9&10 Revise and Check key

GRAMMAR
1 b   6 b   11 c
2 c   7 a   12 b
3 a   8 c   13 a
4 c   9 a   14 b
5 c   10 c 15 a

VOCABULARY
a 1 genetics   3 neighbourhood 5 death
   2 scientific 4 loneliness
b 1 overpopulated
   2 mispronounced
   3 multinational
  4 autobiography
  5 underpaid
c 1 loss        6 staff
   2 set up    7 rise
   3 leader    8 side
   4 launch   9 carry
   5 branches 10 guinea
d 1 quiet    3 later   5 never
   2 sound  4 order

PRONUNCIATION
a 1 neighbourhood 3 research  5 colleague
   2 prove                4 launch
b 1 biological 3 multicultural 5 manufacture
   2 physicist   4 increase

CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?
a Billy Ray Harris feels surprised and sad.
b 1 b   3 a   5 a   7 a   9 c
   2 c   4 c   6 c   8 b   10 b

VIDEO CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS FILM?
5 .45
1 radio waves
2 biologists
3 blackboard, Oxford / 1931
4 1925, scientific instruments, astronomy
5 sun, moon, stars
6 time, angles
7 world, stars
8 silver, George III

PODCAST EL PAIS IN ENGLISH

Last Thursday we were talking about podcasts. You can have a look at El País in English. You can read the script here as well.

Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English!

TED talks, Interesting talks to practice your listening skills. You can use the subtitles and the script.

Flea Market

And Here you have some listening exercises for advanced level, and listening for Intermediate level. If you click on lesson page, above you can read the script and there is an explanation of vocabulary.

Scuba Diving

Do you want to practice some listening?

The Gift of the Magi

This is the link to listen to the story we worked with yesterday.
You can read it while you listen.
If you want to read the whole story this is the link

Listening practice

If you want to practice your listening try these videos and exercises.

and Steve Jobs' address

SOME WAYS OF USING CDs AND DVDs AT HOME

Use in combination that YOU find best, if external checks indicate progress.
Your subconscious is ALWAYYS active: program it!
1. Put on CDs and DVDs in English and then don’t actively listen! Yes, you read it right: DON’T LISTEN! You can do this while you are concentrating on doing something else: washing the dishes, driving your car, reading the newspaper, eating, etc just like background music or radio. IMPORTANT: this works best with material you are familiar with already, or going to study intensely later. Put it in a volume you can only just hear. The more hours, the better. The more often, the better.
2. CDs and DVDs with written texts &/or English subtitles. You can vary:
- (Doing the listening comprehension task first or last or both, if there is one). - First reading, the listening, once or several times. –Viceversa- reading and listening together. -Checking all new vocabulary, only after you’ve worked with it for a bit. – Checking what’s new BEFORE you begin. – Little bit by little bit, with the pause button. – Long sections at a time. – Repeating and recording yourself either short bits or longbits, both reading and from memory. – Exercise eye reading and hearing and speaking and writing using the cassette or video text as a dictation, covering the script with a bit of paper and checking it briefly, repeating as you go. – Don’t forget to also sometimes practice for MAXIMUM comprehension on just ONE hearing, THE REAL-LIFE situation very often!