In this B1 Spanish-English Mediation Worksheet students are asked to help a tourist find a nice place to have dinner that meets both his/her needs and expectations. It is a B1 cross-linguistic (Spanish-English) mediation task.
In the pre-mediation section, students revise comparative structures «Not as / so + adjective + as», «As + adjective + as» and the superlative.
As part of their strategy training, students reflect on different ways to simplify a text and they also practise how to link to previous knowledge.
This comprehensive mediation activity is excellent to train several mediation strategies and microskills:
In this C1 reading task about The impacts of junk food on health learners practice a very popular exam-type exercise, a C1 Multiple Choice exercise in which they’ll have to select the right option to answer the questions. C1 Students will…
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…
This is an intralinguistic (English-English) B2/B2.1 Oral and Written Mediation Task. In «Healthy Travel Tips», students are asked to help a friend who is about to embark on a long journey but has just started a diet and she fears…
This is an intralinguistic (English-English) B2/B2.1 Written Mediation Task. As you will see, it differs slightly from more conventional mediation tasks, as it has been designed to test students’ ability to summarize. In «Young Vegetarians or Vegans», students are asked to…