Listening practice- website

A good site for listening practice. Check the bottom right hand side.

Listening practice

Updates 8/11/14

Hello,

I have added answers for the Global listening for Staying Healthy and also added answers for Bottled Water. I think Bottled Water is quite a good activity.

I've noticed that you have to open the e-learning dictation activity with a pdf viewer to see the text...That will make it clear...

-Good luck on Monday everybody

Leann

Problems?

If there are any problems with the files here, just drop me an email and let me know..


Good luck in your exams


-Leann

Even more listening practice

I'm not sure if this one will work as it's a WMA file...


Here is the listening for

Staying Healthy

Here are the questions

Staying Healthy questions

Answers for global listening

More Listening practice- EFS3

Here are the questions for this listening activity.

Bottled Water


here is the listening

Listening, Bottled Water


Apologies for the delay

Answers

Dictation practice- EFS3 listening practice

Listen to this short 1 minute speech and try to write it as you hear it...

elearning


When you have written what you have heard, check it with the text below


e learning text

Listening practice EFS3

This is the listening for Ways of Learning- page 124 in the booklet

Ways of learning


This is the listening for Course Inquiry on page 129 in the coursebook

Course inquiry

Today's updates- 27/10/14

Hello.

I've added answers to the Milestones of Medicine listening task, added the Obesity listening and also added answers for page 93 in the book.

If you want to practice vocab and really want a challenge, you may be interested in trying some online crossword puzzles from Lovatts.

Some of them are quite difficult..

Answers to vocabulary questions on page 93

Here are the answers to the vocabulary questions on page 93

answers

Obesity listening

Sorry it's late, I had some computer problems on the weekend.


Here is the listening for obesity from page 85 of the EFS3 booklet.

Obesity

Answers

EFS3 Listening Week 2

 Listening for Milestones of Medicine page 58 is here

I will post the answers shortly

Updated- Answers for milestones of medicine

EFS 3 Listening

This is the listening for the top of page 31 in the EFS 3 Booklet

Development of the personal computer.

It's a .wav file, so I'm not sure if it will work...please let me know.


This is the listening for the bottom of page 32 in the book

Attitudes towards Technology


Answers

EFS 3- Interesting discussion of verb-subject agreement in writing

This website has an interesting discussion of verb-subject agreement in writing.

Verb-Subject Agreement

EFS1- Listening high school..from Thursday

Here is the recording for the listening practice on Thursday

Good site for writing EFS1

This website from Flinders University has some great information about academic writing

http://www.flinders.edu.au/current-students/slc/study-resources/study-and-writing-guides.cfm

Answers for Life Stories page 37 EFS 1 Book

Here are the answers for exercises 8 and 9, page 37.

Used to and Would answers pages 47 and 50 EFS1 book

The answers to the activities on pages 47 and 50 in the book are here

Listening for activities page 111 in the book

Here is the listening for the activities which start at page 111 in the book.

In tempo.

Relative Pronoun Answers EFS1

The answers to the relative pronoun homework .

EFS 1 Compare and Contrast Essay

 This is an example of a Compare and Contrast Essay as discussed in class today.

EFS1 Listening- School Experience

Here is a link to the listening, School Experience, from Wednesday's lesson.

EFS1- Francis Firebrace Answers

Francis Firebrace answers can be found here

Answers to Used to and would activities page 50

The answers to the used to and would activity on page 50 of the course book can be found here

Listening Answers EFS 4

Listening Answers- destination saigon

Listening Answers 2

Answers to reading EFS4

Answers to reading in booklet pp 56-61

Listening practice 2 EFS4

Listening- Tourism p 111

Listening practice EFS4

Listening files for Destination Saigon

Australian Animals Research for Elementary.

Please download the document here

Elementary- Links to extra activities.

This is the link to extra activities for the Natural English coursebook

Natural English

Listening- High school EFS1 week 2

Here is the listening


Here is the transcript and answers.

Notes on Essay writing for week 2 - EFS1

Here are the notes for the essay writing activity today. There are three parts of an essay, introduction, body and conclusion.

Try and use formal language

Try to use words you have learned during the week.

Try to use relative pronouns and past tense verbs.

FAME- Reading and listening- EFS 1

Here is the listening for the handout given in class today (14th February 2014)

Fame Listening


Here are the answers to the reading and listening exercises

Answers

Famous People Listening and Answers ( EFS1)

This is the listening for Famous People on Pages 39 and 40 in the EFS 1 course book


Here are the answers

Gadgets and Machines- Listening EFS1

This is the listening that we did in class about gadgets and machines..

Pages 98-99 in the course book.

Sun Power- Listening and Reading

Here is the listening for the Sun Power activity I gave out in class.


Here are the answers

More notes on the assignment- EFS 1- Bibliography.

Your assignment should have at least 3 pages.

page 1- title page
page 2- essay
page 3- bibliography.

The purpose of the bibliography is to tell the reader where you found the information you use in your essay. The reader then can look up the information themselves if they wish to continue your work or check your facts. This is the way research works, people use references and bibliographies to continue research and build information.

How to write a bibliography.

For websites;

Authors Name, (last name first) Name of website, Date, (use n.d if there is no date), name of webpage, viewed (put the date you looked at the site), webpage or website address.

For example; I looked at HAT-archive to find information about Houdini.

Richards, Leann, HAT-History of Australian Theatre, n.d, Houdini, viewed 21/01/14, http://www.hat-archive.com/HoudiniAustralia.htm

If you read my essay you can now find the website where I found the information about Houdini.


Another example- for the wikipedia entry on Barack Obama.

Various authors, Wikipedia, n.d Barack Obama, viewed 21/01/14, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

If you've used a book the format is a little different.

Authors name (last name first), date of publication, Name of book, publisher, city.

For example, my book about Houdini.

Richards, Leann. 2006, Houdini's tour of Australia, Ginninderra Press, Charnwood ACT.


That's some basic information about bibliographies. Different teachers and schools will have different ways of writing them, but if you use information from other sources for an assignment you will always have to write a bibliography.

Phrasal Verbs

Some links to phrasal verbs.


200 Common Phrasal Verbs ( This has their meanings)


This is a phrasal verb dictionary with over 3000 phrasal verbs in it. It also has some exercises about phrasal verbs.

Listening Activity- Technology

Here is the listening activity from today about technology.


Technology listening



Here are the answers.

Some links for listening.

Some good listening sites.

English Bites- Season 8 has subtitles.


Behind the News


Lyrics Training

How to write a compare and contrast essay.

Here are the class notes about writing a compare and contrast essay.

Relative Clauses- answers to homework questions

Here are the answers to the relative clauses exercises.

Exercise 137

Exercise 137 continued

Exercise 141

EFS 1 - Grammar- USED TO

USED TO


Used to + Infinitive (basic form of the verb) means that something happened regularly or went on for a long time in the past , but no longer happens.

I used to smoke- means that in the past I regularly smoked but now I no longer smoke


The negative form of used to is didn't used to

I didn't used to smoke- but now I do...


USED TO AND WOULD

- We can use used to and would to talk about repeated actions and events from the past. However we cannot use would to talk about repeated states.

My mother would/used to walk the dog every morning.

My mother used to be a teacher. NOT My mother would be a teacher..




answers to page 47 course book

EFS1 grammar- Before- After.

Before or after can be used to link sentences or clauses to make them more interesting.

We can use before/after + verb ing
Or
before/after + a noun
or
before/after + a clause ( see page 21 in the course book)


Some practice.- These all use before/after + ing


Answers

EFS 1 Grammar- FOR - DURING

During tells us about the period when something happens. For tells us how long it continues or lasts:

• I was ill for three days during my holiday and couldn't go out at all.
• I'll pop in and see you for a few minutes at some point during the afternoon.
• I've been working for this company for twenty five years

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/youmeus/learnit/

Some practice    answers

EFS1 Assignment

The EFS 1 Assignment is an essay between 400-500 words which is due in Week 4.
The topic is a famous person.

A suggested structure for the essay is below and is based on the Ghengis Khan example on pages 19-20 in the course book.

Paragraph 1
Introduction to the person with general information about why they were/are famous.
Paragraph 2
When and where the person was born with some information about their family
Paragraph 3
Some information about their childhood
Paragraph 4
Some more information about their life, for example who they married and if they have children
Paragraph 5
Information about their professional life, their career and their achievements
Paragraph 6
If the person is dead, how and when they died.
Paragraph 7
A conclusion about why the person is famous and why they are remembered.

Here is the complete Ghengis Khan document from today.