{"id":58,"date":"2020-10-18T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/lockdownblog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2020-10-18T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T16:36:15","slug":"b2-2-classes-a-b-week-20-23-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/lockdownblog\/2020\/10\/18\/b2-2-classes-a-b-week-20-23-april\/","title":{"rendered":"B2.2 Classes A\/B, Week 20-23 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everybody! Welcome to this new post and the work scheduled for this week, which is the sixth after the classes came to a close in March. I hope all of you keep safe and healthy! And looking forward to some more English homework to do! ?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Open world<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>&#8211; REAL WORLD. Having a great time in Essaouira. pp. 170-171<\/h4>\n<p>To finish off this unit, what better than a visit to Essaouira? Read the text on page 170, extracted from a brochure about Essaouira, and do the reading exercise. Notice some interesting vocabulary associated with the language of travel or tourist brochures, such as \u00abstate-of-the-art\u00bb, \u00abremarkable architecture\u00bb or \u00aba popular spot\u00bb, some of which is used in ex. 2 on the following page 171.<\/p>\n<p>Ex.4 is a\u00a0<b>listening<\/b>\u00a0activity. There is plenty of useful informal language in the dialogue. After you answer the question in the exercise, and check that you are right, go through the script on page 332 and then come back to p.171 and practise the language a bit more by doing ex.5.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the\u00a0<b>video<\/b>\u00a0about Essaouira several times and, as usual, try to extract the information needed to answer the task in ex.7.<\/p>\n<p><u>Suggested answers<\/u>:<\/p>\n<p>The city of Essaouira- located on Morocco&#8217;s Atlantic coast, 80,000 inhabitants, on UNESCO&#8217;s World Heritage List.<\/p>\n<p>The Citadel du Port- built in the 18th century, visitors can watch the sunset over the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism- camel rides along the beach; famous for its traditional handicrafts, musical instruments and leather bags; Gnoua music festival.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture- argan nuts are produced here, which are used to make hair and beauty products.<\/p>\n<p>Water sports- known as Morocco&#8217;s \u00abwindy city\u00bb, visitors can try kitesurfing.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the\u00a0<b>video transcript<\/b>:\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"Essaouira videoscript\" href=\"https:\/\/educastur-my.sharepoint.com\/:i:\/g\/personal\/carmensp_educastur_org\/EZZZSa3KaVdOhaQlMwukpksBmtc58SAwucaOYp6JsYyiKw?e=l15CTW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Essaouira<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Extra practice<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>&#8211; Reading and grammar: \u00ab4 notices\u00bb. Practice on ability structures<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"4 notices \" href=\"https:\/\/educastur-my.sharepoint.com\/:i:\/g\/personal\/carmensp_educastur_org\/EX_aI_fzo6ZJirIX49q0Yv4BP0BpbZG3JSJTJ1PmI1hvog?e=7PAjIL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exercise<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"4 notices key\" href=\"https:\/\/educastur-my.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/g\/personal\/carmensp_educastur_org\/ER-6taDpc_BCgqQCgN4QgC4BEEWIE4etwBBzpdsIElgHiA?e=2BPkPq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">key<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8211; Listening: \u00abHeavy texting\u00bb<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Heavy texting pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/educastur-my.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/g\/personal\/carmensp_educastur_org\/EUWK2PIbk-tEsuq8gdTqjF8BwIb6vt12ur4htk209K_-vw?e=L5ZwBt:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exercise\/key\/transcript<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"Heavy texting mp3\" href=\"https:\/\/educastur-my.sharepoint.com\/:u:\/g\/personal\/carmensp_educastur_org\/Ea1wvHFzVnZMovWGZAbzx7kBLPN2KMasgEKUg3H46ztfOA?e=UgKZkl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8211; Grammar revision: Gerund and Infinitive<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Gerund infinitive\" href=\"https:\/\/educastur-my.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/g\/personal\/carmensp_educastur_org\/EbRWjFWU7MlNt9KuRPFhUdsBZgirK1TG9_GkGU0l2NuJCQ?e=xemQGC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gerund\/infinitive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Try to find time to have a look at these things, at least part of them. Troughout the week I might write again, either here or through email, if there is any news concerning the school year and the assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your spirits up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everybody! Welcome to this new post and the work scheduled for this week, which is the sixth after the classes came to a close in March. I hope all of you keep safe and healthy! And looking forward to some more English homework to do! ? Open world &#8211; REAL WORLD. Having a great&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/lockdownblog\/2020\/10\/18\/b2-2-classes-a-b-week-20-23-april\/\" class=\"more-link\">Seguir leyendo <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">B2.2 Classes A\/B, Week 20-23 April<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b2-2","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/lockdownblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/lockdownblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/lockdownblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/lockdownblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/lockdownblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/lockdownblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/lockdownblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/lockdownblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/lockdownblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/lockdownblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}