WEDNESDAY JULY 27 2016

Before an important meeting or conversation, we can imagine what type of words or phrases we will hear, for example if you have an interview you can think about the questions the interviewer can ask you and you can prepare some answers. You can use the same skill for English.

Here you can read some information about how PREDICTION can help you to understand better.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_B2HZ_bIslV0lLLW1nQnVQTWc/view?usp=sharing

You can try out this skill on listenaminue.com.

http://www.listenaminute.com/a/autumn.html

Before trying the listening gap fill exercise you can guess which words may be missing from the text based on your knowledge of the situation or of grammar and vocabulary.

Then compare your answers with the tape script. You will understand that it is not always neccesary to understand all the words to understand the general sense.

There are some interesting elements in the text including the use of 'such' and the expression 'one of the + superlative adjective + plural noun.

You can practise these structures here.

http://www.englishpage.com/minitutorials/sosuch.html

http://www.azargrammar.com/assets/beginning/BEGTeacher-CreatedWorksheets/Worksheets16/BEGCh16UsingOneOf+Superlative+PluralNoun.pdf

The weather and the seasons is a common conversation subject in Cambridge exams.

You can also learn more words related to weather.

http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/blwordgroups_weather.htm

And consider the questions here

http://simpleesl.com/esl-conversation-questions-weather-seasons/

You can practise predicting and then listening on  Page 41 of  PET Result, exercise 1 and 2.