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.