lunedì 12 aprile 2021

First Year Homework, for class 1E for Thursday 15 April 2021

See you very soon, at 11.00 today, Monday 12 April 2021

Revise English File, grammar 8B, page 147, reported speech, sentences and questions

English Grammar in Use, unit 47-50. Then do:

Then do:

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/reported.htm

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-12.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-10.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-9.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-11.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-8.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-1.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/say-or-tell-exercise-1.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-7.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-6.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-2.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-3.htmlù

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-4.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-5.html

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_reported_speech.htm

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech/exercises?10

Revise English File, grammar 8A, page 146, choosing between the gerund and infinitive

English Grammar in Use, unit 53-68. Then do:

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-1.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-2.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-3.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-4.html

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

https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/index.htm

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/gerund_infinitiv.htm

English File, pages 72-3, exercise 6, Listening, all sections a-g, with online materials and working in a group on a social media platform.

English File, pages 74-5, Practical English (Episode 4) all exercises (1-3) and all sections, with online video materials and working in a group on a social media platform.

English File, pages 82-3, Exercise 5, Reading, sections a-e, working in a group on a social media platform. Exercise 8, Video Listening, sections a-e, using your online materials and working in a group on a social media platform.

Writing – Describe the house that you live (or lived) in. It could be your family house/ flat or the student flat that you share or a holiday house/flat that you sometimes go to or used to go to when you were younger. Describe the area too, the good things and bad things about it. You can use the language on page 162 but don’t use the language on page 120 because it’s over-positive – OK if you want to rent out an apartment but not for a normal description. It will sound false.

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

Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use with answers (Intermediate), Cambridge University Press - any edition, Finish the units and start your revision by doing Appendix 1, 2 (pages 292-4 in the third edition)

Your set book – To Kill a Mockingbird. You can download the pdf of it here:

http://giove.isti.cnr.it/demo/eread/Libri/angry/Mockingbird.pdf

Pages 250-260, to read and take vocabulary notes on.

Writing – see blog:

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

Reading Comprehension if not done yet:     

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

and for general revision:
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/tenses_index.htm

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

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’, ‘Great Love Affairs’, Staying Healthy’, ‘Rich and Happy’, ‘The Vatican’, ‘Going to school in Dublin’ and ‘Relationships.’ Then hava a look at ‘Sites where you can practice English.’

Then anything else 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.


sabato 10 aprile 2021

giovedì 8 aprile 2021

Lettorato II, Homework, class 2A for 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 7B, revise page 145

Verbs of the senses

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b2/verbs-of-the-senses/

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b2/verbs-of-the-senses/2/

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b2/verbs-of-the-senses/3/

https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/how-use-sense-verbs

https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/verbs_of_senses_feel_smell_taste_look/elementary-a1/89299

https://www.teflhub.com/student-exercises/senses-verbs-of-the/upper-intermediate-senses-verbs-of-the-online-grammar-exercise/

English File, revision of grammar, unit 8A, revise page 146, the passive, it is said, to have something done

More Passive

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

New - 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 66-70 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 – new – 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

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’, New – ‘Shopper’s Nightmare.’

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.

See you on Monday

First Year Homework, for class 1E for Monday 12 April 2021

 Revise English File, grammar page 147, reported speech, sentences and questions

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/reported.htm

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-12.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-10.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-9.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-11.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-8.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-1.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/say-or-tell-exercise-1.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-7.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-6.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-2.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-3.htmlù

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-4.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-5.html

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_reported_speech.htm

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech/exercises?10

Revise English File, grammar page 145 second conditional and choosing between first and second conditionals

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_second_conditional.htm

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/3g18-first-second-conditional-exercise.php

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/first-and-second-conditionals/

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/conditional-sentences-2

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/first-versus-second-conditional

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

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/conditional-second-exercises.html

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences/type-2/exercises?02

Revise English File, grammar page 146, choosing between the gerund and infinitive

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-1.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-2.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-3.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-4.html

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

https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/index.htm

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/gerund_infinitiv.htm

English File, pages 72-3, exercise 6, Listening, all sections a-g, with online materials and working in a group on a social media platform.

English File, pages 74-5, Practical English (Episode 4) all exercises (1-3) and all sections, with online video materials and working in a group on a social media platform.

New - English File, pages 82-3, Exercise 5, Reading, sections a-e, working in a group on a social media platform. Exercise 8, Video Listening, sections a-e, using your online materials and working in a group on a social media platform.

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

Writing – Describe the house that you live (or lived) in. It could be your family house/ flat or the student flat that you share or a holiday house/flat that you sometimes go to or used to go to when you were younger. Describe the area too, the good things and bad things about it. You can use the language on page 162 but don’t use the language on page 120 because it’s over-positive – OK if you want to rent out an apartment but not for a normal description. It will sound false.

 

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

Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use with answers (Intermediate), Cambridge University Press - any edition, Finish the units and start your revision by doing Appendix 1 (pages 292-3 in the third edition)

Your set book – To Kill a Mockingbird. You can download the pdf of it here:

http://giove.isti.cnr.it/demo/eread/Libri/angry/Mockingbird.pdf

Pages 240-250, to read and take vocabulary notes on.

Writing – see blog:

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

Reading Comprehension if not done yet:     

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

and for general revision:
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/tenses_index.htm
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’, ‘Great Love Affairs’, Staying Healthy’, ‘Rich and Happy’, ‘The Vatican’, ‘Going to school in Dublin’ and ‘Relationships’.

Then anything else 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.

mercoledì 7 aprile 2021