Nice listening exercise

Hello guys:


Just a short note to post a couple of links to listening exercises that I love,from Randall's Listening Lab:

HOUSING COMPLAINTS

HOME REPAIRS

You can find the recording, some comprehension questions and even the script.Maybe you need to look at the scripts while you listen, since there is a lot of vocabulary and difficult grammar points. Enjoy!

American English and British English vowels: A comparison

Good morning, I have just found another useful page in which you have the recordings of the vowels in AmE and BrE:

http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/vowels.html

Once in the site, click on the links at the bottom of the page.
Hope it is useful!

Have a nice weekend! Patricia

Conditional Sentences

Below you can find a couple of links where you have some practice for Conditional Sentences, types 0 and 1. These exercises are good for 1st and 2nd year students:

Type 0

Type 1

And these exercises for second year students:
Type 2

I hope you like doing them!

Online homework for Segundos

There is also something for my students of second year, of course:
First, a nice page where you can find the summary of conditional sentences, very well explained.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7583/condless.html


And some practice of conditionals with a HOT POTATOES activity. I found it in the website of EducaMadrid In the index, go to the activities for Type 0 and Type 1 of Conditionals.( Activities designed by Gregorio Blanco Martín, at the IES Gabriel Alonso Herrera)

A cloze text to practice that part of the exam:
http://www.talkeasy.co.uk/link/materials/gap.html

And the link to the Penguin Dossiers archive, where you will find readings, and also the audio recordings for some of them:
http://www.penguindossiers.com/archive-frameset.asp

Happy Weekend!!!!

Online Homework for PRIMEROS

Hello Everybody,
First Year Students: here you have some things to practice SIMPLE PAST of irregular verbs and What we studied this week from Unit 6...

Simple Past: An Online tool to help you learn better the past and participles of irregular verbs.
http://esl.about.com/library/weekly/aa082599.htm. You only have to write the infinitive and clicking on the ?? symbols you get the past and participle forms.

THERE IS/ARE:
Can you tell me what you see in this picture from Flickr? Tell me what thing/s:

-There is a.....
-There isn't a/an....
-There are ....
-There aren't any....



Prepositions of Place:
And also go to this link from ESL about:
You will find a very nice guide to prepositions of place, remember the activity of our ghost http://esl.about.com/library/weekly/aa112601c.htm