Reading Comprehension, ‘Poor family’
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/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://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
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