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lunes, 19 de diciembre de 2011

LEARNING LANGUAGES



Listen to every section and do the exercises. Listen as many times as you need. Remember that once you've finished doing the exercises, go to page 133 (one hundred and thirty-three) and check the answers.

SECTION 1



1- What does Andrea do in her job?
2- How does she describe her job?
3- What other languages can she speak?

SECTION 2


Are these sentences true or false?. Give evidence from the conversation.

1- Learning a foreign language is not so hard as people think.
2- Most people study French at school, as Andrea did.
3- Learning a language is getting more difficult as you grow older.
4- Andrea thought Spanish was a bit more difficult than French.
5- She gave up studying Spanish.

SECTION 3





Complete the sentences. One word in each blank.

1- One day, Iwould like it to be as good as my English. I think to ........................ this I would have to go and live..
2- My company .................. for me to have lessons.
3- He's from Osaka originally, but he now lives in London, where we ....................
4- I was useless at ................., much worse than I had been at Spanish.
5- I can actually communicate with Japanese ....................... now without much difficulty.
6- Certainly, my Japanese is not as .................. as my Spanish, but one day it will be. 


domingo, 18 de diciembre de 2011

MAKING AND ARRANGING APPOINTMENTS



Listen to the telephone conversations and answer the questions:




1- Cecilia and Noelia are having a meeting on .......................... at ................................ in .........................

2- Raúl and Arnold are having a meeting on ............................. at ...................................

3- Andrea and Roxana are having a meeting on ........................... at .............................. in .........................

4- Adriana and Andrei are having a meeting on .............................. at ........................... in .........................

5- Jorge and Elena are having a meeting on ............................... at ............................ in a ..........................

lunes, 5 de diciembre de 2011

PHONING

Some students act out telephonne conversations


jueves, 24 de noviembre de 2011

LONG AND SHORT "I"


Listen and repeat these minimal pairs. Then, tick the words you recognize in the sentences you hear.



MINIMAL PAIRS

Sheep - Ship
Bean - Bin
Eat -It
Seat -Sit
Leek- Lick
Cheeks - Chicks


Which words do you hear in these sentences?

  • He wants a sheep / ship for his birthday.
  • That's a very small bean / bin.
  • Look at these cheeks / chicks.
  • It's a cheap / chip machine.
  • What a high heel / hill!
  • Don't eat that peel / pill.
NOW LISTEN AND REPEAT THESE SENTENCES




1- These balance sheets are for the next meeting.
2- I need to read the deal.
3- They reached an agreement after the meeting last week.
4- Leave fifteen seats for the team, please.
5- The highest peak in sales this week is a big achievement.
6- We need three spare pieces for the machine, please.
7- The machine in the corner needs cleaning.


jueves, 10 de noviembre de 2011

THE VOWEL SCHWA (IV)




1- I had a salad and a main course.


2- Give her an egg if she's hungry.


3-She went to look for the fruit.


4- He gave me a basket of bread.

5- Get some pasta and rice.


6- I like to cook.

7- She ordered a soup.

8- Have some orange juice.

9-He invited me for lunch.

10- He made this jar of jam himself.





1- It's time for lunch.

2- Some egg and chips.


3- The bag of nuts.


4- To drink and eat.


5- To cook some rice.


6- As fast as that.

7- A meal for two.


8- The box of food.

9- Some fish or meat.

martes, 8 de noviembre de 2011

THE VOWEL SCHWA (III)



WELCOMING A VISITOR

Students role play a situation where they're welcoming and introducing a colleague to the visitor.

sábado, 5 de noviembre de 2011

FACTS ABOUT THE MASERATI COMPANY

In this exercise Martin Leich, a senior officer of Maserati  is talking about this car company. Listen and complete the sentences.









Martin Leach. CEO of Maserati Company.


AUDIO 4 

Martin Leach. CEO of Maserati Company.

lunes, 31 de octubre de 2011

FRIENDS REUNITED

Click here to do a listening exercise based on an interview to the founder of the web site "Friends Reunited".

jueves, 27 de octubre de 2011

JOB INTERVIEWS?



Listen to some excerpts from some job interviews and answer the questions.



1- What are Roxana's plans for the future?
2- Why isn't Andrea interested in working on the night shift?
3- Is Andrei satisfied with his salary?
4- Why does Cecilia want to work in José Carlos's company?
5- What does José Antonio do?
6- What kind of companies has Mr Alfonso worked for?
7- What would Krashimir like to do after working for Karina's company?
8- Why does Esperanza want to go to London?
9- Why did Alejandro decide to work for Noelia's company?

miércoles, 26 de octubre de 2011

THE VOWEL SCHWA (II)


Listen to these questions. Please note how, in fast speech, the speakers pronounce many of the questions with only three syllables. The rhythm is OooO in most of them. When the rhythym is different, it is witten in brackets.



1- What do you want?
2- What does he do?
3- Where have you been?
4-Where did he go?
5- What did he do?
6- Where do they live?
7- What did he say?
8- Where will they work?
9- What did you see?
10- Where have you gone?
11- Who did we meet?
12- Where will he sit?
13- When will it end?
14- Where have you been?
15- Who has she asked?
16- What do you do? I'm a doctor.
17- Where do you live? I live in Kingston, Jamaica
18-Where do you work? I work in the University Hospital.
19- Are you married? (ooOo) Yes, I'm married. My husband is a teacher.
20- What does he teach? He teaches History and Geography.
21- Where does he teach? At the Grove Road Secondary School.
22- Where did you meet him? (OooOo) I met him when I was on holiday in Florida.
23- When did you get married? (OoooOo) We got married in 1999.

martes, 25 de octubre de 2011

PRONUNCIATION

VIDEO 1


1- Why is pronunciation important, according to the teacher? Good pronunciation is very important for good spoken communication
2- She says it's not important to speak like a native speaker. What is then a good pronunciation for her? What is important is that you're able to speak clearly and that you don't prevent other people from understanding what you are trying to say.
3- The teacher says there are lots of different accents. What's her accent? Standard Southern British English Accent.

VIDEO 2


1- What's her first advice to those who want to improve their pronunciation? To try to learn each different sound of English.
2- Why does she think learning the symbols representing the sounds is so important? Because that way we learn the sounds.
3- How many sounds are there in English? There are more than twenty-six sounds. In fact there are over forty different sounds in English.

4- Where can you often find these symbols? You can find them in dictionaries for English learners.

5- Why are slashes / / used? They are used to show that it is the sounds which have been written and not the letters, the transcriptions are written between slashes.

6- So, what's the teacher's advice about sounds and symbols? She says that if you want to improve your English pronunciation, you should learn the different sounds and if you want to learn the different sounds you should learn the symbols.

7- What's the point in learning sounds and symbols in English? If you know the symbols and the sounds you'll be ble to use many dictionaries to find the pronunciation of any word in English and you won't even need a teacher.

VIDEO 3


1-Why is the schwa sound so important in English? It's a very natural sound for Englsih speakers. Actually, it's the most frequent sound in English.

2- In which syllables is this sound often found? In unstressed syllables.

3- Write the examples the presenter uses and underline the syllables with the / ə / sound. Camera, accuse, banana, father.

4- She says schwa can also be the pronunciation of a whole word itself. Which word is it? cuppa (for a cup of tea).

miércoles, 19 de octubre de 2011

THE VOWEL SCHWA (I)


Listen to the sentences and repeat. It will help you to get used to this difficult sound.

miércoles, 15 de junio de 2011

EXAMEN DE RECUPERACIÓN DE SEPTIEMBRE

1- Entregar glosario completo de términos comerciales. Deberá tener el siguinete formato:
  • Palabra en azul
  • Traducción en negro.
  • Ejemplos en rojo.
Las hojas deberán ir debidamente numeradas.

2- Entrega de las fichas de ejercicios Basic English Grammar que se pueden descargar aquí.

Estas actividades se entregarán el día y fecha del examen de septiembre que se publicarán en la web del centro.

miércoles, 18 de mayo de 2011

VOCABULARY REVISION EXERCISE

Listen and write the words in the blanks. All these words are in the glossary.




1- I work ........................... so I can stay longer with my family.
2- We need to ....................  more  .............................. for the construction of the new building.
3- Due to some .................................. problems our ....................... was delayed.
4- Our ....................   ......................... are .......................... a lot thanks to the new product that we ..................................... to the .........................
5- The ............................ of the production site is excellent.
6- Your ................................ is very good and this explains the .............................. of the company.
7- We had to take out a ......................... to pay all our ............................
8- ..................._.................... jobs don't need any kind of qualification.
9- ...................   .......................... is a serious concern for the Government.
10- The ......................  .......................... is a big problem for retailers who pay their taxes for their .....................................

sábado, 30 de abril de 2011

domingo, 3 de abril de 2011

VOCABULARY REVISION EXERCISE



Click here to have access to a matching exercise. When you have finished the exercise, write down the sentences and translate them into Spanish.

jueves, 31 de marzo de 2011

VOCABULARY REVISION

CROSSWORD


Click here to do a crossword about business words.

viernes, 11 de marzo de 2011

MY BUSINESS TRIP



Some students are telling about their business trips.

miércoles, 23 de febrero de 2011

MY FIRST JOB

Some students are telling their experiences about their first job.

martes, 18 de enero de 2011

HE CAN READ YOUR MIND!

Click on the name and have a good time challenging this poweful search engine. It is really amazing!!




lunes, 10 de enero de 2011

GRAMMAR WORKSHEETS


Click here to download some grammar worksheets.