lunedì 30 novembre 2020

Homework for Thursday 3 December for Gruppo 2A Lettorato II with Chris Young

Reading Comprehension, ‘Poor family’

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20comprehension%20poor%20family%20text.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20comprehension%20poor%20family%20questions%201%20-%20Copia.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20comprehension%20poor%20family%20questions%202%20-%20Copia.pdf

Answers  https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20Comprehension%20Poor%20family%20answers%20-%20Copia_0.pdf

Student’s Book

Page 48-9, Exercise 4, Reading and Listening, sections A-D. Repeat all the listening sections, 5.8 to 5.13 done in class with the text switched on. Use the ‘pause’ to stop, check vocabulary and take notes.

Page 54-55 Colloquial English, sections 1-3

and if not done already:

Page 43, only Exercise 8, Video Listening, sections A-C

Pages 44-45, Revise and Check, all sections, using your online materials and working with a classmate or classmates on WhatsApp or another social media platform.

Page 47, Exercise 3, Vocabulary and Pronunciation, sections A-E, including page 157.

Writing, based on Page 116, so follow the instructions in sections a-h. Work with your group. You will probably need 2 meetings on a social media platform like Zoom. Make sure you talk in English all the time. Someone in the meeting should act as secretary and type the first draft on their pc as the others produce ideas and sentences. They should send the draft to everyone so you can all check it on your own and try to correct and improve it. At the second meeting, you should check and correct it, try to enrich it and produce an error-free final version. The secretary sends it to me on behalf of the group. Everyone keeps a copy. No individual stories, please. Take your time. No hurry. Do the exercise properly.

Writing, based on Page 117, essay ‘For and Against’ – Don’t do the titles in the book, do this one ‘Taking part in the Erasmus program: what are the benefits and drawbacks?’ Work with your group. You will probably need 2 meetings on a social media platform like Zoom. Make sure you talk in English all the time. Someone in the meeting should act as secretary and type the first draft on their pc as the others produce ideas and sentences. They should send the draft to everyone. At the second meeting, you should check and correct it, try to enrich it and produce an error-free final version. The secretary sends it to me on behalf of the group. Everyone keeps a copy. No individual essays, please. Take your time. No hurry. Do the exercise properly.

Revise Grammar pages 138-9. Then do:

Extra Grammar

Page 139, Unit 4B

Zero and First Conditionals, Future Time Clauses

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/zero-conditional-exercise-1.html

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/2g42-what-do-you-do-if.php

http://www.focus.olsztyn.pl/en-english-grammar-time-clauses-exercises.html#.Xb0uFVVKjIU

http://www.focus.olsztyn.pl/en-exercises-time-clauses-test-2.html#.Xb0t4FVKjIU

Page 140, Unit 5A

Unreal Conditionals

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/second-third-conditionals/

https://www.e-grammar.org/if-clauses/test1-exercise4/

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/mixed_conditionals.htm

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/upperint/grammar/grammar_09_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/conditional-mixed-exercises.html  All the pages!

Workbook, pages 197-199, do and check exercises with answers. Use your online Workbook for Listening sections                                                                                                                                        

Do pages 28-30 of New First Certificate Language Practice with key, Michael Vince, Macmillan, 2009                                                                                                                

Set book, ‘Room with a View’ by E.M.Forster – download the edition from the link my blog and read pages 61-65, taking notes on the vocabulary                                       

Have a look at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/persian/features/6-minute-english
and
https://www.examenglish.com/

Google Classroom – Go to Lavori di Corso, go to bottom of page and click on ‘Mostra altro’ 3 times until your get back to the first page. Then start doing the exercises at the bottom, ‘Grammar Review’, ‘Practice Exercises’, ‘Where are they now?’, ‘Song REM Everybody hurts’, ‘Song Hallelujah composed by Leonard Cohen’, ‘Sleep’, ‘Rich and Happy’, ‘the Vatican’, ‘Blind Date’, ‘Relationships’, ‘Going to school in Dublin’, ‘Dreams’ and ‘Moving House’..

Where possible, always use a dictionary, the online listening and video materials, answers and tapescripts and work with a classmate or classmates, talking in English on your phone on WhatsApp or on any other social media videoconferencing platform that you have access to.

See you on Thursday

Homework for Thursday 3 December for Gruppo 1E, Lettorato I with Chris Young

 Reading Comprehension, ‘Poor family’

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20comprehension%20poor%20family%20text.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20comprehension%20poor%20family%20questions%201%20-%20Copia.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20comprehension%20poor%20family%20questions%202%20-%20Copia.pdf

Answers  https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20Comprehension%20Poor%20family%20answers%20-%20Copia_0.pdf

Writing if not done yet                                                                                          

Write a letter of advice to a friend in Dublin, James O’Leary, who has done an beginner's Italian course and wants to improve his language skills. He has asked you for some tips and advice.

You can use expression to give advice like: ‘Why don’t you…?’, ‘If I were you, I……’, ‘What about….’, ‘I think you should….’, ‘It might be a good idea to….’, Another useful thing to do would be to….’, ‘I wouldn’t worry too much about……’ and ‘You could also……’.

Think about the layout, structure and normative language for this type of informal letter. Work with your group. You will probably need 2 meetings on a social media platform like Zoom. Make sure you talk in English all the time. Someone in the meeting should act as secretary and type the first draft on their pc as the others produce ideas and sentences. They should send the draft to everyone. At the second meeting, you should add to it, check it and correct it. The secretary sends it to me on behalf of the group. Everyone keeps a copy. No individual letters, please. Take your time. No hurry. Do the exercise properly.

Student's Book

Page 51, Exercise 3, Pronunciation and Speaking, sections A-D using your online listening materials and section E, if not done, with a classmate or classmates on WhatsApp or another social media platform.

Page 54-55, Practical English, sections 1-3, using your online listening materials and working with a classmate or classmates on WhatsApp or another social media platform.

If not done yet – Do the following exercises using your online listening materials and working with a classmate or classmates on WhatsApp or another social media platform, and then check them:                                                                                                      Page 43, Exercise 7, Video Listening, sections A-D                                                   Pages 44-45, Revise and Check, all sections

Writing- Telling a Story (a narrative), page 118. Think about the structure, verb tenses and normative language (expressions of time and sequence) for writing a narrative. Work with your group (or better, a new group!). You will probably need 2 (or 3?) meetings on a social media platform like Zoom. Make sure you talk in English all the time. Someone in the meeting should act as secretary and type the first draft on their pc as the others produce ideas and sentences. They should send the draft to everyone so you all have the chance to correct it and think of changes. At the second meeting, you should work together to enrich the text and to eliminate the errors. The secretary sends it to me on behalf of the group. Everyone keeps a copy. No individual stories, please. Take your time. No hurry. Do the exercise properly.

Writing – Describing a friend, using the vocabulary on pages 153 and 158, write a description of one of your best friends (include their physical appearance and personality) and their relationship with you (you can use the questions on page 53, exercise 4, section C and the vocabulary in the other sections to get you started). Work with your group (or better, a new group!). You will probably need 2 (or 3?) meetings on a social media platform like Zoom. Make sure you talk in English all the time. Someone in the meeting should act as secretary. First exchange descriptions and decide which one you want to work on as a group. Then try to correct and improve it. You can add to it. It no longer belongs to the parson who wrote it, so you can add what you want. The secretary should type out the agreed draft and circulate it. Then have another meeting later to finalize it. Then the secretary sends the final copy to me.

Extra Grammar Practice

page 43

Reflexive and Reciprical Pronouns

https://agendaweb.org/grammar/reflexive_reciprocal_pronouns-exercises.html

https://agendaweb.org/grammar/reciprocal-reflexive-pronouns.html

page 140, Unit 5A 

Narrative tenses, Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past perfect

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/2/

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/3/

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/advanced3rdedition/grammar/grammar_02_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://elt.oup.com/student/result/engupp/a_grammar/unit02/2c?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_01.htm

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_02.htm

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_04.htm

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_05.htm

page 141, Unit 5B                                                                                                           

Past and present habits

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/used-to-exercise-1.html

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions1stedition/int_unit_page/unit2/grammar/exercise2?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-17482.php

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/to-be-used-to.html All the pages!

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/used-to-be-used-to-get-used-to

and for general revision:

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/tenses_index.htm

Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use with answers (Intermediate),

Cambridge University Press - any edition – Do and check units 66-70

Set book, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee – download the edition from the link my blog and read, pages 66-70, taking notes on the vocabulary

Workbook, pages 203-205, do and check exercises with answers. Use your online Workbook for Listening sections.

Google Classroom – Go to Lavori di Corso, go to bottom of page and click on ‘Mostra altro’ 3 times until your get back to the first page. Then start doing the exercises at the bottom, ‘Practice Exercises’, ‘Grammar Review’, Where are they now?’, ‘Callas’, ‘Marrakech’, ‘I want to be alone’, ‘Shark Attack’, ‘Save Karyn’, ‘It’s always summer’, ‘School in Korea’, ‘Dave Carter’, ‘Nightmare Jobs’, ‘Three Generations’, ‘Blind Date’ and ‘Childhood Vacations’.

Then anything that you haven’t done yet. Where possible, always use a dictionary, the online listening/ video materials, answers and tapescripts and work with a classmate, talking in English on your phone on WhatsApp or on any other social media videoconferencing platform that you have access to.

See you on Thursday

giovedì 26 novembre 2020

Homework for Monday 30 November for Gruppo 2A Lettorato II with Chris Young

Reading Comprehension, ‘Poor family’

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20comprehension%20poor%20family%20text.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20comprehension%20poor%20family%20questions%201%20-%20Copia.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20comprehension%20poor%20family%20questions%202%20-%20Copia.pdf

Student’s Book, if not done already:

Page 43, only Exercise 8, Video Listening, sections A-C

Pages 44-45, Revise and Check, all sections, using your online materials and working with a classmate or classmates on WhatsApp or another social media platform.

Writing, based on Page 116, so follow the instructions in sections a-h. Work with your group. You will probably need 2 meetings on a social media platform like Zoom. Make sure you talk in English all the time. Someone in the meeting should act as secretary and type the first draft on their pc as the others produce ideas and sentences. They should send the draft to everyone so you can all check it on your own and try to correct and improve it. At the second meeting, you should check and correct it, try to enrich it and produce an error-free final version. The secretary sends it to me on behalf of the group. Everyone keeps a copy. No individual stories, please. Take your time. No hurry. Do the exercise properly.

Writing, based on Page 117, essay ‘For and Against’ – Don’t do the titles in the book, do this one ‘Taking part in the Erasmus program: what are the benefits and drawbacks?’ Work with your group. You will probably need 2 meetings on a social media platform like Zoom. Make sure you talk in English all the time. Someone in the meeting should act as secretary and type the first draft on their pc as the others produce ideas and sentences. They should send the draft to everyone. At the second meeting, you should check and correct it, try to enrich it and produce an error-free final version. The secretary sends it to me on behalf of the group. Everyone keeps a copy. No individual essays, please. Take your time. No hurry. Do the exercise properly.

Revise Grammar pages 138-9. Then do:

Extra Grammar

page 138, Unit 4A                                                                                                              Future Perfect/Future Continuous

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_future_continuous.htm

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/future_perfect.htm

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b2_grammar.html

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/int/grammar/grammar_05_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions1stedition/ui_unit_page/unit3/grammar/exercise2?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/future-continuous-and-future-perfect/

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/future-continuous-and-future-perfect/2/

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/future-continuous-and-future-perfect/3/

Page 139, Unit 4B                                                                                                          Zero and First Conditionals, Future Time Clauses

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/zero-conditional-exercise-1.html

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/2g42-what-do-you-do-if.php

http://www.focus.olsztyn.pl/en-english-grammar-time-clauses-exercises.html#.Xb0uFVVKjIU

http://www.focus.olsztyn.pl/en-exercises-time-clauses-test-2.html#.Xb0t4FVKjIU

Workbook, pages 197-199, do and check exercises with answers. Use your online Workbook for Listening sections                                                                                        

Do pages 28-30 of New First Certificate Language Practice with key, Michael Vince, Macmillan, 2009                                                                                                                

Set book, ‘Room with a View’ by E.M.Forster – download the edition from the link my blog and read pages 61-65, taking notes on the vocabulary                                       

Have a look at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/persian/features/6-minute-english
and
https://www.examenglish.com/

Google Classroom – Go to Lavori di Corso, go to bottom of page and click on ‘Mostra altro’ 3 times until your get back to the first page. Then start doing the exercises at the bottom, ‘Grammar Review’, ‘Practice Exercises’, ‘Where are they now?’, ‘Song REM Everybody hurts’, ‘Song Hallelujah composed by Leonard Cohen’, ‘Sleep’, ‘Rich and Happy’, ‘the Vatican’, ‘Blind Date’, ‘Relationships’, ‘Going to school in Dublin’ and ‘Dreams’.

Where possible, always use a dictionary, the online listening and video materials, answers and tapescripts and work with a classmate or classmates, talking in English on your phone on WhatsApp or on any other social media videoconferencing platform that you have access to.

See you on Monday

Homework for Monday 30 November for Gruppo 1E, Lettorato I with Chris Young

Reading Comprehension, ‘Poor family’

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20comprehension%20poor%20family%20text.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20comprehension%20poor%20family%20questions%201%20-%20Copia.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Reading%20comprehension%20poor%20family%20questions%202%20-%20Copia.pdf

Writing                                                                                                                         

Write a letter of advice to a friend in Dublin, James O’Leary, who has done an elementary Italian course and wants to improve his language skills. He has asked you for some tips and advice.

You can use expression to give advice like: ‘Why don’t you…?’, ‘If I were you, I……’, ‘What about….’, ‘I think you should….’, ‘It might be a good idea to….’, Another useful thing to do would be to….’, ‘I wouldn’t worry too much about……’ and ‘You could also……’.

Think about the layout, structure and normative language for this type of informal letter. Work with your group. You will probably need 2 meetings on a social media platform like Zoom. Make sure you talk in English all the time. Someone in the meeting should act as secretary and type the first draft on their pc as the others produce ideas and sentences. They should send the draft to everyone. At the second meeting, you should add to it, check it and correct it. The secretary sends it to me on behalf of the group. Everyone keeps a copy. No individual letters, please. Take your time. No hurry. Do the exercise properly.

Student's Book

Writing- Telling a Story (a narrative), page 118. Think about the structure, verb tenses and normative language (expressions of time and sequence) for writing a narrative. Work with your group (or better, a new group!). You will probably need 2 (or 3?) meetings on a social media platform like Zoom. Make sure you talk in English all the time. Someone in the meeting should act as secretary and type the first draft on their pc as the others produce ideas and sentences. They should send the draft to everyone so you all have the chance to correct it and think of changes. At the second meeting, you should work together to enrich the text and to eliminate the errors. The secretary sends it to me on behalf of the group. Everyone keeps a copy. No individual stories, please. Take your time. No hurry. Do the exercise properly.

Page 51, Exercise 3, Pronunciation and Speaking, sections A-D

If not done yet – Do the following exercises using your online listening materials and working with a classmate or classmates on WhatsApp or another social media platform, and then check them:                                                                                        

Page 43, Exercise 7, Video Listening, sections A-D                                                  

Pages 44-45, Revise and Check, all sections

Extra Grammar Practice

pages, 139, Unit 4B

can / able to

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_can_could.htmhttp://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/3g1-can-be-able.php

https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/can-could-be-able

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/can-could-be-able-to/

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/3g1-can-be-able.php

https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-5491.php

page 43

Reflexive and Reciprical Pronouns

https://agendaweb.org/grammar/reflexive_reciprocal_pronouns-exercises.html

https://agendaweb.org/grammar/reciprocal-reflexive-pronouns.html

page 140, Unit 5A                                                                                                                    Narrative tenses, Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past perfect

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/2/

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/3/

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/advanced3rdedition/grammar/grammar_02_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://elt.oup.com/student/result/engupp/a_grammar/unit02/2c?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_01.htm

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_02.htm

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_04.htm

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_05.htm

page 141, Unit 5B

past and present habits                                                                                                                                         https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/used-to-exercise-1.html

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions1stedition/int_unit_page/unit2/grammar/exercise2?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-17482.php

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/to-be-used-to.html All the pages!

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/used-to-be-used-to-get-used-to

and for general revision:

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/tenses_index.htm

Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use with answers (Intermediate),

Cambridge University Press - any edition – Do and check units 66-70

Set book, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee – download the edition from the link my blog and read, pages 66-70, taking notes on the vocabulary

Workbook, pages 203-205, do and check exercises with answers. Use your online Workbook for Listening sections.

Google Classroom – Go to Lavori di Corso, go to bottom of page and click on ‘Mostra altro’ 3 times until your get back to the first page. Then start doing the exercises at the bottom, ‘Practice Exercises’, ‘Grammar Review’, Where are they now?’, ‘Callas’, ‘Marrakech’, ‘I want to be alone’, ‘Shark Attack’, ‘Save Karyn’, ‘It’s always summer’, ‘School in Korea’, ‘Dave Carter’, ‘Nightmare Jobs’, ‘Three Generations’ and Blind Date.’

Then anything that you haven’t done yet. Where possible, always use a dictionary, the online listening/ video materials, answers and tapescripts and work with a classmate, talking in English on your phone on WhatsApp or on any other social media videoconferencing platform that you have access to.

See you on Monday