B1 Dictations #4

Here are some vocabulary and activities for you to do over the summer! 

Here are two B1 dictations about the summer for you to practise your listening and writing! Don’t forget to download the transcript from the website to check if you did the dictation correctly!

If you are preparing for the Cambridge Exam, check out this podcast to help you prepare for the speaking exam. This podcast focuses on the final speaking part - part 4, which is all about an open discussion where you agree or disagree with some topics from part 3.

Let's take a look at some interesting information about this English-speaking country, Wales! Not the animal but the country! Here are 10 fun facts for you to learn.

Take a moment to close your eyes, be calm and quiet. Let´s find some time in our day to think and exist in English. 

Teacher Aurelia shares 6 tongue twisters, from easy to difficult, focusing on many of the difficult vowel sounds that non-native speakers struggle with.  You can download the script to see the written and Spanish-translated tongue twisters. By improving our pronunciation we also improve our listening skills because if we know how to pronounce it we know how it sounds.   La profesora Aurelia comparte 6 trabalenguas, de fácil a difícil, centrándose en muchos de los sonidos vocálicos difíciles con los que luchan las personas no nativas. Puedes descargar el guión para ver los trabalenguas escritos y traducidos al español. Al mejorar nuestra pronunciación también mejoramos nuestra capacidad de escucha porque si sabemos pronunciarla sabemos cómo suena.  

Anthony talks to Harry Waters from Renewable English about many important topics like his bilingual dog, second hand clothing, horses, his book and how we can save the planet.

There are different ways to use 'to' and 'ing' verbs. We´ve looked at the different verb patterns of both, but we must also recognise other ways to use these verb structures. 

Taking the common questions from the speaking parts of Cambridge and Langcert, Aurelia answers the questions for herself, unedited and unfiltered.

This episode focuses on VERB PATTERNS; verbs that follow with TO or ING. Today we concentrate on the verbs that follow with ING. Although there are many verbs, here are 20 that you can use every day!