Writing Student Models

Click here if you’d like to see what other students are writing these days. Many examples posted on our Web site are models that are too long to publish in our handbooks; others are simply additional models. By the way, we are always looking for student models for our handbooks and our Web site. If you’d like to send us your writing, click on the “Publish It!” link below.

http://www.thewritesource.com/studentmodels/

Three websites for learning English with podcasts

Una de las mayores dificultades con la que se encuentran las personas que aprenden inglés es entender a las personas cuando hablan. El “listening” o comprensión auditiva es una de las áreas que más debes trabajar para conseguir fluidez en tu inglés.

http://wwwhatsnew.com/2011/01/24/tres-sitios-para-aprender-ingles-con-podcasts/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+WwwhatsNew+(Wwwhat's+new%3F+-+Aplicaciones+Web+gratuitas)&utm_content=Google+International

Exam English - Free Practice Tests for Learners of English

This web site is for people studying for an English language exam. These pages contain Free Online Practice Tests for the most important international ESL/EFL exams: IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, and the Cambridge ESOL exams such as CAE, FCE, and PET. You can also find out information about the different exams.

http://www.examenglish.com/

Resources for exam preparation

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/index.html

Perhaps this is a website more useful for teacher, although I think it's useful for students too.

There are many topics with reading comprehension, listening and writing activities with answers.

Interaction activities to practice oral exam.

Homework for 20/01/11 - 1NA - VS

Outcomes Student's book

Speaking exercise B, page 22

After read the blog in page 23, write your own comment to add to the blog.

You have to show your comment in "FOROS" on the EOI platform.

50 Essential Phrasal Verbs

This link contains a series of 5 presentations each containing 10 "essential" phrasal verbs.

http://wat.iavante.es/blogs/etp/category/phrasal-verb/50-essential-phrasal-verbs/

Homework for 18/01/2011

Student's Book

Read the grammar reference on page 140 and do the exercises.

Page 20 - Grammar - Exercise B

Optional Homework

Watch and listen the video "The Good Consumer" again and try to transcribe the text.

http://presencial.eoicampus.org/mod/resource/view.php?inpopup=true&id=20478

Reading Comprehension / Practice Dialogues - About.com

Reading Comprehension / Practice Dialogues

Here are four upper-intermediate to advanced level dialogs with follow-up multiple choice quizzes that can be used both as speaking practice and reading comprehension exercises.

http://esl.about.com/b/2011/01/01/more-new-reading-comprehension-practice-dialogues.htm

Happy New Year!