APLE Homework. 6/9. Deadline October 31st

Dear students,
Today, with Rebecca, I was asking you a little bit about your plans for the future regarding university. Now I want you to go a little bit further and talk about your life in ten years time.

I've come accross a New York Times Interactive where senior students from a high school in San Diego were asked about their plans for their future, their 10-year plans.

You must hear their answers, choose two students you feel identified with and send me an audio file with all the information you've understood about those two. Then, do the same, but talking about you and your future. Try to avoid the usual mistakes. Do not read. Try to sound as natural as possible and do not rush.

Don't forget to mention YOUR NAME and also the names of the two people you have talked about.

I still don't know about the place for the listening test next Monday. All the regular classrooms are busy, so I will tell you once we are in "Idiomas".

Have a gr8 weekend.

Javier

Homework. 5/10. Listening practice. Deadline October 25th

In two weeks we will have our first listening exam, and then the second one, so I have thought that you could do some practice in this homework.
You have to go to this page www.esl-lab.com

Here you must do part II of 6 listening activities (2 easy, 2 medium and 2 difficult).
Easy:
Apartment for Rent / Bookstore Shopping
Medium:
A healthy Lifestyle / A story to remember
Difficult:
A free cell phone / Alcoholics Anonymous.

When you finish doing the activity print the screen (use the key Print Screen o Imp Pant on your keyboard) or use the "recortes" app from Windows, paste the image on a Word document and send it to me with the 6 screenshots.
If you have any problems, ask me.
This is what your screenshot should look like:

APLE HOMEWORK 4/10. Deadline October 17th

Dear students,

This week, the idea is to prove how well you can read. You have to go to this site, choose the story whose number corresponds to the one you have in your class, read and listen to the text as many times as you need and then read the text aloud recording it. You can try as many times as you want before sending it to me. When you are satisfied with the result, save it. If you do not remember your number in my list, choose any number from 30 to 50.
Enjoy your long weekend.

APLE HOMEWORK 3/10. Deadline October 10th.

This is your homework for this week. You must go to this page from CNN and listen to the news for a particular day this week or last week. Try to watch the video at least twice and then, if you don't understand everything, listen to it again reading the transcript. After that,  record in one or two minutes a summary of the pieces of news you have listened to. Don't forget to say which day you are referring to and who you are. You can also do it with the "Send voicemail" option.
If you listen to this piece of news every day (it may take you about 10 minutes) your oral English will improve a lot and you will be informed at the same time. So, add it to your favorites. This is a good way to improve in your future listenng exams.