XMAS HOMEWORK: REVISE AV1 CONTENTS

Merry Xmas

Key to Reading booklet

B-Retirement, boomer-style

A. a b c b b   

B. a a b b c a b

A- Spain's "Terrible And Inhumane" Situation Prompts End To Evictions

10.-     declined to comment on the eviction

8.-       but I hope that soon we will be able

9.-       the family was due to be evicted

1.-       even the bailout-avoiding prime minister

5.-       because of charges and interest payments

3.-       as the government devises measures

4.-       the most vulnerable families affected by the evictions

2.-       to evict her

6.-       without increasing the strain on lenders

7.-       is set to miss his budget goals for the next three years

1. Steve Fosset   (7 items)

  

KEY:  5-4-1—7-6-3-2

 

SCOTLAND’S REFERENDUM

  

                                                                                                                      Key:  A:  542136   and B.  aacbc

 

3. Borrowing and Lending in China  

 

KEY: 10-7-3-6-8   5-1-9-4-2

Postcard from... Ubeda

More than three-quarters of a century after it was destroyed in the Spanish Civil War, and after 18 years of restoration, a statue attributed to Michelangelo is set to make its return to the small Andalusian town of Ubeda.
The statue, known as Saint John the Baptist Child and depicting him as a young boy – and dubbed “San Juanito” locally – was smashed by anti-clerical rioters in August 1936 and only 17 fragments were found.
It might be thought that a small Andalusian town is not the most likely location for Michelangelo. But Ubeda, dubbed the Renaissance capital of Andalusia and a Unesco World Heritage site, contains a huge number of churches, palaces and aristocratic houses from that era. The statue was brought to the town by locally-born Francisco de los Cobos, secretary to Emperor Charles I.
The 17 fragments, 40 per cent of the original – for years locals would joke the head was to be found in a local garage – were sent to conservation specialists in Florence, the Opficio delle Pietre Dure, in 1995. And after nearly two decades of complex work, the 130cm-high (4ft 3in)  San Juanito is reported to be all but ready to be exhibited, first in Florence in June, before returning to Ubeda.
 

EASY DOES IT. Read the text and choose the best option.                               (___ /5)

1C   2B   3C   4A   5B

Vocabulary. Choose the best meaning for the following words as they are used in the text. The number of paragraph is given in brackets.                                      (___ /5)

Eg.   ease up (p.4)            a. relax         b. make something easy    c. show self-confidence

1)    restless (p. 11)        a. disturbed            b. unsettled            c. not sleeping a wink

2)    wimps (p. 13)                  a. employees          b. wealthy people    c. the weak and cowardly

3)    burnout (p. 16)       a. mental collapse    b. economic crisis    c. expansion failure

4)    feasible (p. 18)       a. likely                  b. fearless              c. possible

5)    hook…on(p.27)       a. engage               b. deal with             c. put …off

Opinion Essays

BEFORE 09/12/2014

ONLINE

• Watch the video on this link

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30203229

Fill in the gaps in the worksheet here.

OFFLINE To provide fluency practice in talking about news stories

1. Write a short conversation in pairs about one of the ther four news stories you heard in Listening 1 (SB p.28, audioscript p.167).
2. Start by asking: Did you see that thing on the news/in the paper about...?
3. Answer by giving a comment about how you feel about it.
4. Then continue the conversation by agreeing/disagreeing and add a comment.
5. Use at least one sentence from exercise B in Listening 2 (SB p.29).
6. Look back at your notes and the pages of the units to find at least two other pieces of useful language.
7. Act out your dialogue and RECORD it.
8. Send me the recording.

KEY to Grammar the...the...+ comparatives

SB p.31
A

1. higher the..., greater
2. more secure..., fewer
3. longer..., greater..., larger

B

1. the/the
2. are/more
3. the/less
4. more/and/there
5. are/better
6. fewer/have

KEY TO READING Common wealth economics for a crowded planet

http://millenniumvillages.org/millenniumpromise/

A
Population
Family planning
Child mortality rate
Bith rate
Farming
crop yields
seeds
soil
Underdeveloped countries
scarce resources
poverty
deprived
Aid
donors
measures
project

C
He is concerned about: poverty and hunger, global warming, AIDS and malaria pandemics.
His solutions are: provide every child in poverty with an anti-mosquito net, free school meals, suplying fertilizers, access to family planning, basic health care and clean water supplies.

BEFORE session 04/12/2014

• Listen to the news (24/12/2014 in the shared folder) and find differences between your transcription and the corrected version [photocopy handed out in class].
• Look at the videoscript [photocopy] and the audioscript [page 167 SB Listening 1] of the video we watched and the news extracts we listened to in class and underline any useful expressions or new vocabulary.
• SPEAKING Prepare to talk about SB p. 28 Speaking B (Explain your choices to a partner) & Listening 1 E (Discuss these questions).

FEEDBACK AFTER session 02/12/2014

PRONUNCIATION

• Linking TELL_HIM TRUST_HIM

• STRESS on Politics/Policies
• It'll
• racism

VOCABULARY & COLLOCATIONS

• taxpayers
• comes across as being
• absolute majority
• off the streets
• sleeping rough
• winning her case
• denied promotion
• awarded compensation
• on CCTV
• racially motivated
• claimed victory
• took legal action
• claim upheld in court
• seems resigned
• ruled in her favour

STRUCTURES

• COLLECTIVE NOUNS In BrEng, singular words like family, government or opposition, which refer to groups of people, can have either singular or plural verbs. Plural forms are common when the group is seen as a collection of people doing personal things. Singular forms are more common when the group is seen as an impersonal unit.

My family have decided to move to York.
The average family has 3.6 members.

FEEDBACK AFTER session 27/11/2014

VOCABULARY

• lenient
• trade union
• businessman/entrepreneur
• shameful
•  cut back/down (on)

• to put an end to/to bring something to an end

PRONUNCIATION

• debt
• control STRESS
• measure /ˈmeʒə(r)/
• poor /pɔː(r)//pʊə(r)/
• low /ləʊ/
• combat  /ˈkɒmbæt/ STRESS

 STRUCTURES

• Use THEY/THEIR to refer back to the government
•  When talking in general:
• countable (no article + plural): Social policies are non-existant
• uncountable (no article - singular) Information is essential

BEFORE session 2/12/2014

OFFLINE

• SPEAKING Prepare to talk about SB p.26  Exercise C
• Grammar Reference SB p.141
• Reading SB p.30
• Grammar SB p.31 A, B
• VOCABULARY Revise AV1 topics:
• Crime & Punishment
• Business & Advertising

ONLINE

• THE NEWS - TRANSCRIPTION
• 1st item- Fausto/Eva
• 2nd item- Leonor/Maribel
• 3rd item- Mª Angeles/Mercedes
• 4th item- Santiago/Luisa
• 5th item- MªJesús/Carmen
• 6th item- Patricia/Andrés

Email the texts to me BEFORE Tuesday

Driving over Lemons - Update on deadlines

Driving over Lemons

Jan 13th, chapters 8-20

FEEDBACK AFTER session 25/11/2014

• PRONUNCIATION
• receipt
• STRESS on refund (n) versus refund (v)
• VOCABULARY
• DIY store/hardware store/ironmonger's
• racks
• ripped versus ripe
• tag versus label
• complaints book

DECEMBER EXAMS

• Dec 9,  Tuesday

• IN CLASS (because it's not an exam date), we'll be doing the MONOLOGUE (Speaking). Before and after your monologue, you'll be doing Reading Exam Practice.

MAKE AN APPOINTMENT HERE Write in your name Use up all the times in order

• Dec 11, Thursday

• READING EXAM
• We'll be doing Writing practice in the other half of the session (Opinion essay)

• Dec 16, Tuesday

• SPEAKING: INTERACTION EXAM 

MAKE AN APPOINTMENT HERE Write in your name and your partner's name Use up all the times in order and Be at the room 15 minutes before the time of your appointment

• Dec 18, Thursday

• EXAM REVISION

REVISION UNIT 3 Before session 27/11/2014

REVISION UNIT 3

• Organize your REVISION OF UNIT 3: to that end, there is a powerpoint presentation in the shared folder in BOX. Download the ppt onto your PC and fill in the slides with the vocabulary items and structures that you learnt to fulfil the different functions. Some have already been done in the course of the class.

• Do all the exercises in the WORKBOOK for Unit 3.

• Do all the exercises in the Outcomes VOCABULARY BUILDER for Unit 3.

• Revise the VOCABULARY of the unit.

• Make sure you practise SPEAKING about the topics of the unit. For interactions, do the role-plays on REFUNDS.

O4 SOCIETY Unit Overview

The main aim of this unit is to enable you:

• To talk about the government and their policies and how the economy is doing
• To discuss social issues
• To respond to complaints
• To use so and such and the..., the... + comparatives
• To use expressions to describe economics, society and the government

Mercedes Valverde says...

I'm writing in order to send you the web sites I used to interchange not only writings but also conversation with British people. The main webs that I used to use were:

• www.verbling.com
• www.italki.com
• www.livemocha.com

On the other hand, I used to work on vocabulary using this web sites of thematic podcast: 

• www.eslpod.com

That's all for now. I hope it could be HELPFUL for the rest of the class.

Mercedes

Vocabulary Unit 3 Things you need

Speaking Unit 3 Things you need ROLE-PLAYS REFUNDS

SPEAKING UNIT 3 Things you need

FEEDBACK AFTER 20/11/2014

• PRONUNCIATION 
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation
• VOCABULARY
• drowsy
• LEARNING STRATEGIES
• Exchange websites
• http://www.openlanguageexchange.com/
• http://www.tusclasesparticulares.com/intercambio-idiomas/
•  Steps to learn new words
• Look up the word in a monolingual dictionary
• Then in a bilingual dictionary
• Finally, google image it
•  USE FLASHCARDS They're good for vocabulary revision
• Cram
• Examtime
• Quizlet
• Kitzkikz

Here are some sets Fausto created last year:

• http://quizlet.com/37000879/flashcards
• http://www.cram.com/flashcards/clothes-and-fashion-4634419
• http://www.cram.com/flashcards/about-hair-4629810
• http://www.cram.com/flashcards/crime-4610841
• http://quizlet.com/39027064/infinitivesgerunds-flash-cards/
• http://www.cram.com/flashcards/about-music-4625078

He forgot to mention that if you select English Language, when you type in the word, the programme converts it from text to speech. Really useful tool!

BEFORE session 25/11/2014

• ONLINE
• Watch the video below

• Then do the listening comprehension exercises here. 
• OFFLINE
•  Grammar Reference p.140 Indirect questions
• SB p.25 Vocabulary Problems with things

FEEDBACK AFTER session 18/11/2014

• VOCABULARY
• Homographs and Homophones
• to sow
• to saw
• to sew
• Words in the new
• called on
• slavery, slaves
• smuggle out
• shipping office
• rally
• cared for
• drowning (drown your sorrows)
• public health threat
• set alight
• held hostage
• revoke(revocation)
• Pins
• drawing pin
• sewing pin
• safety pin

• edible mushrooms
• springy
• carabiner
• corkscrew

 

• STRUCTURES 
• Explaining and checking
• Asking for different things and solving different problems

BEFORE session 20/11/2014

OFFLINE 

• SPEAKING 

•  Revise Asking for things and Solving problems so as to prepare for the role-play

• Prepare to speak about A & BSB p.22

• READING  A, B & C SB pp.22-23

• VOCABULARY  A, B, C & D SB p.22

FEEDBACK AFTER 13/11/2014

• Vocabulary
• Words in the News
• spacecraft
• mothership
• unprecedented landing/unprecedented attempt
• curbs
• undergo voluntary sterilization/undergo the same operation
• government-run camps
• foreign exchange (forex) market
• cabals
• tomb /tuːm/
•  DRIVING OVER LEMONS
• http://drivingoverlemons.co.uk/
• Next deadline: Dec 11th, chapters 8-14

BEFORE session 18/11/2014

OFFLINE

• Grammar Reference SB p.140
• Remember that we'll be writing an informal email in the last 30 minutes of the class. The task will be that of the Workbook (Unit 2, pp.14-15). You have an outline of the ppt in the shared folder.

ONLINE
Watch the video below and make a list of:

• 2 myths to dispel
• 5 principles
• 7 actions

CONCURSO PORTADA BLA BLA BLA

FEEDBACK AFTER session 11/11/2014

• VOCABULARY
• THE NEWS
• gathered
• claim of responsibility
• called upon/on
• brought down
• memorial service held
• held talks
• stabbed
• broke out
• launching attacks
• Difference between expect and hope
• Difference between dread and be afraid
• expect to, hope to, plan to, think of, dread, look forward to (you should find examples of these verbs in the Macmillam dictionary online).
• STRUCTURES
• Function: suggesting plans
• suggest +-ing
• Shall we...?
• Why don't we...?
• What about...?
• Function: asking someone to repeat
• Excuse me?
• Sorry?
• Say that again?
• Find others here

BEFORE session 13/11/2014 END OF UNIT 2

REVISION UNIT 2

• Organize your REVISION OF UNIT 2: to that end, there is a powerpoint presentation in the shared folder in BOX. Download the ppt onto your PC and fill in the slides with the vocabulary items and structures that you learnt to fulfil the different functions. 
• Do all the exercises in the WORKBOOK for Unit 2.
• Do all the exercises in the Outcomes VOCABULARY BUILDER for Unit 2.
• Revise the VOCABULARY of the unit.
• Make sure you practise SPEAKING about the topics of the unit.

VOCABULARY UNIT 2 SIGHTSEEING

03 THINGS YOU NEED

The main aim of this unit is to enable you to:

• Talk about a wide range of objects
• Describe what things are for
• Explain what went wrong
• Describe purpose using so, if and to
• Use indirect questions
• Practising expressing useful things, problems with things and word families

SPEAKING Unit 2 SIGHTSEEING

FEEDBACK AFTER Session 6/11/2014

Listen and Repeat what you hear
SB p.19 Exercise Pronunciation B

BEFORE session 11/11/2014

Things to do before the session:

• ONLINE
• Watch this video
• Do the exercises in this worksheet
• OFFLINE
•  Revise the vocabulary of Unit 1

FEEDBACK AFTER session 04/11/2014

• Ten days at the Venice Carnival
• PRONUNCIATION
• The pronunciation of ED posters In red, the verb ending. In black, the pronunciation of -ED
• high/height
• STRUCTURES:
• It isn't a problem = It's no problem
• VOCABULARY
• Mind you: They provide a good service. Mind you, they charge enough for it. 
• Get on/Get off a ride
• plunge
• spin round
• set your pulse racing
• height restrictions
• stop moaning
• spoil things
• steeply
• loops
• twists and turns
• go upside down
• put a further strain (Remember to strain a muscle)
• dreading
• armour
• knock off (Remember knock down)

And my gift today...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL86DFB681262D75CA&v=eOb9Bs86dMU

Driving over Lemons

Nov 13th, chapters 1-7

SIGHTSEEING Voicethread

BEFORE session 6/11/2014

• OFFLINE
• Grammar Reference Page SB p.139 
• SB p19, exercises C & D
• SPEAKING: Prepare to speak about SB p.19 Exercise A

FEEDBACK AFTER session 30/10/2014

A learning strategy that came up in class yesterday is worth reflecting on:

• When you don't know a word in English, admit so! We don't expect you to know ALL the words. WE don't know all the words. But what is more important is that you are able to explain what you mean (like in the video we watched) or to find a way around it. For instance, if you don't know that a synonym of run-down is neglected you can always say that it needs renovating, which you know how to say, like one of your classmates did.

VOCABULARY

• We looked at the difference between pebble, cobble, paving stone and flagstone. 
• costume  /ˈkɒstjuːm/ versus custom /ˈkʌstəm/; dress up as, disguise

PRONUNCIATION

• cobbled /ˈkɒb(ə)ld/

BEFORE Session 04/11/2014

Things to do before the session:

• ONLINE
• Have a look at this list of amusement rides. How many types of rides are there in the list?

• OFFLINE
• SB p.16 READING Exercises B, C & D
• SPEAKING.
• Prepare to discuss the questions in exercise E, SB p.16 Festivals & Carnivals
• Prepare to discuss the questions in exercise A, SB p.18 Rides & Theme Parks

FEEDBACK AFTER Session 28/10/2014

 

VOCABULARY

• base in versus base on
• loads of
• date
• COLLOCATIONS
• High-rise blocks
• Events are held
• catch a glimpse of
• The museum houses

STRUCTURES

• Need + -ing

DRIVING OVER LEMONS - DEADLINES

Driving over Lemons

Nov 13th, chapters 1-7

Dec 11th, chapters 8-14

Jan 13th, chapters 15-20

FEEDBACK AFTER session 23/10/2014

• STRUCTURES 
• RECOMMEND patterns

[verb + that + clause]

I recommend that you buy a more powerful computer.

[verb+ -ing]

We recommend wearing comfortable clothes

• VOCABULARY
• historic versus historical

• Remember that graffiti in English is uncountable so no plural!

• REVISION OF VOCABULARY UNIT 1

• 	BUILDINGS	AREAS	BOTH
  POSITIVE	Stunning, grand	Up-and-coming, affluent	Trendy, residential, historic
  NEGATIVE	High-rise	Rough, deprived	Hideous, run-down

    

I recommend you look up collocations of these adjectives in a Corpus such as the BNC or in a Collocations dictionary such as Oxford's. In general, this is a learning strategy you should follow whenever you learn new vocabulary.

• PRONUNCIATION
• -ate when stressed /ˈɪntɪˌmeɪt/ verb versus -ate when not stressed /ˈɪntɪmət/ adjective