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CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES ENGLISH SCHOOL

Examination Preparation

C o n t e n t s

To p i c 1: P e o p l e

Level B1 ____________________________________________________________________________________ 6–11

Level B2 ____________________________________________________________________________________ 12–19

To p i c 2 : P l a c e s

Level B1 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 20–27

Level B2 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 28–36

To p i c 3 : E v e n t s

Level B1 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 37–43

Level B2 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 44–51

To p i c 4 : M i s c e l l a n e o u s

Level B1 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 52–57

Level B2 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 58–65

To p i c 5 : A c t i v i t i e s

Level B1 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 66–71

Level B2 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 72–81

A n s w e r K e y __________________________________________________________________ 82–84

A u d i o S c r i p t ________________________________________________________________ 85–91

N o t e s f o r Te a c h e r s

Dear Teacher,

Our Classroom Activities are a rich teaching resource designed for school pupils at CEFR levels B1 and

B2. This material is arranged in five study units based on different topics:

(1) People, (2) Places, (3) Events, (4) Miscellaneous and (5) Activities.

Each unit features B1 activities and B2 activities. These activities are designed to train the skills

Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing as well as practice Grammar and Vocabulary. This collection of

60 ready-to-use photocopiable worksheets comes complete with an audio CD, audio script and answer key.

The exercises focus on one specific skill at a time and encourage pupils to practise their English in a

communicative way. All our activities can be used in class as preparation for the telc examinations at B1

and B2 levels; telc English B1 School, telc English B2 School, and the dual-level examination telc English

B1· B2 School.

You will notice that some of the practice activities exactly mirror the tasks contained in the telc School

and University examinations whilst others have a different format. The former are useful for acquainting

your learners with the actual examination, and the latter have been included to add fun and variety to

your lessons.

Please note: most of the worksheets can be copied onto one side of a sheet of paper, but some continue

on the other side of the page.

We hope that you and your students enjoy working with our Classroom Activities.

The telc English Team

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English B1 School

P e o p l e : F r i e n d s

Match the friendship phrases on the left with the correct meaning on the right.

1. Get together (with) a When a boy and girl are friends and nothing more.

2. Hang out (with) b When friends call, write or email each other often.

3. Stay in touch (with) c When people like each other and are good friends.

4. A friend of a friend d When two people have an argument and are no longer friends.

5. Get along well (with) e When friends spend time together.

6. Fall out (with) f When friends meet up to do something together.

7. Just good friends g When you know a person because another friend introduced you.

Complete the sentences with the names of people you know.

1. I like to get together with _______________ at the weekend.

2. I often hang out with _______________.

3. I always stay in touch with _______________.

4. _______________ is a friend of a friend.

5. I get along well with _______________.

6. I hope I never fall out with _______________.

7. _______________ and _______________ say they are just good friends.

Tips for Teachers

For further practice students can work in pairs. Student A completes the sentences about his/her friends.

Student B asks follow-up questions using the targeted expressions.

A: I like to get together with Alex at the weekend.

B: Why do you like to get together with him?

A: Because he’s funny.

V o c a b u l a r y

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S p e a k i n g

As a group, discuss the following:

“Work experience is an opportunity to try out or gain an insight into a particular job you would like to pursue as a career – if this job doesn’t live up to your expectations, it is just as valuable an experience as discovering that you are more convinced than ever that this is the right career choice for you.”

or

“It is benefi cial both to yourself and to your CV to gain work experience doing jobs completely different to the kind of job you wish to pursue in the future.”

Here are some photos of young people doing different types of work experience.

Talk to a partner about any work experience you yourself have done*, giving details about:

• where you worked and what tasks your work involved

• your working schedule (length of time, daily routine and hours)

• your boss and colleagues

• the atmosphere of the working environment

• whether you liked/disliked it and why.

* If you haven’t done any work experience, talk about what kind of place you would like to get some work experience and what you would expect to learn and experience there.

P e o p l e : T r a i n e e s

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W r i t i n g

English B1 School

P l a c e s : S c h o o l

Read the advertisement for English courses in Canada below.

You are interested in taking an English language course next summer. Write an email to the school using

a suitable greeting and closing formula. You should mention the following:

• ask for more information about the cost of the course

• say which after-school activities you are interested in

• say why you would like to take the course

• talk about your experiences of learning English

Before starting the letter, decide on the order in which you think these points should be included.

Learn English in Canada !

Summer English Programs in Vancouver

Learn English and meet new friends from around the world! Join us for three hours of

English lessons every morning with fun and educational activities in the afternoons.

Our four-week programs are available in June, July and August with all food, trips and

accommodation included.

After school you can play sports, watch movies, go to the beach, watch hockey games,

go rollerblading, visit a museum, go skiing or snowboarding, go white-water rafting or

just relax in a café. We also organize trips to fantastic locations like Whistler, Victoria, the

Rocky Mountains and other cities in Canada.

For more information contact info@english-in-canada.org.

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L i s t e n i n g

P l a c e s : G e t t i n g h o m e

English B2 School

You are going to hear a conversation between two students. During the conversation, decide if the

statements are true or false.

Mark your answers on the worksheet.

Now you will have half a minute to read the statements.

1. Chris’s team had taken part in a competition in the north of London.

2. The team’s coach managed to rent two minibuses from a car rental

company on the Internet.

3. Chris and his team spent the night at a local campsite.

4. The coach and the team changed their minds about travelling to

Hamburg by train.

5. Chris said to Anita they would be getting a full refund for their

cancelled flights.

6. Chris learnt that people are much more cooperative than usual in a crisis.

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Track 1

People Level B1

Number 1, Kristen Sure, most people dream of being famous, but I think it would be really stressful. You have no private life, everyone wants to know what you’re doing all the time and photographers follow you everywhere. It would be terrible! Every little thing you do ends up on the pages of the newspapers, especially the bad stuff. You make one mistake and the whole world knows about it. I can’t imagine people talking about my clothes, my hair, my love life… No thanks!

Number 2, Sean One really great thing that celebrities can do is to bring the public’s attention to important things that are happening in the world. A lot of them support a particular charity or organisation and use the fact that they’re famous to get more people to help. They can have an effect on a lot of people, not only their fans, and bring them together to do something good. It’s good to show you care about something other than being famous!

Number 3, Amber The best thing about being famous is definitely all the money you’d have. The more the better, if you ask me. Just think how cool it would be to be rich – you wouldn’t have any problems! You can do anything you want; live in a big house, drive a fast car, travel the world. Of course, the price doesn’t matter; with a lot of cash you never have to worry about anything. I know I’d love it!

Number 4, Alisha Yeah, I want to be a rock star! My life would be the best; people coming to see me in concert, VIP parties, meeting other celebrities. I’d get to wear cool clothes for free and I’d be invited to lots of special events, too. Everyone would love me, kids would want to be like me, and my face would be on the cover of magazines around the world. I can almost hear the fans shouting my name as they wait outside my hotel room…

Number 5, Ethan Being famous may have a lot of advantages, but I always imagine that it must be pretty lonely. Think about it: everyone wants to be your friend, but how many of them only want to know you because you’re famous? Most celebrities travel a lot and have very busy lifestyles, so they don’t have much time to see their family and real friends. It makes you think about what’s important in life – I’d rather be normal any day!

Track 2

People Level B2

Sally: Good evening everyone. I’m Sally Burke, the president of the Students’ Union at The Uni-versity of Broomfield, and I’d like to welcome you to our monthly student panel discussion. Our topic today is a very pertinent one in the era of social networking: What is the difference between a friend and an acquaintance? Here today we have three students from our uni – Christine, a first-year biology student, Peter, who is in his third year and is studying Classics and Dave, a second-year economics student. Welcome, everybody!

Following the phenomenal success of Facebook over the last few years, a new, rival social networking website has now been launched which specifically differentiates between friends, family and acquaintances. Admittedly, Facebook also offers a “groups” option in the meantime, but this is a bit difficult to manage and most people still stick to their original, long list of “friends” who receive all your postings.

So, is it better to distinguish between friends and acquaintances online? What is the difference? Let’s start with you, Christine.

Christine: Thanks for inviting me, Sally. I must say, I have never felt happy with the general term “friends” which is used in social networking. I actually have 753 “friends” on Facebook but, if I go through the list, I could honestly say that maybe 20 of them are real friends and the rest are people I know from my old school, people in various groups like my choir, family, fellow-students from my class, old colleagues from my Saturday job back home, and so on.

The problem is that there is a lack of a good English word to cover all those people in my social network – calling them “contacts” sounds a bit cold or formal, doesn’t it? That’s what they use on business networking websites, I think. And the word “acquaintance” seems a bit distant! To be honest, I would feel a bit guilty demoting hundreds of my friends to an “acquaintances” list!

Sally: But what exactly is the difference between a friend and an acquaintance? Maybe you would like to say something here, Peter?

Peter: Yes, go on then. I think there is a major difference. The last thing I would want is to be on a social network which puts everyone into one category, like it was when the whole social networking thing started out. That’s why I never wanted to sign up. No, to me, a friend is someone who you choose to socialize with, who you can have fun with and talk to about more or less anything, someone you share a deep level of communication with; someone to turn to

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Examination Preparation

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES ENGLISH B1·B2 SCHOOL

A solid foundation that builds students’ speaking, reading, listening and writing

skills. telc – language tests is proud to present this series of CEFR Classroom

Activites. This rich collection of sixty photocopiable worksheets comes

complete with audio CD, audio script and answer key for use in all English

classes at levels B1 and B2. This material is especially helpful in preparation for

the telc examinations at B1 and B2 levels; telc English B1 School, telc English

B2 School, and the dual-level examination telc English B1·B2 School.

Teachers can use them to introduce and practise the kind of communicative

Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking tasks which test takers will encounter

in telc English examinations. Thus, the activities are a useful supplement to the

mock examinations also offered by telc – language tests. Some of them are

more loosely connected with the exam format, and these serve to revise useful

vocabulary and structures and are a fun way to improve language skills.