Even more ready for your Cambridge KET exam?

Listening to different accents and voices and practicing with

 authentic exam examples is essential in preparing for the 

listening part. 

Listen up HERE 

Auld Lang Syne

Happy New Year! 
It seems so boring to say.  Why not sing it like we tried last week?
My wishes and yours too?

Tip of the week: listen and sing-a-long

Vocabulary needs to be revised, What could be better than studying vocabulary by singing your favourite songs?

Read the lyrics and enjoy the song. You don’t have to translate the lyrics word by word, just try to find out what the song is all about. 

Pick some words or phrases from the song that you would like to learn. If necessary, look up their exact meaning in a dictionary. 

Now,  all you have to do is listening to the song again and again (no problem - it’s one of your favourite songs!).

Let the music turn you on.

Use your search engine (google, safari, firefox,etc.) Put the name of your favorite song + lyrics into search. Go!

Samples:

Perfect + lyrics

Circles + lyrics

I Don't Care + lyrics

Strange Christmas traditions

Did you know: only 30% of the world's population are Christian? Yet it seems everyone gets in n the celebration.
Which one do you think is the weirdest?

Comment below.

The case of the missing will. Read and listen

A great way to keep your English up is to read along to a story.  Here is a short story (20 min) You can slow down or speed up the speakers voice as needed.  Enjoy a little thriller!

CLICK HERE TO BEGIN READING AND LISTENING

Sing-a-long anyone?

Who doesn't love Elton John?
Let's sing-a-long with him!

CLICK HERE

Merry Christmas

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...

Language Focus: Camden Scene 2

WORD ON THE STREET  

 

This week Rob talks about the sort of questions people ask use when they go clothes shopping.



Watch the video. HERE

Don't Forget to click on the language focus( on the bar on the right of the page)  as well.

Language Focus, Camden Scene 1

WORD ON THE STREET

 

Rob explains question forms and expressions people use when they go shopping.



Watch the video. Begin HERE  

Visit the British Council Language Focus website; go to tasks and complete the activities.

Good luck!

How many languages do you speak?

This teenager is a polyglot.  He can speak 20 languages.

Watch this fascinating video about him.

CLICK TO WATCH

Listening Podcast

Do you know what a podcast is? Practise your English language listening skills with Elementary Podcasts presented by the British Council.
Listen to them on your computer, or download them to your mp3 player or Smartphone.

Please give it a try.  You can follow each story with the tapescript too. 
 This is the link to the LearnEnglishPocasts series :


Begin here

The four seasons

What seasonal changes do people in your hometown experience throughout the year?
Are there four basic seasons (i.e., winter, spring, summer, and fall)?
 Is it one season all year around?
Do you have a typhoon, hurricane, or rainy season?

Test your English vocabulary and listening about seasons.

Begin here

Audio Book - Death Valley

Death Valley is a land of beautiful yet dangerous extremes. There are mountains that reach more than three thousand meters into the sky. There is a place called Badwater that is the lowest area of land in the Western Hemisphere. If there were water there, it would be eighty-six meters below the level of the ocean.

Read and listen

Sing along with Justin Bieber

Santa Claus is Coming To Town

 

Sing-a-long like a pro! Happy Sami Claus Tag.

 

 

Begin here

 

 

Listening: The Job Interview

Vocabulary

resume- a summary of a person's work and education responsibilities- things that must be done
to oversee- to be the boss of, to make sure something is done, to supervise
to keep track of- to be aware of or notice something
inventory- the number of items a store has
to handle- to take care of, to deal with
to be transferred- to be moved from one place to another
an opening- an available job
a position- a job
reputation- how other people feel about something, the opinion of other people
to jump on something- to do something immediately  


Listen and read the interview.  Begin Here