giovedì 28 novembre 2019

Lettorato I, Gruppo 1E with Chris Young, homework

for Monday 2 December
Bring Extra 1 to the lesson!  Don't forget this!
Exam Practice, Extra 1, Don't forget this!
Reading, page 191-194, Burying the Bones
or download it here:
Extra 1, gap-fill text, pages 30-31
Workbook, pages 200-207
English Grammar in Use, units 61-70
The book you are reading in English, pages 71-80
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:
page 140, 5A
NarrativeTenses
5B, page 141
present and past habits and states
and for general revision:
Grammar, now revise pages132 -141!
and then:
Practice 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.
  1. I enjoyed study geography at school and now I’ve enrolled at the Economics Faculty.
  2. I used to be keen of all scientific subjects but now I would prefer to study art.
  3. I want meet your sister when she comes to see you – she sounds very nice.
  4. My friends tell the English exam is quite difficult but I’m not worried.
  5. The tickets, which are extremely good value, can be buy from large supermarkets.
  6. The number of people which asked for the discount was low but grew during the summer period.
  7. He wanted always to be a doctor and after doing medicine he now works in a hospital.
  8. The informations they gave us was not very helpful so I consulted the website instead.
  9. There isn’t many time, do you think we should get a taxi to the exhibition centre?
  10. He graduated in languages in June and is now thinking of do a second degree in psychology.
  11. The policeman showed us an identikit picture of the man who steal the car.
  12. How long does it take to get the station on foot from your house
  13. I was so angry that I took the watch broken to the jewellers to get my money back.
  14. He rang me this morning for tell me that he had passed his driving test.
  15. I won’t be able to go on holiday this year unless I will get a part-time job.
  16. It was so nice day that they decided to have a picnic in the field.
  17. I haven’t never seen anybody who rides a horse so well before.
  18. My boyfriend always takes me to see horror films, but I don’t like very much.
  19. We went to Guatemala last year so we were tired of the usual beach holiday.
  20. I’ve gone to Marbella. I remember it well. A busy town with a nice modern promenade and picturesque ‘piazze’.
ANSWERS WITH EXPLANATIONS
  1. I enjoyed studying (‘enjoy’ + ing)
  2. keen on (keen + on = essere appassionato di)
  3. want to (‘want’+ to + verb)
  4. tell me (‘tell’ + person (me/you/him/her etc); nb. ‘say’non è seguito dalla persona)
  5. can be bought (to be + past participle = passive)
  6. who (relative pronoun ‘who’ = people)
  7. always wanted (frequency adverb goes before the main verb)
  8. the informations (information = uncountable noun)
  9. much time (‘much’ with uncountable nouns, ‘many’ with countable nouns)
  10. doing (‘ing’after a preposition)
  11. stole (past tense of steal = steal stole stolen)
  12. get to (preposition necessary; get to /go to /come to the station, BUT. arrive at/ reach the station)
  13. broken watch (adjective before noun)
  14. to tell me (to+base form = per/a scopo di)
  15. unless I will get (1° conditional = if/unless/when + present)
  16. such a (such a + noun; so + adjective)
  17. I haven’t never (double negative)
  18. l don’t like them (‘like’ + direct object)
  19. as (as = siccome; so = quindi)
  20. I’ve been to Madrid (use ‘been’ not ‘gone’ se sei stato e tornato)


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