PRUEBAS DE CERTIFICACIÓN: PRACTICE FOR YOU

  I think all of you should be aware of some of the different PRUEBAS DE CERTIFICACIÓN from other communities, which can be really useful when you deal with your own ones.

This is what I have found in the net:

A) PILAR TORRES’ BLOG , where you can find links to many exams of CERTIFICACIÓN from the different communities in Spain. This lady, who is curiously an old student of mine,  is an expert in multilingualism, working as a linguistic adviser in Cordoba.

B) BLOG OF THE EOI ICOD DE LOS VINOS IN TENERIFE, where you can also find examples of exams of CERTIFICACIÓN.

I hope all of you will use them and will do as many different exams as possible, but remember always to do them following the same indications as in the exam!!!!!

The more you do, the more different possibilities you will have and the more practice you will carry out!!!!!!

In case you want to have examples of monologues and dialogues from exams of CERTIFICACIÓN in Andalucía, here they go:

•  ORAL CERTIFICACIÓN EXAMS IN 2013- 2014: ING_NA_EOIO
• ORAL CERTIFICACIÓN EXAMS IN 2012- 2013: ING_NA_SEP1_EOIO

IMPROVING YOUR PRONUNCIATION: SHADOWING

This is another tip to improve your English pronunciation: the technique of shadowing:

So, basically, it is to listen and repeat at the same time, trying to copy intonation, rhythm and stress!!!!

You need to remember that  it may be difficult, but the more you try, the better you will become at it!!!!

IMPROVING YOUR PRONUNCIATION: ENGLISH RHYTHM

This week we have been dealing with English rhythm, which is really important to consider if we want to have a good pronunciation.

These are the videos we watched in order to grasp this concept of English rhythm. Remember!!!! The more you practise, the better you will become at it!!!!

VIDEO 1

RHYTHM depends, not on how many words are in a sentence, but on how many stressed words there are. Remember that we need to stress certain words, which are longer, stronger and with a higher pitch:

VIDEO 2

We learn which are the words that are stressed and unstressed in a sentence:

VIDEO 3

But stress also depends on pauses and we need to pause after THOUGHT GROUPS:

How interesting, isn’t it????

ENVIRONMENT

We have started dealing with the ENVIRONMENT.

Firstly, I decided to introduce the vocabulary about the ENVIRONMENT in a communicative way, including it in questions that we went through: PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT (VOCABULARY THROUGH QUESTIONS).

We moved on to watch a video, which was an interesting documentary called HOME. Besides, we decided to work about natural disasters, so we did a listening about the earthquake and tsunami  in Japan (Do you remember???) : .

Then, we tried to get a more optimistic view, by doing a song “HEAL THE WORLD”: and by trying to propose ways to improve our city.

But, apart from all this, I also wanted to share with you some ads that are really good to raise our awareness on the importance of protecting our environment:

And the last one, which is a link: IT’S NOT TOO LATE

Are you a real environmentalist or aren´t you????