That´s English C1. 2 Memories

                         

Speaking

Listening: Cloze. Will I lose my memory when I get old?

task

Find below an interesting reading to improve your memory.

Reading: How to improve your memory

Task. Elena Fdez

“Memories” (Maroon 5, 2019). Based on the melody of Pachelbel’s Canon, the song was written in memory of the band’s manager and close friend, who died in 2017. 

C1 Narrative tenses

Narrative tenses - a quick reminder

The following are examples of narrative tenses:
Yesterday I woke up and the sun was shining. I got up and had a shower. While I was having my shower, I remembered that I’d had a very strange dream. 

Past simple - 'We left on a rainy day' 

Past continuous - 'It was pouring down even at midday' 

Past perfect - 'It had rained off and on for ten days' 

Past perfect continuous - 'We had been waiting to escape for what seemed ages'

• Past simple
  • Describes the main events of the story
  • Describes sequences of events
  • It is the 'standard' narrative tense. If in doubt, go for past simple.
• Past continuous
  • Describes unfinished actions, especially around a certain time
  • Describes longer actions interrupted by shorter ones
  • Is often used for describing background actions
  • Is sometimes used to make the actions in a story seem more immediate, especially with the word now
• Past perfect
  • Describes actions which took place before the main actions in the story
• Past perfect continuous
• Describes longer continuous actions which took place before the main actions in the story
• Is sometimes used to explain the condition of people or things at the time of the main events in the story.
• The Unlucky Burglar
  
  
  One evening Paul was watching the television and eating his supper when the door suddenly opened and a burglar came in. He was wearing a mask and carrying a sack. Before doing anything else he tied Paul to the chair.Then he went upstairs to look for money. Although he didn't find any money he found a lot of jewelry, which he put into his sack. In his rush to get downstairs he didn't see the dog lying at the bottom of the stairs, and he fellover it, losing his glasses. While the burglar was looking for them, Paul tried to free himself. Finally Paul managed  to escape and he phoned the police. As soon as the burglar had found his glasses he ran out of the house.However, unfortunately for him, the police were waiting for him at the end of the garden.
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Exercise on narrative tenses:
http://www.learnclick.com/cloze/show/1770
http://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_01.htm

http://www.eltbase.com/get_quiz.php?id=22

The mystery story:
Last night I was walking home next to the river Thames, when something strange happened to me. It was late at night and I’d had a long and difficult day at work. There was a large full moon in the sky and everything was quiet. I was tired and lonely and I’d just had a few pints of beer in my local pub, so I decided to stop by the riverside and look at the moon for a while. I sat on some steps very close to the water’s edge and looked up at the big yellow moon and wondered if it really was made of cheese. I felt very tired so I closed my eyes and after a few minutes, I fell asleep.

When I woke up, the moon had moved behind a cloud and it was very dark and cold. The wind was blowing and an owl hooted in a tree above me. I rubbed my eyes and started to get up, when suddenly I heard a splash. I looked down at the water and saw something. Something terrible and frightening, and unlike anything I’d ever seen before. Something was coming out of the water and moving towards me. Something green and strange and ugly. It was a long green arm and it was stretching out from the water to grab my leg. I was so scared that I couldn’t move. I’d never been so scared in my whole life. The cold green hand was moving closer and closer when suddenly there was a blue flash and a strange noise from behind me. Someone jumped onto the stairs next to me. He was wearing strange clothes and he had a crazy look in his eyes. He shouted “Get Back!” and pointed something at the monster in the water. There was a bright flash and the monster hissed and disappeared.

I looked up at the man. He looked strange, but kind. “Don’t fall asleep by the river when there’s a full moon”, he said “The Moon Goblins will get you.” I’d never heard of moon goblins before. I didn’t know what to do. “Who… who are you?” I asked him. “You can call me… The Doctor.” He said. I was trying to think of something else to say when he turned around and said, “Watch the stars at night, and be careful of the full moon”. I was trying to understand what he meant, when there was another blue flash and I closed my eyes. When I opened them again, he had gone.

I couldn’t believe what had happened. What on earth were Moon Goblins, and who was the mysterious Doctor? And why had he saved me? I was determined to find the answers to these strange questions. I stood up, looked at the moon and quickly walked home.

Culture: Remembrance Day

B2- C1

1. What do the words 'peace' and 'freedom' stand for? Which is more important to you?

2. In what ways do countries try to achieve and maintain peace? What are some of the laws surrounding the concept of peace in your country?

3. What is your ideal vision of peace in the world? Do you think it is, or will ever be, achievable? Why or why not?

4. What are some characteristics of peaceful people? How can we teach our children to live peaceful lives? If the world was full of just peaceful people, what do you think it would be like?

Lesson plan. Listening

MEDIATION STRATEGIES

USEFUL LANGUAGE TO MEDIATE A TEXT

TASK: Mediating Remembrance Day

C1 Video. What Is Remembrance Day and Why Is the Poppy its Symbol?

Royals and politicians mark Remembrance Sunday - BBC News

Queen leads Remembrance Day tributes at the Cenotaph

B1

https://www.liveworksheets.com/dd2591156fb

B1. 1 That´s English Unit 4 . Cooking and eating

1. How often do you cook?
2. How good are you at cooking?
3. What are some things that you can cook?
4. What dish or food are you best at cooking?
5. Do you think you can cook better than your mother?
6. Who is a better cook, your mother or your grandmother?
7. Are cooking shows popular in your country? Do you watch any cooking shows?
8. What is the hardest thing to cook?
9. What are some of the advantages of cooking your meals at home? What about the disadvantages?
10.  Is it important for children to know how to cook?
11. Does your father cook?
12. Who is the best cook you know?
13. Would you like to be a chef? Why?
14. If you had your own personal chef, what meal would you ask for most?
15. How hard is it to become a chef? What do you have to do to become a chef?

QUANTIFIERS

https://es.slideshare.net/mpenela/quantifiers-from

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/much-many-lot-little-no/

NOW YOU!

39. 7  Do you eat healthy food? What do you usually eat and cook for lunch? 

What´s your favourite recipe and how do you cook it? 42. 12 Use the following phrases to help you.

First.... And then...Then

After a minute or two... Next...

When you´ve done that...

Finally...And that´s it!

43.6 How eating habits have changed in your country in the past ten years? How have your family´s eating habits changed?

46. Consolidation

1 . Food shopping tips 

4.  Talk to a partner about your shopping habits and give advice on how to shop better; use should, ought to and had better.

Expressions

Asking For Advice:

• I've got a bad toothache. What do you suggest?
• What do you advise me to do?
• What should I do?
• What ought I to do?
• What's your advice?
• If you were me what would you do?

Giving Advice

• If I were you, I would go to the dentist.
• Why don't you go to the dentist?
• You'd better brush your teeth regularly.
• You ought to/should avoid eating sweets.
• If you take my advice, you'll go to the dentist.
• It might be a good idea to brush your teeth on a regular basis.
• I advise you to brush your teeth on a regular basis.
• Have you thought about seeing a dentist.

Declining To Give Advice

• I don't know what to advise, I'm afraid.
• I wish I could suggest something, but I can't.
• I wish I could help.
• I'm afraid I can't really help you.

48. 7 Read the people´s comments below. Write recommendations for them. 

1. I´m trying to lose weight 

2. I´m a vegan

3. I love food markets and street food 

4. I´m a foodie! I love all kinds of food!

You should/ you´d better/ you´d better not/ you ought to

Listening

What´s on the menu? Outcomes pre-intermediate.

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Mediation Strategy: Paraphrasing  EOI exam Power-pack A2-B1

👉HOMEWORK

Page 55 , ex 7.

Write a blog entry (125 words) about an unexpected event that happened while you were on holiday.

👉📕ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE PDF

https://www.lecturas.com/famosos/david-munoz

Workshop : Past habits

http://es.slideshare.net/videoconferenc

ias/used-to-13817087/4

C1 - Jobs

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Adjectives used to describe positive character traits for the workplace.

ambitious	confident	conscientious	easy-going	hard-working
honest	loyal	methodical	motivated	reliable
punctual	responsible	dynamic	cheerful	charming
communicative	flexible	sociable	creative	resourceful

EXERCISE 

👉 Guess the job;  which job I´m thinking about?  

• In this job, you have to be hard-working, cheerful dynamic, and sociable.
• In this job, you have to work with young and old people
• In this job, you have to take orders

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1. What would you regard as a ‘good job’?
2.  How easy is it for people to find a good job these days?
3. Make a list of well-paid jobs and compare it with a classmate. (page 60 Empower. B It´s essential to have the right qualifications). Oral intralinguistic mediation exercise. 
4. Grammar: Willingness, obligation, and necessity.

Vocabulary:work

💬 Discuss the employment terms and conditions below. 

1 What type of job would each be suitable or unsuitable for? 

2 What advantages would there be for the employer/employee?

 3 Which do you think are the three most motivating ideas?

Terms and Conditions 

• four ‘duvet days’ – four days a year when the employee can miss work without giving a reason

 • unlimited holidays (provided they don’t impact on the business)

 • three-monthly performance review 

• performance related pay 

• zero hours contracts ( contracts where the hours are decided week by week) 

• equal paternity and maternity leave 

• equal pay for 16-year-olds and older new employees 

• free sports facilities at the workplace

 •  flexitime

 • unlimited free healthy snacks and drinks

👉TASK
b Imagine that you ran a business. Which one is it? What terms and conditions would you have for your employees? Why?

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1. Working remotely is more productive than working in the office.

 2. Most people would like to work remotely if they could. 

3. If I worked from home, I would miss my colleagues. 

Reading: Remote working, a dream job?

EXERCISE: SPEAKING

👉TALK ABOUT THIS TOPIC FOR ABOUT 4 MINUTES. 

 THERE ARE SOME PROMPTS BELOW YOU MIGHT WANT TO USE.

- YOUR IDEAL JOB 
- ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF WORKING FROM HOME
 - ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BEING SELF-EMPLOYED 

👉LISTENING

Listen and do the exercises in the link below:
Listening:how to break into the music industry

👉WRITTEN MEDIATION

Watch the following videos and take notes on key information to do the task below. You can use subtitles to understand all the important information.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PRISON OFFICER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HSpoKX5dw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQAYpYFl6ZE

The British authorities have done some videos with testimonies from different prison officers in which they explain what is involved in their job. You have a friend who’s trying to decide which career path he/she should follow.

Write an email explaining to your friend why this could be the perfect job for him/her and encouraging him/her to apply for it (about 150 words).

👂LISTENING EXTRA

👀 READING EXTRA https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/what-im-really-thinking

B1 The present perfect.

 The present perfect

B1 Past simple: Irregular verbs

 

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Harry_Potter- Simple past

Workshop: The Airport

The government is planning to build an airport 3 miles from a town called Tayford (population 13.500). The town is 500 years old and is surrounded by beautiful countryside. In the summer it´s very popular with tourists. However, there is quite a lot of unemployment in the town, particularly during the winter. At the moment the nearest airport is in Bristol, 46 miles away. There is going to be a meeing in the town tonight to decide if they should build the airport or not.

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