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
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– 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
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