Hiya! How are you all keeping?
Here is this week’s homework. I hope that you have some spare time to study and do at least part of it. If you are pushed for time, choose whatever you find more useful or more doable.
- LISTENING practice and GRAMMAR work
– The music industry. Video activity. Listening practice combined with work on relatives and question formation. The link to the video is in the exercise, as well as the answers.
– Relatives. More exercises on this grammar point + key. (pdf)
- LISTENING COMPREHENSION
– Animals. This is a true/false listening test on the topic of wild-life animal protection. Key included (no script)
– Being a volunteer. Listen to five people talking about their experience of being a volunteer and match each speaker to the idea they express.
Being a volunteer: exercise answer key script audio
- PRONUNCIATION: -ed
The following are some resources on the pronunciation of -ed in regular past simple and past participles that I recommended doing at B2.2. If you feel that you are not sure about how to pronounce the ending -ed, save a little time to watch these videos and do the exercise.
– 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
- SPEAKING SKILLS practice
On the webpage British Council LearnEnglish Teens, there are loads of activities, many of which -though primarily intended for teens- can be of the interest of all ages. There are fabulous activities to practise Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing at different levels. B1 and B2 resources can also be helpful if you are studying for Certificación.
Why not start trying this level B2 listening and speaking interactive video:
Do the listening/use of English exercises following the instructions on the page, and then try taking up the role in the conversation yourself, as suggested. This is a good chance for you to develop your speaking skills in sort of ‘real’ informal contexts, and good practice for the Interaction paper in Certificación.
- REAL WORLD, Open World: Going into the wild in… Florida
If you find the topic of this lesson appealing, give the exercises on pp.92-93 a try, while this way you kind of round off the unit and the contents seen in B2.1 throughout the year.
– Ex.1 & 2, p.92. Match the photos with the reading texts. Have you done any of these activities before? Would you like to? If none of them is appealing to you, why is it so?
– Ex.3 is a vocabulary exercise, while the task in ex.4 is similar to a kind of work you may be asked to do in Mediation: read through the texts and decide which place is more suitable for each family and why.
– Ex.4 & 5. Listening. There are two different tasks here. First complete the table and afterwards do the matching in ex.5 and check your answers paying attention to the expressions in A-F used in the conversation.
– Ex.7. This exercise is the most interesting one in the section. It contains very common expressions you need to know. Go through it and focus on the phrases and their exact words and structures.
– VIDEO: Florida. As usual, watch it several times and make notes about the listed things. Possible answers:
Cities in Florida: Orlando- theme Park capital of the world; Miami- one of the USA’s most visited cities
Land animals: butterflies, rattlesnakes and flamingos
Underwater animals: manatee (or sea-cow)- grow to around 3 metres long; alligators, turtles
Diving in Florida: divers can explore the wrecks and reefs and see the clownfish and the sea anemone
This is the full video script.
If you cannot read the video QR for any reason whatsoever, use this link
http://www.cambridge.org/OW_First_Vid19
I’ll be back soon. Move cautiously and safely into Phase 1 of deescalation! Are you able to explain in English what we will be allowed to do in this phase? Read EL PAÍS in English and find out!
