Showing posts with label UNIT 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNIT 3. Show all posts

Monday 9 February 2015

Paraphrasing



We all hesitate when we speak and we all forget words from time to time. What is more, we are not walking dictionaries, therefore there are words we don't know. And this is how it works, speaking a language doesn't mean knowing all its words. It's all about communication, getting your message across. For this reason, if you don't know a word in English, it's not big deal, you have to live with this amount of "not knowing things" and try to look for strategies to express what you want to say. In this case you just have to paraphrase the word you don't know.

You already know how to paraphrase in your own language, when you don't know or don't remember a word you try to explain its meaning using other words. Well, this is what you have to do in English as well, even in your speaking test!! If you don't know a word, don't panick, it's ok, try to find other words to explain its meaning.

Imagine you want to say your husband is a doctor, but you've forgotten the word "doctor". You can say he works in a hospital or that his job is similar to that of a nurse, etc.

Monday 13 January 2014

Restaurant problems

Last week we talked about restaurant problems, watch the two Mr Bean's videos to see him in real trouble at the restaurant ;-P

I hope you like them







Thursday 5 December 2013

What is going to happen?

Have a look at the presentation and try to predict what is going to happen next...





Monday 2 December 2013

Connected Speech (1)

When native speakers of English speak they connect words and sometimes you can't recognize them because several words sound just like one word.

In order to be able to recognize connections when listening you have to be aware of them and you have to use them also to make them active in your mind.

Watch the video to listen to some examples.






Now practise with the sentences you worked on in class and pay attention to connected speech as well as sentence stress.


1. What are you going to do tonight?

2. Are you going to see a film?

3. I'm going to cook a meal for you.

4. I think it's going to rain.

5. We aren't going to have a holiday this year.

Future Plans

Thursday 29 August 2013

Camping as a Holiday

Here you have a short article related with the travel topic that you can read at home.



Tuesday 20 September 2011

Informal Letters

Informal Letters Writing