Unit 11



In this unit we will be using these exercises and activities from the coursebook:

• Unit 11. Oral activities about reported speech.
• Unit 11. Vocabulary and grammar.
• Unit 11. Key to oral activity 11C Spy School.
• Unit 11. Exercises about reported speech.
• Unit 11. Key to exercises about reported speech.

You can do the test on your own.

• Unit 11. Progress test (You can check your answers with the key to progress tests).

Unit 10

In this unit we will be using these exercises and activities from the coursebook:

• Unit 10. Oral activities: .
• Unit 10. Vocabulary and grammar.
• Unit 10. Vocabulary plus.

You can do the test on your own.

• Unit 10. Progress test (You can check your answers with the key to progress tests).

Unit 9

In this unit we will be using these exercises and activities from the coursebook:

• Unit 9. Oral activities: 9A Fighting fit.
• Unit 9. Vocabulary and grammar: 9A Get healthy.

You can do these activities on your own.

• Unit 9. Oral activities: 9B Good news, bad news.
• Unit 9. Vocabulary plus.
• Unit 9. Progress test (You can check your answers with the key to progress tests).

Unit 8

In this unit we will be using these exercises and activities from the coursebook:

• Unit 8. Oral activities: 8A Passive knowledge.
• Unit 8. Oral activity passive voice.
• Unit 8. Vocabulary and grammar.
• Unit 8. Exercises about the passive voice in English.
• Unit 8. Vocabulary plus.

You can do the test on your own.

• Unit 8. Progress test (You can check your answers with the key to progress tests).

Unit 7

In this unit we will be using these exercises and activities from the coursebook:

• Unit 7. Oral activities: 7C Article auction.
• Unit 7. Vocabulary and grammar: 7B Want it, need it! (Only page 208).
• Unit 7. Vocabulary plus.

You can do the test on your own.

• Unit 7. Progress test (You can check your answers with the key to progress tests).

Unit 6

In this unit we will be using these exercises and activities from the coursebook:

• Unit 6. Oral activities: 6A Men and women, 6D Round the board (only page 168).
• Unit 6. Oral activities first conditional.
• Unit 7. Oral activities: 7B The conditional game.
• Unit 7. Oral activities second conditional.
• Unit 6. Vocabulary and grammar.
• Unit 7. Vocabulary and grammar: 7B Want it, need it! (Only page 209).

You can do the test on your own.

• Unit 6. Progress test (You can check your answers with the key to progress tests).
Unit 6. Vocabulary plus.

You can find the recording for exercise 1 of progress test 6 on the wiki.



Unit 5



In this unit we will be using these exercises and activities from the coursebook:

• Unit 5. Oral activities: 5B Look into the future, 5C Who said what.
• Unit 5. Vocabulary and grammar
• Unit 5. Exercise about verbs followed by gerund, to-infitive or base form
• Unit 5. Vocabulary plus

You can do the test on your own.

• Unit 5. Progress test (You can check your answers with the key to progress tests)

Song

This is the video of the song that comes on page 114 of your coursebooks.

You can find the lyrics and the key to the exercise in your coursebooks here.

Unit 4





In this unit we will be using these exercises and activities from the coursebook:

• Unit 4. Oral activities: 4A Celebrity engagement, 4C Rainforest adventure, 4D Adjective crossword.
• Unit 4. Vocabulary and grammar
• Unit 4. Vocabulary plus
• Unit 4. Progress test (You can check your answers with the key to progress tests)

The holiday I will never forget

Do please leave a comment telling us about the holiday you will never forget because it was the best/worst/most unusual you have ever had or for whatever reason.

Then comment on your partners' holidays. What do you think of them?

Unit 3



In this unit we will be using these exercises and activities from the coursebook:

• Unit 3. Oral activities. 3B The world's greatest traveller, 3D Memory maze.
• Unit 3. Oral activity. What have they been doing?
• Unit 3. Oral activity. Find the correct sentence.
• Unit 3. Oral activity. Celebrity facts.
• Unit 3. Vocabulary and grammar
• Unit 3. Vocabulary plus
• Unit 3. Progress test

Further practice on formal writing

If you want some further practice on formal writing, you can work with these sections from the workbook:

• Reading and Writing Portfolio 3: Holiday arrangements (pages 74-75).
• Reading and Writing Portfolio 9: A letter of application (pages 86-87).
• Reading and Writing Portfolio Plus 3: Asking for information (pages 98-99). Be careful with this one, as the register in the model is more informal because contractions are used.

Spanish eating habits

Do please leave a comment with your opinion on Spanish eating habits. Do you think they are changing? If so, for the better or worse? Do you agree with your partners' opinions?

What's your dream job like?

Do please leave a comment telling us about your dream job. You don't have to say what it is if you don't want to. Think about what you have to do as part of it, adjectives to describe it, etc. Please also leave your opinion on your partners' dreams jobs. Do you agree with them?

Unit 2

In this unit we will be doing these exercises and activities:

• Oral activities: 2A World rules, 2B Opening night (role cards and What do you remember?) and 2C The absolutely amazing game!
• Vocabulary and grammar
• Unit 2. Vocabulary plus
• Unit 11. Vocabulary plus
• Test

This is the video of the song You can't hurry love that comes on page 114.

Unit 1. Laughter clubs

In unit 1 we have read about laughter clubs and their benefits. This is the link to a laughter club.

What do you think of them? Would you like to join one? Why (not)? Do please leave a comment with your opinion on this issue.

Unit 1

In this unit we will be doing the following activities and exercises:

• Oral activities: 1A Our free time, 1D Make it snappy!
• Oral activity. Question tags
• Vocabulary and grammar
• Vocabulary plus
• Vocabulary exercise. Prepositions with adjectives
• Test

Mobile phones

Amy and Jeremy give their opinion about mobile phones and how people use them (Coursebook, page 8). Please leave your opinion on this issue by posting a comment.

Información general

Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Burgos

Bienvenidos al primer curso del Nivel Intermedio, curso 2012-2013. A continuación se incluyen una serie de enlaces que pueden resultarte útiles:

• Calendario escolar
• Información general
• Información sobre las permutas y cambio de grupo
• Horario e información sobre el servicio de biblioteca
• Procedimiento para obtener el carnet que permite usar el servicio de biblioteca

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Libros de texto e información sobre el sistema de evaluación

Face2face Intermediate

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