Hiya! How are you keeping?
Here is this week’s homework. I hope that you have some spare time to study and do at least part of it. If you are pushed for time, choose whatever you find more useful or more doable.
♦ GRAMMAR: RELATIVE CLAUSES
– The following are some extra online exercises to practise relatives more in depth:
Δ Stonehenge: relatives who/which -exercise with answers
Δ relative clauses: online test with answers
And here is a printable pdf+key to work on this grammar point
– Check out these links if you wish to learn more about whom:
Δ who vs whom: grammar rules
Δ whom: exercise 1 whom: exercise 2
♦ VOCABULARY
– From Open World: An influential environmentalist, p.90. This short cloze text tests relatives and prepositions mainly. Fill in as much as you can before checking out answers. Read the words before and after the blanks carefully in order to find clues about what part of speech is needed.
♦ LISTENING PRACTICE
– Animals. Listen to two people discussing wild animal protection and decide if the statements are True or False.
Animals+key script audio
– Animal intelligence. Video activity. Watch this interesting video and answer the different listening comprehension questions in the activity. The link to watch the video online is included in the exercise, as well as the answers. You can also open the video using the link below, if you prefer.
Animal intelligence video script
♦ REAL WORLD
– From Open World: Going into the wild in… Florida, pp.92-93
If you find the topic of this lesson appealing, give the exercises on these two pages a try whenever you have time.
– Ex.1 & 2, p.92. Match the photos with the reading texts. Have you done any of these activities before? Would you like to? If none of them is appealing to you, why is it so?
– Ex.3 is a vocabulary exercise, while the task in ex.4 is similar to thekind of work you may be asked to do in Mediation activities: read through the texts and decide which place is more suitable for each family and why.
– Ex.4 & 5. Listening. There are two different tasks here. First complete the table and afterwards do the matching in ex.5 and check your answers paying attention to the expressions in A-F used in the conversation.
– Ex.7. The language in this exercise is the most interesting in the section. It contains very common expressions you need to know. Go through it and focus on the phrases and their exact words and structures.
– VIDEO: Florida. This is a stunning video well worth watching. As usual, watch it several times and make notes about the listed things. Click here for possible answers.
This is the full video script
If you cannot read the video QR, click below or use this link
♦ UNIT 7
∇ From ‘OPEN WORLD’, GRAMMAR REFERENCE p.218: WISH, IF ONLY & HOPE
Read the explanations carefully once more and do the exercises on the page. Note that in exercise 1, sentence 6, there is another possible answer which is not in the key: would not keep
∇ GRAMMAR VIDEOS: WISH, IF ONLY, HOPE
Watch these videos to learn how to use Wish/ If only & Hope. You can then read the explanations and do the online self-correcting exercises in the following section below this one.
Δ How to use ‘wish’ – English In A Minute wish+past vs wish+past perfect BBC Learning English
Δ Grammar: 5 different ways to use ‘wish’ in English The complete ‘wish’ (& ‘hope’) BBC Learning English
Δ 3 ways to use ‘if only’ – English In A Minute BBC Learning English
∇ ONLINE GRAMMAR PRACTICE
Δ How to use WISH
Δ WISH: exercise 1
Δ WISH and IF ONLY: explanations and exercises
Δ WISH versus HOPE: review and exercises
♦ KEY to LISTENING TEST ‘Books and Films’ done in class last week
Books and films: exercises key script audio part 1 audio part 2
I hope you find these resources useful!!