SPEAKING & WRITING

Does anyone fancy visiting the UK anytime soon?

Check out these amazing pics taken by people on their way to work or school: http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/gallery

Thought I had forgotten about your task? No way, my dear pupils!

Describe 3 of the pictures you saw in detail and then choose the one that, in your take, would better represent Christmas.

That should be a good preparation for the speaking paper next week! =)

AIN'T GOT NO (listening)

Although the title may not seem suitable for a more scholarly, FCE-like sort of speech, the informal feature of this song brings about some parts of the body seen in the last unit of our coursebook.Click on the link below to listen to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcXI2BIUOQ

How many are you able to identify?
You're allowed to listen to the song twice, otherwise the fun is spoiled, hehe.

I'll be waiting for posts with the body parts.

Cheerio! =)

P.S: for an extra drop of culture, check out what this song and the famous musical "Hair" have in common: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain't_Got_No,_I_Got_Life

USE OF ENGLISH

Hello again,dear pupils! =)
In the British Council website I found an interesting quiz to help you dust off some vocabulary for the Use of English paper.
Post your answers as a comment here. The correct answers will be coming up along with the next post.
Enjoy!

For each of the six questions choose the one correct answer:

1. Long is an adjective. What is the related verb?

a. longing

b. lengthen

c. longthen

d. longering

2. What is the opposite of 'resistible'?

a. unresistible

b. irresistible

c. disresistible

d. inresistible

3. What is the opposite of ‘patient’?

a. impatient

b. inpatient

c. unpatient

d. dispatient

4. Safe’ is an adjective, what is its related noun?

a. safely

b. safer

c. safety

d. safeness

5. What is the opposite of ‘tolerant’?‘

a. imtolerant

b. untolerant

c. distolerant

d. intolerant

6. What's the opposite of 'perfect'?

a. unperfect

b. inperfect

c. imperfect

d. deperfect

BBC | British Council
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/

LISTENING

The focus of our first post is listening practice.
Remember that note-taking is the key!

Assignment:
Click on the link below and follow the instructions to do the listening exercise.
http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fcelistening.htm
After choosing your answers, click on the button "check" and see your score.
Then, click on "script " and read the whole conversation trying to spot conversation fillers that can come in handy in the speaking paper of the exam.
Having done that, post a comment here with the conversation fillers you could find as well as your overall impression of this exercise.

See you soon! =)