Listening Exercises For 1st Year Intermediate Level

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Picture Description

Speaking

How would you describe the picture below? Click on the photo for some useful tips.



What about this one? Look at the picture carefully and then do the activities below.



To express your impressions you can use :
Look + adjective
Look like + (a) noun
Look as if + sentence

Expressing degrees of certainty.

I'm sure it's a dog- It must be a dog
I'm sure it isn't a dog- It can't be a dog
Perhaps it is a dog- It could/might be a dog

Listening

• You have to draw a picture. Listen to the recording and draw the picture described.

• Identify the fathers and mothers with their sons and daughters.

Visit Helendipity Weblog to find interactive activities and work with the corresponding units of English File Upper Intermediate, our textbook. It's very useful and highly recommended.

Thank you very much, Helen, for sharing all those interesting materials with all the blogging comminity. Yours is an excellent blog.

Once Upon a Time in America

The following set of activities was designed for my intermediate level students at E.O.I. Aviles. While some of the tasks are quite easy, others are more challenging. As all of you have guessed by now, they are dedicated to the U.S.A. You can improve your English as well as your knowledge of the States at the same time.
Come on! Have a go! You don´t have to do all the exercises or follow a fixed order, you can pick up the ones you feel like doing from the index. I encourage you to try and do all of them, though.

and start a journey to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean!

Linkers to write an essay

Click here to find some connectors and linkers that will help you organize your essays and articles of opinion. You don't have to use so many of them but you have to try and use some in oder to make your work more cohesive and well organised.