Mes: marzo 2022

Hello there!
We have just started Open World UNIT 13, In fashion, on trend. We have seen p.172 and Like/As on p.173. If you have not been able to attend our last lessons in person, here are the assignments for the upcoming classes.

♣   This is the LISTENING activity we did in class on Thursday 24th. The key is included.  Question 1 in this version is slightly different from the photocopy we used in class. Use this new one preferably, if you are going to listen again.
Customs and cultures                answer key                mp3 audio

♣   Here is the VOCABULARY photocopy on the topic of Shopping I also assigned for homework -to be corrected on Tuesday 29.
shopping_vocabulary exercise               answer key

♣   AS/ LIKE. On Tuesday, we’ll also be correcting exercises 1 & 2 in the Grammar Reference section, page 231. Go through the explanations before doing the exercise.

♣   MODALS of OBLIGATION & PERMISSION: online grammar practice. Use the following links to continue working on modal verbs after what you saw in Open World.
How to use modal verbs of obligation
Exercises on modal verbs of obligation 1
Exercises on modal verbs of obligation 2
How to use modals of permission and obligation + exercises
Exercises on modals of permission

IMPORTANT REMINDER
Next exam will take place on Tuesday 5th April: LISTENING, READING and WRITING.
This is the topic you’ll be asked to write about:

Write about a festival/ celebration/ feast day popular in Spain or any other place that may interest you. Explain what it is like, where and when it takes place, the kind of potential visitors it might attract, etc. Write about 180 words.

Try to organise your ideas and prepare the writing in advance.
This is going to be the last but one set of written papers to be taken into account for your final mark. Our last written exams we’ll be on May 5th.

◊   LISTENING. Here is the listening exercise we did in class today:
Winchester Hat Fair + key          audio file

◊   OPEN WORLD. Do and correct pp.168  (listening comprehension) and 169 (London’s Frost Fairs -reading-word building exercise)

◊   GRAMMAR. Can/ could/ be able to

• explanations and exercise+key
• online practice links:

Can/Could/Be able to. Use and practice

Can/Could/Be able to. Exercises

◊   END-OF-YEAR EXAM DATES: written paper (listening, reading and writing)
5 April
5 May

♦   Here is the video we saw in Tuesday’s class:

Wedding traditions around the world

♦   And this is a power point presentation with some ideas related to weddings in the USA and how they are celebrated:

Weddings in the USA

We have started seeing Unit 12 ‘Let’s celebrate’. I have set the Listening exercise on page 161 for homework, which you can self correct with the key. Next Tuesday we are going to correct the grammar exercises on page 228 (Expressing obligation and permission) 

We have also been practising ‘So do I’, Neither do I, …’, which we’ll be revising on Tuesday.

Here is a useful link to check how to use these structures and practise them in context:

So/Too/Neither/Either. Use and exercises

We are nearly finishing Unit 11. Next Thursday 10th we are going to do a LISTENING TEST that will be taken into account for term assessment. 

For homework, do the Reading exercise ‘Reality TV’ and the Listening Comprehension on pages 152-3 in your textbook, and check your answers against the key.