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.