It's time to get back to work!

Wash the dishes, tidy the kitchen, clean up all the wrapping paper, put away the Christmas tree, take down the decorations and clear a space on the table.

It's time to get back to work .-)

How about doing some vocabulary practice?

(This image is from the Flo-Joe site. It's not an International House resource. It is a great place to find some exercises and sample tasks for extra PET practice.)

There are lots of topics.
Why not start with Shopping?

We can talk about it in class in January. See you on January 8th!

Preliminary Writing Part 3 - 100 words

Here is a practice task from Cambridge ESOL to help you think about Writing Part 3.

Read the task:

Now consider these questions to help you think about how you could prepare your answer to the task.

Now use your answers to plan your text. We can write it in full in class on 11 December.
See you then.

Can I? Should we? Will they? Need you?

Modals are really helpful.
You should learn as many of them as you can because you need to be familiar with a number of them for your Cambridge English: Preliminary exam.

Here is a short list of some modals you ought to know.

(Source: Cambridge English Preliminary Handbook (c) Cambridge University Press/UCLES)

Let's see how many and how often we can use them in class!

Want a taste of what a computer-based test is like?

Here is the link to the official Cambridge English page for help with preparation for the Preliminary exam.

http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams/preliminary/how-to-prepare/

The links are specifically for demonstrations of what the computer-based Reading and Writing and Listening tests will be like.

ATTENTION: You need to use the Firefox browser from Mozilla to open the links.
(Below is a screenshot of what you see on the Cambridge English web page.)