- TEMAS PROGRAMACIÓN INTERMEDIO B2 (Upper-Intermediate)
These are the broad TOPICS you must show competence in. You may be asked to write or speak about them, and readings, listenings and mediations will also be connected with them, since they are wide and involve a series of subtopics each. If you would like to see a more detailed description, go to our web or check Educastur documentation.
1. Identificación personal.
2. Vivienda, hogar y entorno.
3. Actividades de la vida diaria. Trabajo.
4. Tiempo libre y ocio.
5. Viajes y turismo. Transporte.
6. Relaciones humanas. Familia. Sociedad. Crimen y justicia.
7. Salud, alimentación y cuidados físicos.
8. Educación. Tradiciones y culturas. Globalización.
9. Lengua y comunicación. El inglés como lengua franca.
10. Bienes y servicios. Compras y actividades comerciales.
11. Clima, condiciones atmosféricas y medioambiente.
12. Ciencia y tecnología.
- GUÍA DEL ASPIRANTE.
See Educastur ‘2020 Guía del aspirante’ as soon as it comes out so as to find out the specific information about next September sitting. The exam has changed compared to last year’s, and there may be more changes we still do not know about.
- MODELOS PRUEBAS CERTIFICACIÓN ASTURIAS.
Remember you can access some exams from previous years on Educastur website. With answers and audios:
https://www.educastur.es/estudiantes/idiomas/pruebas-certificacion/modelos
- B2.1 posts on this BLOG (‘Open World’ units 1-6) and last year’s textbook.
Don’t forget you can have a go at the past few months’ B21 posts on this blog for more practice on the skills and topics you wish to work on further.
‘Open World’ has lots of useful language to talk and write about most of the topics which we have not gone through this year, since we started in unit 8. Last year’s ‘File Upper-intermediate’ (or the textbook you studied) can also help you with vocabulary, both new and revisited. ‘File’ has good vocabulary sections at the back (crime, business, etc).
- IELTS SPEAKING EXAM. TOPIC VOCABULARY.
Written samples of speaking productions on almost each of the topics you need to study. Highly recommendable for the Monologue and the Interaction parts of certificación. You can also use the ideas for writing tasks. (note that IELTS speaking paper is different from ours, the same as First is, but the language and topics you must show proficiency in are pretty much the same).
https://www.ieltsspeaking.co.uk/ielts-vocabulary/
- ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE UPPER-INTERMEDIATE.
This Cambridge book is a vocabulary essential, since it covers most of the topics at the level
Recommendable if you feel like widening your vocabulary through practical exercises. There may be free downloads available for a glance before considering buying it.
- WEBTECA EOI OVIEDO.
An extensive bank of web links clasified into categories. See the sections you are more interested in for free online resources. The most popular ones are usually at the top of each category.
https://eoioviedo.org/webteca-ingles/
(By the way, don’t forget to have a look at the EOI Writing Bank section of this blog!)
- EL PAÍS in English.
Wonderful tool to keep updated on the latest Spanish news in English and get ready for the Mediation paper. As you know, very often the topics in the exam deal with current affairs, customs and celebrations, culture, health, and on most occasions they refer to Spanish or Asturian issues rather than international!
Read also tourist leaflets or webpages in English about typical Asturian traditions, art, gastronomy, cultural events, etc.
- REMINDER: more resources
On the post ‘B2.2 English for Summertime’, you will find a summary of expressions used in conversational language, mediation sample texts and two sets of monologue and conversation tasks to practice.
Apart from exercises on different topics and online vocabulary resources, I have posted there several topic vocabulary banks which may be specially useful if you are studying for certificación. Some of them are closely linked to issues that are not in your textbook but are included in the exam.
Go to the same post for practice on other skills and recommended sections from ‘Open World’ Writing and Speaking Banks.
