For
Monday 9 December
Bring
Extra 1 to the lesson! Don't
forget this!
If
not done, Exam Practice, Extra 1, Don't
forget this!
Reading, page
191-194, Burying the Bones
or download it here:
or download it here:
Extra
1, gap-fill text,
pages 32-33
Workbook,
pages 200-207
English
Grammar in Use, units 71-80
The
book you are reading in English, pages 81-90
Student's
Book
Writing, If
not done
1)What
tips would you give someone who wants to learn your language? See
page 42, exercise 6
2)
page 118, Write a narrative about a journey where you had a
problem
3)Write
about your best friend (start with page 52, exercise 4 c) but
anything you want to add, incuding a physical description
4) Write
about one of the questions in exercise 6 a) on page 53
Grammar,
revise pages140, 141
and then for more practice:
and then for more practice:
page
140, 5A
NarrativeTenses
5B,
page 141
present
and past habits and states
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/to-be-used-to.html All
the pages!
and
for general revision:
Grammar, now revise
pages132 -141!
and
then:
Practice
for exam with gap fill texts
with
multiple choice options:
just
with gaps:
and
other texts at intermediate level by clicking on the links on this
page:
click
on the PDFs:
Practice
with error correction sentences
the
exercise on this page and then the exercises on the other pages
through the links near the beginning of the page:
see
all the links here:
Then
this:
Error
identification – Extra practice exercises. Decide which part of the
sentence is grammatically incorrect. Then look at the answers below.
- I enjoyed study geography at school and now I’ve enrolled at the Economics Faculty.
- I used to be keen of all scientific subjects but now I would prefer to study art.
- I want meet your sister when she comes to see you – she sounds very nice.
- My friends tell the English exam is quite difficult but I’m not worried.
- The tickets, which are extremely good value, can be buy from large supermarkets.
- The number of people which asked for the discount was low but grew during the summer period.
- He wanted always to be a doctor and after doing medicine he now works in a hospital.
- The informations they gave us was not very helpful so I consulted the website instead.
- There isn’t many time, do you think we should get a taxi to the exhibition centre?
- He graduated in languages in June and is now thinking of do a second degree in psychology.
- The policeman showed us an identikit picture of the man who steal the car.
- How long does it take to get the station on foot from your house
- I was so angry that I took the watch broken to the jewellers to get my money back.
- He rang me this morning for tell me that he had passed his driving test.
- I won’t be able to go on holiday this year unless I will get a part-time job.
- It was so nice day that they decided to have a picnic in the field.
- I haven’t never seen anybody who rides a horse so well before.
- My boyfriend always takes me to see horror films, but I don’t like very much.
- We went to Guatemala last year so we were tired of the usual beach holiday.
- I’ve gone to Marbella. I remember it well. A busy town with a nice modern promenade and picturesque ‘piazze’.
ANSWERS
WITH EXPLANATIONS
- I enjoyed studying (‘enjoy’ + ing)
- keen on (keen + on = essere appassionato di)
- want to (‘want’+ to + verb)
- tell me (‘tell’ + person (me/you/him/her etc); nb. ‘say’non è seguito dalla persona)
- can be bought (to be + past participle = passive)
- who (relative pronoun ‘who’ = people)
- always wanted (frequency adverb goes before the main verb)
- the information
s(information = uncountable noun) - much time (‘much’ with uncountable nouns, ‘many’ with countable nouns)
- doing (‘ing’after a preposition)
- stole (past tense of steal = steal stole stolen)
- get to (preposition necessary; get to /go to /come to the station, BUT. arrive at/ reach the station)
- broken watch (adjective before noun)
- to tell me (to+base form = per/a scopo di)
- unless I
willget (1° conditional = if/unless/when + present) - such a (such a + noun; so + adjective)
- I have
n’tnever (double negative) - l don’t like them (‘like’ + direct object)
- as (as = siccome; so = quindi)
- I’ve been to Madrid (use ‘been’ not ‘gone’ se sei stato e tornato)
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