martes, 24 de mayo de 2011

Thank you!!!



(Click on the photo to see it bigger, everybody looks great by the way!)

Class # 49 (last class of the school year!) Monday 23/5/11








Part 1: Organizing the oral exam
Part 2: How to make vocabulary lists from each unit + speaking practice
Part 3: Listening practice
Part 4: Exam preparation tips

lunes, 16 de mayo de 2011

No class this week

Hi everyone,
I regret to tell you that due to a family medical emergency I won't be able to go to school this week.
Take care,
Teresa

domingo, 15 de mayo de 2011

If/Unless practice

Hello again (what a busy Sunday morning!!)
After checking your transformations and rewriting I've noticed that some of you STILL have problems with "unless". Here's a link for you to do some online practice:

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-45666.php

SELF-STUDY: Cloze practice

Instructions:
  1. Read the text without looking at the possible words that may go in each gap. If you want to see the text bigger and read more comfortably, click on the text and it will open in a separate window. You can save the text as a picture and zoom in as much as you need.
  2. After you have an idea of what the text is about look at the words provided after each text.
  3. There are four words you don't need to use
  4. When you finish, please email me your results (for example, 10/13. There are 13 gaps in each text because gap 0 counts as one answer) to theclassdiaries@gmail.com 
Good luck!

TEXT 1


CERTAINLY   GETS     PROVIDING      IMAGINE      TIME    AMOUNT      INSTEAD   THUS  

INVOLVED     ACCUSTOMED      ROLE     OPERATION      BROUGHT ABOUT     PURPOSE  

POINT      TREND      RAISES       ANNOUNCING




 TEXT 2



RESEARCH      MISSED      COMMON      EXAMINE      BELONGS      EXISTENCE   

EXPANDED   GOES    LIST      SET   EXPLAINING   RANGE   JOIN    OUTSKIRTS 

SCENERY      LINK      EXPLORE


Answers:
THE MUSTARD SHOP (TEXT 2)
0 Common    1 Explore     2 List    3 Link   4 Goes   5 Scenery   6 Expanded  

7 Outskirts    8   Existence   9 Range   10 Examine   11 Explaining   12 Missed

PAPER (TEXT 1)
0 Imagine   1 Certainly   2 Accustomed   3 Providing   4  Role   5  Time   6  Brought about
7 amount   8 purpose   9 Instead   10 Trend   11  Involved  12  raises 

SELF-STUDY: Answers for exercise 2, page 91, "Grammar Extra" (unit 9) and Review C (Units 7,8 & 9)



Class # 48 Friday 13/5/11



Part 1: Unit 9, pages 88-89. Describing important buildings
Part 2: Pages 90-91. Speculating about the origin of ancient ruins and other mysteries of history (Grammar: Past Modals of Deduction)
Part 3: Listening: Exam practice