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Who was the “real” Rosie the Riveter?

Today you can do this listening.

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Listen and learn history! 

20 Things To Do With Matzah

Happy Easter!

Here you can watch a video called "20 Things To Do With Matzah".

Matzo, Matza or matzah; is an unleavened bread traditionally eaten by Jews during the week-long Passover holiday, when eating chametz—bread and other food made with leavened grain—is forbidden according to Jewish religious law. 

Use of English

Here you have different exercises of Use of English for B2 Level:

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Valentine's Day Listening

Last week was Saint Valentine's day.

Click below to listen to Mel and Doron discussing various Valentine experiences

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B2 Reading skills

In order to improve your reading skills you need to be exposed to a wide range of texts. You can read graded readers adapted to your level (Upper-intermediate) and websites with news of your interest. Below are some links:

Graded readers:
Macmillan Readers
Oxford Bookworms

News:
BBC Learning English
VOA 

You can also find second-hand books in Amazon.

Behind the scenes of Cambridge English exams

Some tips to talk as a native speaker

Watch this video for some advice on how to pronounce English correctly.

If you find it difficult, you can visit this website where you'll find the translation into Spanish.

Aprende Inglés Sila
http://aprendeinglessila.com/2013/01/3-consejos-basicos-para-pronunciar-ingles-como-un-nativo/

B2: Online courses with Bspelling

Do you think you need extra lessons to pass the FCE? You can find very interesting courses in this website. Now they offer a specific course for FCE and you can have conversations with native speakers as often as you want because they have a flat rate. You only need a computer, a micro and headphones.

http://www.bspelling.com/

B2 Speaking

In this video you can see students take the FCE Speaking exam with comments by examiners.

B2: Sentence transformation

Part 4 of the Use of English paper is one of the most difficult tasks in the FCE exam. It's important that you study the grammar sections of our book and, of course, you need to practise a lot. Below are some links to online exercises and information

Introduction and typical questions
Modal verb key word transformations
Phrasal verb key word transformations
Active to passive
Verb patterns
Direct to report speech
Test 1
Test 2
Test 3
Cooking a stew

In addition, you can find a summary of the rules we've seen in class regarding the use of adverbs modifying comparatives such as slight, by far, etc.

Comparatives and superlatives

Then do this exercise to check your understanding.


Joe-Floe
http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/tsindex.htm
The Tiny TEFL Teacher
http://www.tinyteflteacher.co.uk/learning-english/grammar/much-comparatives.html
International House
http://www.ihbristol.com/free-english-exercises/test-esol/esol-kt-cooking-a-stew 
AutoEnglish.org
http://www.autoenglish.org/FCEUse/FCEUsePart4.htm#Training_