Ondas to offer Cambridge Prep Courses

Great news! This Fall Ondas will be offering Cambridge Prep courses for the First and Advanced Exams in addition to our Conversation Classes. Times, dates and prices will be posted shortly on the Ondas webpage.

Here are some examples of the Speaking Exam portions of the FCE and CAE, make sure to check out the examiner´s comments after watching.

First Speaking Exam:

Advanced Speaking Exam:

Join us this academic year and let Ondas Formación help you achieve your English language goals!

CURSOS de preparación exámenes cambridge: FCE y CAE 

DESCRIPCIÓN DEL CURSO:

Hoy en día la mayoría de empresas y universidades requieren de un alto nivel de inglés y los exámenes de Cambridge te permitirán comprobar tu conocimiento. Ondas Formación te ofrece cursos de preparación para el FCE y el CAE con profesores nativos.

¿Qué nos diferencia de otros centros de preparación?

Nuestros profesores llevan años formando alumnos para adquirir estos certificados e incluso algunos de ellos han sido examinadores, por lo que te podrán facilitar recomendaciones sobre como afrontar estas pruebas.

Los grupos son reducidos, entre 4 y 10 alumnos.

Te ofrecemos la posibilidad de realizar simulacros de exámenes fuera de las horas lectivas.

Disponemos de materiales imprescindibles para tu preparación final así como salas equipadas con el material audiovisual más moderno. 

Niveles:

1) El First, también conocido como el First Certificate in English (FCE), es un certificado oficial de un nivel intermedio alto (B2). Demuestra que dominas la expresión escrita y hablada a un nivel cotidiano en situaciones laborales, académicas, etc.

2) El Advanced, también conocido como el Cambridge Advanced Exam (CAE), es un certificado oficial de un nivel avanzado (C1). Demuestra que estás capacitado para realizar investigaciones complejas, comunicarte a un nivel profesional y destacar en reuniones y entrevistas. El CAE acredita tus habilidades lingüísticas ante instituciones educativas y laborales a un nivel muy elevado.

Learning English is a Life Changer

Check out this article on Second Language Identity to see how learning English can be a life changing experience.

The main points? Writing in a second language can be a liberating experience which allows us to express ourselves from a different point of view.

So what are you waiting for? Get out there and put pen to paper, in English!

Need more inspiration? Click here and try describing these awe-inspiring trees in English.

Travelers: Bruno Catalano

Bruno Catalano, French sculptor, created these beautifully imperfect bronze sculptures to celebrate the city of Marseilles´ position as the 2013 European Capital of Culture. Called “Les Voyageurs”, they depict realistic human workers with large parts of their bodies missing, making them truly extraordinary and unique. 

With a partner, discuss the following questions

1. What message do you think the artist is trying to convey with these sculptures?
2.  What emotion do you think the artist is trying to convey with these sculptures and what does it have to do with the title of the art piece? 
3. Do you think the sculptures are missing something?
4. Do you think these “voyagers” have left something behind on their travels? If so, what have they left behind?        
5. Can you identify with these voyagers? Why or why not? 

James Brown

Oxford Dictionaries puts out a great Word Blog that highlights topics ranging from untranslatable words to the origin of the´banana´. My personal favorite post so far recognizes the linguistic contributions of the Godfather of Funk: the one and only Mr. James Brown.

Check out some the blog posts by clicking here.

Superbad (1970)

Get Up (I Feel Like Being) a Sex Machine! (1970)

Ondas Video and Radio Stars

Here is the final product of our Spring Trimester Radio Show, Shipwrecked. Congratulations to all of our students for your hard work and progress throughout the course and a SPECIAL THANKS to our audio-visual team, Diego, Iñaki, Manolo and Manu for a phenomenal job in the studio and post production.

Ondas Formacion is an amazing place to learn and to teach English because of their top-notch audio-visual installations,equipment and staff.  Enjoy the video and join us in September 2014 for another year of English at Ondas!

Procrastination and Conspiracy Theories

Procrastination
Watch this video about procrastination.
How would you define procrastination?
In what ways do you procrastinate?
  



In pairs, come up with your Top 7 tips for beating procrastination using should and shouldn’t.

Now compare your answers with these Top 7 Tips from Kieran Donaghy´s website, Film English.

Conspiracy Theories
What are some of the most famous conspiracy theories? Do you think that they have some truth to them?

In books like Brave New World and 1984 and movies like ike Brazil or Clockwork Orange the authors theorize about future societies, government conspiracies and conspiracies related to social control. Watch the trailer from Brazil and discuss the following questions as a class:

• Which popular conspiracy theories are shown in the trailer? 

• Do you think that some of the predictions the authors made in the 1940´s have come true and, if so, to what extent?
  

Shipwrecked: Spring Radio Show

Welcome to the Ondas English Radio Show!

Students wrote an original story of survival called "Shipwrecked"...

..and used costumes to liven things up. From left to write we have the nanny, the athlete, the Math teacher, the grandmother and the poet.



Great acting and great use of English!



Congratulations to Cristina, Elvira, Pilar, German and Rocio for a job well done!