Planning for this week - All levels

As this situation goes on for longer, let's organised our week. This planning tries to help you but remember there is plenty of general material such as the one I gave you about writing and reading. Speaking, listening and mediation are coming soon.

This general advice related to skills is for all the students. Them you have to apply it to your level and your timetable.

About writing I insist  you can send me your compositions by email and I'll send back your work corrected but please use word, OpenOffice or Google docs. I'm still waiting for the work of many of you.

For speaking  you should practise with the exercises you have in your textbooks and use your mobile to record your performance. It helps you a lot because you are able to see and correct problems such as fluency, vocabulary, repetitions, entonation or accuracy as well as you check time and topic.

Listening is quite easy to practise because there are plenty of exercises on the Internet. When you search, use the words in English: listening exercises+B1/B2/C1 or take the samples of exams for EEOOII or Cambridge tests.

As I posted before, for reading you can practise for your exams or you can read short stories and the news. It'll help you with the technics for the exam but also to enjoy for a while. Use stories with audio, if possible.

I'm afraid for mediation there's not much on the Internet but I keep on searching. You should practise by trying to explain topics similar to the ones we saw in class: how to be healthy, the best place to live in Spain, how to get your transport pass, domestic violence, etc.

B1.2 That's English!- module 8
You already have Unit 10 I posted for you so there you have what to do, apart from your own material (this is an advantage for you as it's designed as self-studying material).

B2.1
Revise the last grammar points we saw in class, especially passive voice, reported speech and verbs followed by -ing and/or infinitive. We're going to see past perfect, which is on the last lessons of your textbook. Try to practise for the exam as well.

C1
Apart from practising with exams, we should check subordination and connectors, but also we'll try to improve accuracy so your textbook has a large variety of words and expressions you should get familiar with. Nevertheless, you can work on your own pretty well so use all the tools you already have.

To finish with, this is just an outline of the work for this week. I'll post some more material but if you need something in particular, let me know and we'll share it on the blog. Use the email of this blog to contact me.

Take care and remember we'll be able to best this virus. For sure.