. Writing practice: Here you have some tips to improve your writings:
http://www.teacherjoe.us/Write.html
http://www.eslbee.com/

MORE PRACTICE FOR THE EXAM

GOOD LUCK!!!
1. LISTENING PRACTICE:
Click on each piece of news, listen to it and do the activities. Then check your answers:
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
2. READING PRACTICE:
Click on each text and do the cloze test:
http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/cloze/cloze.htm

SOME HELP FOR THE EXAMS (FOR EVERYBODY)

HERE YOU HAVE SOME HELP FOR THE EXAMS:
1- Do you know how to write a letter? Check these models. They may help you:
http://www.parapal-online.co.uk/resources/letters.html
2- Sample exams:
http://www.eoidurango.net/es/departamento.php?Id_Departamento=3&Id_Seccion=262
3-Other sample exams. Firstly click on "Departamentos de Idiomas" and then go "Modelos de examen y criterios de evaluación" and select your level in the English part:
http://www.pnte.cfnavarra.es/eoip/

INTERMEDIEATE LEVEL - 2

UNIT 8:
Would you like to practice more?
1-Conditionals:
http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/presentconditional.html
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bl_conditionals1.htm
http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/if-then5.html
http://www.geocities.com/athens/olympus/7583/condless.html

ADVANCED LEVEL - 2

UNIT 6:
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE...
1. about the American elections? Listen to the news and give me your impression:
http://www.onthemedia.org/topics/elections/1
2. about the 44th president of US? Read the overview and summarize the main ideas:
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/
3. about "Words we love too much"? Tell me the words they love too much and in which contexts they are used:
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/after-deadline/

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL-2

UNIT - 6:
More practice:
1. Do you know this travel vocabulary?
http://iesitaza.educa.aragon.es/DAPARTAM/ingles/cursos/2_bach/Temas/HOLIDAY%20&%20TRAVEL/Vocabulary%20travel_holiday.pdf
2. Revise future tenses:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplefuture.html
3. Time clauses:
-Here you have some theory:
http://khoaanh.hcmup.edu.vn/projects/grammar1_2007/1C07/Thuy.Nhien_Thu.Hang_Kieu.Loan/the%20future%20in%20time%20clause.htm
-And here some practice:
http://www.english-test.net/esl/learn/english/grammar/ii142/esl-test.php
http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/time1.htm
http://www.quia.com/quiz/400709.html
-Time clauses: Revise the theory and then do the practice at the bottom of the page:
http://tillyer.net/GLOW/fsi101.htm
4-Book a flight:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/business/talkingbusiness/unit1telephone/5flights.shtmlhttp://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-8087.php
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE?
1- Are you travelling to London? Check this site:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/