SPEAKING EXAM

Let's start with a speaking post. Click on the following link to download the copies I showed you in class.

Speaking materials: Part 3 B1 Test

Here's another summary of the aspects you should cover in your description:

SPEAKING MATERIALS CLGRANADA

This is a useful presentation including the vocabulary you can use in the speaking test divided into several topics. Have a look at it:

Useful ppt with lots of vocabulary for the Speaking test

And finally, some sample materials for the speaking test. You can use them to practise at home:)

Unit 3 sample

Unit 1 sample

Unit 4

LISTENING PRACTICE FOR THE EXAM

As promised, you can now practice the listening part of your exam at home. 

Click on the links to be directed to the exercises.

See you on Monday!

 

PET LISTENING PART 3

PET LISTENING PART 3

PET LISTENING PART 3

LISTENING MATERIALS. B1. PET PART 1

Morning! I know, I know, long time no see!

Sorry!

I'll try to make up to you by posting some interesting listening materials/ exams. 

I am aware that some of you are struggling with the new exercises. Some of you looked like this during the exam (just change the 'homework' part and the pirate's hat)....

Let's change that! You can do it!

Click on the following links to be directed to the exercises:

PET LISTENING PART 1

PET LISTENING PART 1

PET LISTENING. PARTS 1-4

Tense revision

hahahahahahaha! 

Sorry for the bad joke! I couldn't help myself, I love grammar jokes.

Click on the link below to download the copy set including exercises on tense revision.

Verb tenses exercises

Reading practice

For those students who have to take the resit exam on September....

 

Reading practice. Easy. Bachillerato

Transformations. Conditionals

Sorry, can´t post any images/pictures/ sounds. 

As you already know, I'm having some problems with my laptop. I'll try to fix it asap.

Meanwhile, click on the following link to download an exercises to revise the conditional sentences through transformations.

Tranformations. Conditional sentences. (with answer key)

Causatives (Have/ Get something done)

Have something done

(source of the document: http://busyteacher.org/20555-have-something-done-worksheet.html)

Have something done (with answers)

(source of the document:http://busyteacher.org/16435-have-something-done-with-answers.html)

Passive voice (old entry)

Some of my students are having problems with the search engine of the blog. Apparently, this app doesn't work well with mobile phones. I'm sorry, but I don't know how to fix the problem. 

However, since they were mostly interested on downloading the grammar copy set, I've decided to repost it.

Click on the link to be directed to the original blog entry.

Passive voice (blog entry)

And, just so you know, you can easily access to the contents of the blog through Google. All you have to do is:

1. Googling the terms you are interested on (i.e. esl freak+ passive voice)

2. Check it is the correct link.

3. Enjoy the learning ride!

The Passive Voice

I've been MIA for a couple of days but, as you know, things have been tough around here. 

However, today I've kept a few minutes to post some documents involving the passive voice in English. Hope you find them useful!

First of all, this is a nice webpage including lots of exercises (and on line checking). Have a look at it, it has got different levels and exercises!

www.englisch-hilfen.de

And, for those of you who prefer taking grammar quizes, there's the following webpage. 

www.learnenglishfeelgood.com

Negative Prefixes

Check your knowledge on line!

Negative prefixes

Negative Prefixes 2

Negative Prefixes. A game

Negative Prefixes. Quizlet

Tenses Revision. Cumulative exercises

My students' face change into indescribable colours when they faced texts that mix up several verb tenses. 

Dear students, I don't want to give you nightmares. 

But if the former paragraph totally describe yourselves, you should get more practice. 

A table with all the tenses to help you through this arduous task.

Verb tenses

Some exercises to practice (Answer key is included)

Tense revision. Exercises

More conditional exercises (on line)

We know that...

(source of the picture: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBGuDHvvduIwYa12iNoVvYcBQAIZGqC9UxYwelcIsEIQ-41dbksIHR5dce3F7uTPj5l_npeXflApriwxcYVwEB1MeTw0SIuGFrlyMPFeXcEAtv7FASWooRUnckWugGbTAST-tOr6U2-Ip8/s1600/practice-makes-perfect.jpg)

More exercises on conditional exercises for those of you who want to become experts at them.

Conditional sentences

The Pacific Garbage Patch

Have you heard about the Pacific Garbage Patch ? Let me show you some pictures...

(source of the picture:https://www.google.es/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiq3YraifLLAhXJLhoKHRq-C88QjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5911969%2Flies-youve-been-told-about-the-pacific-garbage-patch&psig=AFQjCNHVqU82yK7aNjpE5OOA8l3mTlfKtQ&ust=1459759265512267)

(source of the picture: https://www.google.es/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjNmaK-ifLLAhWBOxoKHdGRCOcQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fearth%2Fenvironment%2F9253665%2FGreat-Pacific-Garbage-Patch-has-increased-100-fold-since-the-1970s.html&psig=AFQjCNHVqU82yK7aNjpE5OOA8l3mTlfKtQ&ust=1459759265512267)

Impressive. Isn't it?

And sad. Sooooo sad.

Well, this topic has always drawn my attention. And apparently, it has the same impact on my students. 

So, I decided to make a short exercise focusing on this environmental topic. Given that this is the listening week, I've created a listening activity. I hope you like it.

The Pacific Garbage Patch. Listening Activity

Listening Practice

Listening Test 2. Part 3

Listening Test 2. Part 2

Listening Test 2. Part 4

PET Listening Test. Part 3

Conditional sentences transformations

Look at this face...

This is the face of my students when they don't understand something (usually while I'm still explaining it). 

Sometimes, they translate this face into words. And it's something like that: "I don't entender very mucho".

Well, one of this phenomenal moments took place this morning when we were going through conditional transformations. Do you know what I'm talking about? Those exercises in which you are given one sentence and you are asked to create a second sentence with the same meaning as the former but using different words. Brilliant. 

Well, I've been gathering some on line practice. Help yourselves!

Conditional Sentence Transformations. Introduction

Conditional Transformations

Conditional Transformations. 2

Verb collocations

Are collocations driving you crazy?
Well, look what I found! I love free useful online resources!

It is a set of verb collocations for you to learn and practice. You can listen to them, do some online exercises and then, take a test! There is even an on line contest!!

I hope you like it as much as I do!

Quizlet: Make/ Do business collocations

More weather vocabulary

Opinion essay--> Writing prompts

The second term is almost over. And I said ALMOST, because there is still some work to do. And, in my case, there is still much tests/notebooks/essays to mark (sigh).

 

 

 

And, today I wanted to remind you that the due date for the opinion essay is this week.

 

And as promised, I've gathered some useful words when you have to write an opinion essay. Together with the transition/linking words, I've included some text samples. Click on the link to download the adapted version of the exercise (below you have the link to the original document, ;))

 

(link to the original document: http://www.eslflow.com/Acargumentativessay.html)

Opinion essay

 

Conditional sentences: a repost

Hi, guys! 

Since I haven't had enough time to write a post as half as good as last year's, I decided to take a shortcut.

I'm reposting what I wrote last year, so you don't have to look up that specific entry in my post list.

Conditional Sentences (a repost)

Speaking test: Materials

I'm sorry for not posting in such a lonnnnng time. 

I've been quite busy lately and your yet-to-be-marked tests seem to pile up on my desk.

I'll try to catch up with you during the following posts.

Let's start with a speaking post. Click on the following link to download the copies I showed you in class.

Speaking materials: Part 3 B1 Test

And the following links belong to older posts which might be very useful to you in the following weeks:

http://esl-freak.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/speaking-test-samples.html

http://esl-freak.blogspot.com.es/2015/02/more-speaking-materials-b1-or-pet.html