C1- next week planning

Before starting with what we should do next week, let me remind you to update with the previous work. Few people gave me the blurb of a book to practise with short writing so it's time to do it!. You should send me the composition by email and I'll send it back corrected. I'll do it soon with the ones I already have.

Another importante fact is that we must be pariente with this extraordinary situation, which needs extraordinary solutions as well so we should keep on working on our course so as not to spoil what we've already done. You ought to spend, at least, the same time as if you were in class plus some more for doing homework.

To finish with this introduction, remember you can use the material I give you for next week freely but you've got plenty of this stuff on the internet, so you can use samples of exams from different CCAA (you can find them in Interesting links of this blog) or those related to CAE. You should do one example a week, apart from the exercises given below.

PROGRAMME

• Reading: let's practise with the most difficult parts of this skill in the exam.
• This link is to practise matching in CAE paper. Do the exercise but also pay attention to the tip given at the end about how to face this kind of exercise: click here
• This other exercise is about filling the text with the right paragraph. Click here.
• Listening:
• The more you practise, the better. Try to do the whole paper of listenings (there are four in total): click here
• Writing: 
• Remember I gave you a tool to practise on your own which is already in the Interesting links, on the right bar of this blog: click here. You have diferent models and this tool corrects your writing immediately and tells you your level.
• Another way of improving variety of structures is to work with rephrasing exercises. It's a usual exercise of Use oh English tests. This is just a hint of what you can find on the Internet: click here. You could find more examples here.
• Speaking:
• To improve your spoken English you should imitate native speakers. Use podcast as models and try to reproduce it afterwards. If you use your movile to record your performanc,e you'll be able to see the difference. To find podcasts and how to use them go  to this link.
• Mediation:
• I've found this blog with good tips for exams; it's from EOI on Avilés. Go to the icon of mediation for C1, but you can use the rest if you fancy. Click here

Hope you and yours are OK. Keep in touch through the blog and remember to send me by email your work to be corrected.