Part 4

Listening and Vocabulary

Apart from Reading exercises, the English Test Store also offers a large number of Listening exercises: http://englishteststore.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11388:free-english-listening-exercises-and-tests-online&catid=1:latest&Itemid=389

There are different options in the left hand column under Listening Tests which you can choose from. When you have selected a particular type of test, choose either the medium or hard level. For example, for the True/False exercises you can choose between medium and hard by selecting the direct link.

http://englishteststore.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14378&Itemid=343

Medium

Hard

For Vocabulary exercises, the ‘Agenda Web’ site can be used. There are 10 pages of vocabulary exercises at an advanced level. Start with the exercises on page 1 (link below), it has 30 exercises. By clicking the subsequent ‘pages’ you go to a more advanced level.

http://www.agendaweb.org/vocabulary/tests-advanced-definitions3.html

Reading and Vocabulary

A. Click on the following link: http://www.eslfast.com/eslread/ss/s353.htm

Read the story and do the exercises underneath, apart from ‘Dictation’. Start with studying the vocabulary.

B. Then click on the link: http://www.eslfast.com/eslread/ss/s342.htm

Same instructions as above.

C. Then select the link http://www.eslfast.com/eslread/ss/s194.htm

Same instructions as above.​​

D. The exercise that you find by clicking on the following link consists of two parts. First you fill in the missing words – these are listed on the right-hand side (scroll down while reading) – in the text on the left-hand side, by clicking on 'a', 'b', 'c' or 'd'. Read the explanation at the top, when you have given an answer. Then you do assignments 11 to 15 on the right-hand side. The text is quite difficult; try and understand this text without looking up all the words. http://eslus.com/LESSONS/READING/CLOZE/R8.HTM

E. Click on the following link for parts of John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech. Study the vocabulary before reading the text and answer the questions underneath the text. http://esl.about.com/library/weekly/aa101997.htm

F. Vocabulary: http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blvocabquiz_miss_word5.htm

Don’t forget to make a list of all the words you look up. Use the Vocabulary Building Worksheet attached to this module and make sentences as well.​