martes, 26 de octubre de 2010

INTERMEDIATE 1 LISTENING CD (EOI) ANSWERS



KEY
NI1-CD1

CD Track 1
1.6 o’clock
2.8 o´clock
3.2
4.£32
5.Wash-basin, shower and toilet
6.£36
7.At 12
8.Couchette
9.£25,80
10.Yes
11.Yes
12.No
13.2 x the single fare
14.Yes

CD Track 2

1.A monthly return
2.£24.55
3.On the return journey
4.19.00
5.About £4
6.Monday
7.Saturday
8.The return journey

CD Track3
Conversation 1
1.3.10
2.1.00
3.Two pieces
4.£20
5.No
6.18A
7.Gate 23
8.2.45

Conversation 2
1.Madrid
2.On business
3.He has nothing to declare
4.20

5.A bottle of whisky
6.No
7.No

CD Track 4
1.Yes
2.Yes
3.Yes
4.Yes
5.Yes
6.The Steak-house
7.He didn’t book the room in advance
8.£37.96
9.A receipt
10.125
11.The first floor
12.o’clock

CD Track 5
1.Tomatoes
2.Onion soup
3.Sour cream
4.A sauce of wine.
5.Cauliflower, peas, carrot or french beans
6.Boeuff Stronganoff
7.Medium
8.Red wine

Track CD 6
1.7.25
2.9.15
3.Writes a new ticket
4.From his travel agent
5.No
6.Yes
7.BZ 421 and BA 404
8.In Terminal 1

CD Track 7

1.Iceland
2.Manchester 492 6044
3.Reykjavik 73780
4.Johannesson
5.A few minutes
6.The number is engaged
7.30 minutes
8.The person is not there
9.No
10.In the morning

CD Track 8
Conversation 1

1.At the second pedestrian crossing
2.Left
3.Park Street
4.About 100 yards
5.On the right

Conversation 2

1.The third
2.Left
3.London
4.About a mile
5.Right
6.Straight ahead
7.On the right

CD Track 9
1.Renault 5 and Toyota
2.£12.40
3.Yes
4.No
5.Yes
6.No
7.£55
8.Yes, but not all cards
9.Her driving licence
10.No
11.Now
12.O’clock

CD Track 10
1.He has an upset stomach
2.No
3.Yes
4.Four or five times a day
5.No
6.Yes
7.Traveller’s diarrhoea
8.In a very few days
9.A prescription
10.A chemist
11.Yes
12.The bottle

CD Track 11
1.14th February
2.6th March
3.Brazil
4.Two
5.Men’s
6.At British Customs
7.Send it to the department store
8.The customer
9.In four or five days

ADVANCED 1 Film in relation to our 'Smoking' theme



This is the film 'Thank You for Smoking,' the rest of the film can be viewed on Youtube also. This may help you get ideas for the 'smoking' compositon.

Let us know what you think in the comments box.

domingo, 24 de octubre de 2010

Homework for Week Beginning November the 2nd



All Groups All homework for Wednesday Nov. 3rd or Thursday Nov. 4th

Advanced 1

1) Composition for Nov. 8th or 9th

2) CD (EOI) Test 1 Parts 1 and 2

3) Workbook Page 10 and 11

And 4) Progress Test on Units 1 and 2 November the 10th/11th.

Intermediate 1

1)CD (EOI) Exercise 1 and 2

2) Workbook (pages 9 and 10)

AND 3) Progress Test on all of Unit 1 on November the 8th/9th.

lunes, 18 de octubre de 2010

Advanced Listening CD (EOI CDs)


Key

TEST 1

PART 1
1 C 2 B 3 B 4 A 5 A 6 B 7 A 8 C

PART 2
9 over / more than 150 10 information assistant 11 a (small) town 12 was asleep / sleeping 13 luggage / clothes 14 Travel Care 15 Terminal Duty Team
16 check-in area 17 Passenger Services 18 flight delays

PART 3
19 E 20 A 21 D 22 F 23 B

PART 4
24 B 25 B 26 B 27 A 28 A 29 C 30 A


TEST 2

PART 1
1 B 2 A 3 C 4 A 5 B 6 B 7 C 8 B

PART 2
9 up to / no more than 4 minutes 10 special nature 11 (a) separate microphone
12 (the) best interview 13 issues 14 (any) equipment 15 (a) special project(s)
16 Our Society Today 17 clearly labelled 18 for collection

PART 3
19 D 20 F 21 E 22 C 23 A

PART 4
24 Y 25 N 26 Y 27 N 28 Y 29 Y 30 Y

TEST 3

PART 1
1 A 2 B 3 A 4 B 5 C 6 A 7 A 8 A

PART 2
9 shops (too) crowded 10 children’s area 11 not enough signs 12 comfortable seating 13 (big/wide) range of food 14 horrible design 15 bargains / low prices in the shops 16 (lots of / endless / long) queues 17 (the) fun room 18 poor quality of the food

PART 3
19 A 20 D 21 E 22 B 23 F

PART 4
24 C 25 B 26 A 27 A 28 C 29 A 30 C

jueves, 14 de octubre de 2010

Home-work for Week Beginning 18th of October



Intermediate 1

NI1C Workbook Page 7 and 8 for 21st October (correct at home, doubts in class)

NI1A Workbook Page 8 for 20th of October (correct at home, doubts in class)



Advanced 1

NA1A Workbook Page 8 Ex. 10 (a) and Page 9 for 20/10 (correct at home, doubts in class)

Students Book Page 158 Mini-check and Page 17 Practice for 18/10

NA1B Workbook Page 8 Ex. 10 (a) and Page 9 for 21/10 (correct at home, doubts in class)

Students Book Page 158 Mini-check and Page 17 Practice for 19/10


** IMPORTANT: Can all students work autonomously and decide what they need to do on their Students' book CD ROM in connection with the present Unit. Good luck! ; )

miércoles, 6 de octubre de 2010

Advanced I Image and Guardian Article Connected to it

The Guardian story of the image

This is the story connected to the image we looked at today. It shocked me quite a lot that the father had to do this but the alternative of risking losing another child is even worse. What is your reaction to this story?


P.S. Add-on: If the above link doesn't work (thanks, Raquel)this is the web address:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/04/chinese-child-chained-picture

domingo, 3 de octubre de 2010

Intermediate 1 Halloween



Take a look at this video which will set the atmosphere for the following work. : )

We are going to do a Halloween Mini-Project. Here are the tasks for each group. Please write your answers in the comments box and be prepared to share this information with your partners in class on the 27th/28th of October. Good Luck!


Group 1: PUMPKINS

Use these links to learn more about Pumpkins and to answer the following questions and write any other extra information about pumpkins that you find.

Pumpkin Facts  
       
Jack-O-Lantern History

1. Where is the "pumpkin capital" of the world?
2.The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed __________ pounds.
3.Which month is when most of the pumpkin supply in the United States available?
4.Are pumpkins very easy to carve?  Why?
5. Who brought the Jack-O-Lantern to America?
6. What is a Jack-O-Lantern?

Group 2: TRICK OR TREAT

Use these links to learn more about "Trick or Treating" and to answer the following questions and write any other extra information about Trick or Treating that you find. 

Trick or Treating History

Trick or Treat Facts        

7. How did "Trick or Treating" begin?
8. Why do people wear costumes on Halloween?
9. Who brought Halloween to America?

Group 3 HALLOWEEN AROUND THE WORLD

Use the links to learn more about Halloween in many countries and to answer these questions.

Halloween Around the World and Halloweeen in Different Countries        ·        

10. In Mexico, Latin America, and Spain, All-Soul’s Day takes place on what day?  
11. Pick your favorite country and write 3-5 facts about their Halloween customs.

All Groups:

Halloween Jokes

1. Select a favourite joke and be prepared to tell it in class to your class mates, make sure the joke is different from the other members of your groups' joke! ; )


2. Please prepare some quiz questions on the part of Halloween that you have researched.

3. Next Monday/Tuesday, you will have 40-60 minutes in class to share information with your group and to decide on how you are going to present the information to the rest of the class. You will also have to organise the quiz questions for our final quiz on Wednesday/Thursday of next week.

4. Can all 3 groups be prepared to add the information that they have researched to the comments box below. The final date for contributing to the comments box is Wednesday/Thursday morning, the 27/28th of October. That afternoon in class, please be prepared to explain and discuss what you have read with the other groups. Please feel free to also present the work to the class in written form.

5. If you have any extra information on Halloweeen that you would like to share, please include it in your presentation....thanks!

Advanced 1 Halloween




Take a look at this video which will set the atmosphere for the following work. : )

All Groups (1, 2 and 3 please watch these videos on the history of Halloween and Halloween's Origins and make your own personal notes on Halloween's history.


Group 1 Go to Halloween Project and answer questions 1-6 and watch video 1 and answer questions.

Group 2 Go to Halloween Project and answer questions 7-11 and watch video 2 and answer questions.

Questions for groups 1. Find the information here.


1.What does the word “Halloween” mean?

2.Roman Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherans used to observe All Hallows Day to honor ____________________________________________________________

3.Pope Boniface IV introduced All Saints' Day to replace __________________________.

4.When was this festival observed?

5.Who celebrated "Samhain" (pronounced "sow-in")?

6.Most of the customs connected with the Day are remnants of the ancient religious beliefs and rituals, first of the _________________ and then of the _______________ who conquered them.

Questions for groups 2. Find the information here.

7.What did the Celts believed happened on the last day of October?

8.In what century did the Christian church make November 1 All Saints' Day?

9.October 31, or the night before took on other names, what were some of the other names that Halloween was called?

10.In Sicily, what ways do they have of keeping the memory of their dead relatives and loved ones alive?

11.In Mexico, the celebrate ______________________________ which means____________________ which begins on the evening of _________________.


Groups 1
Watch this video on The Haunted History of Halloween and make notes on what you have
watched and learnt in order to explain it to the other groups.

Group 2 Watch this videon on Halloween Goes Commercial and make notes on what you have
watched and learnt in order to explain it to the other groups.


Group 3 Go to Pumpkin History and the connection with Jack o' Lanterns and watch this video on
Pumpkin History and make notes on what you have learnt.

Also can each person in your group please select a different country each where they celebrate Halloween and prepare a short account of how they celebrate it. (Ireland, USA, UK, Latin-America, China etc). Look at this website for information.

All members of group 3 can you watch this video on The History of Witches or
Medieval Witchcraft (as the video on The History of Witches seems to be down)
and make notes on what you have watched and learned and be prepared to explain it to the other groups.

All Groups:
1.
Please prepare some quiz questions on the part of Halloween that you have researched.

2. Next Monday/Tuesday, you will have 40-60 minutes in class to share information with your group and to decide on how you are going to present the information to the rest of the class. You will also have to organise the quiz questions for our final quiz on Wednesday/Thursday of next week.

3. Can all 3 groups be prepared to add the information that they have researched to the comments box below. The final date for contributing to the comments box is Wednesday/Thursday morning, the 27/28th of October. That afternoon in class, please be prepared to explain and discuss what you have read with the other groups. Please feel free to also present the work to the class in written form.

4. If you have any extra information on Halloweeen that you would like to share, please include it in your presentation....thanks!

Advanced 1 Image



This is the image connected to the picture dictation we did the other day. It's quite powerful, isn't it and of course it immediately makes one think of terrible
things.
What do you think the story is behind this image? Leave some ideas below. Thanks!

On Friday morning I will reveal the article connected to this image.

The Girl Effect: The Clock Is Ticking

Hello Intermediate and Advanced 1,

I've just watched this video and thought I would share it. My immediate reaction is:
this is an amazing video with an amazing idea that we should be trying to put into action. What are your reactions to this video? Thanks for sharing your ideas.