Speaking Practice

As you already know, we're going to devote the month of March to practicing the next speaking exam in June. Every week I will have one pair of students do the exam in front of the class as if they were in the real situation in June. I hope not to run out of volunteers! Anyway, here are the cards, so please everybody take a look at the speaking cards for this week.

So, who'd like to be candidate A and candidate B? :-)

TEST 1 CANDIDATE A

TEST 1 CANDIDATE B

TEST 2 CANDIDATE A

TEST 2 CANDIDATE B

Linkers and Speaking Expressions

Linkers Sheet for NI2*

Useful Expressions in a Dialogue

Speaking Expressions in a Roleplay

* This linkers sheet is based on a paper your classmate Elena Miguel shared with me. Thanks, Elena, for sharing your tools and ideas with us!

Shadowing for a Better, Cleaner World...

And to follow up on the same subject, here you have the video on How to Care for the Environment which Esperanza proposed to practice some shadowing with. I actually think it is a great choice to improve your shadowing mastery. Thanks Esperanza!

How Environmentally Friendly Are You?

Find below the video Esperanza used to introduce the topic of Environment in class last week. It is a very useful piece of material to revise all the new vocabulary and expressions we learned with her. And why not revising our three R's too? it's all about saving our planet!

This is the Life, by Amy MacDonald

Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight.... Still playing this tune in your head?

Key to the Exam Practice, Christmas 2016

Key to the Exam Practice you did over Christmas

Mayday!

This is a very short video to cheer you up: A hilarious way to remind us of the importance of pronouncing English correctly when you work as an air traffic controller... or as a coastguard!

Sink (v): hundir, hundirse

German Coastguard Sinking

And remember: the only way to make progress is actually putting the foot in it, hopefully not under such dire circumstances as the poor German coastguard above!