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Monday, January 30, 2012

First and Advanced: Paragraphs

Go to the BBC's Skillswise writing site http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic/building-up-paragraphs to do as much work as you like on paragraphs. There are factsheets, exercises and games to have a go at and even videos to watch Enjoy!
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CAE and FCE: Paragraphs

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

New Listening Activity

January's Listening Activity has now been now added to the Listening page - quite a high level, this one.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

CAE Speaking Test

Updated advice for the CAE speaking test, with some new videos to take a look at.

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Monday, January 23, 2012

CAE - Reports and Proposals

A link here to an archive post with good language for homework:

http://bclasrozas.blogspot.com/2008/11/useful-language-for-reports-proposals.html

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Prepare for the FCE Speaking Test

In class in the next few weeks it's likely you'll work on different parts of Paper 5, the oral test. Take a look at some advice and videos via the tab at the top.

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Error Checklist for First

Error Checklist for FCE Writing:

Compiled in S6 on Monday 19 Dec

Some examples of things you might be able to see before you hand in your work to the teacher:

Contractions in formal English? Exclamation marks in formal English. Eliminate them.

Check double consonants.

Much and many on countable/uncountable nouns.

Avoid direct questions in formal letters.

Word order in non-questions.
Example

Fred asked what time it was
vs
Fred asked what time was it.

Confused plurals
Examples

Life >>>> lives.
person >>> people
child >>> children

Prepositions
Does it sound or look good to you?

Repitition
Have you avoided the same word in adjacent sentences?

Describe differently
Synonym if you can
Use pronouns

Word Order
Put your adverbs in the right places - usually at the end.

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