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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

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

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



Class # 47 Wednesday 11/5/11

• Reading & Speaking (page 82): Reading for detail; fluency practice. Discussing being attracted to someone. Reading and article.
• Vocabulary (page 82): Character adjectives
• Listening (page 84): Listening for specific information
• Speaking (page 85) Anecdote: Fluency practice

SELF-STUDY: Reading Practice (part 2)

Answers:

 Text 1: 2B   3A   4C   5C   6A   7B   8B   9A   10C   11B   12A   13B   14B
  
Text 2:

Text 3: 1C    2A   3B   4D   5C   6B   7D 

SELF-STUDY: Answers for "Grammar Extra" (Unit 8)

Listening for today's class (11/5/11), page 84: Watch the trailer of "The Secret"

http://thesecret.tv/movie/trailer.html

Class # 46 Monday 9/5/11

Name : ____________________________

Sentence transformation

Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it.

1)      You can only pass the exam if you study.

Unless___________________________________________________________

2)      I didn’t read the recipe carefully so the stew was a disaster.

If_______________________________________________________________

3)      I like singing but I can’t sing very well.

I wish___________________________

________________________________

4)      My boyfriend said: “You must stop complaining about everything!”

My boy friend wanted _____________

________________________________

Rewriting

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between 2 and 5 words, including the word given.

5)        When I have time off, I prefer going out to staying at home reading.

RATHER

When I have time off, I’d __________

________________________ at home reading

6)        Tickets are on sale in any department store around the city.

SOLD

Tickets ________________________

store around the city.

7)        It is necessary for you to study a bit more for your exams.

MUST

You __________________________  for your exams

Part 1: Speaking + Using advanced vocabulary (page 79)
Part 2: Passive Report Structures (page 80)
Part 3: The "have something done" structure (page 81)
Part 4: End-of-unit 7 test
Part 5: Transformations/Rewriting test
Part 5: Listening practice

MORE SELF-STUDY: Preparing for the Reading Task (multiple choice)

Answers:

Text 1:

1C   2B   3D   4C   5C   6B   7A 

Text 2: 

1C   2A   3C   4B   5A   6D

Text 3:

 1C   2A   3B   4D   5C   6C   7B



SELF-STUDY: Answers for "Grammar Extra" (units 1 to 7) + Review A and B

UNIT 7

REVIEW B

UNIT 6

 UNIT 5

UNIT 4

 UNIT 3

UNIT 2

UNIT 1

Class # 45 Wednesday 4/5/11

Part 1: "Parson's Pleasure" questions
Part 2: Distribution of essays+tests and some tips for self-study in May
Part 3: Check HW: Rewriting+Transformations
Part 4: First two pages of unit 8: "Attraction"
Part 5: HW: Study all the transformations+rewritings that we've done throughout the school year