English Studio Online Practice

As an EFL Teacher I have often been asked this question.

May be here you can get some hints and…practice -
my way of killing two birds with one stone

In the exercise below decide which is the best
alternative (a or b) for
the summary of the audio bits presented:

1 )
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a- It’s a good idea to listen to different things
over and over again.
b- It’s a goof idea to listen to the same things
over and over again.

2)
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a- If you do not understand something you can always
refer to a text and even an online dictionary.
b- If there’s something you do not understand,
try to imitate the sounds because that’s good
to improve your pronunciation.

3)
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a - 9 is the number of languages that the speaker has learnt.
b- 2 is the number of languages that the speaker has learnt.

4)
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a- Technology means revolution and this has been wonderfully
exploited by English Language Teachers
b- This is a good time to learn a foreign language because
technology offers you many alternatives.

5)
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a- The speaker is not such a good learner as he used
to be in his teens.
b- The speaker is far better a learner than some
decades ago.

Watch this really touching video and then follow the
script below. You will find jumbled words in bold
all around.Listen carefully and correct them:




“Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits, the breesl, the troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes, the ones
who ese things differently. They’re not fond of
rules and they have no eptserc for the status quo.
You can quote them, asgrdeie with them, glorify
or vilify them.
But the only thing you can’t do is ergino them.
Because they change things, they push the
mhanu race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones,
we see neigsu, because the people who are crazy
enough to think they can ecahgn the world,
are the ones who do.”
— Apple Computer commercial “Think Different“

This is a classic Nursery Rhyme.
Listen to it and then put the pics in the
order the images are “mentioned” in the song:


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A)

B)

C)

D)

E)

F)

Need more help to order the pics ?
This cartoon probably helps:

It is called “Gap” because you have to follow
my description to fill in the “gaps” that
complete the information you need.

Info you need: Description of my boss.
Requirements: Your internet browser
should be IE (apparently does not work well in Firefox….)

Go to this address and don’t pay attention to
the intruction the link provides.
Click on the “BEGIN” button and then
place the mouse over the features on
the red banner . Your task is to find
MY BOSS and the way to do it is by
understanding my description:

1. His head is somewhat
square-shaped. His skin is not so pale.
He generally doesn’t like shaving.
His chin isn’t so prominent.
2. His curly hair is reddish and short.
3. His bushy eyebrows are red, and
they do contrast to his lovely green eyes that also make
his red freckles below more noticeable. -By the way, the
green eyes are the only lovely feature he’s got!!!!
4. There’ a yellow ring in his left
nostril -whichis not so attractive as far as I believe…
5. His thick lips are not so red.
6. He’s got a very bushy red beard.
7. He likes brilliant colours on his ties.
However, he often shows some preference for elegant
dark suits.
8. He can’t live without tobacco but
I’ve never seen him smoking a cigarette.
9. There’s a water dispenser and a
filing cabinet in his office.
10. He always keeps threatening
everybody with redundancy if no hard work is sulfilled.
11. He sounds as if he were insane
when he laughs -Thank God he doesn’t laugh so often!

Got him? Send me an email
with his image and I will tell you if that’s OUR man.

Reference

Here’s a bit of a videoclip from the movie “Fly Away Home” -
Watch it while choosing the best answers for the
given questions:

Extras (should you like to go deep into the movie):
From the Movie web
Behind the scenes

or into the subject of “Birds’ Migration”)
Operation Migration