Tuesday's CAE Group : Video

Here is a TED Talk on leadership for today's lesson:

Benchmark Advanced Unit 5 Words

Here is a link to a short exercise for unit 5 words.

BEC Advanced Video (Monday 28th)

Here is a Ted Talk Video on The key to growth? Race with the machines By Erik Brynjolfsson.

Benchmark Advanced Video

CAE Writing

Here is a handy video explaing what the Writing paper consists of:

Benchmark Higher Test

I am happy to say that everyone passed Thursday's test with a minimum of 60% (C). Many people in fact got grades A & B. I'll give the papers back on Monday.

CAE Tuesday's Group

Speaking Exam Part 2

CAE Tuesday's Group

Speaking Elements

Benchmark Higher - Units 3 & 4

As promised, here are the Unit 3 & 4 summary exercises:

BEC Business Wordlist

I have put the same word list on Google Drive; hopefully you will be able to download it now. Here is the link.

Please write in the comments if you have any problems.

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Benchmark Advanced - Homework

Here s the homework for today's lesson:

Benchmark Higher - Wordlist

Here is a link to an excel document I've put on Scribd which I downloaded from the Cambridge site. Let me know if you have any problems accessing it.

Benchmark Advanced

On Monday 14th we will have a review of units 1-4 followed by extra material.

On Thursday 17th we will have a test of units 1-4 followed by an overview of the BEC exams.

While versus During

The words "while" and "during" are very similar and often can be used to talk about the same event.

However, they are used differently.

While is used when we think of two actions at the same time. e.g.

While I was having a lesson we did a writing task.

N.b. In the fist example we think of the lesson as a noun similar to a film, or football match. In the second example we concentrate on the action.

Benchmark Higher - Monday 7th - Ted Talk

Tuesday's CAE Group - Speaking

Here is an example of the CAE Speaking Exam (2015)

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Here is a link to a useful guide to the use of acronyms and abbreviations.

Benchmark Advanced - Writing skills

Here is a link to a very good website providing downloadable pdfs on writing skills. I will be using some in class on Thursday but I recommend that you take a look at this website.

Dynamic versus Stative verbs

 

Stative verbs describe the state of something (condition). They answer a simple yes/no question. They do not describe any action and so can not be used in the continuous form. 

Dynamic Verbs describe an action and so can be both in the simple and continuous form.

Here is a link to a webiste where you will find further explanations and online exercises.