Lettorato II, Homework, class 2A for Thursday 15 April 2021

See you very soon, at 13.00 today, Monday 12 April 2021 

English File, revision of grammar, unit 8B, revise page 147

Reporting verbs

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reporting-verbs-exercise-1.html

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/reporting-verbs/

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/upperint/grammar/grammar_07_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/4g11-reporting-verbs-exercise.php

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/reporting-verbs

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/059_01.htm

English File, revision of grammar, unit 8A, revise page 146

The Passive, it is said, to have something done

 

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/passive-exercises.html

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/passive-worksheets-lessons

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?05

https://www.e-grammar.org/passive-voice/

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?present-progressive

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?past-progressive

https://www.grammarbank.com/it-is-said-that.html

http://passivecausality.weebly.com/personal-and-impersonal-constructions.html

https://a2cristina.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/passive-sentences-it-is-known-believed-said-etc/

to have something done

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/causatives-have-get.html

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/int/grammar/grammar_09_012e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-76121.php

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/participles/exercises?08

https://elt.oup.com/elt/students/completegrammaritaly/pdf/refandpracdys12formapassiva.pdf?cc=be&selLanguage=en

English File, Unit 8A, pages78-79. Exercises 5, Reading, sections a-d, using your online materials

English File, Unit 8B, page 82-3, exercise 5, Reading, all sections a-f, using your online materials and working in a group with classmates on WhatsApp or another social media platform.                                                                                                      Then page 83, exercise 6, Video Listening, sections a-c, using your online materials.

Do pages 71-75 of New First Certificate Language Practice with key, Michael Vince, Macmillan, 2009 or 2014  

 

Workbook, pages 225-227 (use your online Workbook for listening sections)

 

Set book, ‘Room with a View' by E. M. Forster. You can download the pdf of it here:                                                   https://freeditorial.com/en/books/a-room-with-a-view

Finish reading the book, taking notes on the vocabulary. Then start revising. 

Writing – see blog: http://lett1.blogspot.com/2021/02/lettorato-i-and-lettorato-ii-optional.html 

  

Writing – Revise page 120, then write a group essay of 180-200 words, using one of the titles in section C, or with this title – ‘The Covid-19 pandemic lockdown is ruining the lives of young people’. Follow the advice in sections D and E and try to use some of the language in section B or similar linking words. 

                                               

Reading Comprehension if not done: https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Losing%20Private%20Dwyer%20reading.pdf

and answers:

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Losing%20Private%20Dwyer%20answers%201.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Losing%20Private%20Dwyer%20answers%202.pdf

https://web.uniroma1.it/cla/sites/default/files/cel/Losing%20Private%20Dwyer%20answers%203.pdf

Have a look at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/persian/features/6-minute-english
and
https://www.examenglish.com/
and for general revision:
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/tenses_index.htm

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

https://agendaweb.org/

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’

Then gap-fill 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’, ‘Moving House’, ‘Hospital’, ‘Mrs Lovell’, ‘Robot’, ‘Fire’, ‘The Developing World’, ‘Who you are’ and ‘Adam Francis’, ‘Voluntary service overseas’, ‘transformation exercises’, ‘Shopper’s Nightmare.’ Then do ‘Practice with Basic Error Correction.’

Then anything that you haven’t done yet. 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.