Stormy Weather : No Classes on Monday the 4th of March

Hello Santa Brigida Students,

The Consejería have announced that today, Monday the 4th of March, there will NOT be any classes due to the very stormy conditions. Take advantage of this time to continue with Rafa's listening CDs, add two more listenings to the home-work list I have already given you. Hope to see you all on Wednesday then. Take care.

Pronounciation and Listening Activities for All Levels

Pronounciation  Activities, go here 

Intermediate Listening and Reading, excellent resource, go here.

Advanced Listening and Reading, excellent too, go here.

Movie Segments illustrating Grammar Points with exercises, really really good site, here is the 2nd
conditional movie segment. Enjoy exploring this, it is a true gem of a site.

I really recommend you make use of these resources, remember that YOUR effort and YOUR decision to take responsability for and control of your own learning will really make a difference.  Good luck! : )

Advanced 1 CD 2 Listening Answers

NA1

CD2

Key

  

1.

1B   2A   3A   4C   5B   6B   7C   8C

2.

1 two years  2 five years  3 advertising agency  4 active  5 education  6 close links 

7  shopping malls  8 exhausting  9 the future  10 June

3.

1A  2E  3F  4B  5C

4. 

1T  2F  3F  4T  5F  6F  7T

5.

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

6.

1 old  2 60,000  3 50,000  4 writing  5 exposed  6 cultural  7 imaginative  8 optimistic 

9 dying out  10 a second

7.

1D   2E  3F  4C  5B

8.

1A  2C  3A  4A  5B  6C  7A

9.

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

10.

1 senior  2 south  3 science  4 library  5 second floor  6 hall  7 press  8 the mayor 

9 seven  10 art centre

11.

1B  2E  3D  4A  5C

12.

1C  2A  3B  4A  5B  6B  7C

13.

1B  2B  3A  4C  5C  6C  7A  8B

14.

1 18 years  2 afford  3 soccer player  4 made redundant  5 encouragement  6 (lots of) money  7 financial help  8 success  9  reasonable  10 blue

15.

1E  2C  3A  4F  5B

16.

1N  2Y  3N  4Y  5Y  6Y  7N

Oral Agility and Fluency:Recording Monologues and Interactions

I would like to remind all of my students about the importance of developing oral agility and fluency in their speaking skills. It is essential that you work at home on these skills. No one else can do the work for you.
Consequently, I will be asking you to record yourself practising some speaking skills and afterwards you will send it to a partner, or as many partners as you want, in order to get feedback. You, in turn, will receive recordings from a partner or various partners and give feedback accordingly. Both giving and receiving feedback are immensely enriching activities and you willl learn a lot about your  own level of speaking English as a result. Some students already have done this activity and have found it rewarding.
I will be giving you a feedback workcard in class to use.
Please have a look at Vocaroo, a recording tool that is so, so easy to use. Please consider any other form
of recording that you want in order to do these recordings. We will talk more about this in class.
Good luck and keep positive! ; )

Advice to Help Improve Your English

1. How to Speak English like a Native Speaker
Go here

2. 50 Pieces of Advice to Improve Your English
Go here


Learn and Enjoy!
And a big thanks to Tachy from Advanced 1 for sharing these links with me. : )

Santa Brigida: Home-work for 18th of Feb.

Intermediate 2

1. Listenings 17, 18, 1, 20
2. S/B  P. 45 Grammar plus rules for 3 C on P. 134 and exercises on 3C on P. 135
3. S/B P. 46/47 Reading
4. S/B  P. 51 Revise and Check
5. W/B  Do all 3C exercises
6. Reader work


Advanced 1 

1. Listenings 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
2. Reader work
3. S/B  P. 46 pluse P. 136  3C and P, 137 3C  exercises
4. W/B P. 31
5. S/B  P. 47 prepare a monologue based on Exercise 7 and send it to partner to mark and give feedback.
6. S/B P. 51  Reading multiple-choice

* Remember we do not have class again until the 18th. I will see some of you today, the 6th of Feb., for the Speaking exam.
Have a good Carnival all! ; )

** Intermediate 2  A message for Davinia, Gema and Ana: Can you get in touch through the comments box if you want to do the speaking exam today, Wednesday the 6th, at 6pm.  If not, we will talk on the 18th
about what to do. Thanks.

Telde: Home-work for 19th of Feb.

Intermediate 2

1. S/B P. 40 DVD - listen to DVD and do exercises.
2. S/B  P. 39  Do mirror questions and vocabulary.  Plus vocabulary on P. 150
3. S/B P. 42  Complete
4. W/B  do the corresponding pages related to Unit 3 including any listenings.

Important:  Remember we have class  this Thursday the 7th ...see you there!