2017.04.26 - Class 25

Exam prep

After reviewing your homework, you did a few review exercises based on the Use of English parts 1 and 4 that you did last week.

You also did some work with the Reading part 1 that you did last week.

Then you completed parts from a Listening paper.

We continued practicing for Speaking part 2. This time you spoke about the same set of pictures with two different classmates and then wrote out your answer a third time. The idea is to improve on what you say each time so that by the third time you have a very good answer.

Music

We also did a listening exercise based on some music from a television series.:

What do you hear? Think of:

1. the instruments
2. the place (city, country)
3. the occasion (event)
4. the time period
5. what it reminds you of

Afterwards, we watched the full video.

Pronunciation

We also watched a few scenes from Modern Family series 2 episode 6 that play on the fact that Gloria has a Colombian Spanish accent in English. Why did Jay get a package of Jesus figurines?

Showcase

LearnEnglish Teens: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams

Homework

Democratic homework:

• p.56 review
• p.65 vocabulary

Extra homework:

• p.58 Reading 3
• p.60 Vocab and Grammar
• p.64 Use of English 3

2017.04.25 - Exam and workshop dates

FCE Workshops at the British Council Bonanova

Date	Time	Focus
Monday 24th April	19:00 – 20:30	Reading
Thursday 27thApril	19:00 – 20:30	Use of English
Tuesday 2ndMay	19:00 – 20:30	Listening
Thursday 4thMay	19:00 – 20:30	Writing
Monday 8th May	19:00 – 20:30	Speaking

https://www.britishcouncil.es/en/exam/fce-first-certificate

2017.04.19 - Class 24

Countdown

We have 8 more classes before our last class (7 June) and some of you take the exam (on 10 June).

We will also do games and non-exam focused work in class from time to time, but in general for the next 8 weeks we'll be doing a lot exam-focused exercises and activities.

I'm giving extra homework to some of you, though anyone is welcome to do it. It will consist mostly of work in the Student Book (I will give you the answers so you can correct your own work).

The plan

1. Every class do 1-2 Reading & Use of English tasks
2. Every class do 1-2 Listening and Speaking tasks
3. Write a Review
4. Write an Article

Today

1. UoE1, UoE4 and R1 tasks -- also corrected and analyzed them for nuggets.
2. S2 activity
3. Back to the screen activity -- speaking task with this video
4. L1 -- also corrected them.

Homework

The democratic homework is:

• p.44 review
• p.53 vocabulary

The extra homework is:

• p44 review (same as democratic homework)
• p45 vocab
• p46 reading 2
• p48 vocab & grammar
• p52 use of English 2
• p53 vocab (same as democratic homework)

Check your own answers.

2017.04.05 - Class 23

Film

Today we talked about the story you read and then watched the film you read a review of last week. It also talked to each one of you about taking the exam in June or not.

The exam will be 10 June here at the school.

In the short extra time we had after the break, we played a few FCE-related games: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Homework

1. Spend as much time as you can, at least two hours, with English over the holidays. Focus on your weak areas (e.g. Reading, Use of English, vocabulary).
1. Exam English
2. Tiny TEFL Teacher
3. LearnEnglish Teens (exams section)
4. LearnEnglish Teens (reading - be sure to choose 'B2' level)
5. English revealed
6. Today school Use of English tests
7. VirtuAule (grammar and reading)
8. ESL lounge
9. flo-joe.com
10. memrise.com
2. Read the story at the link below, where lots of the more difficult vocabulary is defined for you: http://vocabkitchen.com/learn/student/#/startsession/592 .