Categoría: Sin categoría

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.

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