In this Spanish-EnglishMediation Worksheet students have a restaurant conversation that they create from scratch. Students work in groups of three and one of them pretends he/she doesn’t speak English. It is a cross-linguistic (Spanish-English) mediation task.
Students revise food and drinks vocabulary and have a lot of practice in question formation and answers, both written and oral.
This mediation activity is perfect to train translation at lower levels and to give your students extra practice in building questions and giving short and long answers.
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In this listening task learners practice a very popular exam-type exercise: «Fill in the Gaps» They will watch and listen to part of a TV interview with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. They’ll have to complete the sentences with a maximum…
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