B1- Certificación Keys to readings: Royal Houselhold, Six green celebrities, TV pets training school

Here are the keys to the following readings I handed out in class:
---ROYAL HOUSEHOLD
---SIX GREEN CELEBRITIES4
---TV PETS TRAINING SCHOOL

To dowload more pruebas de certificación, visit this link and click on INGLÉS.

B1- Reading test- keys ---Reading comprehension- pruebas certificación EOI Valencia

Download the keys to Pruebas Certificación EOI Valencia (reading comprehension) I posted tbe 10th April here.

Keys Task 1 ( Gordon Brown)

Keys task 2 ( Free Hugs Campaign)

Keys task 3- the ig Nobel Prizes

B1- ( Grammar - expressions): Technology

These are the keys to the " Help with grammar section" of the copies on Technology

Exercise 4 c
1 be able to + inf
2 be useless at/quite good at +-ing
3 could/can + inf
4 haven't got a clue how + to infinitive
5 manage + to infinitive
6 have no idea how + to infinitive
7 find something easy/difficult + to infinitive
8 know how + to infinitive

be good/bad/ brilliant/ hopeless at

A1 ( KEYS FILE 5) : Writing a holiday report

Exercise a , page 61 student's book New English File

paragraph 1: 1,2,3,4
paragraph 2: 5,6
paragraph 3: 7,8
paragraph 4: 9,10

A1- FILE 3- REVISE AND CHECK SECTION

What do you remember?

GRAMMAR
a. 
1b   2a   3a   4b  5a   6b   7a   8a   9b   10a
b 
1 What colour is
2 What time is
3 What time do
4 How often do you eat
5 When do .....watch

VOCABULARY
a  1 bad   2 cheap   3 ugly   4 short   5 full
b  1 get  2 take  3 have  4 do  5 go
c  1tall   2 seven   3 one   4 nephew  5 Easter
d  1 up   2 until   3 by   4 at   5 for

PRONUNCIATION
a 1 do    2 stop    3 think    4 father   5 hour
b 1 expensive  2 difficult   3 always   4 July   5 December

What can you do?


CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?
a 4 ok    5 ok
b resolution= a decision to do something new
happens= occurs
very enthusiastic= feel very positive about 
a personal trainer= a person who helps you get fit
cut out= stop eating
go jogging= run slowly as a form of exercise

c  Because in the winter our bodies need food and sleep not diets and exercise.

CAN YOU HEAR THE DIFFERENCE?  ( we are going to do this in class)

B1-3ºA- KEYS UNIT 6C- READING + VOCABULARY

PAGE 94 READING ( HEROES AND ICONS)
a.
Aung San  Suu-Kyi= 5
Bono=1
Thierry Henry= 2
Bernard Kouchner=3
Queen Rania of Jordan= 4

b.
A Thierry Henry
B Queen Rania of Jordan
C Bono
D Aung San Suu-Kyi
E Bernard Kouchner

c
1 Bono. He couldn't take the child with him
2 Queen Rania of Jordan, by getting children vaccinated
3 Aung San Suu-Kyi. She chose her job.
4 Bernard Kouchner. He participated actively himself in aid work.
5 Bono and Thierry Henry. Bono is trying to free Africa of hunger and poverty, and henry is trying to eradicate racism from sport.

d.
2 modernity
3 hunger
4 poverty
5 choice
6 operation
7 sale

PAGE 95- EXERCISE 4 VOCABULARY AND PRONUNCIATION ( What do people do, word stress)

-er = leader, composer, designer, footballer, painter, photographer, presenter
-or= actor, conductor, director, inventor, sculptor
-ian= politician, musician
-ist= physicits, cyclist, guitarist, scientist, violinist

Verbs of movement: how do we move our body?

Watch this video to learn how to say some of the most common action verbs

Now visit the links below to learn more advanced verb movements.

Quiz - How do we move our body?

Vocabulary quiz testing various verbs expressing various movements

bodily verb movements 1
answers 1
 

bodily verb movements 2
answers 2

bodily verb movements 3
answers 3

bodily verb movements 4
answers 4

FCE tips: word-formation exercises

First Certificate in English tests usually include a word-formation exercise. The aim of the exercise is to create different words. These exercises usually consist of a text in which some key words have been removed. You're given the root of the word but not the correct word form ( create- creat-ive, creat-ion, etc) and category ( noun, verb, adverb,etc) that goes in the gaps.

 Example question: 

Many of the women suffered from a feeling of ___________ (Help) when confronted with the powers-that-be.

Answer: helplessness

Follow these tips on how to work with these exercises and do the exercises below.

Tip 1- First, read the whole text.
Tip 2- The words are always next to the line with the gap.
Tip 3- After reading through the text you can start the task. Follow your instinct. If a word pops into your head it is probably right.
Tip 4- If no ideas pop into your heads,think about what kind of word goes into each gap. This can be done using clues such as word order. For example, if there's an article preceding the gap, you will need to place a noun after it, after the noun an adjective, and so on.
Tip 5- Now that you've guessed the word that goes in the gap, you have to come up with the actual word! If you're completely unfamiliar with it guess it by adding various prefixes and suffixes until they get something that sounds right and obeys the rules of word-formation.
Tip 6- Always read through the whole text again with your answers completed to make sure it makes sense and sounds correct.

Now, have a go! Do the exercise below and check your answers.


Exercise 1- Travelling alone 
keys

"The Amsterdam Connection" Worksheet and Keys

Below you'll find The Amsterdam Connection worksheet and the keys.
You can check your own answers by downloading the keys below.

To download the worksheet click here
To download the keys click here

KEYS: FILE 3C

Reading and Vocabulary page 28 student's book

Exercise 3.

1. You might get a credit card statement showing you have bought something you didn't actually buy, been somewhere you didn't go to, or have a bank account that you didn't apply for.

2. Because we depend on credit cards for everything and we give our credit card details when we buy things on the Internet or over the phone.

3. Your credit card details, address, professional history and bank account details.

4. They will check all the information held about you on the Internet every day.

4. Help with Vocabulary: Verbs and prepositions
 a) 1.on  2. on  3 to   4 about   5 with   6 with
b) spend; explain; provide
c) 1.  to ; for;   2.  to; about      3 to; about     4 at; for   
     5 to; for     6  on; for
NB: We can say depend on sb/sth for sth or 
rely on sb/sth for sth: I depend/rely on my parents for financial support

5)
2. insist on    3 worry about    4 aplogised to; aplogise for    5 depend on    6 cope with   7spending....on
8 complained about ; complain to      9 shouted at      10   explain....to     11 talk to    12 provide....with

KEYS file 1C student's book: exercise 1b , 2 page 10

Reading and Vocabulary page 10, exercises 1b &2


1a) Your own answers.
1b) He's against exams.

2) 1.T   2 F ( the writer didn't talk to his classmates before the exam). 3 T   4T   5F He doesn't want his daughters to leave school at 16. 6 F He never uses his knowledge of maths in daily life.

KEYS File 1B ( student's book): exercises 7 and 8 page 9

Exercise 7

2. have  3 did  4 was  5 didn't   6 did  7  's   8 hasn't  9  has 10  do  11  are  12 do  13 'm  14 Are  15 do  16 did  17 did  18 didn't

Exercise 8


2 Ian didn't go to college, but his sister did.
3 My parents haven't been there , but we have.
4 Penny doesn't like golf, but her brothers do.
5 We're not going out tonight, but they are.
6 Tom enjoyed the play, but I didn't.

KEYS: Present perfect and past simple

C Grammar exercises
1- 2 h; 3 d; 4 f; 5 c; 6 b; 7 i; 8 e; 9 a; 10 g


2- 2 slept, 3 has grown, 4 sent; hasn't replied,  5 Did you learn, 6 bought; 've ( have) used,
    7 have you had, 8 's ( has) just arrived, 9 've(have) never seen, 10 dreamt, 11 met,  12 did you  
    get; haven't noticed.


3. 2 arrived, 3 felt/was, 4 have already made, 5 took/drove, 6 went/swam, 7 enjoyed/loved/liked, 8 've(have) learnt, 9 haven't been 10 've(have) had, 11 went, 12 played.


4. 2 have you been playing, 3 We've played, 4 we haven't finished, 5 you've been playing, 6 We've read, 7 Have you tried, 8 we've already started 9 we've booked

KEYS FILE 2B, 2C

Here are the keys to files 2B, 2C.
See you tomorrow.
Elena

Keys to reading CAE " Careers"

Hi, these are the keys:
30. A
31. E
32. A
33. D
34. B
35. F
36. D
37. A/B
38. A/B
39. A
40. D
41. F
42. B/C
43. B/C
44. F
45. D
Have a nice weekend
Elena

Keys: grammar extension : time and tense exercise 2 - page 60

Hi!
These are the keys:

1. Present simple- refers to the past, frequently used in newspaper headlines to be economical and to emphasise the recentness of the event.
2. Past simple- refers to no specific time, used here to describe an imaginary situation
3. Past continuous- refers to the present, used to make a request sound more tentative and distant
4. Past perfect- refers to the past, but not to denote the earlier of two past actions, as it usually does: it is used here because of the sequence of tenses in reported speech.
5. Past perfect- refers to an unusual past situation.
6. Present perfect- refers to the future, used here after the time conjunction " as soon as", instead of the Present Simple: " as soon as his visa expires".
7. Present simple- refers to the past, used to tell a story and make it seem more immediate and dramatic.
8. Present simple- refers to " now/the moment of speaking" when we might normally expect the Present continuous to be used, and commonly used with verbs like apologise, ( dis) agree, insist, promise, recommend.

For more information on grammar, see the language summary section.

That's all, see you in class,
Elena

Avanzado 2: MODULE 1- keys for page 14- wordspot

Hi there,

These are the keys for page 14.

a- the ocean ground= the ocean floor
b- thought worlds of= thought the world of
c- You're floored= You're grounded
d- flooring-boards= floorboards
e- cost the world= cost the earth
f-´earth-smashing= earth-shattering
g- out of this planet= out of this world
h- at the top of the world= on top of the world; dancing floors= dance floors; keep my foot on the ground= keep my feet on the ground
i- all the hours in the world= all the time in the world


Have a nice Halloween!

Elena