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Saturday, June 15, 2019

End-Of-Year Resit Test (recuperacions 26 juny)

Name(s) and Surname(s)

School Year

Course

Class Group


Part 1: Reading Comprehension (from Units 1-3) 
               20 points    
text
Activity 1 - Looking for General Information - Choose the correct answer. (10p) 
Activity 2 - Looking for Specific Information - Read the text again and answer
                     the following questions. (10p)
Part 2: Oral / Listening Comprehension (from Units 4-8) 
               10 points
Activity 1 - Looking for General Information - Listen to the conversation and 
                     circle T (true) or F (false). (5p)
Activity 2 - Looking for Specific Information - Listen again and answer the
                     following questions. (5p)
Part 3: Written Expression (from Units 1-8) 
               20 points




TOPIC 1
Write your personal profile for an internet blog. Use and, so, because, although to join your ideas. Include the following information:
- Your name, age, where you come from, who you live with
- What you like and don’t like doing at school, in the evenings, at weekends, during the summer holidays
- What you are interested in, what you are good at
Grammar Contents: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Adverbs of frequency, Prepositions of place and time, Comparatives and Superlatives, Adjectives ending in -ed/-ing, Adverbs,






TOPIC 2
Write a description of a journey for an online travel blog. Remember to use linkers like first, next, then and finally. Include this information:
- where did you go?                                       
- where did you buy the ticket?
- how did you travel?                                     
- how long did the journey take?
- what was good/bad about the journey?       
- who did you travel with?             
- how did you feel when you arrived?             
- what did you do there?
- would you recommend this journey?     
Grammar Contents: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Comparatives and Superlatives, Adjectives ending in -ed/-ing, Adverbs, Prepositions of place and time



TOPIC 3
Write an article for a blog giving your opinion on the present-time environmental problems that are affecting the world and the possible consequences for future generations. Remember to use linkers: first, next, then, finally, because, so, and, etc.
Grammar Contents: Idea of future (going to + present continuous + will), would, first and second conditionals, Comparatives and Superlatives, Adjectives ending in -ed/-ing, Adverbs, Prepositions of place and time

Monday, June 3, 2019

ESO 3 - Competència Oral End-Of-Year (Intermediate)

Topics (chosen by students, at random)


Topic 6. Do you like football? What sports do you like? You can say what sports you like and what you don’t like.

Topic 12. Have you been to an English-speaking country (before)? You can talk about my experiences.

Topic 14. Tell me about something you did with your friends recently. You can describe past events and say when they happened. 

Topic 15. What do you think your friends are doing now? I can say what people are doing now and what they usually do.

Topic 17. Let’s talk about your house or home. How would you describe it?  You can describe my home and where I live.

Topic 20. How do you think your country/town will change in the next  20 years? You can make predictions about the future.

Topic 24. If you had been born in the UK or America, how would your life up to now have been different? You can talk about imaginary situations in the past.

Topic 26. Tell me about a book you’ve read recently, either in English or in your own language. You can talk about books you’ve read. 

Topic 28. How do you think the Internet has changed the way people learn English? You can express in detail how things in the past connect to the present. 

Topic 52. Have you ever used English while traveling? Where was it? When did you go there? Who did you go with?

Topic 53. Who are the most important people in your life?

Sunday, January 20, 2019

ESO 3 - Graded Readers 1

ESO 3 – Graded Readers 1 (Term 1)
Level
Book Title + Author
ESO 3A
ESO 3B
ESO 3C
%
1-4
%
1-4
%
1-4

High
A Christmas Carol
(by Charles Dickens)
88
80
68
48
4
4
2
1
80
80
76
68
32
4
4
3
2
1
64
60
56
48
36
2
2
2
1
1


Standard


The Phantom of the Opera
(by Gaston Leroux)
60
60
56
48
44
16
12
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
72
68
60
56
36
32
3
2
2
2
1
1
76
72
72
72
56
56
44
3
3
3
3
2
2
1






Low



The turn of the screw (by Henry James)
64
48
20
16
12
2
1
1
1
1
56
44
28
20
20
16
12
12
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
1
1


Emma
(by Jane Austen)
12
1


28
24
24
16
12
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

Pla Individual
Mystery In San Francisco
50
2




The Big Story
50
2




Gulliver’s Travels
50
2




Homemade Work Vocabulary List   7 points maximum    7p
Long Answers 8 points máximum (2 points per answer)     8p
Multiple Choice % of good answers                         10p
                                                                25p  x 4 = 100