For
Monday 9 December
Bring
Extra 1 to the lesson! Don't
forget this!
If
not done, 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 32-33
Workbook,
pages 200-207
English
Grammar in Use, units 71-80
The
book you are reading in English, pages 81-90
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
for exam 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.
I
enjoyed study geography at
school and now I’ve
enrolled at the
Economics Faculty.
I
used to be keen of all scientific
subjects but now I
would prefer to study art.
I
want meet your sister when
she comes to see you
– she sounds very
nice.
My
friends tell the English
exam is quite
difficult but I’m not worried.
The
tickets, which are
extremely good value, can
be buy from large
supermarkets.
The
number of people which asked
for the discount was low
but grew during
the summer period.
He wanted
always to be a
doctor and after
doing medicine he now works in
a hospital.
The
informations they gave
us was not very helpful so I
consulted the website instead.
There
isn’t many time, do
you think we should
get a taxi to
the exhibition centre?
He
graduated in languages in
June and is
now thinking of do
a second degree in psychology.
The
policeman showed us an identikit
picture of the
man who steal the car.
How
long does it take to get
the station on foot from your
house
I
was so angry that
I took the watch broken to
the jewellers to get
my money back.
He rang
me this morning for
tell me that he
had passed his driving
test.
I won’t
be able to go on
holiday this year unless I
will get a part-time job.
It
was so nice
day that they decided
to have a picnic in
the field.
I haven’t
never seen anybody who rides a
horse so well before.
My
boyfriend always takes
me to see horror
films, but I
don’t like very much.
We
went to Guatemala last year so we
were tired of the
usual beach holiday.
I’ve
gone to Marbella. I remember it
well. A busy town with
a nice modern promenade
and picturesque ‘piazze’.
ANSWERS
WITH EXPLANATIONS
I
enjoyed studying (‘enjoy’
+ ing)
keen on (keen
+ on = essere appassionato di)
want to (‘want’+ to +
verb)
tell me (‘tell’
+ person (me/you/him/her etc); nb. ‘say’non è
seguito dalla persona)
can
be bought (to
be + past participle = passive)
who (relative
pronoun ‘who’ = people)
always wanted
(frequency adverb goes before the
main verb)
the
informations (information
= uncountable noun)
much
time (‘much’
with uncountable
nouns, ‘many’ with countable nouns)
doing (‘ing’after
a preposition)
stole
(past tense of steal =
steal stole stolen)
get to (preposition
necessary; get to /go to /come
to the station, BUT. arrive
at/ reach the
station)
broken
watch (adjective before noun)
to tell
me (to+base form = per/a
scopo di)
unless
I will get (1°
conditional = if/unless/when + present)
such
a (such a + noun;
so + adjective)
I
haven’t never
(double negative)
l
don’t like them (‘like’
+ direct object)
as
(as = siccome; so = quindi)
I’ve
been to Madrid (use ‘been’ not ‘gone’ se
sei stato e tornato)
