Mes: febrero 2022

If you have not attended today’s lesson (Thursday 24), here is the link to a photocopy I handed out for homework.
Have a look at it for next week so that we can correct it in class and continue practising reported speech.

Reporting verbs

Here are some of the activities we did in class this present week. Next Tuesday 22nd we’ll be doing the reading, listening and writing test and, on Thursday 24th, we’ll go on working on Reported speech (page 147 Open World + a photocopy I will hand out  on Tuesday) and the topic of News.

◊   Listening: What recent news has caught your eye?
comprehension questions+key+script             mp3 audio

◊   Video listening: The Speed of News
comprehension questions+key            script            video

◊   Song: A Man is in Love, by The Waterboys
For those of you that didn’t attend class this week, or in case you wish to see the video again, here’s the exercise.
Watch the video. How many of the movies can you recognise? And how many of their titles do you remember?

key to movie titles

Here is another model article on the topic What is your favourite art form?

Do the exercises and pay attention to the vocabulary used. You can check your answers against the key. 

Your favourite art form + key

On Tuesday 22nd February we’ll be doing an exam in class. It will consist of:

• a LISTENING exercise
• a READING exercise
• a WRITING: AN ARTICLE (180 words). You will be able to choose from two or three topics, but in one of them you will be asked to write about a hobby or sport you do (when you took it up, when you do it, why it is enjoyable/recommendable, what’s challenging/thrilling… about it, etc).
  Prepare what you can include in your article in advance. Remember the tips of advice on article writing you can find in Unit 10 and in the Writing Bank (pp. 240-1, Open World)

We are now starting Unit 11, so try to get updated on the vocabulary and grammar of the unit if you are not attending class at the moment.

Listening and reading practice for this week:

♦  LISTENING- listen to 5 speakers talking about free time activities. Match ideas and speakers. There are two sentences you do not need to use.                           
Leisure time activities + key           audio

♦  READING- read the text about the zero waste policy in San Francisco. Complete it with the missing sentences. There is one extra sentence. Do/revise the language exercise (adverbs).
San Francisco: Zero Waste City             answer key