Class Diary 20-April-2020

 

Dear All,

If you would like to take part in our C1.1 class videoconferences, please send me an email asking me for an invitation.  

- Today's tasks:

1. Speaking 

Empower p 88. Personality. Oral Mediation

Record a 2' minute message and email it to me.

An easy way to record a message is on this website:
https://www.speakpipe.com/voice-recorder
Go to: Start recording
Allow microphone use
Start speaking
Press STOP
Click on  "Save on server"
Write: YOUR NAME Personality (Example: Tomeu Personality)
Click on "SAVE"
Copy the link and email it to me.

2. Reading

p 92 Ex 1 

KEY SB U7-U10

3. Grammar
p 92 Ex 2

KEY SB U7-U10

4. Reading

p 93 Ex 3

KEY SB U7-U10

5. Listening and Vocabulary

p 94 Ex 4
Listening 3.48
Listening 3.49
Listening 3.50

KEY SB U7-U10

6 Exam practice

SPA RETREAT. Extra Cloze

Health. Extra Key Word Transformations

Virtual Doctors. Extra Multiple Choice Cloze

Health, Diet and Exercise. Extra Vocabulary

Health: Injuries. Vocabulary

How to Live a Long Healthy Life. Extra Listening

Oliver Sacks. Extra Listening

- HW:

2nd term:
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4. Mediation: Write a review comparing two adverts. Useful vocabulary here:

Empower p 125. Adverts. Mediation

(180 words). Deadline 18 Dec

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- 7.

Empower p 41. Commenting on a Story. Written Mediation

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6. Empower p 41. Write a review of a place you have been to

(150 words). Deadline  17 Feb

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-Write a scrapbook after Christmas with the activities you did together with family and friends.

Empower p33. Writing: Christmas Scrapbook.

(180 words). Deadline 20 Jan

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- Book Fair:  (16 Dec) Speak for 5 minutes about the books or articles you are reading this year.
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- Presentation (Feb) Speak for 5 minutes about a topic (mediation).
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- Read an article/short story (weekly) (mediation). 
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3rd term:

WB Unit 4 
WB Unit 5 
WB Unit 6 
WB Unit 7
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8. Empower p 53. Write a profile article about someone you know
Deadline: 11 March
180 words
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9.  Empower p 57. Punishment or Rehabilitation. Oral Mediation

Deadline: 23 March
Speak for 2 minutes
An easy way to record a message is on this website:
https://www.speakpipe.com/voice-recorder
Go to: Start recording
Allow microphone use
Start speaking
Press STOP
Click on  "Save on server"
Write: YOUR NAME Empower p 57 Punishment or rehabilitation (Example: Tomeu Empower p 57 Punishment or rehabilitation )
Click on "SAVE"
Copy the link and email it to me.

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10. Write a review comparing the two books you will have read this academic year. Deadline 23 Apr.
In your review you can include your favourite quotes from the books and add some explanations. In the final paragraph try to compare the two books you have read. You can also try to convince the reader that the books you have chosen should (not) be on the Reading List next year. .  Useful language .

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- Announcements:

Third term exams:

6 May: writing and speaking
11 May: listening

13 May: reading and use of English

- What's on

- Exchange English- Spanish

- Sentences to discuss in our next session:

Empower p13. Languages. Oral Mediation