17 Jun 2020

Online session, June 17th / 18th


LESSON PLANS


LEVEL: C1.2
GROUPS: A, B, C
DATE: June 17th, 18th      


LAST REVISION AND PRACTICE FOR THE TEST


ORAL PRODUCTION (test practice)

These are the cards used in June 2018 for oral production. We will revise them and some of you will prepare a monologue to practice for the exam.  I will give you a feedback after that. Click here to download the oral production cards.

ORAL COPRODUCTION (test practice)

These cards correspond to June 2018. We will revise them and some of you will hold a conversation to practice for the exam.  I will give you a feedback after that.

ORAL MEDIATION (test practice)

There wasn’t a mediation task in 2018. The first time that mediation was ever included in a certificate test in Castilla-La Mancha was June 2019. However, I can offer you another example of an oral mediation task that Consejería de educación suggested in 2019. The instructions are in Spanish because that was the way it was initially thought, but they changed their minds before the tests started in June 2019.

MEDIACIÓN ORAL C1
Un/a amigo/a extranjero/a acaba de finalizar los estudios universitarios y quiere irse este verano a algún país europeo a vivir una experiencia relacionada con el voluntariado. En un sitio web has encontrado información sobre diferentes propuestas que le pueden interesar. Coméntale la información que consideras más importante para sus intereses.

- Yes to Sustainability es un proyecto internacional que pretende reunir a jóvenes de diferentes regiones de Europa mediante la organización de diferentes intercambios juveniles en diferentes ecoaldeas de Europa financiados por Erasmus +. Los participantes pueden participar en uno o más intercambios y serán financiados completamente por el Programa Erasmus +.
El proyecto se creó en el año 2016 por un grupo de personas implicadas en la educación y el trabajo con jóvenes en diferentes proyectos rurales europeos. Desde entonces se han organizado más de 10 intercambios juveniles en ecoaldeas como Lakabe, Findhorn, Sunseed, Zavod Veles, Bergen, Hallingelille con el objetivo de crear puentes entre las ecoaldeas y las nuevas generaciones. Yes to Sustainability ha apoyado a más de 200 jóvenes europeos a visitar proyectos y conocer a otras personas interesadas por la sostenibilidad y la alternativa de vida que ofrecen las ecoaldeas.
Gracias a este proyecto están surgiendo organizaciones de jóvenes en las diferentes redes nacionales de ecoaldeas de Europa. Reforzando la red de jóvenes interesados en las ecoaldeas conocida como NextGEN.
- El Servicio Voluntario Europeo es una experiencia de aprendizaje en el ámbito de la educación no formal en la que las personas jóvenes voluntarias mejoran o adquieren competencias para su desarrollo personal, educativo y profesional, así como para su integración social.
Los voluntarios/as desarrollan su actividad en un país distinto de su país de residencia. Esta actividad, no remunerada y sin ánimo de lucro, se realiza a tiempo completo durante un periodo determinado en beneficio de la comunidad. Los participantes deberán tener entre 17 y 30 años.
Las organizaciones coordinadoras con experiencia previa podrán presentar proyectos que deberán contar con más de una persona voluntaria y generar un impacto sistémico a escala local, regional, nacional y/o europea.


PRONUNCIATION

This is a compilation of videos from BBC to practise pronunciation.


There are countless videos on this link, so I advise you to watch them during the summer.  If you scroll down and you go to the bottom, you will begin with isolated sounds.  There are 46 videos about isolated sounds. If you think that you don’t need this, go straight to Tim’s pronunciation workshop. There are 29 videos in this section. I suggest that you start chronologically from bottom to top, but you can totally select the ones you think you have problems with. Tom deals with these phonetic phenomena:

  • Assimilation
  • Linking /r/
  • Twinning
  • Elision
  • Intrusive /r/
  • Schwa
  • Linkage
  • Plosives
  • Gemination
  • Contractions
Of course, you don’t really need to learn the names of these phonetic phenomena. Learning how they work, though, will help you to introduce new features in your pronunciation that will hone your speaking skills to make them reach a C1 level and to make you be better prepared for C2 next year.



… AND MORE PRACTICE.

During summer, you shouldn’t neglect to keep up with English for too long. Even when you don’t do activities, it’s always advisable to have a little contact with English every day.  Maybe you can consider these websites.

  • Talk as much as you can

The following ones are websites where you could find a conversation partners and exchange conversation in English. Obviously, if you have a British, American, Australian, Irish, Canadian… etc friend who you can talk to, even better! Take advantage of the situation.


  • Use media to improve

British radio-     http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio
American radio-  https://www.npr.org/
Voices of America-   http://www.voanews.com
American TV-  https://www.pbs.org/


  • Podcasts:








  • Listening tasks:

Audio and quizzes-   https://www.esl-lab.com/difficult

Including scripts and explanations -  http://www.elllo.org/english/levels/level7-advanced.

Dialogues, narrations, phrases, pronunciation and role plays-  http://www.audioenglish.net


  • Writing development:



LAST PRACTICE:

Read these case studies. Rate them from “not very serious”=1 to “very serious”=5 according to the impact you think the obsession might have on their lives. Compare your opinion with one of your classmates’.







That’s all. Enjoy your summer!





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