More EXAM Practice!

Hello everyone!

I’m sorry, but I still don’t have a voice, so you will have to follow the instructions on this page to practice your English today.

There are three categories today: reading, writing and listening.
Choose a category and then do the exercises from that category. You can choose more than one category if you want to.

Remember that these exercises will help you to improve your English and prepare for next week’s exams, so please try your best!

Reading

Click on the link. There are different texts to read with exercises. Choose, on the right hand side, Reading and Questions and Vocabulary for one text. The computer will give you the correct answers.
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/exercises/main/reading.html


Listening

Click on the link. It will take you to page with a story called The Christmas the Lights Went Out.
Click on Download mp3 file or listen on your PC.
Listen to the story.
Then go back and click on comprehension activity. Answer the questions.
Go back and click on vocabulary activity. Answer the questions.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-stories-christmas-lights-went-out.htm

Writing

First finish the writing exam paper that you were given yesterday.

Then
Click on this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/english/writing/13_act.shtml
It will take you to page that will teach you how to write a formal letter.
Click on Straight on to the activity.
Read and answer the questions.

Then click on this link and take the test: http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/schools/gigaquiz?path=ks2revisewise/rw_eng13&infile=rw_eng13

You can do these exercises on any computer that is connected to the Internet. So if you have Internet access at home, you can practise there too!

LOTS AND LOTS OF GOOD LUCK FOR NEXT WEEK’S EXAMS!

EXAM PRACTICE!

Hello again!

Today, I’ll give you some links that will take you to sample and past exam papers.

SPEAKING & LISTENING

For speaking and listening, go to:
http://www.cambridgeesol.org/support/dloads/sfl/l1_speaklist_pp1.pdf
to see what the exam booklet looks like that the teacher will use to ask you questions.

You can also listen to an example recording for the listening part of the exam at:
http://www.cambridgeesol.org/support/dloads/sfl_downloads.htm
On this page, scroll down until you find Speaking and Listening Level 1

You can also look at the Speaking and Listening worksheets for Level 1 in this online booklet and you could order the DVD that goes with it at this web address:
http://www.cambridgeesol.org/support/dloads/sfl/sfl_dvd_sw.pdf



READING

To practise your reading, please go to:
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/learning
and do the online practice test.

WRITING

Have a look at sample and past papers AND how they have been marked at:

http://www.cambridgeesol.org/support/dloads/sfl/l1_writing_mar05.pdf

http://www.cambridgeesol.org/support/dloads/sfl/l1_writing_jun05.pdf

and the marking sheet

http://www.cambridgeesol.org/support/dloads/sfl/l1_%20writingssc_jun05.pdf


http://www.cambridgeesol.org/support/dloads/sfl/l1_writing_pp1.pdf

http://www.cambridgeesol.org/support/dloads/sfl/l1_writing_pp2005.pdf


GENERAL

On this site you will find links to various English exam exercises that will help you to improve your overall English.
http://ieltsprep.blogspot.com/


I hope that these sites will be useful to you. You can print the sample and past papers at home and bring them to class and Beverley or I will mark it for you and give you advice.

GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR EXAM PREPARATION!

FAIRY TALES, ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND PANTOMIMES

Hallo ESOL learners!

I hope that you are well today and looking forward to refining your English skills.

Today, we have a variety of topics:

• Fairy tales
• Anti-social behaviour and ASBOs
• Pantomimes

Your project for today is to do some research about one of these topics and writing something:

1. You could write your own fairy tale or translate a fairy tale from your country.
2. You could do research on anti-social behaviour in Britain and ASBOs and write a letter to your friend explaining what anti-social behaviour is, how Britain uses ASBOs and what your opinion is about it.
3. You could research pantomimes and write a short report about the history of pantomimes in Britain.

Here are some useful links:

• http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=antisocial+behaviour&edition=i

This link will take you to various articles about anti-social behaviour.

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/for_christmas/_new_year/39052.stm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime

These links will tell you more about pantomimes.

• http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Mythology_and_Folklore/Folklore/Folk_and_Fairy_Tales/

The links on this page will take you to various countries' fairy tales.

Type or write about your chosen topic and hand it in to your teacher by the end of the session.

Until next time, have fun learning English!