S&L Worksheet based on newspaper article

(From Jo)

There's a new worksheet based on a newspaper article on office harassment. You can find it here:

S&L Article (Harassment)

or on the server in Granollers: S:\Teachers\03 Levels\03 In-company Levels File\02 Resources\01 Speaking and Listening\2014-15\S&L In-company\S&L ADV UPP INT Articles

Enjoy!

CAE Gold Reading multiple choice part 5 p112

CAE teachers,

Robin has spotted a problem with one of the reading tasks in Gold Advanced.  Here are his notes:

Just had a go at doing the task in the coursebook, and found it very difficult. This is because the answer to question 2 can be found at the end of paragraph 4, whereas the answer to question 3 is at the end of paragraph 3 and question 4 and the beginning of paragraph 3. I've never come across this before.

My understanding of the task instructions (see p199) is that the questions should follow the order of the text. I think this reading activity might be another mistake on the part of the coursebook publishers.


I'd advise teachers to be wary of just giving this text to the students as it might knock their confidence a bit.

If you do this reading in class, please warn your students that the questions should be in the following order (the order that the answers appear in the text):
Q1
Q3
Q4
Q2
Q5
Q6

INT2 Westminster abbey, royal wedding extra video!

(From Emma)

I have made a set of questions to accompany a short YouTube video of the royal wedding to accompany the otherwise quite boring listening on page 80 (a tour of the Abbey)!

Follow this path to access it:

S:\Teachers\03 Levels\01 Adult Levels File\05 INT 2 - English File 3rd ed. Int Plus\05 Units\Unit 8

Maria's seminar: Using video with teenagers

(from Maria)

Click here to access the notes from the seminar (incl. a list of activities and the links to the various resources we saw). Please just drop me a line or come and see me if you have any questions about any of the tools/activities we looked at!

Cambridge exams - informative videos

Here are some links to videos created by Cambrige English to help students do better in official exams. The first three seem to be aimed at students taking PET-CAE exams and the last one is aimed at CAE students.

Writing
Speaking
Speaking 2 - criteria 
CAE Speaking


You could watch the clips with your students. They could brainstorm ideas, write them down and then watch the video and tick the ones they have on their lists. Or they could watch the videos and then prepare a poster with tips.

N4 School Rooms Prezi

Paul E has created a Prezi for N4 Unit 7

"14 different ´rooms´ in a school, very useful for eliciting, teaching and/or speaking about the contents of each room.  Now with 2 games for students to call out the correct vocabulary."

Click on the image to open:

There is also a link saved in the N4 unit 7 folder.

Thanks Paul!

Additional materials for N6 - Movers

There is a new Movers practice test in the level folder should you wish to do more Movers practice in class or give some materials to any Movers candidates in your groups. You can find the test here:

S:\Teachers\03 Levels\02 YL Levels File\06 N6 - Footprints 4\08 Extra material and information\MOVERS additional practice tests

More speaking practice for FCE students

Dear FCE/TFCE teachers,

You can now find two more speaking tests in the FCE level folder:

S:\Teachers\03 Levels\01 Adult Levels File\07 FCE - Gold First New Edition (Year B)\07 Other material and information\Speaking practice

There are two pdf documents with all the instructions and two power point presentations with photos. Hopefully these will help you prepare your students for the final speaking exams.