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Saturday, October 19 2013

To all - How to train on listening comprehension.

Here is a great site to train on listening comprehension. Choose a video, try to find all the key words, and check your work with the transcript.

http://www.newsy.com/

Sunday, March 24 2013

How to... improve your pronunciation?

Here is a good website to listen to English and to try to repeat thanks to the subtitles.

http://www.englishcentral.com/videos#

Monday, February 18 2013

How to review tenses!

Here is a great review for tenses.

All tenses are listed and explained and then there is a short exercise.

Sunday, October 28 2012

How to carve a pumpkin!

pumpkin-carving1.jpegHalloween is coming up! You can decorate your house with a carved pumpkin. Watch this video to learn how to do it!

Saturday, October 13 2012

How to say numbers

Since I find it's quite often difficult for you to read or say large numbers, you can watch this video to review the way you should say them and then you can do the exercises below the video to train.

Sunday, September 16 2012

How to check the pronunciation of a word

It is important to learn words with the right pronunciation: first to be understood when you speak and secondly to understand the word when you hear it pronounced by a native (in real life! or for an oral comprehension test!)

So when you learn your vocabulary and you've got a doubt on the pronunciation, check it in a dictionary / ˈdɪkʃənerɪ/with the phonetic transcription or use this website.

Saturday, February 5 2011

How to train on if-clauses?

These clauses are very useful so this worksheet can be a good training. The key is included so you can correct yourself. if_clauses_1_2_3.doc

How to correct a common mistake? -ED or -ING?

Check this worksheet and think about it next time you want to use one of these adjectives. If you need a correction, send me a message or come and see me at school. adjectives ending with_ed_and_ing

Saturday, January 22 2011

How to get better at the TOEIC

TOEIC is an acronym that stands for Test Of English for International Communication. It is the most widely used English language exam taken by more than 4 million business professionals worldwide. The TOEIC test measures your ability to use English in daily business situations covering such topics as corporate development, finance and budgeting, corporate property, IT, manufacturing, purchasing, offices, personnel, technical matters, health and business travel. A growing number of international companies recognize the TOEIC as an objective indicator of a person's proficiency in business English. It is important to understand that the TOEIC does not measure what have you learned in one particular English class but evaluates your general command of the English language in a business setting. This means, you have to use and explore as many materials, resources and methods as possible in order to improve your English. You should create an environment in which you are exposed to the English language on a daily basis. For example, you can listen to the Voice of America, watch television on CNN, SkyNews or BBC, read newspaper articles in English and write emails. In addition, the Internet provides you with a wide variety of learning tools such as electronic newsletters, discussion groups and forums.

To learn more about it, watch this video:

Here is a worksheet to train: toeic_questions

Here are some links to train on the net:

Online toeic

prep TOEIC

exam

Saturday, January 8 2011

How to make passive sentences!

Passive is used much more often in English so it can be very useful to study it well.

Here are a lesson and some exercises including the correction.

Friday, December 17 2010

How to... review grammar basis

Here is a big file in which you will find lessons and exercises to review some basis. If you have any questions or need more explanations, don't forget to ask!

GRAMMAR HELP

Friday, September 24 2010

How to train on listening comprehension

Here is a new link to listen to short texts and read at the same time. There are also questions about the document.

screen_breaking_news.jpg

Then, when your're studying a specific topic, you can type one or two keywords on youtube and add the word report to get more interesting documents. For example, if you're studying a topic on food, you can type "junkfood report" and you'll get loads of interesting documents on which you can train.

or let's say you're studying a chapter on immigration, you can type "immigration USA report" and you'll get this.

Nos your turn, try typing a couple of keywords from your chapter...

Then, here are some good websites you can try:

audiolingua esl lab

Tuesday, September 14 2010

How to ask questions

Here is a lesson and some exercises to review Wh- questions.

wh questions

interrogative_pronouns

If you want to do the exercises, you can mail them or bring them to me at school.

Hope it helps!

Tuesday, September 7 2010

How to conjugate!

Here is a recap of all English tenses.

Tenses.doc

and some exercises: exercises 1 exercises 2

Hope it helps!

Monday, September 6 2010

How to make a comparative and a superlative!

Here are lessons and exercises to review comparatives and superlatives.

lesson+easy exercise

lesson

comparative_superlative.doc

If you want to do the exercise, you can send it to me and I will send you the correction.

Friday, September 3 2010

Participate

Here is the participation grid I've given you in class. If ever you lose it, you know you can find it here!

participation_grid.doc

Thursday, June 24 2010

How to write a letter

Pay attention to the presentation and learn some useful expressions to write good letters.

letter.jpg

How to describe an advertisement

This document can help you improve your analysis of an ad.

ad.jpg

How to write an essay

essay.jpgHere are some advice and some useful structures and link words.

essay

How to write a diary entry

Here is another type of writing. You can find some advice in this document.

Diary entry

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