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Conversation exchange EOI - ESTO

This is the profile you have to fill in to take part in our exchange programme. When you fill it in, print it and give it to me.  Remeber to attach a picture.

Click here to download the profile.

Oral and written production: grids

In these documents, you will find the assessment grids. We will practice with them during the whole school year.

•  Written production

• Oral production and interaction 

I Carrera solidaria EOI Toledo

 

To sing up:  

I CARRERA SOLIDARIO EOI TOLEDO

Carving Pumpkins

Do you want to get a spooky prize?  Take part in our scary contest "Carve your Pumpkin"!  Take a Pumpkin, make it look horrifying, bring it to our school and wait to have as many likes on facebook as you can!

Recipe

Watch this video of a lady cooking beef stew. Then, answer the questions on the pdf document. Finally, write your own recipe. Try to use an easy one, since you will have to explain it to your classmates.

Beef stew recipe

Beef stew recipe activity

Bon appétit!

LISTENING PRACTICE

Some of you asked me for websites to practice your listening skills during the summer.  Here you have some of them that you can use. Remember that there are more posts on this blog for that purpose. Click on the tag "listening" and you will find them.

More useful website:

Agenda web

ECL exam

Breaking News

British Council

Cambridge Exams

Blog

Vocabulary, Grammar and Functions for B1

These documents have been created by some teachers in our English department. They can be very useful. You have words, structures, and functions that are supposed to be learnt at this level.  Take a look at them.

Vocabulary

Grammar

Functions

Passive voice

We usually use the passive voice when it is not clear or important who does an action. Passive voice has a specific structure. To learn more...

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Reading test practice

These are the B1 reading tests that we have taken in the last three years.  We will practice with them. Do them as homework and we will check your answer in class.


2016 Reading test

2015 Reading test

2014 Reading test

Listening practice

This is a website that can be useful for you to practice your listening skills.  In this section of BBC Learning English, you can choose among a variety of stories (Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, Frankenstein, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Christmas Carol, etc).  You can download the audio and a pdf document.  I hope it helps!


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Oral expression practice

 These are the oral tests cards that we are going to use for our presentations:

2016 Oral production

2016 Oral interaction

2015 Oral production

2015 Oral interaction

2014 Oral production

2014 Oral interaction

Convocatoria exámenes 2017

In this document, you can check important information for the final exam.  Pay attention to the last pages, where you have the dates and the timing.

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Modal Verbs: power point presentation.

This is the power point presentation we worked with in our class. Read it if you need prefer this information organised according to the modal verb instead of to its uses.

Click here to see the power point presentation

Modal verbs: general considerations.

This is a handout containing some grammar explanations regarding modal verbs. Please, study it and do the activities below the theoretical content.

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THE GREAT BRITISH PUB QUIZ

Tuesday, February 7th

ROOM 1 (bis)

Session 1:  5 pm, for levels A2/B1

Session 2: 7 pm, for levels B2/C1

 

THIS FUN-FILLED INTERACTIVE SESSION WILL EXAMINE BRITISH AND INTERNATIONAL CULTURE AND LANGUAGE THROUGH THE FORMAT OF A TRADITIONAL BRITISH PUB QUIZ. THE AUDIENCE WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS EXPLORING DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ENGLISH SPEAKING CULTURE.

Tips for a job interview

These are the video and the tips that we dealt with in our class. Check it out before the test to revise your vocabulary about  Study and Work.

To watch the video:
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To check the answers:
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Environment

 

• What are some of the things that your community is doing to help the environment?
• What things do you recycle?
• How can you reduce pollution in this country?
• What can you do to help prevent pollution?
• Are there litter laws where you live? If so, what is the penalty for littering?
• Do you think cars should be banned from city centres?
• Do you think people should recycle newspapers? Why, or why not?
• Do you think there are lessons to learn from nature?
• How has the world changed since you were a child? (technology, values, environment, health)
• How often is garbage collected in your neighbourhood?
• If humans are really intelligent, and not simply manipulated by their genes like any other animal, why can't they do anything about overpopulation?

• What can you do to make this world a better place?
• What do you think of people who deny the existence of climate change?
• Which is more important: increasing people's standard of living, or protecting the environment?
• Think of a situation in your area involving this issue.
• Which side would you choose?
• Who do you think is more responsible for pollution, individual people or the government? Explain.
• What is the most important issue facing the environment today?
• Do you know about any anti-pollution programs in your community?
• What about programs in your native country?
• If you could choose one alternative energy source to develop which one would you choose? Why?

• Are companies more or less environmentally responsible now than they were in the past? Why do you think that is?
• Do you think recycling is an important community service?
• Who should pay for the costs associated with renewable energy?
• Should we make the development of renewable energy sources an economic priority?
• What are some ways energy is wasted?
• What types of energy are popular in your native country?
• What is the main problem with renewable energy sources?
• What can large cities do to improve their air quality?
• How can we protect the environment and at the same time improve people's standard of living?
• Do you think overpopulation is an important environmental issue? Why, or why not?

• Do think global warming is real?
• Do you think this is an effect of pollution?
• Should petrol for motorists be more expensive?
• What would be the advantages and disadvantages of this?
• Are you worried about global warming?
• What's happening to forests in the world?
• What happens when we remove forests?
• What can we do to protect forests?
• Why should we recycle?
• Does your local government make it easy or hard for citizens to recycle?
• Are there people in your country who make their living from picking-up other people's garbage?
• How is pollution effecting the environment of the world today?
• How about your own country?

Formal emails

This is a document containing some important features of formal emails and a sample.

Click here so see it.

ENVIRONMENT: General Conversation Questions.

 TEAM 1

• What are some of the things that your community is doing to help the environment?
• What things do you recycle?
• How can you reduce pollution in this country?
• What can you do to help prevent pollution?
• Are there litter laws where you live? If so, what is the penalty for littering?
• Do you think cars should be banned from city centres?
• Do you think people should recycle newspapers? Why, or why not?
• Do you think there are lessons to learn from nature?
• How has the world changed since you were a child? (technology, values, environment, health)
• How often is garbage collected in your neighbourhood? 
• If humans are really intelligent, and not simply manipulated by their genes like any other animal, why can't they do anything about overpopulation? 

TEAM 2
 

• What can you do to make this world a better place?
• What do you think of people who deny the existence of climate change?
• Which is more important: increasing people's standard of living, or protecting the environment?
• Think of a situation in your area involving this issue.
• Which side would you choose?
• Who do you think is more responsible for pollution, individual people or the government? Explain.
• What is the most important issue facing the environment today?
• Do you know about any anti-pollution programs in your community?
• What about programs in your native country? 
• If you could choose one alternative energy source to develop which one would you choose? Why? 

TEAM 3

• Are companies more or less environmentally responsible now than they were in the past? Why do you think that is?
• Do you think recycling is an important community service?
• Who should pay for the costs associated with renewable energy?
• Should we make the development of renewable energy sources an economic priority?
• What are some ways energy is wasted?
• What types of energy are popular in your native country?
• What is the main problem with renewable energy sources?
• What can large cities do to improve their air quality?
• How can we protect the environment and at the same time improve people's standard of living?  
• Do you think overpopulation is an important environmental issue? Why, or why not? 

TEAM 4

• Do think global warming is real?
• Do you think this is an effect of pollution?
• Should petrol for motorists be more expensive?
• What would be the advantages and disadvantages of this?
• Are you worried about global warming?
• What's happening to forests in the world?
• What happens when we remove forests?
• What can we do to protect forests?
• Why should we recycle?
• Does your local government make it easy or hard for citizens to recycle?
• Are there people in your country who make their living from picking-up other people's garbage?
• How is pollution effecting the environment of the world today?
• How about your own country?