Mes: diciembre 2020

  Hi everyone! Here is the homework Santa (coworking with the Three Wise Men) has left in your stocking for this holiday period. Try to find some time and make the most of it! You cannot disappoint them!  😉

◇  From Open World:

• READING: We all need ‘frolleagues’ p.36
• LISTENING: Radio interview with Dr Leonora Stockley (track 016)
• MAKING FRIENDS IN SEOUL, pp.38-39.
  –  Do all the exercises and check the answers and listening scripts. There is very useful conversational language in this section that you need to practise for oral exchanges. We’ll come back to these informal expressions in class when practising dialogues, so try to learn and remember as much as possible of what appears in exercise 1 to 8.
  –  Watch the video about Seoul afterwards and, with the help of the script, answer the questions about the city, famous districts and landmarks and places to socialise.
  Seoul videoscript
• PROGRESS CHECK 1, pp.40-41: do all the exercises to revise units 1 and 2.

◇   GRAMMAR PRACTICE:

• PASSIVE exercises (+key) pdf
• USED TO/ BE USED TO/ GET USED TO  exercises (+key) pdf

◇   LISTENING PRACTICE: go on working on listening if this is one of your weaknesses. We plan to do more listening tests in our next lessons, in order to give you an assessment in the skill for this first term.

• FOUR BURGLARS. By doing this gap-filling activity you can practise passive structures too.
  exercise +key & script                audio file

◇  WRITING TASK For & Against: remember to hand it in before 3rd January via Teams. This will be good practice for the Writing Exam we will be doing in class from Monday 11 to Thursday 14 January: (Opinion/ For & Against formats, based on topics seen in units 1 & 2)
Please attend your half-group lessons to to do the writing test. If you wish to do so, but for any justified reason you find it impossible to come to school in the classtime slot assigned to your half-group, please let me know to check if you could attend any of the other groups throughout the week.

◇ MEDIATION and CONVERSATION: in our next classes we plan to do some speaking activities similar in content to the ones below. They will be taken into account for your marks in those skills, together with your participation in other oral activities in class during this first term.

• MEDIATION: study the language in this infographic IN DETAIL. In class we’ll be doing a mediation exercise based on it:   How to wear a mask safely: Do’s and Dont’s
• CONVERSATION: the following links are examples of conversations similar to those you may be asked to do in class with one or two classmates. They are based on the language and topics seen in units 1 and 2. By yourself, try to figure out what you could say in order to practise for the actual dialogues with your partners.
  sample conversation 1        sample conversation 2        sample conversation 3

And …
◇  LISTENING (done in class Mo 21 to Wed 23): for further work and for THURSDAY HALF-GROUPS: 

• BIRTH ORDER. Multiple choice test. You can check answers and script.
  exercise             key and script               audio file

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See you all back on January 11th to 14th!
I will let you know if there is any news concerning our EOI you need to know.

Best of luck for the New Year!

Hiya,
Christmas time is round the corner!

These are the home tasks for this coming week.
◇  From Open World:

• Grammar reference p. 209: Used to/ Get used to/ Be used to. Read the explanations and do the accompanying exercises. Do not forget to watch the Grammar on the move video on page 33 (and do exercises 2 to 7 on the same page if you have not attended school this week).
• Phrasal verbs ex.2 and 3 on page 34: whether we have had time to see these exercises in your class or not, have a look at the list of verbs connected to the listening activity on the same page and check that you understand their meaning and how to use them. They are really essential core vocabulary when talking or writing about relationships.
• Speculation p.32. We have seen it in class, but spare a moment revising the language resources you can use to speculate. They are useful structures that will be appearing recurringly and you will need to use in conversations or monologues.

◇  VOCABULARY: Read these two vocabulary banks in detail and keep them at hand for ideas if you need to write/speak on the topics. Check out how the words expressions are used in context.  

• FAMILY and RELATIONSHIPS
• TECHNOLOGY

◇  ONLINE GRAMMAR: used to (& would)/be used to/ get used to

• British Council: ‘used to’ + infinitive and ‘be’ or ‘get used to’ + -ing + exercises
• Perfect English Grammar:  ‘used to’ / ‘would’+ ‘be used to’ + exercises

◇  WRITING RESOURCES: Here is the ‘For & Against’ essay format to follow when writing about advantages and disadvantages. There are also two examples to illustrate. The second one is at the same time a useful exercise to practise the connectors we have been seeing for the past two weeks, apart from including two charts on the key expressions and linkers which are used in discursive essays.

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Next week I’ll upload more exercises, which I hope you will find time for during the holidays. Remember that our First Evaluación comes to an end the last week of January, so before we start classes again I will upload some essential info about the 1st Term exams to do in January.
Stay connected next week and throughout the festive season, please!
Cheers for now!

Hi guys,
These are your home assignments for the coming week!

♦  From Open World: Listening activity p. 34, ex. 3 to 5: Family.  Multiple choice exercise.

♦  Extra listening activity: Keeping in touch & Internet security
exercise+key            audio 1             audio 2             scripts (see File 8)

♦  Vocabulary: 

• Family vocabulary: watch this video to brush up the vocabulary you need to know
  
• Family vocabulary games: here you will find a set of games. Pick up some of them to revise family relationships
  https://agendaweb.org/vocabulary/family-intermediate-exercises.html

♦  Online grammar practice:

• Passive Voice – English Grammar Explanations (englisch-hilfen.de): rules including personal/impersonal passive (It is said…)
• Passive Voice – Learning English – Grammar Exercises (englisch-hilfen.de): exercises

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For students in Monday and Tuesday half-groups and those who didn’t attend Wed 9/Thu 10 lessons (exercises done in class):

♦  From Open World: Vocabulary: Describing your family p. 35. Do exercises 2 and 3 and check your answers with the help of the key

♦  Listening: exercise dealing with linking words of contrast
Actor Gemma Lewis: activity +key+script          audio

♦  Listening: Zurich. Video from the Real World section, Open World Unit 1. Watch the video and fill in the gaps in the video script while you listen.
Zurich+key          video 

♦ Vocabulary: llnesses and Treatments. We have already seen this vocabulary chart in class and in some groups we may have had time to do the exercises as well. If you have not taken the photocopies, here are some photos of everything for you to complete the task. Read the vocabulary in detail, do the exercises and check your answers with the help of the key. (If you belong to Monday or Tuesday groups, you have probably done these exercises by now, as I gave you the photocopies in class last week).
Illnesses and treatments            exercises           key

That’s all for now. See you next week!

Hello again!

These are your self-study assignments for these next days.

♦   From OPEN WORLD, unit 2:

• Reading p.28-29, Social Media and Friendship. Exercises 2, 3 and 7 are the proper reading activitity. Do ex. 4, 5 and 6 as well, which can help you find useful strategies to improve your reading skills.
• Grammar p.30, The passive. Do/Revise exercise 4. Watch the video beforehand so that you can remember how passive structures are formed.
• Grammar reference p.208, The passive. Read the explanations and check your answers to the exercises. Start by doing this, and then go on with the online exercises below. We will be doing more work on passive structures in the coming weeks.

♦   Online grammar practice:  Passive Exercises (perfect-english-grammar.com)
As a preparation for the exercises in Open World, study the explanations at the top of the webpage, which include how to make a passive sentence, and also this video with the pronunciation of 50 of the most common irregular past participles:

Do the 7 sets of exercises, classified from intermediate to difficult.

♦   Grammar practice:  Linking words of contrast: exercises+key (pdf)

♦   Listening practice: This is a listening activity in two parts on the topic of Relationships and Health and lifestyles.  Listen to it 3 times, as usual, and then see if your answers match the key.
Read the tapescripts carefully. The second listening contains useful tips for a healthy lifestyle that could be used for oral expression, mediation and writing activities.
exercise+key           scripts (choose page for unit 7)         audio 1          audio 2

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◇ If you have not handed in your writing yet, remember the deadline is December 5th.

◇ If you did the listening and reading tests in class last week and you wish to work on them a bit further, in a previous post I have included the links to the audios, questions, keys and scripts. The reading test was taken from Open World Workbook.

Stay safe and well! See you after next long public holiday weekend!

Hi everybody! Next week only Wednesday and Thursday groups will be able to attend their weekly lesson because of the Monday-Tuesday holiday. Please, if you are in the half-groups affected and your next lesson at EOI is not taking place until Monday 14/Tuesday 15 December, try to devote the necessary time to complete the self-study home assignments I told you about in class:

♦   From OPEN WORLD, unit 2:

• Reading p.28-29, Social Media and Friendship. Exercises 2, 3 and 7 are the proper reading activitity. Do ex. 4, 5 and 6 as well, which can help you find useful strategies to improve your reading skills.
• Grammar p.30, The passive. Do/Revise exercise 4. Watch the video beforehand so that you can remember how passive structures are formed.
• Grammar reference p.208, The passive. Read the explanations and check your answers to the exercises. Start by doing this, and then go on with the online exercises below. We will be doing more work on passive structures in the coming weeks

♦   Online grammar practice:  Passive Exercises (perfect-english-grammar.com)
Study the explanations at the top of the webpage section, which include how to form a passive sentence, and also this video with the pronunciation of 50 of the most common irregular past participles:

Do the 7 sets of exercises, classified from intermediate to difficult.

♦   Vocabulary: Illnesses and Treatments. Here is the photocopy we have seen in class these days. Go through the vocabulary again, do the exercises and check your answers with the help of the key.
Illnesses and treatments            exercises           key

♦   Listening practice: This is a listening activity in two parts on the topic of Relationships and Health and lifestyles.  Listen to it 3 times, as usual, and then see if your answers match the key.
Read the tapescripts carefully. The second listening contains useful tips for a healthy lifestyle that could be used for oral expression, mediation and writing activities.
exercise+key           scripts (choose page for unit 7)         audio 1          audio 2

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◇  Linking words of contrast: exercises+key (pdf)  (already done in class)
◇  If you have not handed in your writing yet, remember the deadline is December 5th.
◇  If you did the listening and reading tests in class last week and you wish to work on them a bit further, in a previous post I have included the links to the audios, questions, keys and scripts. The reading test was taken from Open World Workbook.

Check out this blog/Teams on Thursday 10th December for an upload of some exercises we’ll be doing in class that week -so that you can also do them at home-, and possibly a few more homework activities.

Try to make the most of your time! See you soon!

Whether you have not attended your weekly lesson on the dates above, or you simply want to listen again, check your answers and go through the scripts in detail, here’s what you need:

The healthy eating project+key+script                 audio

Sports, health and fitness           key+script          audio