Monday, October 28, 2013

Letter or Email? Not a problem!

Jane's guide to writing slips

Here's an interesting article from the BBC - some real world advice on emails - some, maybe most of it could be useful to you - thinking about what a native speaker reader is expecting to hear.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24609533







Sunday, October 27, 2013

Updated - Listening Activities

We've updated our Listening Activites page, but we'd be very grateful if there are any problems with link - please let us know!


Thursday, October 24, 2013

Essays 2 of 3: Structure

Go here to start working on essay structure.


Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Proposals 1 of 3: A summary

Go here to try an online video lesson helping you learn about writing proposals.

Comeback next week for a follow up exercise on vocabulary.


Thursday, October 17, 2013

Essays 1 of 3: Watch and Listen

Go here to watch an introduction to essay writing, ideal for Proficiency. Interesting for FCE and CAE.


Wednesday, October 16, 2013

First - Sentence Transformations

If you've just started using Objective First Certificate, you'll know that Uniyt 1.1 introduces sentence transformations. Practice is important, so here's a link to some to try out - answers are at the bottom of the page.

http://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/FCE/Part4/fce_key_word_transformations_1.php

and

http://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/FCE/Part4/fce_key_word_transformations_2.php


FCE - Sentence Transformations

If you've just started using Objective First Certificate, you'll know that Uniyt 1.1 introduces sentence transformations. Practice is important, so here's a link to some to try out - answers are at the bottom of the page.

http://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/FCE/Part4/fce_key_word_transformations_1.php

and

http://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/FCE/Part4/fce_key_word_transformations_2.php