giovedì 10 dicembre 2020

Homework for Monday 14 December for Gruppo 1E, Lettorato I with Chris Young

 Reading Comprehension, ‘Harry Potter’:

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Harry%20Potter%20questions.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Harry%20Potter%20text%20as%20cloze%201.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Harry%20Potter%20text%20as%20cloze%202.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Harry%20Potter%20text%20as%20cloze%203.pdf

Answers:

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Harry%20Potter%20answers%201.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Harry%20Potter%20answers%202.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Harry%20Potter%20answers%203.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Harry%20Potter%20answers%204.pdf

Writing if not done yet                                                                                                                         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

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.

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. No hurry. Do the exercise properly. Then the secretary sends the final copy to me.

Extra Grammar Practice

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 81-85 

Set book, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee – download the edition from the link my blog and read, pages 86-90, taking notes on the vocabulary

Workbook, revise pages 172-207. Use your online Workbook for Listening sections.

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, ‘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’, ‘Childhood Vacations’, ‘Sleep’, ‘Christopher Reeve’ and ‘Great Love Affairs’.

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.

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