English Conversation - City Hall

City Hall
Monday through Friday
1700-1830

Instructor: Andy Jackson
Email: arpblop@yahoo.com
CP: 010.7700.0063

Some Useful Resources

Listening Activities for Beginners (from esl.about.com)

1000 Most Common Words in English.

Minimal Pairs for Listening Comprehension
Requires Quicktime Player, Adobe Acrobat Player, and Shockwave
If you have trouble finding any of these, please call or send email to let me know.

The resources listed below include both reading, multiple choice, and listening activities. If you have questions, please email me and be sure to tell me exactly which activity you are asking about.
Thank you

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Supplement 1: Introductions ( 2nd Pass Activity )
- Listening Activity
- something else?
Supplement 2: Numbers
- Numbers Reference
- To Be
Supplement 3: Days and Dates
- US Holidays: http://www.eskimo.com/~cjh/esl/book1/chap2.html
- Practice Dialogues

Supplement 4: Count & Non-count Numbers
- Countable/Uncountable Nouns from esl.about.com
- Countable/Uncountable Nouns from the University of Victoria British Columbia, Canada

Supplement 5: Likes & Dislikes Listening Practice

Countable and Uncountable Nouns: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslcount2.html

simple present tense

Supplement 6 - Telling Time

Listening Practice - Randall's Listening Lab
Telling time - expressions
telling time - dialogues
listening practice
Prepositions of time, of place, and to introduce objects - from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab

Supplement 7 - Telling Locations/Asking for & Giving Directions
Simple

Dialogue
Preposition Practice * prepositions

More difficult

Prepositions of Direction * prepositions
Prepositions of Location * prepositions

Supplement 8 - Inviting, Accepting, and Declining

List of common expressions (audio=listening activity)
Listening Activity ( NOTE: pre means before - post means after)

Supplement 9 - Talking About Family

Supplement 10 - Comparing

Examples
Listening Comprehension (activities are listed at bottom of page)
Comparative and Superlative Forms Quiz

Supplement 11 - Talking About Every-day Activities activity - http://esl.about.com/library/beginner/blabsolute_25.htm - (adapt for pair work)

Supplement 12 - Describing Jobs

Supplement 13 - Describing Personalities

Supplement 14 - Telling Future with Conditions

A summary of English future forms from esl.about.com - you don't have to memorize all of this, but you should keep it for future reference.
Summary of Conditional Sentence Forms - We only need to look at TRUE conditional sentences in the FUTURE and UNTRUE conditional sentences in the FUTURE.
Another Summary - Look at Conditional 1 and Conditional 2

Supplement 15 - Telephones Future Progressive (Continuous)

Guide to using Future Continuous forms to discuss plans.
More Future Progressive notes - there is a link near the top of this page - click on it for listening practice (audio).
Still More Models using present continuous form.
List of Verbs that are never used in the the progressive forms.

Supplement 16 - Vacations Plans Future Progressive with For and Until

Online Guide to using Adverb Clauses with Time Expressions
Exercizes using until, since and for

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Supplement - 1 Introductions
Supplement - 2 Tag Questions
Supplement - 3 Count/Noncount Nouns
- Online Exercizes
Supplement - 4 Asking for and offering help
Supplement - 5 Asking for and giving advice
- Giving Advice
  Asking for & Giving Advice - w/ listening activity.
  Agony Aunt Advice Handout Advice Review
Supplement - 6 Telling about physical problems
Supplement - 7
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Supplement - 9
Supplement - 10
Supplement - 11 - It's as Easy as ABC
- Handout
Supplement - 12 - I Prefer Playing to Studying
- Stating a Preference
Supplement - 13 - Let's Be Good Parents!
- Causatives Practice
Supplement - 14 - May I Take Your Order?
Supplement - 15 - I Know What You Did Last Summer
Supplement - 16 - How Did It Happen?

Scrambled Sentences

Beginner Review Quiz