Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other […]
Graphs – Back to Basics
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of […]
Getting the Most from Lectures
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Click to Open
Describing Graphs, Charts, and Tables
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises with answers. CEFR Skills/Competences: Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. […]
Describing Charts in English
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and […]
Cornell Note-Taking Method
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Click to Open
Charts, Graphs, and Diagrams
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports […]
Reading – Sport
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to […]
Listening-Tourism
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. […]
Listening-The Environment
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Click to Open
