30th MARCH LESSON

Apart from the speaking class we have had today, here is the rest to complement the lesson:

• Homework:
• Writing task:  Complaint email/letter:

You have recently ordered an item through the Internet, but are not happy with the purchase. Write to the company. In your letter/email:

- describe what you purchased
- explain why you are not happy with the purchase
- tell them what you would like them to do about the situation
          (Between 150 - 180 words)

• Listening:
• Colloquial interview
• Extracts + key
• Audio
• Interview with an actor
• Audio
• Mixed activities
• Acronyms
• Body language
• Job Application 1
• Job Application 2
• What is an entrepreneur?
• What is an apprentice?
• Vocabulary:

EXTRA READING TASKS

As some of you have demanded to get more practice in the reading skill, here are some extra reading tasks:

Task 1
Task 2
Task 3

25th MARCH LESSON

These are the activities meant for the rest of the week. As always do the ones you fancy or feel like doing.

• Homework:
• Workbook - Unit 7 - do it in bits. Every day a couple of activities.
• Student's book - page 146 - key
• Listening:
• Employment talk 
• Audio
• The best job in the world
• Job search
• Grammar:
• Defining relative clauses
• Non-defining relative clauses
• Speaking:
• Interaction - Buying a present
• Monologue Arguing

23rd MARCH LESSON

These are the following tasks for Monday's lesson:

• Listening tasks:
• Degrees + key
• Audio
• Employment + key
• Audio
•  Vocabulary
• Verbs + prepositions - Baamboozle
• Work vocabulary
• Speaking
• Mediation
• Interaction
• Questions to discuss on skype/zoom 
• pairwork to do on skype / zoom 
• Reading
•  Floods and erosion 

FAKE NEWS - LISTENING

Funny to know how someone made people believe he owned a restaurant with good reviews on Trip Advisor when the restaurant didn't exist. Everything had been made up.

INTERACTION TASK - SPEAKING

This is the first card to interact. You can do it in pairs through any device in which you can interact. I suggest skype but if there is any other, there won't be any problem with me.

This task is about a complaint about a faulty device.

FAULTY DEVICE - INTERACTION

PROPOSAL FOR SPEAKING TASKS

As we are going to be without classes for so long. I wanted to suggest you doing interactions as well. How? Well, I thought you could record a skype conversation between two or three of you and send it over so that you can be assessed. Those of you who are interested let me know about it through the email and that way I can give you interactions to do.

If you know of other apps instead of skype, up to you, no problem with me.

18th MARCH LESSON

For the next lesson, these are the activities:

• Correcting homework:
• The answer key to SB 146

• Homework:  
• Reading: Animal Farm + key
• Student's book 147 + key
• Student's book 82 + key

• Grammar:
• Unit 7 + key

• Listening: Listen to the audios twice and try to answer the questions. Then correct the answers using the key on the second page.
• Best Friend
• Audio
• Christian Bale
• Audio
• Extra listening:
• https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening/3L2-sports-2.php
• https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening/3L6-answering-machine-2.php
• https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening/3L8-here-is-the-news.php
• https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening/3L11-eavesdropping.php

• Something on Coronavirus: https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=34780

16th MARCH LESSON

For the next lesson you can do the following:

• Vocabulary: https://www.baamboozle.com/game/16628 - This is the game with verbs plus prepositions.
• Speaking -  you can send me the monologue on the news, which you can download from another entry on this blog.
• Listening - Listen to the audios twice and try to answer the questions. Then correct the answers using the key on the second page.
• Only child policy + key
•  Audio
• Mini car 
• Audio 
• Correcting homework:
• page 145 in the student's book - 
• Minigrammar 
• The key to both tasks: key
• Homework:
• workbook - unit 7
• SB 146
• Writing: The next task is a complaint email. Below you have the handouts with basic information to do it. At the end of the handout you have the task to do: complaint email task 

GRAMMAR - REPORTING VERBS

Now it is time you did some practise on reporting verbs. Here are some links to do it:

• https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reporting-verbs-exercise-1.html
• https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/reporting-verbs/
• https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/reporting-verbs/2/
• https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/reporting-verbs/3/
• https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/4g11-reporting-verbs-exercise.php
• https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/upperint/grammar/grammar_07_022e?cc=global&selLanguage=en
• https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/reporting-verbs
• https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/059_01.htm
• https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/059_02.htm
• https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=369

MONOLOGUE - NEWS

Here is the card so you can prepare your presentation for the next lesson. Remember not to write any paragraphs or clauses to help yourself with. You are only allowed to have short phrases.

Monologue - News

LISTENING - DATING AGENCY

Yesterday's listening task is the following:

Dating agency task
Audio

HOMEWORK - 4TH MARCH

The homework for next class:

• Reading text from Student's book - page 80 - activities 4 A/B

For a week's time:

• Writing task - mediation  -  Going to the cinema

GRAMMAR - REPORTING VERBS

The handout explains how to use the reporting verbs seen in the unit. It is important you keep the copy at hand for future activities.

Reporting Verbs

READING TEXTS ANSWERS

These are the reading texts given for practice at home with their answer key.

Climate and personality
Stunts
Stunts key

LISTENING - SITUATIONS

You are going to listen to eight different situations and decide which option is the right one in each question.

Handout with key
Audio

HEADLINES - LISTENING

Another listening task:

Headlines handout with key
Audio

PASSIVE VOICE - INTERMEDIATE B2.2

Time now for passive voice as you have seen it before. After the mess caused by the exercise on passive voice, I promised I would share some links with you where to practise the structure. Here they are:

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/passive-exercises.html
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/passiv.htm
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/passive-voice/passive-voice-index.htm