In the attached handout, you will find some information that is worth reading before writing your story. Please, check it out and try to follow the advice given there.
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English - Advanced. This blog is aimed at advanced students and is intended to be an alternative source of information (other than the textbook and the photocopies provided by myself). This blog offers some extra material for further practice. It also contains some of the video-activities and podcasts that have been used in our lessons.
16 Nov 2016
3 Nov 2016
Assessment charts
These are the charts that we will be using during this year to assess written and oral production.
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6 Oct 2016
Interview to Malala Yousafzai
In our class, we watched a video in which Ellen Degeneres interviewed the Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. Listen to her inspiring story and write questions for the answers I gave you in class.
Click here to watch the interview.
Click here to watch the interview.
26 Sept 2016
English Stereotypes
Read this information to find out what people think about English people (not British!) around the world. Remember that they are all stereotypes and are only based on generalizations.Click here
Stereotypes
Watch this video that we analysed in class to check some of the most common stereotypes from Brazil.
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Click here
21 Sept 2016
Practice online
1. These are interesting websites that you can use to improve your ability to understand talks and conversations in English:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ --- British radio
http://www.voanews.com/ --- American news (including videos)
http://www.esl-lab.com/ --- Audio and quizzes. Go to the "Difficult" section for advanced level.
http://www.elllo.org/ --- Tracks that include scripts and explanations of expressions.
http://www.audioenglish.net/ --- Dialogues, narrations, phrases, pronunciation and role plays.
2. To download podcasts:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts --- to download some radio programs and news, British English.
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php --- to download some radio programs and news, American English.
http://voicesinthedark.com/content.php?iContent=50 --- to download stories.
https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=&author=&status=complete&action=Search --- to download audio books.
3. Pronunciation:
http://www.howjsay.com/
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#
4. Dictionaries (which include pronunciation if you click on the icon):
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/help/phonetics.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/
http://www.wordreference.com/
5. Our website:
http://eoiraimundodetoledo.es
European Language Levels (CEFR)
This is a grid that may make you understand the requirements for each level according to our legal base, the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).
Click here to check it out.
Click here to check it out.
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