FRIDAY 26/02/16

Listening can be the most difficult skill. It is important to practice as much as possible.

A great website to help you with this is listenminute.com

On this website you can find 500 small texts in conversational English. These texts can help you to improve your pronunciation and identify common words and phrases that mother tongue natives use. Learning and copying these can both help you to sound more natural in English.

In the lesson we looked at one the texts about travelling.

http://www.listenaminute.com/t/travelling.html

Here you can the worksheets we used.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_B2HZ_bIslTGNaUVpfUEttTWM/view?usp=sharing

You can also mark the text to remember some important aspects of pronunciation, in particular word stress. For more information on this see

https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/

20/02/16

A good way to continue a conversation is to ask questions. We listened to two conversations to find examples of subjects to talk about when you first meet someone.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_B2HZ_bIslS2h4V01BdFNySnc/view?usp=sharing

Here is the tapescript for the audio file

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_B2HZ_bIslclcxMG5ScVNzUVU/view?usp=sharing

Ask me for a copy of the audio file.

We added more questions and then practised asking familiar questions, using exercises 5 and Exam Practice for Part 1 on P77 of Insight Into PET.

Answering familiar questions are the part of the Cambridge speaking tests.

Revise the grammar in this grammar book, Units 2 + 7

http://vk.com/doc8069473_202956457

19/02/16

To start we looked at some expressions that you can learn by heart to use automatically when you meet someone for the first time

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UWv_lXxm7xNRtVLYaUvnw9tXvwa-Sep8zEuHpYCtCoU/edit?usp=sharing

To learn more phrases to use when you meet someone for the first time see here

Greetings power point - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_B2HZ_bIslamZwNkx2MGhoVDA/edit?usp=sharing

Greetings worksheet - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_B2HZ_bIslR0d4WDd4TW1JZlk/edit?usp=sharing

Here you can listen to some phrases - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_B2HZ_bIslbnJJQTI4VXAxWTg/edit?usp=sharing

13/02/16

Welcome to our course. I am sure we will do a good job together.

You can find the Initial Test we did here

 http://www2.klett.de/sixcms/media.php/229/EnglishUnlimited_All_TeachersGuide_EB.pdf

 It is important to listen to and read English as much as possible.

Here are some useful websites for practising.

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish

www.breakingnewsenglish.com

www.listenaminute.com

www.esllab.com

http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/

http://www.manythings.org/

www.elllo.org

http://www.englishclub.com/learn-english.htm

www.englishpage.com

Here you can find a very useful grammar book

Here is the elementary version

https://vk.com/doc8069473_202956457?hash=5ce925651868f7ad3c&dl=aa922cf229371819a9

and here is the intermediate version

https://vk.com/doc8069473_207129479?hash=94cd970d0d980ac461&

 dl=5a539c9622c51a9bc2