Mes: febrero 2021

How are you all keeping? 
Here are the exercises to do before next class.

>  GRAMMAR REFERENCE UNIT 4, p.212: COUNTABLE and UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS.

Read the grammar explanations carefully and do the accompanying exercises.
# Note that there is a misprint under the heading ‘Some uncountable nouns in English’: news and paper must be separate words (newspaper is a countable noun!)

>  CORE VOCABULARY: TRAVELLING  Can you use the words travel, trip and journey accurately? Here is an exercise to learn and practise the difference between them in context.    Travelling

>  REAL WORLD, Open World pp.54-55:  EDUCATING YOURSELF IN… TORONTO
Watch the video about Toronto (ex.8) and answer the general questions about the city the exercise poses: The city of Toronto, Famous landmarks and Education.
Here is the script, since you will not find the texts for the Real World section in your book, and some suggested anwers:    Toronto

>  READING and LISTENING from Open World, Exam Focus pp. 50-52
Teaching Young Learners  and Eight different situations. Do these final exercises in unit 3, both of which deal with the topic of education.

………………………………….
– Monday & Tuesday half-groups/Those of you who didn’t attend school on Wed17-Thu18:  If you have time, do the listening exercise on page 49 (exercises 4/5/6, tracks 023/024) and check your answers. Pay special attention to the agreement expressions in the conversations.     

That is all for now. Take loads of care and see you next week!

Here’s the homework to do for the last week of February

>  GRAMMAR:
GIVING ADVICE
1.  Watch the Grammar on the Move video on page 48 and study the Grammar reference for Unit 3, p-211, plus the corresponding exercises on the page. Pay special attention to how to use recommend, had better and modal verbs such as ought to.

2.  Read the information on the following webpage carefully -here is almost everything you need to know about how to give advice:
EF English Live: 5 simple ways to give advice in English

3.  Check out the following list of Advice structures and listen to the accompanying recording. It includes ways of accepting and refusing advice:
Basic English speaking: suggestions and advice

CONDITIONALS I & II: more online practice from English 4U
Conditional Clauses 1 (I)
Conditional Clauses 2 (I+II)
Conditional Clauses 3 (I+II)
Conditional Clauses 4 (I+II)
Conditional Clauses 5 (I+II)

>  LISTENING:
–  From Open World:  Multiple-choice listening page 47, exercises 1, 2 and 3
–  Listen to a phone-in radio programme and the advice that ‘agony aunt’ Vanessa Cheung gives a caller: 
listening exercise        key        mp3 part 1       mp3 part 2

>  EXTRA LISTENING to do ONLINE:
Do the following listening exercise you will find on the website examenglish.com. This is a fabulous page with a good number of free B2 listening and reading practice tests for learners studying for Cambridge First Certificate. Answers and scripts included.
Clubs and societies at university  Listen to 2 students talking about their university and fill in the blanks

>  READING:  Read the article about a Scottish young man and choose the sentence which fits each gap.
Two-wheeled genius + key

………………………………….
– Monday & Tuesday half-groups/Those who didn’t attend school Wed17-Thu18:  Here you have the audio file and the script & key for the listening exercise ‘Beyond the Classroom’
mp3 audio          script+key                                                 

– Audio file ‘Student life: 8 conversations’:  This is the mp3 that goes with the last listening exercise done in class (Mo 8th to Thu 11th)   mp3 file
…………………………………

Take a lot of care of yourself and the others!  CU soon!

Hiya,

Here is the homework to do before next class.

>  READING and VOCABULARY:
Read the article about four teenagers who attend different kinds of schools, answer the reading comprehension questions and do the two vocabulary exercises about Education in the UK and The English school system.
Different Schools + key 

>  GRAMMAR:
Conditionals 1 & 2 + key (pdf)

>  LISTENING:  Listen to five people talking about their memories of school and match the speakers to what they say about those days.
School memories + key          mp3         script

>  LISTENING FOR GIST -NO EXERCISES:  Studying at a British University. Listen to the recording again while following the text given in class. The glossary can help you understand the meaning of difficult vocabulary.
If you have not got the text -or not yet- you can still listen and try to pick up key words and main ideas, even if you cannot understand every single phrase or sentence.
mp3 audio

The End!