WRITING SKILLS FOR ADVANCED

SOME WEBSITES TO WORK ON YOUR WRITING SKILLS:

http://www.eslbee.com/ (PLEASE CHECK THE RIGHT COLUMN HERE)


http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a.html (PHRASES AND IDIOMS)


http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/writing/ (BBC’s website, SUPER COMPLETE)


http://esl.about.com/library/lessons/blwritingplans.htm (ESL ABOUT’S section on Writing)


http://lklivingston.tripod.com/essay/ (ESSAYS)


http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm (Guide to grammar and Writing)


http://www.englishclub.com/writing/ (please check ALL links at the bottom of this page)


http://www.englishclub.com/writing/sentence-variety.htm (ACHIEVING VARIETY)



http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Writing/ (worth SURFING)



http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/essay/index.htm
(USEFUL TIPS ON ESSAY WRITING)



http://www.libraryonline.com/default.asp?pID=49 (grammar elements in WRITING)



http://jade.ccccd.edu/jmiller/Active%20and%20Passive%20Voice.htm (passive voice)


Hope they are useful!!!

See you in class

EEOOII Pais Vasco: examples of the exam

Hi everyone,
Now we've done the listening exam in class, I can give you the link to the whole exam and all its parts. If you go to the general website, you can click on any school's website.

And then follow the links to the English exam:

http://www.eoi-bilbo.net/es/departamento.php?Departamento=Inglés&Id_Departamento=3&Id_Seccion=76

I hope it's useful

Patricia

Music

If it's magic...
Then why can't it be everlasting
Like the sun that always shines
Like the poets endless rhyme
Like the galaxies in time

If it's pleasing...
Then why can't it be never leaving
Like the day that never fails
Like on seashores there are shells
Like the time that always tells

It holds the key to every heart
Throughout the universe
It fills you up without a bite
And quenches every thirst

So...
If it's special
Then with it why aren't we as careful
As making sure we dress in style
Posing pictures with a smile
Keeping danger from a child

It holds the key to every heart
Throughout the universe
It fills you up without a bite
And quenches every thirst

So...
If it's magic...
Why can't we make it everlasting
Like the lifetime of the sun
It will leave no heart undone
For there's enough for everyone

ADVANCED: EDUCATION

Hi everyone,
After starting the new unit, here's a post with the link to a very very complete article on Education in England from the WIKIPEDIA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England

It has all the terms we have been discussing this evening in class...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States

Hope it's useful...
ps: and some information on "colegios concertados": http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=108346

LINK TO PREVIOUS EXAMS

Hi everyone,

Here is the link to one page where you have examples of our "examenes de certificación". We have almost finished with the mock exam in Advanced groups, so if you missed the listening or reading comprehension, here it is...

http://www.madrid.org/cs/Satellite?c=CM_Actuaciones_FA&cid=1142409580432&idConsejeria=1109266187254&idListConsj=1109265444710&idOrganismo=1142359974973&language=es&pagename=ComunidadMadrid%2FEstructura&pv=1142577600444&sm=1109266100977#ingles

Hope it is useful.

As regards your monologues, I will send them to you in emails to some of you, please make sure those people I send the recordings to send these recordings to other classmates so that we all have all the tracks, It will take me some days to send the recordings to you in attachments since I have to send them in WMA files, if i don't find out first how to transform the tracks into MP3 files....
P.S. And we will continue with examples of exams from the Basque Country when we finish the oral tasks and the correction of our mock exam.

ADVANCED LISTENING

HI all.
Remember the listening of the boy who got lost in Australia? And how you found a bit hard to understand the father's accent?

Here's a song by one British group, THE STREETS, in which you get to listen to the London accent used by youngsters...



Hope you like it and you find the accent much easier by the end of the song,
See ya in class!

CREDITS: THANKS TO THE YOU TUBE USER WHO POSTED THE LYRICS IN YOU TUBE

PRESENT PERFECT: SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS

Hi everyone,
This is a bit of extra practice on the new tenses we've seen. The present perfect simple and continuous...

Here's a summary of the theory I have tortured you with:

THEORY: PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS

And here's a page with exercises to practice and see if you have understood the main differences between both tenses:

PRACTICE EXERCISES

And now the difference between these two tenses and simple past:

THEORY

PRACTICE
I hope you like it!!!
Patricia