More Listening Practice




 

 

 Am All Ears!

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Another LISTENING Test practice on fill in the gaps.

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(2)
In case you couldn't do the last one CLICK HERE!
 

HAPPY EASTER

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LISTENING- Dangerous Sports

HELLO everyone, 

Today we are going to practise a bit of listening on sports...But not any sports, particularly, winter ones. It is important that you read about it first before you try to fill in the text for the activity...

A winter sport is a sport commonly played during winter. As a formal term, it refers to a sport played on snow or ice; informally, it can refer to sports played in winter that are also played year-round, such as basketball. The main winter sports are ice hockey and figure skating, sledding events, such as luge, skeleton and bobsleigh, skiing (Alpine and Nordic) and snowboarding. 

Luge, like the skeleton and the bobsleigh, (see photos) originated in the health-spa town of St Moritz, Switzerland, in the mid-to-late 19th century The first organized meeting of the sport took place in 1883.

The athletes ride in a flat, aerodynamic position on the sled, keep their heads low to minimize air resistance. The sled is steered mainly with the feet by applying pressure on the runners. It takes a precise mix of shifting body weight, applying pressure with feet and rolling the shoulders… 

From Wikipedia

Now,listen to a conversation where the speakers are talking about dangerous sports. As you listen complete the gaps with one or two words.

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British Amy Williams, a _______1_______and beautiful
woman won a _____2_______ in the last Winter Olympics
because she came first heading down an _______3- ____ at
a speed of _____4_____ kilometers an hour.

The woman says that all winter sports seem to be _____5____ dangerous.

A Georgian ______6_______ on the luge track in the last 
games.

The luge and the skeleton are slightly different. In skeleton 
you go down ___7___ first, and in luge you go down ______8_____first. The bobsleigh is also
done on this track…

Other dangerous winter sports are ski jumping, _________9-_________ and Alpine skiing,
where they go downhill. Here you can also see _____10______crashes.

They both think that it’s that element of danger which makes the sport _____11_____to watch.
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But not only winter sports are dangerous. In football last week there was a horrific____12___. 
An Arsenal player broke the _____13___ and fibula of his leg…

______14_______is also considered a very dangerous sport. A _____15____ player had 
a very serious _____16______ injury when he was knocked out by someone of his ___ 17__.

See answers in comment #1Final del formulario

Indirect Speech

These days we have been looking at the indirect or reported speech in class. Here is our ppt.

Visit this link and this one for further practice.

Reported speech from DULCE ROSALES

This Week We Celebrate

What do you do on Saint Valentine’s Day?

This has become a great business on behalf of love. But how much do we know about the origins of this celebration?

    The exact person we honor on February 14, St. Valentine, is hidden in the obscurities of the first three centuries of Church history. The feast may be in honor of a priest, Valentine, who was known to counsel and marry young couples.  This was at the time when Roman law persecuted Christians, so Valentine eventually incurred the wrath of Emperor Claudius II and was imprisoned.  When Valentine turned his attention to converting the Emperor himself, Claudius had him put to death.

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Watch and listen:

Remember, this week we celebrate Saint Valentine with a competition/ contest.
Write a love poem, a love story or card. More information at our  school.

Song Listening

I always recommend my dear students to listen to songs in English so as to improve their learning.

This song I've always loved.  I learnt it  by heart when I was only 15! 

Today I wanted to share it with all of you.

I hope you like it too!

 Lyrics

  My   Melancholy Blues  (Freddie Mercury)

Another party's over
And I'm left cold sober
My baby left me for somebody new
I don't wanna talk about it
Want to forget about it
Wanna be intoxicated with that special brew
So come and get me
Let me
Get in that sinking feeling
That says my heart is on an all time low - so
Don't expect me
To behave perfectly
And wear that sunny smile
My guess is I'm in for a cloudy and overcast
Don't try and stop me
'Cause I'm heading for that stormy weather soon
I'm causing a mild sensation
With this new occupation
I'm permanently glued
To this extraordinary mood, so now move over
And let me take over
With my melancholy blues
       ¯ ¯¯

I'm causing a mild sensation
With this new occupation
I'm in the news
I'm just getting used to my new exposure
Come into my enclosure
And meet my melancholy blues.                                      CHEERS,  FREDDIE, wherever you are!  J
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[LIVE Concert, here]

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Enjoy yourselves this weekend

D.

 

Unit 3B- Vocabulary

 

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Preposition with Adjective

1. List of common adjectives and the prepositions that normally follow them
accustomed to	afraid of	fed up with	attached to
aware of	capable of	dependent on	different to/from
worried about	enthusiastic about	excited about	famous for
fond of	guilty of	interested in	keen on
opposed to	pleased with	popular with	proud of
related to	rude to	satisfied with	serious about
similar to	suitable for	suspicious of	used to (= accustomed to)

Preposition with Verb

2. Some common verbs and the prepositions that normally follow them

stare at (= look at) wait for choose between pay for ask about ask for speak/talk about speak/ talk to believe in know about look into think about/of

13.  depend on   14.  remind of   15.  apologize for   16.  arrive in/ at   17.  laugh at/ with   18.  dream about   19.  argue about   20.  spend on worry about look like listen to

Practise further: 

 HERE, HERE

and HERE 

 

Revise the comparative & superlative adjectives

To revise the grammar seen in unit 3A

 click HERE!!