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ORAL COMPREHENSION: LISTENING

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To practice listening, I have looked for resources to improve my oral comprehension and get used to understanding the language better. For that I have seen lectures in English and I have listened to audiobooks. Next I am going to share some links so that you can see the resources and practice too. In many cases the text or the transcription does not appear so that it is more difficult to understand what they say and get used to listening without having the text as a support. In this way we can practice attention and concentration and gradually improve understanding of the context even if not everything they say is understood. You should have a general idea of ​​what you want to convey in the message. We can also use movie trailers and series in English. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiyTUr-ixjooUMCptk6FDEQ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=english+conferences https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=english+trailers https://www.brainlang.com/blog/los-mejores-audiolibr...
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EXAM PRACTICE

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During this week every day I practice the different parts of the official English exam: reading, writing, listening and speaking. For this reason I have looked for texts with questions adapted to my B1 level to be able to read them, work on reading comprehension and be able to answer the questions. I have also looked for listenings adapted to my level to train my ear and to better understand what people say. Even so, I have also put videos and audios in English at a higher level to adapt to the language. Besides, I have been practicing writing making different compositions, written mediation and other ways of expressing myself in writing. Every afternoon, I have been taking the exams that my teacher sent to practice all the sections and on Friday I am going to meet my partner Víctor to practice speaking, specifically the description of the photo, explain an anecdote and ask the two questions. We will do this as many times as necessary to be able to improve our fluency to communicate.
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A PERSONAL CHALLENGE: PRACTICE WRITING EVERY WEEK

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I have proposed that every week I will write a text in English. The most difficult part of English and of all languages ​​in general is the writing. For that reason I want to practice and be able to improve this skill. For this I have looked for different resources that can help me to be able to write a good writing. I have found videos where they give you advice on how to write an essay, write an email, etc. All resources are adapted to my level of English, B1 or pre-intermediate. I think you have to take advantage of the Internet as a learning tool and you can find many things to improve your English level little by little.To practice writing for the exam, what I will do is set myself 50 minutes to do the writing and learn to reduce the words little by little and only explain the most important. I think this exercise will help me a lot to improve my agility when writing. It can also help me to gain confidence in myself to be able to write alone without the help of the translator ever...
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PRACTICING ENGLISH WITH GRAMMAR BOOKS

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This week I started doing grammar exercises from a book that I picked up at the library. In this book there are different theory and practical exercises for each section. Learning grammar is very good to have a theoretical base about English, to know how to make sentences with their verb tenses and use expressions that can be useful to communicate. A CD-ROM is included in this book so that you can also practice listening comprehension in English. The truth is that it is a very complete book that is helping me to learn more in English and put the knowledge into practice. I recommend that you take books in the library to practice grammar and improve the language!
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LEARN ENGLISH BY READING MAGAZINES: SPEAK UP

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Today I went to the library and I have taken different Speak Up magazines to read at home. In each of them there are different interesting topics, there is a CD to listen to the pronunciation of the words and also a reading book usually comes but I have not taken it because I already have the reading book to read this month. It is a magazine to learn English in a more entertaining way, where there are simple and short texts. Even so, you can learn a lot of new vocabulary and phrases that can be useful to you. Usually the magazine deals with current affairs or recent events. It also has a small notebook inside with exercises to practice the language. The truth is that the content is very interesting and at the same time you learn a language. I encourage you to read magazines in English, it is an entertaining and simple way to learn English.
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NEGATIVE PREFIXES OF ADJECTIVES AND CONDITIONALS

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This week in class we have done the prefixes of the adjectives that have a negative meaning. I was curious to know more about this and I have searched for information and I have found more adjectives with these prefixes to be able to know how they are classified. I have made a list of all of them in the notebook so I can have more resources to consult in my notes in case I need it. I have also found exercises online to better work these adjectives. I have even seen that there are nouns and verbs that have these prefixes "un-", "im-", "il-", "ir", "dis-" and "in-" and then I have also written them down in the notebook to remember me better. We have also given the third conditional and to better understand the difference between all the conditionals I have been watching a YouTube video where a girl explained everything very well and I have understood it better. I have also done exercises with the conditionals to practice more. I...
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LIBRARY READING CORNER: BELOVED BOOK

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Today I went to look for the reading book that we have to read this month in the reading corner of the municipal library of my town. The book is called "Beloved" and its author is Toni Morrison. This book contains 275 pages and for me it is a great challenge to read it. Once we finish reading the book, at the end of the month we will make a video call to comment on aspects of the book such as what it consists of, what characters there are and what happens throughout the story and explain how it ends. We can also share things that have caught our attention and that we want to explain to others. This reading corner is very good because in addition to practicing reading comprehension, we learn new vocabulary and when making the video call commenting on the book what we do is practice communication and listening comprehension. This afternoon I'm going to start reading the book and see what it's about. I hope to learn a lot about this. I encourage you that if your library ...
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