LISTENING PRACTICE AND PRONUNCIATION

1. Listening Practice
2. Listening Center
3. Perfect Pronunciation
4. Intonation: 

   Language conveys very specific information, such as how to get somewhere or what someone is doing. It can be also used beyond the exact meaning of the words to indicate how the speaker feels about what he is saying, or how he personally feels at that moment.

   Generally speaking, if English is not your first language, this is where you start running into difficulty. Even if you pronounce each word clearly, if your intonation patterns are non-standard, your meaning will probably not be clear. Also, in terms of comprehension, you will lose a great deal of information if you are listening for the actual words used.
   

   • Intonation (Part 1)
   • Intonation (Part 2)
   • Intonation (Part 3)
   • Intonation (Part 4)
   • Intonation (Part 5)

   
   

   
   

   
   

ORIENTACIONES SELECTIVIDAD 2010-2011

Este es el enlace a las orientaciones de Selectividad para el curso 2010-2011. No olvides leerlas detenidamente antes de venir a clase, donde podremos discutirlas.

CV and cover letter

Descargar ejemplo de Europass CV Cover letter

ANSWER KEY TO GRAMMAR TEST + GRAMMAR REVIEW

Here you have the answers for the grammar test that I gave you at the beginning of the course.

I also include the "grammar review" I recommended to prepare for the grammar exam.

GENERAL TIPS FOR SELECTIVIDAD

* 10 (+1) Tips for the English Test

* Cómo realizar un buen examen de selectividad

*Ejercicios resueltos de exámenes de selectividad (including compositions!)

* Exámenes de selectividad de COU

WRITING TIPS FOR COMPOSITIONS

Material in the copy shop:

- Aclaraciones léxicas

- Errores más comunes

- Recommendations for writing (use of connectors, expressions, etc): 1, 2

- Differences between MAKE and DO

- Use of DEFINITE/INDEFINITE ARTICLES> 1, 2, 3

IDIOMS

Idioms> Text and pixtures

Idioms dictionary
Idioms Guide, Pictorial Idioms

VOCABULARY FOR SELECTIVIDAD

TEXT 1: Sports
Sports

TEXT 2
Climate change , Kioto protocol, Environment, Words in context, Environment, Weather

NEWSPAPERS (To work on vocabulary on current events)

NEWSPAPERS:
Check out the headlines and main news in these newspapers in order to review the vocabulary related to recent events and issues.

THE TIMES (UK)
THE INDEPENDENT (UK)
THE GUARDIAN (UK)
THE DAILY MIRROR (UK)
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK)
USA TODAY (USA)
THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA)

Tenses Revision and Grammar Chart

** For those of you who did not pass the grammar test, here you have some extra revision worksheets on verbal tenses.

*Please remember to give it in before November 25.

1. Tenses revision
2. Grammar Chart

TENSES REVISION

Here you have some extra exercises to review the use of English tenses (with key): Present and Past tenses, Future tense.

1. Revision of Tenses
2.Additional revision of tenses

REVISION OF TENSES

Here you have some interesting links to practice and review the use of tenses in English:

• Forming the Simple Present Tense (Introduction & 2 exercises)
• Negatives and Questions in the Simple Present Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
• Forming the Present Continuous Tense (Introduction & 1 exercise)
• Negatives and Questions in the Present Continuous Tense (Introduction & 2 exercises)
• Simple Present or Present Continuous? (Introduction & 2 exercises)
• Forming the Simple Past Tense (Regular Verbs) (Introduction & 2 exercises)
• Forming the Simple Past Tense (Irregular Verbs) (Introduction & 2 exercises)
• Negatives and Questions in the Simple Past Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
• Forming the and Using the Past Continuous Tense (Introduction & 1 exercise)
• Forming the Present Perfect Tense (Introduction & 2 exercises)
• Using the Present Perfect Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
• The Future with "Will" (Introduction & 2 exercises)
• The Future with "Be Going To" (Introduction & 1 exercise)
• Four Ways to Talk About the Future (Introduction & 1 exercise)
• Modals: "Don't have to" and "Mustn't" (Introduction & 2 exercises)

Celebrations-Holidays

Here is a list of celebrations and holidays around the world

Happy everything!