Welcome to the new school year 2020-2021. Here are we to go on improving our English. This year there will be some changes due to the pandemia but we'll be able to solve the problems we could face, you'll see we'll be able to manage.
The level I teach is Nivel Intermedio (B2.2) so most of the activities will be oriented to this level. Nevertheless, I'll include other levels if necessary.
To start with, let's see what this level implies according to the CEFR:
- The reference is B2, but this will be the level you'll have when you finish in May.
It may help you to know your real starting point by checking your own level so you should try to do these tests (as many as you like):
- This is a test to know your level by Cambridge
- Another test: click here
- Or this one
- In this link you'll see other links for a placement test and for the different levels you can have
Remember all these placement tests are only based on grammar and vocabulary, but they don't include productive parts such as oral and writing skills.
Before starting with our virtual class, let's use the blog as a guide for your homework. For next week, I'd like you to do these exercises:
- Write a composition (150-180 words) about your experience of learning English and why you're studying it now. Remember to use a general structures of introduction - main idea - secondary ideas or examples - conclusion. Check what you've written before handing in your work.
- Listen to the monologue you recorded with your own movile in class and try to improve it so that you can do it again taking into account what you checked (gaps, fluency, repetitions, vocabulary, entonation, etc.)
- Reviewing the 2nd conditional by practising orally. If you need any help for this you could use part of a previous entry in this blog to help you:
- zero or general conditional: if you have a problem you call an expert
- first or probable/possible conditional: if you have a problem, will you call me?
- second or improbable/hypothetical conditional: if you had a problem, you could call me
- third or impossible conditional (a regret or complaint about past events): if you had had a problem, you should have called me so you didn't have it.
Focusing on hypothetical conditional, you can visit this blog for a good summury: click here. And this is the link of Perfect English I saw you in class: click here for the explanations and thses are the exercises: exercise 1 and then you could go on with exercise 2.
To finish with, this is the link for the previous entry in this blog that has already been used in this very entry just in case you want or need more practice: click here.
If you want to here a good example of conditional, listen to the song If I were a boy by Beyoncé, but be careful with the spelling.
See you in class!
