lunes, 26 de mayo de 2014

The Exam Results



Wednesday 28th of May:


The exam results for Básico 1 19.00 - 21.00.
The exam results for Intermediate 1A 16.45 - 18.45.

The exams will be on the noticeboard (tablón) downstairs. You can come to the classroom to see the exams.

Thursday 29th of May:


Exam results for Intermediate 1 C 16.45 - 18.45
Exam results for Intermediate 1 B 19.00 - 21.00

The exams will be on the noticeboard (tablón) downstairs. You can come to the classroom to see the exams.

viernes, 9 de mayo de 2014

Intermediate 1 Answers to Reading Questions



The Art of Drawing

26c, 27a, 28c, 29a, 30b, 31b,32d, 33a, 34d, 35c

Part 2 Questions 6-10

6e, 7g, 8c, 9d, 10b

Part 4 Questions 21-25

21c, 22a, 23c, 24d, 25b


lunes, 5 de mayo de 2014

Video Tutorial sobre como pedir plaza en la escuela oficial de idiomas

Hello Students,

Here is a video tutorial explaining how to 'pedir plaza en la escuela oficial de idiomas' this year, click HERE FOR VIDEO TUTORIAL

Click HERE for PREGUNTAS FRECUENTES



Click HERE FOR 'SOLICITUD'

jueves, 1 de mayo de 2014

Exam Dates MAY 2014



Básico 1 and Intermediate 1

The exam dates have been on the school noticeboards for a few weeks, I am now posting them here.

Básico 1


Writing 12th of May

Reading, Listening and Grammar and Vocabulary 14th of May

Speakings 19th 21st 26th of May


Monday/Wednesday Intermediate 1


Writing 7th of May

Reading, Listening 12th of May

Speaking, 14th, 19th, 21st, 26th of May


Tuesday/Thursday Intermediate 1


Writing 13th of May

Reading Listening 15th of May

Speaking 20th 22nd 27th of May


IMPORTANT: It is essential that you choose a date and partner for your speaking exam. Please leave me a message in the comments or speak to me in class if you do not have a partner nor a date.

Best of luck, everyone.






martes, 8 de abril de 2014

Elementary (Básico 1) CD 2 Answers





NB1
CD2

1 E
1) 6.30 2) 8.40 3) £21 4) 10.00 5) 5.30 6) £8 7) 10 minutes 8) 9-9.30 9) 9.00
2 E
1) 93 kg 2) Very little/once a month 3) 4 times a week 4) 2 years ago 5) Every day
6) He should eat more chicken and fish. He should do more exercise
3 E
Go for long walks: Golden Gate Park; go there by cable car: Nob Hill; see street musicians: Nob Hill; see the whole city: Nob Hill; eat good seafood: Fisherman’s Wharf; walk from there to Chinatown: Nob Hill; relax in the Japanese Tea Garden: Golden Gate Park; go from there to Alcatraz: Fisherman’s Wharf.
4 E
Kemal: (black) tea, cheese, eggs, tomatoes, cold meat, biscuits, yogourt and bread with butter and jam. Mi-Kung: white rice, kim-Chi (traditional Korean vegetables) Dimitry: (black) tea, lemon, sugar, bread Sonia: wuayava, mango, coffee, fruit, bread and jam José and Anita: coffee and Spanish omelette
5 E
1) A fast-food restaurant 2) 2 superking-size burger, large fries and 2 lemonades 3) £8.50
4) Café 5) 2 coffees, chocolate cake 6) £6.60 7) Pizza shop 8) 1 pizza (a cheese supreme), a large bottle of lemonade 9) £11.85
6 E
1) beans 2) butter 3) 4 4) 1 kilo 5) potatoes 6) 2 cartons 7) 1 bottle 8) oil 9) 6 10) orange juice
7 E
3 special menus: 1 garlic mushrooms, 1 vegetable soup, 1 steak and chips, 1 seafood past and 1 chocolate mousse. Three drinks and 2 coffees = $93
8 E
1) spaguetti 2) onion 3) butter 4) carror 5) mushrooms 6) tomato kétchup 7) red wine 8) meat 9) cheese
9 E
Japanese: rice, fish, soup, green tea Spanish: biscuits, toast, sandwich, coffee Brazilian: bread, cheese, orange juice, coffee English: eggs, sausages, toast, jam, tea
10 E
1) £140.000 2) 11 3) garden 4) garage 5) the country 6) 13 7) 90 8) near (her work) 9) Friday (afternoon) 10) 5.45
11 E
1) A palace: Yumi, Murat and Marina; 2) a cathedral: Fabrizio; 3) a sports stadium: Claudia; 4) a shopping centre: Murat; 5) traditional buildings: 6) beautiful views: 7) a bride: Fabrizio and Murat; 8) a church: Marina; 9) a mountain: Claudia; 10) a square: Fabrizio; 11)an art gallery: Marina; 12) modern buildings: Yumi; 13) a canal: Fabrizio 14) a hill: Murat 15) a river: Marina; 16) a mosque: Murat; 17) a temple: Yumi; and 18) a statue: Claudia
12 E
1) bad 2) taxi 3) at the airport 4) 30 minutes 5) can
13 E
Task 1: 1) 500.000 2) normal cat food 3) 16 hours 4) 9 weeks 5) 2-5 6) 100 7) They are hairless (= they haven’t got hair) Task 2: 1) best friend 2) 53.000 3) 2 billion dollars 4) 150 5) in many countries 6) 65 km per hour 7) in 1932 8) making films 9) 44.000
14 E
1) Park 2) Sports club 3) Playground 4) Beach
15 E
1) textbook 2) website 3) message 4) address book 5) magazine 6) comic 7) instructions
16 E
0) factory 1) disco 2) office 3) cinema



17 E
1) invented 2) was 3) shared 4) made 5) could 6) wanted 7) took 8) needed 9) took 10) arrived 11) believed 12) described 13) decided 14) invented 15) stole 16) wrote 17) described 18) took 19) began 20) won 21) died 22) decided
18 E
1) T 2) F 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) T 7) T 8) F 9) T 10) F
19 E
1) Canadian 2) Orange 3) His mum 4) At home 5) His own face
20 E
1) C 2) D 3) A 4) B 5) F 6) E
21 E
1) geography 2) engineering 3) pilot 4) 28 5) Japan 6) September 7) 6 months
22 E
Part 1: 1) F 2) F 3) T Part 2 1) T 2) T 3) T 4) F 5) F Part 3: 1) F 2) T 3) T 4) F 5) F
23 E
1) Galina Park 2) January 3) 5 minutes 4) 42 metres high 5) wood
24 E
1) F 2) T 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) T 7) F 8) F 9) F 10) F 11) F 12) T
25 E
1) Will 2) Francine 3) Vicki 4) Josh 5) Francine 6) Vicki 7) Will 8) Will 9) Josh 10) Vicki
26 E
1) Alison 2) Tony: in his room/with Sally; Sally: in Tony’s room/ with Tony; Alison: in the living room/with Simon; Simon: in the living room/with Alison; Ingrid: in the garden/with Geoffrey; Geoffrey: in the garden/with Ingrid
3) Geoffrey
27 E
1) woke up 2) heard 3) looked 4) called 5) asked 6) ran 7) went 8) got 9) got 10) looked 11) found 12) read
13) took 14) had 15) drove 16) had 17) saw 18) had 19) went 20) got 21) parked 22) opened 23) got
28 E
1) friendly 2) White 3) Careful 4) Red 5) aggressive 6) Blue 7) Quiet 8) Green 9) Generous 10) Black
11) Serious 12) Silver 13) Stylish
29 E
1) T 2) F 3) F 4) T 5) F 6) F
30 E
1) In 1953 2) In a London street 3) No, it wasn’t 4) Chicken, sándwiches, tea, beer 5) No, they weren’t
6) About 300 people
31 E
1) At about 6.15 2) About 40 minutes 3) Because it’s cheaper than the tuve 4) About 30 minutes
5) Because it’s quicker than driving/going by car
32 E
1) 18th July 1918 2) law 3) politics 4) 1952 5) Evelyn 6) Winnie 7) 26 8) President of South Africa
9) 1998 10) Long Walk to Freedom
33 E
1) C 2) C 3) C 4) C 5) A 6) A 7) B
34 E
1) T 2) F 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) F 7) F 8) F
35 E
1) 900 2) 1.6 3) 500 4) 1572 5) 4000 6) 9 7) 1567
36 E
1) F 2) T 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) T 7) F 8) F

Intermediate 1 CD 3 Answers

NI1
CD3


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


domingo, 16 de marzo de 2014

Intermediate 1 CD2 Answers

NI1
CD2: KEY

1) 1B, 2C, 3A, 4C, 5B, 6A, 7A, 8B
2) A) scenes b) crocodile c) different d) family e) Qualifications f) Short courses g) fall
h) professional diver
3) Speaker 1: a Speaker 2: b Speaker 3: b Speaker 4: c
4) 1A, 2B, 3C, 4A
5) 1A, 2A, 3C, 4A, 5B, 6C, 7C, 8B
6) a) newspapers b) school play c) vet d) moved to London e) drama school f) flat
g) producers h) script
7) Speaker 1: chillies, curry, spicy Speaker 2: potatoes, chips, fried Speaker 3: rice,
vegetables, chop sticks.
8) Speaker 1: D Speaker 2: C Speaker 3: A Speaker 4: B
9) a) True b) True c) False d) True e) False f) False g) True
10) a) Chris Turner 042317364 sell
b) Helen Foot 078322331 buy
c) Karen Singleton 6723909099 buy
d) Nicholas Dart 5472104783 sell
e) Jenny Page 1324659780 sell

Message a: Excellent / Yes
Message b: She can’t afford it
Message c: How old it is / Her dad
Message d: Mobile / He’s grown out of it / Two and a half years / Free delivery
Message e: Yesterday/ Yesterday /£40

11) 1B, 2C, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 7C
12) Speaker 1: mobile Speaker 2: laptop Speaker 3: video camera Speaker 4: MP3 player
Speaker 5: digital camera
13) a) True b) False c) False d) False e) True f) True g) False h) True
14) 1C, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5A, 6B, 7A
15) a) False b) False c) True d) False e) True
16) Speaker 1: C Speaker 2: A, Speaker 3: D, Speaker 4: B
17) 1A, 2B, 3C, 4B, 5D
18) Speaker 1: B Speaker 2: D, Speaker 3: E, Speaker 4: C, Speaker 5: A