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Word building exercises are one of the most effective ways to enrich your English vocabulary. Prefixes and suffixes turn nouns into adjectives, adjectives into verbs… can you imagine the amount of new words you can learn this way?

The following links will take you to some word building exercises that you can find in the “online practice” section on this web site. Exercise 4 was recently added, and it’s the one we worked with on Monday 8 in the computer classroom

• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4

By the way, the web has lots of different sites where you can practise online.  Just to give you an example, click on this link and you’ll find a nice word building exercise : make antonyms (opposites) using prefixes.

Come on, it’s time to increase your vocabulary 

This listening exercise requires holding your breath and diving deep into the blue sea… for the woman talking about her life underwater is Tanya Streeter, the world champion free-diver.

She held for years an amazing freediving record established in 2002, reaching a depth of 525 feet (160 metres), greater than any men’s record. As far as I know, she still holds the women’s world records for “Variable Weight Apnea” and “No Limits Apnea”

Here you can listen to Tanya talking about her life, her origins, the way she started getting in contact with water… an interesting listening comprehension about an amazing sportswoman.

Well, listen and complete the exercise. Key and script are included, though in this case I must admit that the text in the script is rather blurred.

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• Audio
• Exercise
• Key
• Script

An interesting topic indeed, to be added to the speaking section on page 71, for the debate I talked about on Tuesday : Animals and their coexistence with humans.

Should animals be killed for food? Should they be used (and sometimes killed) in medical experiments? Should dogs be banned in parks, or even in cities in general?  Should hunting as a sport be made illegal? … Think about these questions, and also about the title of this post, and we can have an interesting debate with your points of view.

The topic “we worry too much about protecting wild animals and not enough about protecting people” is what listening exercise 5.2 in your Student’s Book (p.71) is about. It’s a True/False exercise, and the script is included in your book, on page 127.

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• The other listening exercise we did on Tuesday (strong and weak syllables) and its key, is also available in the “Listening” section.

These two listening exercises are tracks 4.12 & 4.13 in your Student’s Book (page 65). Both of them are related to shopping, and different expressions are used, with helpful vocabulary.

Exercise 4.12

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Exercise 4.13

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And now, some more reading and grammar stuff… Click below to download a set of handouts called “Ready to Go!”, published by Oxford University Press, with useful reading and grammar exercises, all of them related to “Science and Technology”

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Según Resolución de la Consejería de Educación del 12 de febrero de 2010, publicada en el BOPA del 18, estas son las fechas de celebración de las distintas pruebas de Certificación de Nivel Intermedio, tanto de las convocatorias de Junio como de Septiembre de 2010.

JUNIO

• Escrito: Jueves 3 desde las 4 de la tarde (Reading+Listening+Writing)

• Oral: A partir del Jueves 10

SEPTIEMBRE

• Escrito: Lunes 13 desde las 4 de la tarde (Reading+Listening+Writing)

• Oral: A partir del 17 de septiembre

En el caso de Septiembre, solo os presentaríais a las habilidades que en Junio constaron como No Apto o No Presentado.

Las fechas de las pruebas de expresión e interacción oral serán fijadas por las correspondientes Comisiones de Evaluación, y oportunamente anunciadas en el tablón de anuncios de la EOI.

Más información, incluyendo la temporización de las distintas pruebas (horas exactas de comienzo de los tests de cada habilidad), en el portal Educastur

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