C1.2 · Complete the sentences (unit 7B, ex. 5a)
As a response to this blog entry, do exercise 5 from unit 7B of our course book (p85): Complete the sentences below in a way which is true for you. Add two more similar sentences using abstract nouns (-ism, -ness,…
Christmas songs · ‘Winter Wonderland’, by Elvis Presley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNQ1esMaFn0
C1.2 · You are 16, going on 17
Warmheartedly dedicated to Leo and Paul, who are 17 going on 18! 🙂
C1.2 · Further resources available on cambridgeone.org
Yesterday we discovered 5 things we can do on cambridgeone.org: Play the audio files from our student’s book (i.e. the ones we also play during our classes). Do activities from the digital workbook (which are different from the ones in…
C1.2 · Creative writing techniques
Did you know that you’re still in time to take part in our Halloween short story contest? In order to spruce up your work a little bit, you might want to take a look at this short compilation of easy-to-use…
C1.2 · Some words we learnt today
a dismissive attitude to writhe in agony to acknowledge the pain women endure a couple stormed off the booth
C1.2 · Diagnostic test: listening comprehension (updated Friday 4 October)
Task 1: Protein-mania > Task 1 > Transcript + vocabulary activity Task 2: Sleep disorders > Task 2 > Transcript + pronunciation task
C1.2 · This American Life, episode 840
This American Life, episode 840, act I: ‘There will be blood’ > Audio file > Transcript
C1.2 · Listening comprehension resources from C1 certificate exams
Listening comprehension: the test Listening comprehension: transcripts Listening comprehension: answer key
C1.2 · Advanced ‘signpost’ expressions
Hi friends! Please use these worksheets to brush up on advanced signpost expressions (and perhaps learn a couple of new ones). Used appropriately, they will help your listeners (or your readers) follow your line of reasoning (as well as help…
C1.2 · Revising for my oral interaction test
Together with previously learnt language (e.g. for expressing your opinions, debating, making suggestions, etc.), below is a section from our course book which is definitely worth revising before our upcoming oral tests (or before any oral interaction test, for that…
Describing charts, graphs and diagrams
Hi friends! Here’s the presentation with useful words and expressions to explain the information in graphs, charts and diagrams that we used in class today. Make sure you have a close look at it before your oral exams, in case…
C1.2 · A selection of quizzes on connectors
> Quiz on connectors: an introduction. > Quiz on connectors adding information (in addition, furthermore, etc.). > Quiz on connectors expressing contrast (nevertheless, whereas, etc.). > Quiz on connectors expressing concession (even though, despite, etc.). > Quiz on connectors expressing a…
C1.2 · Comma, colon, semi-colon
> Quiz #1 > Quiz #2 > Quiz #3 > Quiz #4
C1.2 · Revision: using ‘unless’
Hi friends! Below are a few activities for you to revise the way we use unless in a sentence. Here’s an interesting point: note that often (though by no means always) unless is used to introduced the only way to…
C1.2 · Unit 7B (answer keys)
Please check your answers to the following activities from unit 7B of our course book (Every step you take): Exercise 1c: Exercise 2a:
AL C1.2 · Pentonville prison (answer key)
Please check your answers to the listening comprehension test about Pentonville prison in London. Should you have any questions, please don’t forget to ask them next Monday.
AL C1.2 · Writing an email of complaint
Download these pages from our workbook, with practice on how to write an email of complaint. Do exercises 1-6. We’ll discuss your answers on Monday. (Over the next few minutes I’ll be uploading the answers to the listening comprehension task…
AL C1.2 · A tribute to Enrique Granados
How many Type 3 conditional sentences can you make about Enrique Granados and his wife’s tragic death in the sea? Use inversions too! (Take turns if possible! 😉 )
AL C1.2 · ‘However good the model is, … ‘
Remember the final sentence of the article about Bastoey Prison? ‘However good the model is, Bastoey cannot easily be duplicated.’ Here are some notes about this special use of however + adjective/adverb (adapted from the Collins online English Dictionary, definition 2):…
AL C1.2 · Inversion in conditionals
Examples Practice: 1 and 2
AL C1.2 · Further Online practice on conditionals
For those of you who feel you could do with some more practice on conditionals, here’s a selection of recommended links: Present/future, imaginary (very easy) Past, imaginary (not difficult) The progressive in conditional sentences (not difficult) The next…
AL C1.2 · Listening comprehension homework for Monday 15 April
Listening comprehension task: an interview with a journalist specialised in forensic science. Instructions: Listen to the first part of the interview (track 18, min. 39:34 of the video below) and answer the questions in exercise 3c of unit 7A of…
AL C1.2 · Word pairs
Notes: The expressions take it or leave it and can take it or leave it and mean different things. You can say both hit-or-miss and hit-and-miss.
IWD · Quiz on Simone Veil’s life
> International Women’s Day: quiz on Simone Veil’s life
AL C1.2 · “Blackbird”, by The Beatles
> Worksheet: Blackbird, by The Beatles
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