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IH Bristol Free Cambridge ESOL English Exercises Practise for your Cambridge ESOL Exams with our free exercises below. You will find various types of exercise from the Use of English sections of these exams to help you prepare for First Certificate in English (FCE), Certificate of Advanced English (CAE) or Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE). These free exercises have an optional time limit so you can test yourself in similar conditions to the exam: you will see a timer that counts down to zero; when it reaches zero your exercise will be automatically submitted. You can pause or switch off the timer if you wish. The exercises on these pages were all written by International House Bristol staff and you will not find the same exercises on any other website or in any coursebook. Find out more about studying for FCE, CAE and CPE on one of our Cambridge Exam courses.

Giving your opinion Jack: Oh! Hi Gemma. How’s it going?Gemma: Oh. Hi Jack. Loom for Education — Loom is free for teachers and students who are using Loom for classroom work. Below, we’ve compiled a list of resources, how-to’s, and examples from teachers who are using video recordings to connect with their students. Guide to Using Loom for Education: This Help Center article shows educators how to sign up, set up an account, and use video recordings in a classroom setting: how to create and share your videos, use key features like the drawing tool, flip your camera, record presentations, and more. Loom: Bring Learning Alive With Screencasting in the Classroom: This is an excellent resource from Kathleen Morris, a primary school teacher in Australia. She walks through what screencasting is, and how and why to do it with Loom — then she lists several relevant use cases for using Loom in the classroom. Definitely give this one a read!

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Sticky Grammar: Personality types I'm sharing an activity I developed to work on personality types and synonyms with teenagers in a B2 level. Since I knew it would be appealing to them, I used the movie "Divergent" and although the task was challenging, their being acquainted with the story helped consideably. After looking up some words in the dictionary and discussing the different profile a person in each faction should have, they had no problems whatsoever categorizing many different words which weren't familiar to them. I'll show you how I did it. As a warm up: Each student chose 3 adjectives that they would use to describe themselves.

Flippity — Spelling Words Flippity Scavenger Hunt Easily turn a Google spreadsheet into an interactive scavenger hunt activity. Demo Instructions Template All of the Flippity activities above can be set up to automatically email you results upon completion, giving you documentation and insight into how your students are doing. Flippity Self Assessment Sticky Grammar: Functional language I developed this task for basic students to work on functional language when eating at a place. In this video from the movie The Hobbit, Bilbo receives some unexpected visitors and struggles to be a good host. Througout the task ss will work on vocabulary, be exposed to authentic english, understand a movie scene and apply all this content in a productive way. I took the clip from enjoy the bits. Warm up: Look at the picture. How does Bilbo feel?