International House La Spezia's Blog

Using prepositions for FCE

timjulian — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:06:26 +0000

Many questions in Part 3 (Use of English) test your knowledge of prepositions. Here is an exercise to help you learn some of the most common expressions using prepositions.

NEF Advanced 1C

timjulian — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:52:20 +0000

Revise the new vocabulary from this unit of the course book with Quizlets

Useful FCE websites

timjulian — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:25:54 +0000

A very useful list of websites for FCE students on Sandy Millin’s blog

Every Presentation Ever

timjulian — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:03:11 +0000

A very funny video which looks at some of the pitfalls of giving presentations.

IELTS Essentials

timjulian — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:24:56 +0000

Very nice site with lots of IELTS help

2011 in review

timjulian — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:26:52 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 61,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

AISLi Blog

timjulian — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:00:32 +0000

AISLi is the Italian association of quality language schools. The AISLi blog is written with all learners of English (and their families) in mind. It’s updated regularly with interesting articles written by teachers from across the AISLi network. There is a link here.

Jason Renshaw’s TOEFL iBT resources

timjulian — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:32:38 +0000

The best resource on the internet for students preparing for the dreaded TOEFL

NEF Advanced 1B

timjulian — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:11:05 +0000

Practise the new language from this unit of the coursebook with Quizlets.

Analysing Poetry (5)

timjulian — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:18:50 +0000

This is an analysis of Keats’ famous poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”. Analysing poetry (5)