MORE EXAM TRAINING

Reading 

Mixed reading exercises

• Practice 1
• Practice 2 (try the exercises at FCE and some at CAE level)
• Practice 3
• Practice 4

Multiple choice

• Practice 4
• Practice 5
• Practice 6
• Practice 7
• Practice 8

Word bank

• Practice 1 (Many open cloze gap filling and bank word tasks )

Gaps with options

• Practice 1
• Practice 3 (Many tasks)
  
• Practice 4

Listening

• Practice1
• Practice 2
• Practice 3 
• Practice 4
• Practice 5

• Practice 6
• Practice 7 (You can try first the Medium level ones and then the Difficult ones)  
• Practice 8 
• There are 34 listening tasks on this last link and to complete them you should follow these steps:
• 1. Click on Quiz Video-Questions.
  2. Have a look at the questions.
  3. Click on Listen to the Dialogue to listen to the recordings
  4. Choose the correct option to questions 1-4.
  5. Click on Check Answer to see your marks

Events Calendar

If you would like to have a copy of the school's calendar, click HERE

WRITING A REPORT

In your B2 Certificate Exam you could be asked to write a report and, to help you with this task, I thought it would be a good idea to post some basic materials to guide you through this type of writing. 

Step 1 Follow this LINK to read a very short TUTORIAL.

Step 2 Do the following online activities:

• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Activity 3 (read students samples with some feedback)

SIGNPOSTING YOUR SHORT TALK

On this LINK you can get a copy of a handout with useful expressions on how to signpost your short talk. 

This the video we watched in class

MORE EXAM SAMPLES TO PRACTICE B2 ENGLISH CERTIFICATE

You can try your hand at the following online activities containing exam samples at Advanced level (B2). 

• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Activity 3
• Activity 4
• Activity 5
• Activity 6

SAMPLES OF B2 ENGLISH EXAM

If you would like to have a look at a sample exam for listening, reading, writing and speaking skills, you can follow this LINK

COLLOCATIONS

Before to do the on-line exercises, read the following tutorial on the importance of collocations in English.

You can now try the following on-line tasks: 

• Task 1 common collocations with the verbs miss, do, get and make. 
• Task 2 Extra collocations with the verbs do and make. 
• Task 3 If you feel more adventurous, you could try solving these other collocations.  

Vocabulary, phrasal verbs

One of the things you will necessarily have to learn by heart are idioms and phrasal verbs. To make this task easier for you, you can complete the following online multiple choice exercises:

Phrasal verbs on crime

Phrasal verbs on emotions

Phrasal verbs on food and drink

Phrasal verbs on Travelling

Phrasal verbs on Illness

Assorted phrasal verbs

I think that is enough for now.

Have fun!

Letter writing

Read and complete these tutorials: TUTORIAL1 TUTORIAL 2  VIDEO TUTORIAL on how to write formal letters before attempting the online tasks below.    

If you would like to improve your style in writing letters, you can do so by trying  your hand at letter writing with the following on-line tasks

EXPRESSING CONTRAST AND PURPOSE

Follow this LINK for a copy of the presentation used in the lesson.

If you would like to practise using connectors to express contrast and purpose, you can do the following on-line exercises. 

• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Activity 3

HOW TO WRITE AN EFFECTIVE OPINION ESSAYS

Before you write your essay, you may find it useful these on-line tasks. They will help you, not only revise what we learnt in class, but also write an effective one. 

• Step 1 watch this  video on how to write topic sentences.  
• Step 2 This other  video  will help you write and build a paragraph.
• Step 3 Complete the following activities to improve your writing skills
• activity 1
• activity 2
• activity 3 (vocabulary exercises)
• activity 4 (activities on connectors) 

On this LINK you can find the slides used in the lesson. 

VOCABULARY ON THE TOPIC CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

To revise the vocabulary we learnt on the topic Crime and Punishment, you can do the following online activities: 

• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Activity 3

How to modify comparatives and superlatives

If you would like to revise this grammar point have a look at this TUTORIAL 

• Activity 1
• Activity 2 (the online exercises are at the end of the website)
• Activity 3
• Activity 4
• Activity 5

Giving a short talk

In the first part of your oral exam, you will be asked to talk for about 3 minutes or 4 minutes on a given topic. To have an idea of how to address this oral task, listen to Isabelle, a Swiss student preparing for her oral exam, and Peter Travis, from Splendispeaking.com, giving Isabelle feedback on how well she managed on her 2 minutes talk on the importance of a good work-life balance.  

In this other short talk by Eu-Kyung, an exam candidate from South Korea, she is using clear signposting language to help her deliver her 2 minutes short talk.




On this LINK you have a handout with useful expressions to signpost your presentation. 

If you would like to have a copy of the TEMPLATE used in the lesson click on this LINK. 

In this video Ric Elias tells us about his life-threatening story using a different approach to deliver a presentation.