LOTS OF GREAT TRANSLATION EXERCISES!

Translating sentences is a good way of practicing structures and comparing languages!
If you want to improve your translation skills, you are lucky: there are useful online websites which provide lots of exercises!

For example:
                           1.exercisesonline.com, where you'll find practice according to your level

                           2.lawebdelinglés offers good grammar explanations for each level and great              translation practice of the different grammar points. 

  

                  

WRITING ESSAYS FOR LEVEL 2

While some students love writing because they find it creative and they can express themselves, others hate it and consider it's a waste of time. However, writing essays isn't as difficult as you think if you follow the right advice, you should start with simple topics, let's say you want to write your opinion about fast food:

look at an example first

and check the interesting in formation that the website "Academic Writing" offers to you:

• Who are you writing to?
• Focus
• Thesis

• Paragraph structure
• Overall structure
• For and Against Essays
• Opinion Essays
• Essays Suggesting Solutions to Problems

PART OF THE SECRET OF A SUCCESS IN LIFE IS......FOOD (WRITING RECIPES)

Food is a pleasure and there are lots of quotes that will tell you so, for example, look at these few, and now learn how to write your favourite recipes in English. First here are some yummy examples (clik on the right to choose your level and specific interest) and after that, follow the instructions  and now you are ready to share it with your friends and enjoy the pleasure of food.

LEARN ENGLISH WITH SONGS! (FROM LEVEL 1)

This great website shows different easy songs for beginners and, at the same time, has useful exercises, just click on your favourite song, enjoy the music and.....learn English and have fun!

DESCRIBING AND COMPARING PICTURES AND SITUATIONS

A good way of improving your English is by describing pictures or/and situations, you can use lots of interesting expressions, structures and have fun using your imagination too!.
Here is some helpful information from the web SlideShare including an example from the Cambridge First Certificate Examination, level B2.

IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH BY READING AND WATCHING THE NEWS WITH "NEWS IN LEVELS"!

This is a great website to visit when you want to read news and  practice of all your skills at the same time.
Notice how the news articles are presented in a different way according to your level, for example
My suggestion is the following: start with: LEVEL 1 or LEVEL 2 to read and understand the text. You can even use it as a dictation exercise and repeat the sentences to improve your pronunciation!
After that, watch the video in LEVEL 3 even in you don't understand the whole text! It'll be good listening practice too.

PREPARING FOR LISTENINGS EXAMS.

If you are preparing for your B2 listening exams (FCE or Escuelas de Idiomas, CUID, etc), then you are lucky, here you'll find interesting exercises of the basic topics for you to improve your listening skills.

If your level is B1, try these exercises

And these exercises for A2

                                                      Good luck good listener!

ENGLISH GRAMMAR BOOK FOR LEVEL 1

I usually recommend this grammar book for LEVEL 1: beginners or those who have studied English but don't remember the most basic grammar items. It shows examples in short texts, there's an explanation of the rules and graded exercises, from simple to more complicated. Buy one with key so that you can correct your mistakes.
Learning English grammar is a question of patience and practice and more patience and more practice because you learn, forget, remember, forget, practice, remember.....a never ending story! but it keeps your English alive!

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR ACCURACY AND FLUENCY WHEN YOU ARE SPEAKING ENGLISH (from level 2)

A good system is lots of practice, for instance,  answering lots of questions to master a specific grammar point!

Choose your most difficult grammar point and answer the questions as fast as you can to improve accuracy and fluency and you'll notice the difference!

SPEAKING: CONVERSATION STARTERS FROM INTERMEDIATE

Conversation starters World,  is a great website to practise your English and improve your conversational skills in your own language too.
How? Using conversations based on the questions on the web, you can do this exercise alone and record yourself to show it to your teacher late,r or with a partner to practice and have fun at the same time!
Your fluency and accuracy will soon improve!

MORE LISTENING EXERCISES FOR LEVEL 2 AND UP

If you are working on improving your listening skills, try the following listening exercises:

Activity 1

And when you finish you might try
Activity 2

HOW TO WRITE A FORMAL LETTER

Before you write your next formal letter, check this interesting information

and, after that, here are some more useful tips and an exercise

LISTENING PRACTICE FOR LEVEL 2 IN AMERICAN ENGLISH

Here is an interesting list of exercises for you to improve your listening skills

Yes! Little by little you're improving!

WHAT'S A SYNTHESPIAN?:VOCABULARY CINEMA

A student and I were talking about special effects in films when we came across the word synthespian, which was totally new for both of us!:

synthespian

 (ˌsɪnˈθɛspɪən)

n

1. (Film) a computer-generated image of a film actor, esp used in place of the real actor when shooting special effects or 

stunts

2. (Computer Science) a computer-generated image of a film actor, esp used in place of thereal actor when shooting special effects or stunts

an we had a fascination discussion about the use of new technologies to create special effects.

Practice your vocabulary related to cinema with

exercise 1

exercise 2

and if you are interested in the use of new technologies to create special effects you might like this video, you can watch it with subtitles:

READING: FAIRY TALES, CRIME, FICTION, ROMANCE.....! (LEVEL 2)

A lot of students like reading but while they are on an intermediate level it's sometimes difficult to find appropriate reading material, short stories are an ideal way of learning and having fun at the same time.
Try these fairy tales, they're easy and entertaining!
If you like thrillers, you should choose one of those
If you are a fiction fan....
or a lover of romantic stories

LEVEL 2. LISTENING TO BRITISH ENGLISH

You'll really enjoy this BBC website.

*Six minute English

It's a wonderful web for listening to the topics you're more interested in! (You can read the text at the same time)