Exam practice. Reading, listening
28 December 2023
13 December 2023
B1 3B MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
A fixed idea or image that many people have of a particular type of person or thing, which is often not true in reality.
What word is being defined?
"In heaven, all the policemen are British, all of the lovers are Italian, all of the chefs are French, all of the cars are German, and the whole thing is run by the Swiss.
In hell, all of the policemen are German, all of the lovers are Swiss, all of the chefs are British, all of the cars are French, and the whole thing is run by the Italians."
— Traditional Joke
https://quizizz_articles
12 December 2023
B1.1 That´s English. Unit 7. Leisure. Question formation
Hobbies conversation questions
1. What hobbies do you have? Why have you chosen these hobbies?
2. What hobbies did you have as a child?
3. Do you think people should have hobbies? Why?
4. Have you ever heard of any weird hobbies? Give examples.
5. Is it easier to have hobbies in the summer than in winter? Explain.
6. Can extreme sports be a hobby? Would you ever take up an extreme sport?
7. What would be a boring hobby to you? What about an exciting hobby?
8. Do you think hobbies 100 years ago were different from today’s hobbies? What hobbies did people have back then?
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GRAMMAR: SUBJECT OR OBJECT QUESTIONS
PRACTICE 👇
http://www.tinyteflteacher.co.uk/learning-english/grammar/subject-object-questions.htmlhttp://www.tinyteflteacher.co.uk/learning-english/grammar/exercises/subject-object-questions.html
👉HOMEWORK: WRITING FOR NEXT WEEK.
PAGE 88, EX 7.
EL 19 Y 21 DE DICIEMBRE NO HABRÁ CLASE.
11 December 2023
10 December 2023
4 December 2023
3 December 2023
C1 CRITERIA TO PRODUCE A GOOD PIECE OF WRITING
WRITTEN PRODUCTION:
1- APPROPRIACY → Let’s show we understand the task!
- The contents of the task have been answered
- The contents are relevant
- The instructions have been followed
- The message is communicated precisely and effectively
- The format and register are appropriate for the target reader
- The production causes the desired effect
- Right length
- Neat handwriting and good presentation
2- ORGANIZATION → Let’s show how well we think and write!
- The ideas and information are well organised with effective cohesion mechanisms (linkers, internal grammatical cohesion, clear organization of the message)
- Use of correct punctuation
- Good internal coherence
- The piece of writing is easy to follow with no need to interpret the content
- Unambiguous message
3- RANGE OF VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURES → Let’s show off how well we know the language!
- Variety in both the range of vocabulary and grammatical structures
- Precision in the language used
- Repetition of lexical items avoided by using synonyms
- Variation and extensive use of the grammar of the level
4- ACCURACY → Let’s show we control the language!
- Anything to do with the correct use of the English language: correct syntax, word order, morphology, verb tenses, noun phrases, inversions, active and passive forms, compound sentences, relative clauses, reported speech, verb patterns, modal verbs, spelling… You name it!
1 December 2023
B1 That´s English Unit 6 BOOKS
Warm-up: Brainbox. Once upon a time
Page 59. ex 6.
💬Think about your reading habits. How do you decide which book to read? Do you read reviews or take advice from your friends? Does the front cover image or back cover synopsis influence your decision?
💬Talking about books: Islcollective. Vocabulary and conversation questions.
- What´s your favourite genre? Classify them in your order of preference. Discuss in pairs your favourite and your least favourite genres.
💬2 Talking about favourite books. Following a sample (The Lord of the Flies, Anne of Green Gables), talk about your favourite book. Don´t say the title, your group will try to guess which book you´re talking about.
👉ORAL interlinguistic MEDIATION EXERCISE.
(iN PAIRS. Student A 1-5, student B 6-10)
👂EXTRA Listening
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GRAMMAR: RELATIVE CLAUSES
💬 1. NEF 10A COMMUNICATIVE . Relative clauses quiz
2. Teach this. What´s the word? Define a word using a relative clause.
E.g. It´s a place where people read books
- It´s a person who...
- It´s a thing which...
- It´s a place where...
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Describing feelings and opinions
30 November 2023
Oral mediation activity C1
CONTEXT: Your friend is studying at our school. He knows you are a good foreign language student and asks you for some help with his studies. Your English teacher gave you this article and you decided to explain it to him, as you have followed most of the tips provided.
TASK: Read the article and provide him with all the info, using your personal experience. 5 minutes to prepare, 3 minutes to mediate.
Ten habits of successful students
TO BE ASSESSED: Task completion:
Identification and selection of the information
Clarity and efficiency of the message;
Adaptation of the message: intelligibility and register
C1 The language of texting
Listening:
Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there’s much more to texting -- linguistically, culturally -- than it seems, and it’s all good news.
This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_txtng_is_killing_language_jk
22 November 2023
B1. 2B Changing lives
- 💬
- HOW LONG/ BE A TEACHER?
- HOW LONG/ WORK AT THIS SCHOOL?
- HOW LONG/LIVE IN THIS TOWN?
- HOW LONG/KNOWN YOUR BEST FRIEND?
FOR- period of time e.g 2 months, 3 years, a long time, ages
SINCE- a point in time. e.g. October, I was born, last summer, I was a child, etc.
- https://wordwall.net/es/resource/11669023/present-perfect-simple-vs-present-perfect-continuous
- https://wordwall.net/es/resource/18139710/how-long
- 👉https://www.liveworksheets.com/w/en/english-second-language-esl/1402899 (send it to my email)
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Gradable adjectives
Most adjectives are gradable. This means we can have different levels of that quality. For example, you can be a bit cold, very cold or extremely cold. We can make them weaker or stronger with modifiers:
She was quite angry when she found out.
The film we saw last night was really funny!
It can be extremely cold in Russia in the winter.
Non-gradable: extreme adjectives
Adjectives like amazing, awful and boiling are also non-gradable. They already contain the idea of 'very' in their definitions. If we want to make extreme adjectives stronger, we have to use absolutely or really:
Did you see the final match? It was absolutely amazing!
After 32 hours of travelling, they were absolutely exhausted.
My trip home was really awful. First, the traffic was really bad, then the car broke down and we had to walk home in the rain.
Here is a list of some common extreme adjectives and some modifiers that we can use with them.
| Modifiers | absolutely/really |
| Adjectives | amazing, ancient, awful, boiling, delicious, enormous, excellent, exhausted, fascinating, freezing, gorgeous, terrible, terrifying, tiny, etc. |
21 November 2023
20 November 2023
C1. Language
Why are you learning English?
What do you think these quotations refer to? Do you agree with them?
💬 Discussion Questions
- Do you think a non-native speaker can speak the language like a native?
- What do you find most difficult to learn in English? Why do you think is that?
- What is the best way to speak a language?
- What do you do on your own to improve your English?
- What techniques do you use to learn new vocabulary?
Useful Vocabulary:
- to switch between two languages,
- to put into practice,
- to feel frustrated,
- a conversation partner,
- to memorize vocabulary,
- to improve your grammar,
- speaking skills,
- to have a good range of vocabulary.
Empower: Language learning. page 9, exercise 3
How easy is it to learn English? Teacher´s resource pack
Asking for Advice
- What should I do ( about)…?
- What do you think I should…?
- Can/ could you give me some advice about…?
- Do you have any advice on—?
- Could you recommend…?
- What do you suggest I do?
- What ought I to do?
Giving advice
Present: You should/shouldn’t… You ought to/ought not to… You had better/had better not… If I were in your shoes/position, I would… I’ll tell you what, why don’t you…? What you can do is… I suggest/recommend that you + infinitive – to I suggest/recommend + gerund Have you tried + gerund? It’s vital that you… You simply have to… | Past: You should/shouldn’t have + past participle. You ought (not) to have + past participle. |
👉The statements:
“There is no point in learning a foreign language when Google Translator can do it for you”
“Translation technology is good but should not replace learning languages”
👉Task: Worksheet cloze test. Does being bilingual really improve your brain?
Key answers :
1 claims 2 development 3 actually 4 suggests 5 ageing 6 beyond 7 leading 8 faced 9 key
10 Although 11 performance 12 arguing 13 further 14 leading 15 likelihood 16 widely 17 however.
Read the original article at the following link:
👉https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/04/does-being-bilingual-really-improve-your-brain/
👉 Listening. Multiple choice Ted talk how-speaking-multiple-languages-benefits-the-brain
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WORD BUILDING
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