Advanced 2 Speaking Practice

Here are some Monologues and Interactions that you can practice with, they are from real exams in the mainland.

Prepare them for next Monday. Why not record yourself on Vocaroo to see how you sound?? Or better still, send it to your partner to get some feedback....!


Speaking Monologues to practice Go to the Interaction practice exams here.

ADVANCED 2 CD4 ANSWERS

NA2
CD4


1.
1. Royal Hospital
2. City Art Gallery
3. The Art of Star Wars
4. The Insider
5. Theatre Royal
6. Play
7. Opera
8. Carmen
9. Festival Hall
10. State of the Nation

2.
1. Australia
2. snake
3. koala
4. (fruit) trees
5. National Garden
6. on Monday
7. married
8. Madonna
9. (tomorrow’s) weather
10. Festival Hall

3.
1. two
2. a/the (bedroom) window
3. a wave
4. Queen’s Hotel
5. yesterday morning
6. warned/advised
7. won
8. dogs
9. rain/snow

4.
1.B
2.C
3. B
4 C
5.B
6.B
7.A
8.A
9.C
10.C

5.
1. league
2. (edition of) Telenews
3. telephone number
4. 90 minutes
5. two others/two reserves
6. Amsterdam
7. professional coach
8. Portugal
9. (valid) passport
10. May 5th

6.
1. Mrs Brown
2. Scotland
3. holiday (home)
4. writer
5. dictionary
6. Scotland
7. conversations
8. recently/not long ago
9. artist
10. imagination

7.
1. hair
2. heart attack
3. live longer
4. get over/recover from colds
5. into energy
6. food (form)
7. the more (they take)
8. need
9. prices
10. medicines

8.
1.D
2.F
3.B
4.G
5.C
6.H
7.C
8.E
9.G
10.A

9.
1. 1000 years
2. smaller
3. poorer/not as well off
4. dive
5. 45 kg
6. cannot see
7. neck
8. 25

10.
1. double rooms
2. 60
3. World Discovery
4. Night Market
5. rail/train
6. rainforest
7. by air/plane
8. Victoria Court
9. rent a car
10. 2,100

11.
1.B
2.C
3.D
4.D
5.C
6.B

12.
1.D
2.G
3.B
4.E
5.A
6.H
7.B
8.F
9.C
10.G

13.
1. one and a half
2. drivers
3. electric light
4. jet lag
5. teenagers
6. started later
7. five minutes
8. earlier
9. watch television
10. afternoon

14.
1. Cloudy
2. eastern
3. 10
4. south coast
5. windy
6. visibility
7. moderate
8. sunny

15.
1.C
2.D
3.B
4.C
5.B
6.D

16.
1.C
2.H
3.F
4.B
5.E
6.G
7.A
8.D
9.H
10.F

Advanced 2 Grammar Answers and Certification Registration

6a Grammar Futures, 6c Emphasis, 7C Comparisons (Click on the photo to enlarge the image)

CERTIFICATION EXAM REGISTRATION Rafa will be coming into our class on Wednesday the 2nd of May and Monday the 7th of May to give out the registration forms for those people who want to sit the certificate exam in June. He will be able to answer any questions that you may have about registration. You will be able to register there and then.

Advanced 2 Home-work for week of 23rd of April

Advanced 2 Home-work 1. Reading exercises, complete one from class and 3 others on handouts given. 2. S/B grammar P. 153 6C (and P. 156 7C (for week of 30th)) 3. CD 3 complete and consider starting CD 4 4. Exam writing 5. Model exams - I recommend you try some model exams, you can find information below. 6. Choose some monologues and Interactions that you would like to practice over the next 2-3 weeks. Exam Practice: Models of Certification Exams from Other Communities There is a model exam of NA2 certification here, scroll to the bottom of the screen. Why not try it, especially the listening one. The answers are there too. Here and here are more models of Certification exams to try.

INTERMEDIATE 1 CD 3 ANSWERS

1.
1. A long dress with short sleeves
2. At the coffee house
3. 21st March
4. One video and a couple of novels
5. On the radio
6. Channel 4 news
7. Horse riding

2.
1B
2C
3A
4C
5B
6C

3.
1. gym
2. Saturday
3. 215
4. lessons
5. age
6. Reysall

4.
1F
2T
3F
4T
5T
6F

5.
1. 11:15
2. A salad, a bowl of soup and a roll
3. Under her chair
4. By bus
5. A sofa
6. Going to the cinema
7. Cloudy


6.
1B
2A
3B
4C
5A
6C

7.
1. The dining room
2. 9:15
3. forest
4. village
5. boat
6. (sun) hat

8.
1F
2F
3T
4T
5F
6T

9.
1. A lamp for his desk
2. No glasses and blond hair
3. In a house
4. Computer World
5. An opera evening
6. 8:15
7. Making himself some supper

10.
1C
2A
3B
4A
5C
6B

11.
1. Monday(s)
2. post office
3. 18 February
4. violin
5. photograph
6. (course) books

12.
1F
2T
3F
4T
5F
6F

13.
1. The music
2. A piano concert
3. A beach bag
4. Cloudy
5. On the dining room table
6. At the bookshop
7. 3:15

14.
1B
2B
3C
4A
5A
6C

15.
1. (sandy) beaches
2. 70
3. fan
4. teabags
5. owner
6. flight(s)

16.
1T
2F
3F
4F
5T
6T

Home-work for the 9th and 10th of April

Advanced 2


1. Informal letter from booklet I gave you.

2. CD 3 Listening finish up to and including 19.

3. Revise all writings for writing exam on the 11th of April.

4. Finish reading reader and we will discuss writing a review of it on
our return.

5. Check monologues and interactions on Blog and prepare ideas for a few of them!

6. W/B 5A


Intermediate 1


1. W/B 5B

2. W/B Write 3 short e-mails on P. 79 and complete P. 78. Use the expressions in 3A for the e-mails. Follow instructions for the e-mails in Question 5 a and 5 b.

3. Finish CD 2 and if you have CD 3 begin it!

4. Finish reader as we will be talking about writing a review of it after Easter.

5. Check monologues and interactions on Blog and prepare ideas for a few of them!

6. A Progress test on 15th/16th of April (Reading, Listening and Writing in class and consolidation test on grammar and vocabulary to complete at home).

And last but not least, a very Happy Easter to all of you! : ))

Expressing 'likes'

Have a look at this interesting video which tells us in a good-humoured way how to say we like something without using the verb 'like'...something to remember for the oral exams. ; )
Enjoy!