Here are some activities, related to the topics seen in units 9 and 10, you can do and correct whenever you have time in order to boost your listening, reading and grammar skills.
♠ Remember to revise how to use ADJECTIVES WITH -ING and -ED (Grammar Reference Unit 10, page 225) and do the PRACTICE on the same page for Tuesday 1st February (we’ll be seeing it in class).
♦ Next week we are going to correct this GRAMMAR exercise in class -you’ll have the photocopy if you attended the school on Thursday 20. I have included the key in case you want to check your answers beforehand. Have something done: rewrite practice+key
♦ Remember that in our next lessons we are going to focus on speaking activities to be taken into account for the first term mark. Do not forget to read the following text I handed out in class, from which I am going to extract ideas to be used in mediation exercises from Spanish into English. 9 Ways to Create a Healthier, Greener Home
HELLO! ♣ Here is the exercise -I have given out photocopies in class- on CAUSATIVE VERBS (Have something done) we will be correcting in class next Tuesday 18th. The key is included but, if you are coming to the school, you do not need to check your answers, since you will have the chance to discuss them in class.
Remember you have some more explanations and exercises on Causative verbs in Open World Unit 10, p.224 and 133.
♣ Do the READING exercises on pp. 134-5 and correct your answers using the key at the back of the book.
♣ On Tuesday 18th we’ll also be correcting and checking the pronunciation of your answers to the -ed ending exercise in the previous post. Remember to bring the photocopy to class.
♣ Don’t forget that next Thursday 20th we’ll be doing a LISTENING and READING EXAM to be taken into account for your 1st term mark. If there are any problems, please let me know.
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 & continuousanswers
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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
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:
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.
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.
⇒ 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.
⇒ 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 Valleykey and scriptmp3 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):
> 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.
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Here are the LISTENING COMPREHENSION exercises we have done in class:
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Here is a reading comprehension exercise on the topic. You can check your answers against the key on the last page.