Making questions

Here is a link to a very useful grammar website.

Learners taking the Trinity Speaking exams (on the Jobseekers' course) need to practise making questions in different past tenses. This website will help you. You need to look at:

past simple
past continuous
present perfect

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/questions.html

There are exercises at the bottom of the page.

Introducing a presentation

Here are the phrases which you may find useful to introduce your presentation if you are an Everyday English student:

Speaking: giving advice

We can give advice using

Strongest
must
have to/ has to

Medium
should
ought to

Least strong
could

After these verbs, you need to use the base form of the next verb eg you must go, he has to leave, you could try...

Some spelling and maths games

Here is a link to some simple games: http://www.arcademics.com/games/ I think they are mainly aimed at children, but you might find them useful and fun. The Spelling Bee game is particularly useful for you, and so is the Giraffe Karte subject-verb agreement game.

Reading: some short stories

Here is a website with lots of short stories. Each story has some comprehension questions and some vocabulary tasks. http://www.rong-chang.com/eslread/

Writing: Linking words in reports

Here are some common linking words we use when we write reports. Linking words make writing easier to read and help to connect our ideas. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5X7HCGNCa_6SlhuUHRZSU00TDg/view?usp=sharing

Many learners need to develop their writing skills. If you want to practise using linking words and writing reports, a good list of topics can be found here. http://www.ieltsbuddy.com/ielts-writing-questions.html These are questions for the IELTS exam, not the exams which you will take. The topics may not be similar, but the IELTS questions do you give you the opportunity to write about a controversial topic. You do not need to write a full report, but it might help your writing skills if you write a paragraph every week about one of the topics.

Speaking: giving your opinon

Here are some common phrases we use when asking and giving opinions. These will be useful in your speaking exams. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5X7HCGNCa_6aGxhd2tmdXE3NHc/view?usp=sharing

Videojug

There are lots of examples of How To videos on the website http://www.videojug.com/

Here is the link to How To Cook Lentils: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-cook-lentils

Many of the videos have the words underneath, so these are good for listening practice.

Job Seekers Speaking Exam Practice

Here is a link to the videos of the speaking exam: http://www.trinitycollege.com/site/?id=3236

This website is for Job Seekers only. If you are an Everyday English student, you do not need to watch these videos.

Vocabulary Game

Use the letters to make words

http://www.slimekids.com/games/spelling-games/spellingfiles/whizz.swf