SPEAKING REVIEW

Just listen to these avatars and revise some possible dialogues for these situations:
GOING TO A RESTAURANT



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TEXT:
Are you ready to order?
Yes, I would like a cheese salad as main dish and fish and vegetables as second dish.
Would you like anything to drink?
Yes, I'd like some wine, please.
Would you like any dessert?
Yes, an ice-cream
Can you give me the bill?
Yes, here it is. Bye.
AT A HOTEL
Listen to Marc and Isma checking in in a hotel.


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MAKING PLANS


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MORE LISTENING PRACTICE...

LISTENING 1

LISTENING 2

LISTENING 3

LISTENING 4

MORE PRACTICE FOR THE LISTENING EXAM

JUST CLICK ON THIS LINKS, LISTEN TO THE CONVERSATIONS AND DO THE EXERCISES:

http://esl-lab.com/supermarket/supermarketrd1.htm

http://esl-lab.com/invite/inviterd1.htm

http://esl-lab.com/taxi1/taxird1.htm

http://esl-lab.com/trip1/trip1.htm

http://esl-lab.com/tvguide/tvguiderd1.htm

SOME PRACTICE FOR THE LISTENING EXAM!

DO YOU FEEL LIKE THAT ON MONDAY?

Sick

Shel Silverstein

"I cannot go to school today," Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my throat is dry, I'm going blind in my right eye. My tonsils are as big as rocks, I've counted sixteen chicken pox And there's one more--that's seventeen, And don't you think my face looks green? My leg is cut--my eyes are blue-- It might be instamatic flu. I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke, I'm sure that my left leg is broke-- My hip hurts when I move my chin, My belly button's caving in, My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained, My 'pendix pains each time it rains. My nose is cold, my toes are numb. I have a sliver in my thumb. My neck is stiff, my voice is weak, I hardly whisper when I speak. My tongue is filling up my mouth, I think my hair is falling out. My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight, My temperature is one-o-eight. My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear, There is a hole inside my ear. I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what? What's that? What's that you say? You say today is. . .Saturday? G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

During this term we're going to read this book, but we will do it through a wikispace, do you know any wikis? Do you know how they work? Visit our WIKI by clicking here

ANOTHER WIKI: 4A

SOLVE THE MURDER!!!

You are going to participate in a forum. You must invent and write a murder and the others, by asking you questions through the forum, must guess who is the murderer!!!
You must write at least one murder and ask at least 5 questions to the others (5 interventions in the forum). The more crimes you solve, the better your mark will be!!!
To write the murder, you must use the past simple, or past continuous. If is is possible, you can also use connectors like WHEN and WHILE.
After writing the crime, you must also write some information about the suspects (DON'T WRITE THIS INFORMATION IN THE FORUM, YOU WILL NEED IT LATER, WHEN THE OTHERS ASK YOU QUESTIONS TO SOLVE THE CRIME)

GOOD LUCK!!!WRITE YOUR STORY!!!

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...

As you already know Bardem has recently received the Oscar as " Best Actor in a Supporting Role".
Have you seen any of Javier Bardem's movies? Which ones?Do you like him or not? Do you know anything about him?

HOW TO SUCCESS IN THE SPEAKING EXAM

SPEAK AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!!!( IN ENGLISH, OF COURSE!!) AND DON'T USE CATALAN OR SPANISH WORDS!! WHEN YOU FINISH THE EXAM SAY: " That's it", for example.
Remember that there are 3 parts in the 2nd Term Exam:
1.ASK and ANSWER questions related to knowing each other:
Hello, how are you? What's your name? Where are you from? What do you do? What are your hobbies? Where do you live?....

2. DESCRIBING A PICTURE:
First give the situation of the person/ thing you are talking about in the picture: AT THE TOP/ AT THE BOTTOM/ IN THE MIDDLE/ ON THE LEFT/ ON THE RIGHT...
THEN use THERE IS/ THERE ARE, use a RELATIVE PRONOUN ( who/ which/ when / where) and the PRESENT CONTINUOUS to describe the action that the person in question is doing.
For example: In the middle of the picture, there's a man who' s playing football with his child.

3. GIVING AND ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS:
Excuse me, where's the.....?
Go along this street/ go straight this street
Turn on the left/ Turn on the right
At the end of the street there's.....
The...............is at the corner
The.................is in front of/ between/ next to.....
GOOD LUCK!!!

HAVE you BEEN in love BEFORE? HAVE YOU EVER TRAVELLED ABROAD?

Choose one of these two topics and write an essay ( about 250 words). Use the Present Perfect, the Past Simple and the Past Continuous. Use also linking words like WHEN, WHILE, SINCE, BUT, HOWEVER, THEN, NEXT...

Do you need some practise to know how to use the Present Perfect? Try these exercises!

Complete the story

Past simple versus Present Perfect




Here you have an EXAMPLE of how your composition can be:

I've been in love three times in my life.
The first one was when I was a child, I fell in love with one of my classmates. We were just seven years old. We went everywhere together, and we always held our hands. We did huts on trees, we played together, we sent kisses and we kissed our cheeks.
The next time I fell in love was when I was fourteen. He was from Tarragona and we met playing chess.
My third time was in university, there I met my husband and we have been together since I was nineteen and he was twenty-three. I was studying Spanish Language and he was studying Economics. Now I'm a teacher and he's working in his shop. We are married. We have been married since 2002, and we have two children: a daughter and a son.