C1 Exam practice_ April

My dear students, 

It´s quite a long time since we don´t practice for the exam.

So, let´s work a little bit under pressure. It´ll take you about two hours, maybe longer with the written mediation.I t´s better that you do reading and listening and take a break before mediating. Remember, no dictionaries. 

You´ll find the tasks and instructions in the link below. I´ll also include the tasks to be done.

Exam practice_April

👉READING

pages 2-3 _ The top seven do nots at job interviews.

page 9 - Waking up to young kids´sleep troubles.

👉LISTENING

pages 11-15. You can find the audio when you tick in the blue part, after the instructions.

Task 1-5 Speakers

Task 2- The Guardian Angels, Multiple choice

Task 3- Becky Blanton, The year I was homeless. Watch the Tedtalk (without subtitles)

KEY ANSWERS: Answers 👀

👉Written mediation Task:  Choose the best candidate for a job

You are working for a recruitment agency and part of your job is selecting people for a job.

Read the letter somebody has written to the agency and after reading the profile candidates´ in the second link below, e-mail your client back with your suggestion. (150-180 words)

(You´re not doing the speaking part as you´re working on your own).

THE RECRUIMENT AGENCY TASK

CANDIDATES

After practice, please send me an e-mail with your scores, this way I know about your progress.USE THE SAME E-MAIL FOR THE WRITTEN MEDIATION (word format) AND FOR THE SCORES OF THE REST OF THE TASKS. 

THAT´S ALL FOR THIS WEEK  💚💚💚💪💪

Coronavirus and mental health

Coronavirus and mental health

As coronavirus spreads around the world, there is concern about the problems this is causing for people's mental as well as physical health. Neil and Catherine look at the vocabulary in the news around this story.

Watch the video and complete the activity.

👂👂Coronavirus and mental health

The story

More than eight million people in the UK suffer from anxiety disorders. But the current concerns over the spread of the coronavirus and the restrictions on daily life have left many more people feeling under pressure.

Anxiety UK estimates it’s seen a rise of between 30 and 35 per cent in the number of calls to its helpline in the last couple of weeks.

The charity recommends that to reduce anxiety, people talk about their concerns, limit the time they spend listening to the latest developments, and find time to do things that distract them.

👉 Write a comment in the blog telling the way this period of isolation is taking its toll on you. 

6B Talking about emotions

Dear students, how are you?

 I hope you could rest and enjoy your holidays. I did it the best I could.

I´ve been thinking a lot about the way to continue with our lessons, so very soon we´ll have to try new methods. I´ll let you know.

For the time being, we´ll continue with the help of the blog. 

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👉 Let´s start with a review of what we did before Easter. 

Page 66 Review and extension: Exercises 1& 2. 

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👉 Vocabulary: Emotions

Please, do exercise 1 (a, b), page 71.

Key answers b: 1d, 2b, 3g, 4f, 5e, 6a, 7c, 8h

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Think about the following questions: 

• What does 'emotional hygiene' mean to you? 

• What's more important: body or mind? 

• How should we handle such states as loneliness, failure or rejection?

👉Open the link below and please do exercises 2, 3

How to practice emotional hygiene. Worksheet

Key answers: exercise  2: Shake off, called names

exercise 3: a. splurge, b. battle, c. trigger,  d. resilience, e. ruminate ,f suppress, g. upscale.

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 Answer the questions. Write your answers.

• What was the most upscale restaurant you have ever been to? 

• What situations make you ruminate a lot?

 • Have you ever battled with some bad habits? 

• What would you like to splurge on?

👉After checking your exercises (above) with very useful language, we are going to listen to a TED talk on the topic of emotional hygiene  and  send a comment in the blog either on one of  Guy Winch's statements below or about some of the pieces of advice mentioned on the reading  Coping emotionally with coronavirus .  Do you agree/disagree?

• "Loneliness creates a deep psychological wound, one that distorts our perceptions and scrambles our thinking. It makes us believe that those around us care much less than they actually do." 

• "In fact, we all have a default set of feelings and beliefs that gets triggered whenever we encounter frustrations and setbacks." 

• "(...) that's why so many people function below their actual potential. Because somewhere along the way, sometimes a single failure convinced them that they couldn't succeed, and they believed it."

 • "Once we become convinced of something, it's very difficult to change our mind." 

• "We have to catch our unhealthy psychological habits and change them. And one of unhealthiest and most common is called rumination. "