DIDEPA STUDENTS FCE

Hi my dear students, we have finished this first part of our course, at least! Sorry for not having uploading anything until now, but I had some troubles with my scanner, but don't worry the only thing you have to do is to print the following images which have some useful tips to do the different parts of the speaking exam. Bring this material to class to do some oral activities.

See you and take care!

SPEAKING PART 1

SPEAKING PART 2

SPEAKING PART 3 AND 4

See you and take care!

DIDEPA STUDENTS FCE

Hi my dear students! How are you? still enjoying of this wonderful holyweek? I hope so. As you noticed, I didn't set anything for homework last week, because everybody was really tired and was eager to have a long break. And you know what? You all deserved it since you have worked very hard.

I know that we have to face the reality, so just as a warm up activity and in order to help you remember what we have been working with, please do the exercises 1, 2 and 3 on pages 24 and 25 of your workbook, they all are about vocabulary on sports and pastimes. Remember, you can scan them or just send me the answers to my email by this Tuesday before 6:00 pm

And as I realized that most of you need to have extra practice on listening, below you will find links to websites that will help you improve this skill.

First, here you have a brief piece of information about pronunciation and intonation. Check it out.

Intonation: Expression of two words

Then, in the following link you will find information and listening examples on how to pronounce and stress sentences in English according to some rules.

Sentence stress in English

And finally, check the information in the following link about "English is a stress-timed language", on this website you will find listening and speaking activities, in addition to a comprenhensive piece of information on this interesting topic, pay attention to the speaking activities and check how the meaning changes depending on where you stress each word, they are very helpful.

Stress-timed language

When you have checked these pages, the only thing you have to do is record your voice with at least four pairs of words of the examples of the first link "expressions of two words" so that you realise if you can or not, pronounce them differently according to what you have read. Record your voice using your cell phone, or a camera or whatever you want, and take it to class to check it.

See you and take care! I'm eager to see you all!.

Dear 7th level students CELe

Hi my dear students, I know that we have been working hard but Fortunately, we are about to go on holiday, so dont' give up, keep on working till the end. To help you practice and consolidate some grammar and vocabulary issues, here you have some photocopiable activities that you can do to revise during the holy week, download them and print. I know that is a period to relax, but they are not a big deal, and I know you need to practice a lot. So do them and bring to class the next Tuesday 10th.

The first is this: Auxiliary verbs.

The.. the   comparatives

Adjectives

I know you will find them very useful to improve your knowledge.

Enjoy your vacations, be good but not too good, be bad but not too bad, drink, but not too much.

See you and take care!

Dear 5th level students CELe

HOLIDAYS

Hi, how are you doing? Ready to go on holidays? Where are you planning to go? anywhere exciting?, fun? hot? Well, wherever you go, just enjoy it as much as you can and take care of yourself.

To begin with, for tomorrow you just have to download the following activities and answer them by tomorrow. They are just to have extra practice on some grammar issues.

Past tenses exercises

Present Perfect and Past Simple



Comparatives and Superlatives

Remember to bring these activities to class tomorrow. Do these exercises in order not to have homework for holidays.

DIDEPA students FCE

How are you doing? I want to congratulate everybody on your effort and  commitment to this course. I know it's no a small feat. So CONGRATULATIONS!.

As I told you in class your homework for this week is:

Do the writing task on page 22 "Paper 2 Part 2" exercise 4. Send me your writing to my mail by this Tuesday at 6:00 o'clock, but remember that you also have to give it to me on paper in class so that I can grade them more easily.

And answer the "Review and Use of English" on page 24. Scan it or send me your answers by mail. Same time and date.

See you in class. TGake care.

FCE DIDEPA students

Hi my dear students. Enjoying your long weekend? I hope so. Here you have the activities you have to do this week.

Go to page 21 and do the exercise number 1 about "key word" as. Then pay atrention please, on page 22 there's a writing task: a letter of application, do the exercise 1 and read the reply that Becky Raven did on page 23, as you can see the grammar and vocabulary is correct, but a teacher has written comments on it. Read the comments in red and rewrite the letter. Send the corrected letter to my mail (in word) by this Tuesday before  6:00 o'clock, along with the exercise of page 21.

Remember that you can scan the exercise of page 21 or just send me your answers in the body of the mail or in an attached document, as you want.

See you and take care!

FCE DIDEPA students

How are you, How are you feeling? Great? I hope so. Let's keep on working so that we can finish unit number 2 on time.

The first activity is the reading on page 18 of your student's book, remember that I have  already asked you to do it.

Then, check the grammar spotlight section on page 20 of your student's book that has information about comparing, you have to study the grammar reference section on page 168 and 169 and do the exercise 1 on page 169.

Next, you have to match the following phrasal verbs with their meaning.

1. lay off                                     a) cancel a debt             

2. come off                                b) to be taken or delivered to a particular destination 

3. write off                                c) be accomplished, succeed

4. take off                                  d) have results, be profitable (intransitive)

5. pay off                                   e) discharge  a worker because of a shortage of work

6. send off                                 f) to have a period of time as a holiday

When you finish matching them, write a sentence with each of the  phrasal verbs above. Use them correctly.

Send me everything by this Tuesday before 6:00 pm. remember you can scan the pages of the books, or just send me the answers using word or in the body of your e-mail. In any case, make sure you describe each task clearly so that I can identify them easily.