* LEARN 2 LEARN {♥}

• Timed Speaking Cards
• Celebrating Feminism: world book day
• Listen and repeat: phrasals
• Dishwashers, a story by michelle
  
• Telling a true or fictional story
• Asking Questions in Church, a story by michelle (upper interm., advanced)
• A Story by Alice Walker (advanced)
• “to be worth + -ing”
• Protect your intelligence — don’t buy exams!
• A C1 listening activity
• Borrowings  1
• Quotes 1
• Timed Scanning (Exam-like) Activity designed by michelle
• Resources collected by Rosa
• How to read Einstei’s Equation
• Prepositions: L&R
• Phrasal verbs: L&R
• More audios to L&R
• Indirect Questions: L&R
• Example of Brainstorming for Language (Unit 7 C1)

• Spanish speakers and their use of “will”
• Speaking: monologues for B2, C1: Mainstream & Alternative Medicine
• Speaking: interactions for B1, B2: Listen & Repeat Useful Language for Organizing Events, Helping People, Pros & Cons of Options

• About dashes, hyphenation and capitalization
• About job interviews (Writings)

• Learn about discussing: Language is powerful. Metaphors we live by: Argument is war (with audio)
• I want or I’d like?
• Speaking: How art made the world
• Speaking: Why do people think modern art is crap?
• The World of AS and LIKE (1) – (2) – (3)
• Speaking: what can people do to solve the crisis?
• US & UK Englishes: being consistent in Writing Assignments
• Useful Language around discussions
• Learning to notice “Useful Language” – technology and awards
• Brainstorming on Language: ability
• 2 BBC podcasts: listen and practice speaking
• Clauses: Result so, so … that, such … that
• Clauses: Purpose to infinitive, so that, in order to…
• Talking about Food
• Speaking about The Internet
• Speaking about Elderly People
• Dictations: improving in gap-filling listening activities
• LoM: when to use “could” or “be able to”
• Uses of “you” that sound rude, impolite
• In spite of, Despite, Although
• Writing Examples. Making suggestions: (Intermedio 2 Lunes) Example 1, Example 2, Example 3, Example 4, Example 5, (Intermedio 2 Martes), Example 6, Example 7, Example 8
• Writing Sample: email to teacher B1
• Writing Assignments (B1, B2, C1)
• Pronunciation video, sent in by Alberto
• Resources on Talking People for February Exam Format Practice (direct links)
• Workshop on Lexical Creativity
• Language Items for Reviews
• One-minute news (video)
• Design a Listening Activity: Your Listening activities on Talking People
• Using English to learn other languages
• News about the Talking People Podcast
• Writing Tips: narratives (jokes, story-telling, talking about past experiences, articles) + Part 2: Telling Stories – Using an episode of the Mentalist
• Avanzado – Monologues: example of one on bullfighting
• This link to the Speaking section on talkingpeople.net has a webpage for Students’ Oral Performances with teacher’s feedback. By learning to listen like a teacher, you will learn about how to make your language richer, more accurate and you will also learn about textual structure and communicative strategies. All of this is very useful for Exams and for Real Life!
• Intermedio 2 LoM for Writing 1
• List of Mistakes (LoM)
• Example of a LoM and of Oral Drilling – this is the list in class
• Oral Drilling + podcast episode
• Listening: Empathic Listening
• Listening: Skeleton of Meaning & Task 3 in Speaking Test
• Possibilities for Working with your Textbook and Other
• Practice/Practise your -(e)s and -(e)d’s!
• Improve your pronunciation of the -(e)d ending!
• Oral Presentations
• Writing Guideline
• The more you listen, the more you learn
• Sts Oral Work + T’s Feedback
• Oral Drill with Indirect Questions
• December OPs: the novel and your tv series
• Some relevant advice
• Some more tips

RESOURCES YOU WILL BE USING…

The link to Talking People is http://www.talkingpeople.net/ (In Class, Skills: Writing / Speaking, Podcasts: The Talking People Podcast, Literature, People & Culture…)

The links to the two EOI School websites we’ll be using are http://www.eoileganes.es/  (Área Privada) and http://www.eoigetafe.es/ (Students’ Corner, YouTube)

Some How to posts here: How to work with your audio materials; How to prepare a monolog at home; Getting along with your teacher

FREE AUDIOS. From the Talking People Podcast, these episodes from the segment called Useful Language:

• Communicative Strategies (Part 1)
• Communicative Strategies (Part 2)
• Communicative Strategies (Part 3)

But under “Useful Language” there are many other episodes you might find useful to learn to speak fluenty and making no mistakes. Listening and repeating helps you automatize production.

• All the Poems (pick one to learn by ear and by heart!): http://www.talkingpeople.net/tppodcast/category/poems/
• All the Stories (pick one to practice/practise reading): http://www.talkingpeople.net/tppodcast/category/stories/. To start with I suggest, Coyote Kills a Giant for Avanzado 2 students and The Debutante by Leonora Carrington for Intermedio 2 students