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In the last lessons at EOI we saw some photocopies about ARTICLES that some of you may not have if you did not attend our last classes. You will find the links to the exercises and keys above. You can also do the exercises in Open World Grammar Bank, page 213 -also seen in class- and check your answers against the key in the book.
If Articles are one of your weak points, do these exercises or go through them once more if you have already done so.
That’s all for now.
Stay healthy and well!
Here you have some work, guys!
This link is a model sample of an article that answers the writing task posed on page 63 Open World: Article: Terrible Holidays
What I would like you to write is a Complaint email. It will not be taken as compulsory work or part of your final mark. Take into account, nevertheless, that there will not be much time left to go on as planned with the school year when we resume the lessons. There may be things in the syllabus we will not have time to see, including certain writing formats, so the more you do now, if you can, the better.
The links below are a chart of the Complaint layout (already seen in class) and an example of an email of complaint that you might be interested in reading:
This other link is the sample model of «A complaint email about a terrible holiday» we read in class some days ago, in case you have not got it. Read it before doing your writing and use it as a guideline:
Complaint Email about Terrible Holiday
The picture below is the COMPLAINT EMAIL TASK. You can send it to me in WORD FORMAT, whenever you have time: carmensp@educastur.org
Take care!
Hello again!
Please find below the task for the Film Review you can write and send me in whenever you have time and if you wish to do so.
Take note that the exercises I will be recommending are intended as extra practice and revision. Do not feel obliged to do them if for any reason you cannot do so.
Bear in mind, anyway, that once the lessons start again we will not have much time left to go over some of the language issues that the book contains, such as the Speaking and Writing Banks or the section for Spanish Speakers. These exercises are conceived as supplementary self- study material. Given the circumstances, it is advisable to take advantage of the resources Open World offers.
It is very likely that we won’t have much time either to do the Review and two other writings, as it was planned. I will consider the Review as optional practice, recommendable, above all, for those that have registered for Certificación.
I will keep guiding you through some resources I consider useful in the next few weeks, but you will not be specifically tested on them nor will they be part of the final mark. The end-of-year assessment will have to be adjusted to what we have seen in class up to now and what we will be able to practice when the lessons can be resumed. No worries about that!
You can send me your writings in word format via email to
carmensp@educastur.org
How to form these passive structures + rewrite exercises (with key).
Preparación para la prueba de Producción y Coproducción de Textos Escritos de Certificación, con ejemplos de los diferentes formatos incluidos en el currículo de los niveles INTERMEDIO B1/B2 y AVANZADO C1 de Inglés de las EOI de Asturias.
Para cada formato de writing se incluyen una ficha lingüística explicativa y uno o varios ejemplos prácticos resueltos de una tarea similar a las propuestas en la pruebas de Certificación.
◇ NO AGE, NO LIMIT. Watch Doreen Pechey talking about how she took up ballet and how her lifestyle has changed since then.
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◇ WE LIVE IN AN IMAGE SOCIETY. «That’s English!» video about obesity in the UK.
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The most influential of all Romantic ballets, ‘Giselle’ was a huge success on its premiere in Paris in 1841, and has remained at the centre of classical repertory ever since. Choreographer Peter Wright’s haunting production for the Royal Ballet has received more than 550 performances since it had its opening night in 1985.
Watch this video of rehearsals for the 2015 production of Wright’s ‘Giselle’, with former Royal Ballet Principal Guest Artist Carlos Acosta in a memorable performance of Prince Albrecht and mesmerising Royal Ballet Prima Ballerina Natalia Osipova in the role of the young peasant girl betrayed by her lover.
Watch the video and do the gap-filling exercise below (pdf).
How to write an Opinion Essay with sample texts and exercises with key.
Two useful links from BBC Learning English, with a grammar reference section and exercises, including audio and video activities:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/course/intermediate/unit-6/session-2/activity-1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/intermediate/unit-6/session-2/activity-2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/course/intermediate/unit-6/session-2/activity-3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/course/upper-intermediate/unit-25/session-1
