INFORMACIÓN EXÁMENES CERTIFICACIÓN

There's NEW INFORMATION about the exam characteristics and rubrics. 

• Click here to read about the exam characteristics (time, tasks, number of words, etc.)
• Here to see the PTO y CPTO RÚBRICAS
• Here to see the PTE y CPTE RÚBRICAS
• Here to see the ME y MO RÚBRICAS

Conditional sentences

Click here to see the grammar and do some activities. Maybe you have problems with some links, but others work perfectly right. Do the ones related to the first and second conditionals.



Click here to see an old post about the same topic.

Online shopping

Click here to listen to a podcast about shopping online.

Here you have some old posts about the same topic. 

Useful vocabulary:

• A good deal: if something is a good deal, you pay a low price. You can say that a store has some great deals, for example
• A bargain: the same as above
• 20% off : the price is now 20% less than the original price
• Overpriced: if sth is overpriced, it costs much more than you think it should
• To order: when you order something that you are going to pay for, you ask for it to be brought to you, sent to you, or obtained for you. “to order things online”
• Order number
• To place an order
• If you have a discount on the retail price, you pay less price than the price normally charged
• Goods: things made to be sold
• To be scheduled for delivery (tomorrow)
• Online form
• A secure payment page
• To enter your card details
• Get a refund
• You can pay “Cash on Delivery”
• To exchange a product
• To track your package
• Shipping rates

Ready to test your knowledge?  Fill in the blanks with some of the words above.

LISTENING ACTIVITY

Watch the video and fill in the gaps. You can check your answers by activating the subtitles.

SINGLES’ DAY 
________________, cheap and some say addictive, online ________________________ are going through the roof in China. An electric tooth flosser caught Lu Ching’s eye, ______________ 20%. He rarely visits a ________________these days. Laptop, fitness equipment, cameras, all bought with a few __________________ and many other items he admits he doesn't even need. Sometimes I do ____________________ online, especially when they are on sale. A lot of times I buy them without thinking too much and never touch them again after I open the packages; even if I don't like them, I don't _______________ them because I'm lazy. Singles’ day started in the 1990s as a response to Valentine's Day, but it has gone far beyond people's relationship status. Online giant Alibaba managed to turn what's now called Double 11 into a shopping spectacle that captivates most of China. Exactly at midnight on November 11 __________________ appear online and the _______________ ____________ begins. Twenty years ago, America was China's role model but now when we talk about online business China is doing better than the U.S. in many ways. 2016 nearly 18 billion US dollars were spent in just 24 hours. As a publicity stunt ecommerce companies are using drones to ______________ _______________ to some of China’s islands. Transport companies are working _______________ to ________________ millions of packages. More than 650 million ___________________ were ___________________last year and this year's __________________ are most likely to be even higher despite a slowing economy but it is an environmental _______________ to the online shopping festival according to Greenpeace. Research shows that in 2016, Double 11 produced 258 thousand tons of CO2 because of transportation and waste _____________________that's the equivalent of two and a half million trees When we shop online the _________________ tend to ________________- They always wrap more layers around the original packaging usually plastic bags. This uses more resources and creates more waste. A problem Lu Ching has yet to become aware of. For him, online shopping has become like his mobile phone there's no life without it anymore and to prove that ___________________shopping does not increase laziness he demonstrates the home gym he bought online.

(Activities taken from Cristina Cabal's wonderful blog. Thank you very much!)

Shopping

Click here to do a listening activity about shopping.

Mediación Escrita

Remember you have 20 minutes to do this, without using the dictionary. Watch the video only once (you can take notes). Try to explain the main ideas using your own words! It's not literal translation.
Give it to me in class next week (Wednesday or Thursday).

MEDIACIÓN ESCRITA

Un amigo inglés lleva viviendo unos meses en España. Ha conseguido un trabajo, pero con su sueldo
no llega a fin de mes y en varias ocasiones te ha pedido ayuda. Has encontrado este vídeo con ideas
interesantes para ahorrar dinero. Como tu amigo todavía no tiene el nivel de español suficiente para
entenderlo, hazle un resumen con las ideas principales y mándaselo por correo electrónico.
(100-120 palabras)

(Conchi Gillén's activity. Thanks a lot!)

Life events

Click here to learn how to speak about life events. There's a video and a listening at the bottom of the page.

Living without money

Watch the video and answer the questions. Check your answers in "comments".

1. When did Daniel give up money?

2. Finish the sentence; “Money is an _____________.”

3. How much money did he leave in the phone booth?

4. What did his friend think of his decision?

5. How did 2008 change the narrator’s perspective?

6. What did Daniel choose to live in?

7. Name his food sources:

8. My philosophy is to use only what is freely ___________ and discarded and what is already ____________ and already ___________.

9. What does he will think will happen to money in the future?

10. We can cultivate freely giving and freely receiving, ______________ _______________ what station of life we’re in, that’s our true ______________ and it ___________ in everybody.