Mes: diciembre 2021

  Hi everyone!

If you have not been able to attend class lately, here you have some of the things we have been doing so that you can catch up:
– We have seen ‘Real World: Los Angeles’, Open World pp.130-1. Here is the answer key to the video exercise:    key to video exercise

– This is a photocopy on Future perfect and continuous (theory and practice) we have already done and corrected. Have a go at it if you can. Remember to do the Grammar pages 222-3 in your book as well.
Future: perfect & continuous          answers

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And below you will find the HOMEWORK that Santa (coworking with the Three Kings has left in your stocking for this holiday period 😉

CHRISTMAS TREATS 

Crossword: Do this crossword to learn and remember some Christmas vocabulary.
crossword (pdf)        key     

Reading for pleasure: How is Christmas celebrated in different parts of the world?

 

PRONUNCIATION: -ed

The following are some resources on the pronunciation of -ed in regular past simple and past participles that I recommended doing at B2. If you feel that you are not sure about how to pronounce the ending -ed, save a little time to watch these videos and then do the exercise with the help of the rules sheet below.

– Videos: Watch these three online videos, which clearly explain the rules of pronunciation and give examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh_DM7qJGWo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0nF-xNWd2A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWuS7rfZlDQ

– EXERCISE: 

Rules of -ed pronunciation       exercise       key

   LISTENING: ‘Water’ (multiple-choice) 
exercise and key      audio

    EXERCISE on FUTURE PERFECT & CONTINUOUS
We’ll be correcting this exercise when we resume the lessons on Tuesday 11th:
future perfect and continuous

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In January we’ll do a couple more of Readings and Listenings to be taken into account for the 1st Term assessment mark. A very likely date for them is Thursday 20th. 

See you all back on January 11th!

A jolly and safe Christmas to all of you!
Best of luck for the year to come!

EXPRESSING FUTURE TIME: ALL FORMS
Have a look at the pdf file ‘Expressing future time’ below, where you will find a summary of the different ways to talk about the future in English and how the future tenses are formed.
Then read the explanations from ‘testenglish.com’, which again remind you of the different forms in which you can express the future in English. Do the sets of exercises on the page and check your answers and overall understanding.

♠  EXPRESSING FUTURE TIME

♠  Test English – Prepare for your English exam  explanations and exercises

BBC LEARNING ENGLISH: GRAMMAR VIDEOS

FUTURE CONTINUOUS   https://youtu.be/ndi_4kPb3PA

FUTURE PERFECT   https://youtu.be/UNF8Vnrpxno

FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS    https://youtu.be/UNF8Vnrpxno

MORE ONLINE PRACTICE:

♠  From Perfect English Grammar (explanations and exercises): 
Future simple and continuous, Future perfect and Future perfect continuous

♠  From TestEnglish:
Future continuous and Future perfect: explanations
Exercises

♠  From File Upper-intermediate:  Future perfect and Future continuous

♠  From EnglishPage:  Future perfect and Future perfect continuous

♠  From AgendaWeb:  bank of exercises on  Future continuous, Future perfect and Future perfect continuous

Here are the LISTENING COMPREHENSION exercises we have done in class:

Helping the environment +key          audio

Environmental Corner + Key          audio

Remember to revise the MODEL ESSAYS in Open World pp. 127 and 234 on the topics of Space exploring and Environmental Issues facing our planet today and in the near future, as well as the vocabulary in the book, photocopies and listenings done in class that you can use to write your essay next Thursday 16th.

Click below to download the LISTENING and VOCABULARY activity files.
This exercise should be good practice for the listening exam on Thusday 16th Dec.

A clean-up day     key & script      mp3 

⇒ READING & VOCABULARY: COP26
Do the following reading activities on COP26 – the UN Climate Change Conference and check your answers against the key. The event took place 1–12 November 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland and brought together country leaders, experts and environmental campaigners to take action against climate change.

COP – the UN Climate Change Conference

⇒ LISTENING: DEATH VALLEY
Listen to a radio interview with a man called Luke Masden, who is a guide on bus tours to Death Valley. Choose the correct answers and then check them against the key and script.
Death Valley           key and script           mp3 file

⇒ OPINION ESSAY:

If you have not attended lessons recently and do not have the photocopies, 

> here you will find the LAYOUT to bear in mind when writing an Opinion essay and a model sample (pdf):

OPINION

example

> And these are exercises on How to write an Opinion Essay, with sample texts and key. They are specially helpful to practise connectors:     OPINION ESSAY pdf

We have also seen in class the exercises on pp. 234/5 of the Writing Bank in Open World.