Environment and Climate Change

Listening activity: 6 short extracts about books

Click here to listen to the activity.

Click here to see the script and the answers.

LISTENING PRACTICE

I. SINGLE PARENT BASICS
You will hear an interview with Jodi Seidler, founder of Single Parent Network, talking about single parents.

Click here to listen to the interview and here to see the task, answers and script.

II. TODAY’S NEWS
You will hear some news bulletins.

Click here to listen to the news bulletins and here to see the task, answers and script.

Click on "Exam Practice" in "contents" and find more exercises about different skills. Good luck!

WRITING

Have a look at some samples and instructions on how to write different kinds of writing activities.

Writing reference 1

Writing reference 2

Natural Disasters

Click here to do a matching listening test. You'll listen to some people talking about their experiencies of natural disasters and will have to match them with the corresponding sentence. The key is below the script at the bottom of the page.

Cloze tests

Write the perfect crime novel

No more classes

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Travelling

Monologue about shopping

Comparing and Contrasting

Speculating and Hypothesizing

Expressing Opinions / Fillers

Discussion Language: Agreeing and Disagreeing

Clothes and Fashion- Speaking

How to talk about clothes and fashion. You can listen to and read some examples. 

Example 1

Example 2 

Listening practice: a ghost hunter

You will hear a radio interview with a ghost hunter called Carlene Belfort. There are seven multiple-choice questions and you should listen to it twice.

Reading: gapped texts

One
Two
Three
Four
Five

Multiple matching reading

Exercise 1
Exercise 2 (three activities)
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5

Multiple choice reading

Exercise 1 (2 texts)  
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6

Cloze tests

Hints on Answering Multiple Choice Cloze Passages  

Click here to do some multiple-choice cloze tests and practise your reading skills.

More activities here and here too.

Success

What does it take to be successful?


Click here to watch a short video about what leads to success.

Click here to listen to a podcast about the same topic. You have some vocabulary and the script at the bottom of the page.

Listening practice

I. Listen to a weather presenter (fill in the gaps).


II. Listen to five different musicians talking about their job (multiple speakers).

III. Listen to a radio interview with a photographer (multiple choice).

IV. Click here and do more listening activities (parts 2, 3 and 4- there are three examples of each).