Próximas convocatorias de Exámenes de Cambridge

Desde este blog os recordamos que el plazo de matrícula para los exámenes PET y KET de 20 de Junio finaliza el próximo viernes 24 de Abril. La convocatoria de examen PET Computer Based del día 27 de Junio permanecerá abierta hasta completar cupo.

En el mes de julio, los exámenes se realizarán los siguientes días:

CAE: 23 de Julio

PET: 28 de Julio

FCE: 29 de Julio

El plazo de matrícula para todos los exámenes de julio finaliza el día 5 de junio.

NOTA: Los que queréis hacer el examen en el mes de junio y se os ha pasado el plazo de matrícula… ¡aún estáis a tiempo! pero debéis abonar un recargo de late entry.

Para más información consultad nuestra web ExamsCadiz 

Os dejamos los siguientes enlaces, donde podéis encontrar modelos de exámenes junto con las respuestas, listas de vocabulario y las normas a seguir durante la realización del examen entre otros temas.

1. KET - Key English Test - A2

2. PET - Preliminary English Test - B1

3. FCE - First Certificate in English - B2

4. CAE - Cambridge Advanced English - C1

¡Buena suerte a todos!

Writing competition at Tenidiomas!

Hello everyone!

Aquí  tenemos a los ganadores del Writing Competition de Tenidiomas. Como sabéis, hay dos grupos divididos según edad. El grupo más joven está compuesto por niños de entre 7 y 11 años, mientras que el segundo grupo está compuesto por adolescentes de entre 12 y 16 años.

La primera ganadora del grupo de los más jóvenes ha sido Julia Zhou Rodríguez Cortés. Aquí podéis ver su excelente redacción.

El ganador del grupo de adolescentes ha sido esta vez Paula Sánchez Cerdá. Su redacción ha sido fantástica tal y como podéis ver.

En Albariza, también hemos realizado nuestro tradicional “Easter Writing Competition”.

De los peques, la que se ha alzado con el primer premio ha sido Kika López Bolós, aquí podéis ver lo bien que lo ha hecho.

Celia López Cuéllar ha resultado la ganadora del segundo grupo. Aquí nos cuenta cómo pasará las vacaciones de Semana Santa.

Happy Easter Holiday to everyone!!

Escala de los exámenes de Cambridge English

Desde el pasado enero 2015, Cambridge English Language Assessment usa una nueva forma de puntuar sus exámenes.

Ahora tus exámenes de KET, PET, FCE, CAE y CPE se puntúan en una escala de 80 a 230, abarcando cada nivel del Marco Común Europeo de Referencia (MCER).

¿Cuáles son las ventajas que nos ofrece esta nueva escala?

Los resultados son más detallados. El candidato recibe una puntuación por cada una de las habilidades en las que ha sido examinado, además de la puntuación total final. El Statement of Results muestra las equivalencias con los niveles del MCER.

     Con este nuevo método más gráfico, el candidato comprende mejor el resultado obtenido.

Si quieres ver un ejemplo de esta nueva escala, puedes encontrarlo en la página web de Cambridge English.

Si te examinaste antes de enero de 2015 y quieres saber cuál sería tu puntuación con la nueva escala, usa el convertidor que encontrarás en el siguiente link.

CURSOS XPRESS marzo 2015 - junio 2015

Plazo de inscripción abierto para los cursos Xpress de marzo

¡Reserva ya tu plaza!

 

Cursos preparatorios de exámenes Cambridge English Language Assessment

KET (A2), PET (B1), FCE (B2)

Los cursos Xpress tienen una duración de 11 semanas para preparar los niveles A2, B1 y B2 del Marco Común Europeo (marzo a junio 2015), y de 18 semanas para el nivel C1 (febrero a junio 2015), con prácticas específicas de cada parte del examen y sesiones adicionales de Speaking Practice y simulacros de examen. El precio del curso incluye los derechos de examen, todo el material y las sesiones adicionales.

¡Aún quedan plazas disponibles!

Comienzo: 18 de marzo

Examen: KET 20 de junio | PET 20 de junio | FCE 27 de junio

Descuentos:

Titulares tarjeta joven, descuento 50% en inscripción.

Padres, hijos o hermanos de alumnos actualmente matriculados en Tenidiomas, descuento 10% en clases.

Alumnos UCA, descuento 10€ en tasas examen.

Fundación Tripartita

(descuentos no acumulables)

Dolphin 'living alone for 30 years in Irish harbour' spotted leaping next to boat

Dolphin nicknamed Fungi, believed to have lived in Irish harbour alone for past 30 years, spotted within touching distance of a boat

A dolphin nicknamed Fungi, thought to have lived alone in an Irish harbour for the past 30 years, was photographed leaping within touching distance of a boat after chasing the vessel.

The image was taken by Mike Murphy, 45, after he managed to whip his iPhone out to capture a shot on the dolphin’s fourth leap in a row next to his boat as he returned from the seaweed farm he runs in Dingle Harbour in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland.

The dolphin is well-known among locals and popular with tourists, with boat tours organised for the sole purpose of spotting Fungi in the bay, where it is believed to have lived alone for 30 years.

David Millard, 45, who was with Mr Murphy when he took the photo on Monday afternoon, said: “The dolphin torpedoed next to us. He’s very playful. He will chase the boats around the harbour.

“There’s quite a tourist industry on the back of him, lots of Fungi boats that take tourists out, and he will follow the fastest boats.

“The most amazing thing is he was circling the boat, he goes at incredible speed.”

Mr Millard, 45, who works for the Irish Sea Fisheries Board, added: “If I had stuck my hand out, I could have touched him.

“I have seen him a couple of dozen times, but never in such close proximity. I have heard he can jump over the top of the boats. It was such an experience.”

More information, here.

Story of the week

This week I have chosen a story about The Loch Ness Monster.

The Loch Ness monster, also called “Nessie”, is a creature that is supposed to live in Loch Ness, the largest lake in northern Scotland.  Since Roman times the legend of a mysterious sea creature has been alive through numerous sightings of the animal.

When the Romans came to Scotland in the first century the Picts were the main inhabitants.  They were fascinated by animals and spoke of a strange beast swimming in one of the lakes in the Scottish highlands. The first references go back to the sixth century when a man was supposedly saved from the swimming beast of Loch Ness.

Over the centuries the legend of the Loch Ness monster has never gone away. In the 1930s a new road was built along the shore of Loch Ness.  In 1933 , a couple who was driving along this road reported an enormous animal  splashing on the surface of the lake. In the following months newspapers sent reporters and photographers to the lake to make observations. Even footprints of an enormous animal were found.

In the following decades most scientists declared the sightings a fake and claimed that it was impossible for a dinosaur-like creature to have survived for millions of years. However, most of the people who went to Loch Ness were serious and honest and, for sure, were not interested in producing a scam.

Many books were written about the monster of Loch Ness. Several photographs made it to the front pages of the newspapers. The most famous photograph came from a British surgeon in 1934 . Robert Wilson, a London doctor, took a photo of a creature with a long neck that stood out of the water. In 1975 the Sunday Telegraph proved that this photo was fake.

As time went on investigation became more serious. Scientists from all over the world started coming to Loch Ness to investigate the phenomenon. The BBC and four universities led expeditions to the Scottish lake to find out more about the monster.  They were equipped with scientific instruments and machines that could be used in the deep water of the lake. Although the expeditions came up with no real results they did find out that something was moving in the lake , which they could not explain.

In 1975 an American-based expedition used underwater photography and special sonar to examine the Loch Ness.  The underwater camera was able to take images of a moving object that had flippers. Based on these photos some scientists concluded that the 20-foot long creature was possibly an ancient reptile that became extinct with the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.

In the last three decades more sonar observations were made with even more advanced equipment. And still, they produced objects that could not be identified. Whether fact or fiction, Loch Ness has become a tourist attraction in northern Scotland, and even if there is no monster, the legend lives on.

Why English is hard to learn

Hi everyone,
     Here is an interesting poem called 'Why English is hard to learn''. Enjoy and please feel free to leave a comment :)



We'll begin with box;  the plural is boxes,
but the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, and two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose is never called meese.


You may find a lone mouse or a house full of mice; 
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
The plural of man is always men,
But the plural of pan is never pen.


If I speak of a foot, and you show me two feet,
And I give you a book, would a pair be a beek?
If one is a tooth, and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't two booths be called beeth?


If the singular is this and the plural is these,
Should the plural of kiss be ever called keese?


We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him;
But imagine the feminine......she, shis and shim!!

Autumn term commences September 15th

The holidays are coming to a close and it's time to register for the 2014/15 courses which commence here at Tenidiomas on September 15th.

This year the adult courses will include the A2 level for those students who don't feel ready to sit B1 just yet. We shall also be continuing with the C2 course which proved so popular last year.

Writing Competition January 2014

A very happy new year to all our students!  The theme this month was our New Year's Resolutions and it looks like our students are aiming for perfection.   Our winners this term are Carlota Vega Vázquez and Antonio Sánchez González.  Check out the photos of our prize winners with their books and certificates - Well done and make sure you keep up the good work

Gavin and Carlota in the Starters classroom

Carlota's classmates are hoping they will win next time! 

Antonio and his classmates take a break from their FCE preparation

Cambridge Exams - Exams Cadiz

Tenidiomas has developed a new App where you can find out all the latest information about Cambridge exams.  Go to Exams Cadiz to get the lowdown on when and where the next exams will be as well as all the latest news on what's happening with the Cambridge exams.  Also included on this free application are two vocabulary lists which will help you to learn and remember vocabulary wherever you are!

Download your free versión of EXAMS CADIZ today!

Halloween Stories

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On Halloween we had a story telling session. We invented our own scary stories and told them to our classmates. They were scared stiff!

Read if you dare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A long time ago in a sweet and humble neighbourhood there was a little home in which a family lived. There were three people in the family; the mother, the father and a little and really beautiful daughter. Everything was normal until one day there was an accident and a terrible fire.

The daughter was upstairs and the parents were not in the house. They were working and they got enough money to pay a babysitter to take care of their daughter. So she was alone in the house and nobody heard her screams of horror as she was being burned. The house was finished, destroyed with the little daughter inside of it.

Afterwards this neighbourhood was a very affluent zone of the city. A family decided to by the land of the, ‘House of the Horror Screams’. They built a new house on there. Each night the dead daughter appeared in exactly the same place where she died but it was now in the living room of the house. But one day she appeared just like when she died, shouting horrible screams of pain that everybody in the house could hear. She told everybody that something horrible will happen. Two days later the house was burnt without any reason, killing every member of the family.

Now, nobody will build a house on there. Recently, the house has been built again and it’s ready to be bought. Would you like to the next?

By
Manuel Jose Varcarcel Dominguez, Luis Jose Morion Gil and Guillermo Alvarez Calvo.

If you are not too scared, read on for another hair-raising story!!!!

Once upon a time there was a man who worked in a shopping centre. He had a normal life but one day during his day he started to see himself doing other things that he wasn’t doing in the changing room’s mirror. He looked at the other side of the room and when he saw the mirror again he was still seeing himself. So he tried to leave the room but he couldn’t because the door was locked. Then the reflection of the mirror killed himself. The next day the shopping centre burned and a lot of people died. It was an enormous disaster but the mirrors of all the shopping centre were untouched. A new shopping centre was built there with everything new except the mirrors.

A new man started to work in the same place as the other man. He had a family and children. One day he saw, in one of the mirrors of the shopping centre, a handprint. He tried to clean it but he couldn’t. He was a bit scared so when he returned home he told his family. He started to be obsessed with the mirrors. He started to see himself burning in flames in the mirrors but he wasn’t really burning although he thought he was!

Suddenly, he saw a name written in the mirror. So he looked at the name and he discovered a mad woman that was in a convent.

The woman in the convent told him that her spirit had been trapped in the mirror. He helped her set her spirit free. In the end she was free and the mirrors went back to normal.

By

Erical Cardoso Gil, Marine Perez Jimenez and Alejandra Tamayo Gonzalez

Intercambio con estudiantes ingleses

Un año más hemos recibido la visita de los alumnos del colegio londinense Watford. Hemos llevado a cabo un intercambio con nuestros estudiantes obteniendo grandes resultados ya que tanto los españoles como los ingleses encontraron la idea muy acertada y disfrutaron poniendo a prueba el conocimiento del idioma que estudian. Os dejamos unos videos para que veáis cómo fue la experiencia.