| UNIT 1 | __ Verb tense revision & relative clauses |
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| Grammar work 1 |
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Download and print this worksheet about
asking wh- questions.
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Do the three self-evaluation exercises below.
Write down your score and comments in a as soon as you finish them.
Present simple / continuous
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Negative sentences
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Asking wh- questions 1
(50 questions, with help and answer key). Do questions 61 to 70 and check your answers. -
Asking wh- questions 2
Do more if you need more practice, skip the rest if you think you have no problems with them. -
Take the advanced tenses test.
Take this test to see how well you already know the use of verb tenses.
Don't forget to write your score and opinion in your . -
Work with the grammar book
Revise units 2, 3, 9, 10 and 11 in your grammar book. You can download the correct answers from your virtual classroom and do some exercises from each unit.
If you have any problems, do more exercises from that unit.
If you still have problems, or if you have any questions about this task, ask me in class (if it is really urgent, like before an exam, you can also e-mail me).
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Identify relative clauses.
Identify six relative clauses in the text in the brown box, from the "Before we start" section of this page. Your teacher will explain why we use relative pronouns so often and how to use them.
This page is rather like a blog where I posted mostly links to other materials for my students. It is a project that started in early September 2016.
If you find a mistake or a broken link, please inform Juan José, who is responsible for this page.
You can read here about the flipped classroom, a method of work which we will often use this year, and whose main features will be explained in class.
TIP: use CTRL + or move the scroll wheel with CTRL to make the text bigger and easier to read. -
Find a video tutorial.
Watch two or three videoclips about relative pronouns in Youtube. You can start here. -
Post a link.
Copy the URL address of one of your videoclips and post it list in the forum in your virtual classroom, so that your classmates can watch different videoclips. -
Review a videoclip.
Choose one of the links to videoclips posted by your classmates and write a review giving your opinion of it. You can give it a mark out of 10, too, and compare it with yours. -
Do grammar book unit 7.
Do exercises 1 to 11 in the grammar book — unit 7 — Relative clauses. -
Download the worksheet about relative clauses.
Download and print the worksheet. Bring it to school to do it in the classroom, with your classmates' and teacher's help.
If you have problems with relatives, you can start working at home, and bring your questions to your teacher in your next lesson. -
Relative clauses exam practice
Use the worksheet you have brought to practise transformations with relative clauses. -
Relative clauses exam practice with MOUSE
Use the MOUSE program to do this exercise: 6RELATIV1.TUT (transformations with relative clauses).
Write in your how well you did the exercise and comment on how useful it is and whether you should revise this again.
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Watch a videotutorial — yet / still / already
Learn how to use yet / still / already
Remember that "no longer" translates as "ya no", the same as "any longer" or "any more" in a negative sentence.
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Practice at school — yet / still / already
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Practise at home — yet / still / already
Your teacher will assign you some TopWorksheets to practise at home.
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Watch a videotutorial — for / since / ago
Learn how to use for / since / ago
If you have any questions, ask your teacher in class. -
Practice at school — last / for / since / ago
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Practise at home — for / since / ago
Your teacher will assign you some TopWorksheets to practise at home.
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Watch a videotutorial — so / such / too / enough
Learn how to use so / such / too / enough
If you have any questions, ask your teacher in class.
Download and print the so / such / too / enough worksheet -
Practise at school — so / such / too / enough
Do the exercises in your worksheet, too. -
Practise at home — so / such / too / enough
Your teacher will assign you some TopWorksheets to practise at home.
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Do the Air travel quiz
After you do an exercise at home fill in a with your score and comments (is it too long or short, too easy or difficult, interesting or boring, useful,...?) -
Do an exercise about verbs ending in -en.
Then do another exercise about verbs beginning with -en.
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Put a dictionary in your school bag.
Bring your dictionary to school next day. -
Learning tip: choose a topic.
Choose a topic related to one of these issues which is interesting for you and read some text about it on the Internet. Choose a list of 10 words that are related to that topic.
Here are some sample topics related to education:
- Illiteracy in poor countries.
- Brain drain or human capital flight.
- Public versus private tuition controversy in Spain.
- University access exams in other countries.
- European student exchange programme (Erasmus).
- CALL (computer-assisted language learning).
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Make a vocabulary exercise.
Use your dictionary to help you write an example sentence with each word you chose. You can also write a short text if you prefer. Highlight the new words in CAPITALS or using a different colour. Give it to your teacher for correction. -
E-mail your examples to your teacher.
AFTER they have been revised and corrected in class, e-mail your examples to your teacher.
He will turn your examples into an interactive exercise which you will be able to find in this list_of_HotPotatoes_exercises. -
Do an interactive vocabulary exercise.
Choose and do an exercise about another topic that interests you from your classmates' vocabulary_exercises.
Comment on it on your . -
Voluntary homework: write an exercise review.
You can write a review of the exercise you did and post it in your virtual classroom.
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Revise some phonetics classnotes: V-ed.
Read these classnotes to revise how to pronounce final -ed in verbs.
Alternatively, you can watch this 3-minute videotutorial . Bear in mind that the person speaking in the videoclip has an American accent and pronouces "added" as /"&d@d/ instead of /"&dId/. -
Work with irregular verbs at school.
Find a list of irregular verbs, then classify all the verbs whose past participles ends in -en into six groups according to their irregularities.
Put in the last group those which are not so similar to each other as the ones in the other groups. -
Work with irregular verbs at home.
Alternatively, your teacher will assign you some worksheets with irregular verb puzzles. -
Use the Salman Khan worksheet to do a listening activity.
Watch this Salman Khan Academy videoclip. It tells us about the origin of the flipped classroom.
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If you want to practise this activity, ask your teacher to let you do a TopWorksheet.
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Composition: flipped classroom
Write a critical essay about the idea of flipping the classroom with the Khan Academy's materials. Point out shortcomings and problems, and also good points, and include a conclusion at the end. -
Exchange compositions.
- When you finish your composition, leave it on the teacher's desk, and read a composition by another classmate.
- Try to find and correct mistakes.
- If you do not understand something, ask the student who wrote it what they meant.
- If you do not agree on the correct word, spelling or word order , ask your teacher for help.
For more details about this activity, read this text about peer correction.
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Reading: Frightening!
Do the TopWorksheet that tour teacher will assign you. -
Alternative HotPotatoes version:
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Download some tips for describing a picture.
Download and print this document: vocabulary & phrases for picture description.
You can also see an example videoclip and some basic tips (look under the video) here:
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/speaking-exams/describe-photo-or-picture -
Read this description of a famous painting.
Can you identify it? -
🛑 Choose a famous painting.
a) Find a famous painting from the Internet.
b) E-mail it to your teacher.
c) Bring it to class next day. You can print it or cut it out from a magazine. You can also bring a dictionary. -
Describe your picture.
Write a detailed description of your painting in class, with your teacher's help.
As far as possible, don't show it to your classmates. Try to use relative clauses. -
Listen and identify a painting.
a) Read your description aloud to the class. They must listen carefully and write down the title of the painting.
b) When you finish, the teacher will show your painting on the screen. -
Describing a painting
Work in pairs: your teacher will show one of your paintings on the projector. Prepare to describe it in English to your classmate, talking about what is happening now, what has happened before, what is going to happen and/or what might happen soon.
Try to add relative clauses to your sentences using the relative pronouns which we have learned; for example, instead of saying "There is a man playing basketball with an orange ball.", you can say "There is a man who is playing basketball. The ball (which) he's playing with is orange".
Take turns at describing your paintings to each other. Score 1 point for every relative sentence you manage to say, and see who gets the most points!
| Grammar work 2 |
| Vocabulary work 1 |
| Vocabulary work 2 |
| Vocabulary work 3 |
| Vocabulary work 4 |
| Phonetics |
| Listening |
| Writing 1 |
| Reading |
| Writing 2 |
| Speaking |