B2.2

Film Review

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

Film Review

B2.1, B2.2, GENERAL

EOI Writing Bank

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.

 INFORMAL LETTER/ EMAIL  example
 REQUESTING INFORMATION  example1  example2  example3
 APPLICATION  example
 COMPLAINT  example
 BOOK & FILM REVIEW  example
 ARTICLE  example1  example2
 OPINION  example
 FOR & AGAINST  example1  example2
 REPORTS & PROPOSALS  example
B2.1, B2.2, GENERAL

Giselle

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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).

The Romance of Giselle

Key The Romance of Giselle

B2.2

Modals of Speculation and Deduction. Present and past.

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