LISTENING: SOME TRAINING FOR JUNE 4

Click on the following links to do some listening exercises:

 Pre- Intermediate

The Best Place:        Exercise One        Exercise Two

 

The Weather:             Exercise

 Intermediate

 Arabic:                         Exercise One      Exercise Two

Fashion:                       Exercise

EXTRA HOMEWORK!

WORRIED ABOUT THE EXAM?

Try these exercises:

CONNECTORS

FIRST AND SECOND CONDITIONAL

USED TO

QUANTIFIERS

ARTICLES

PHRASAL VERBS

EXERCISES ON THE REPORTED SPEECH

DO YOU THINK YOU NEED MORE PRACTICE ON THIS ISSUE?

TRY THIS LINK

A READING ACTIVITY: WHERE IS ROXY?

READ A TEXT ABOUT AN UNUSUAL PET AND ANSWER THE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS:

CLICK HERE TO START

THE JOB: PRACTISE YOUR PHRASAL VERBS WITH A VIDEO

WATCH THIS VIDEO AND DO THE EXERCISES ON PHRASAL VERBS:

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO AND DO THE EXERCISES

DO YOU LIKE EASTER EGGS?

WATCH A VIDEO ABOUT SOME DELICIOUS CHOCOLATE EGGS!




Click here to download the exercises.
Answers
Transcript

Lekeitio and Mungia declared "slow cities"

"Slow cities" originated following the trail of the Slow Food movement, created in 1986 by Carlo Petrini. Currently, 116 towns from 16 countries have received the acknowledgement. 

"Slow cities" cannot exceed the limit set in 50,000 inhabitants.The Slow City manifesto contains 55 criteria, grouped into six categories upon which cities are assessed; environmental policy, infrastructure, quality of urban fabric, encouragement of local produce and products and hospitality.

Slow cities are characterised by a way of life that supports people to live slow. Traditions and traditional ways of doing things are valued. These cities stand up against the fast-lane, homogenised world so often seen in other cities throughout the world. Slow cities have less traffic, less noise, fewer crowds. 
In the Basque Country two towns have passed the test: Lekeitio and Mungia.

WATCH THIS VIDEO AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

HAVING A HOUSE WITH A GARDEN SEEMS TO BE HARD WORK FOR RANDALL!

WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEO
(CLICK HERE TO DO DO THE ACTIVITY)

ANOTHER LISTENING ACTIVITY!

This time listen to Pam talking about her house.

Click here to start.

READING PRACTICE TEST

Hi again,
some students asked for more exam practice. I have found some reading exercises on the web which I hope you will find useful.
Here you are:

Exercise One
Exercise Two
Exercise Three
Exercise Four
Exercise Five

HAVE FUN!

I LOVE YOU!

 HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE I LOVE YOU?

WHY DON´T YOU PRACTISE SAYING IT WHILE YOU WATCH THIS FUNNY VIDEO?

 CLICK HERE

ARE YOU BORED OR BORING? STILL MORE REVISION!

One exercise with SO and SUCH: click here

Another one with adjectives ending in -ED or -ING: click here

Modals of deduction (may, might, must, can't): exercise 1 / exercise 2

Can / could / be able to: exercise 1 / exercise 2

Phrasal verbs: exercise 1 / exercise 2

TWO WOMEN WHO NEVER GAVE UP

Do you want to know more about Bethany Hamilton and Natalie du Toit?

Click here to watch an interview to Bethany Hamilton, the surfer from Hawaii who lost an arm in a shark attack (It has subtitles in Spanish!).

Read about Natalie du Toit's story in her official website.

And to watch a short documentary about how she managed to carry on swimming  after a motorbike accident, click here.

SOME MORE PRACTICE

Still having problems with phrasal verbs? Try this exercise.

Describing physical appearance: adjectives
Describing personality: adjectives

PHRASAL VERBS AND MODALS

If you feel like going over PHRASAL VERBS, click here.

If you´d rather put MUST and HAVE TO into practice, go for these two quizzes:
- MUST and HAVE TO (click here)

- MUSTN'T and DON´T HAVE TO (click here)