| UNIT 5 | __ Conditionals / I wish |
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Download and print the materials for unit 5.
Choose one of these university access exams:
Youtube stars
Sexism in reggaeton
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Practise with it next day in class.
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Practise with the other text at home.
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Correct both exams with your teacher's help.
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Revise this conditional sentences summary.
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Revise the classnotes about different
types of conditional sentences.
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Do this exercise to practise
basic mixed conditional sentences.
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Read these class notes to practise translation.
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Do the 71 sentences on pages 4 to 7 of the unit materials.
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Do the TopWorksheets that your teacher will assign you.
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Read these class notes about I WISH / IF ONLY on page 8
and do the exercises on page 9.
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Do the exercises on this worksheet (pages 10 and 11).
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Do the TopWorksheet that your teacher will assign you.
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Voluntary homework — do these two exercises at home (you can
read some class notes first):
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-if-only-I-wish.php
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-if-only-I-wish-2.php -
If you like listening to music in English, here is some information about a song by
Pink Floyd — Wish you were here, where you can see an example of "I wish".
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Revise these classnotes about some common diphthongs and vowels.
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Do this exercise.
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Study the diphthongs in this phonetics chart.
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Find examples of all these sounds in the reading texts on pages 2 and 3.
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Do the TopWorksheets that your teacher will assign you.
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Learning vocabulary.
a) Choose a topic related to one of these issues which is interesting for you.
b) Read some text about it on the Internet.
c) Choose a list of 10 words that are directly related to that topic.
d) Put a dictionary in your school bag and bring it to school next day.
Here are some topics related to global issues:
- climate change
- terrorism
- refugees
- immigration
- racism
- human rights
- child labour
- modern-day slavery
- 21st century imperialism
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Make a vocabulary exercise
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, or write up a separate list.
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E-mail your examples to your teacher AFTER they have been revised and corrected in class.
He will turn your examples into a list of HotPotatoes exercises.
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Do a classmates' exercise.
Choose one or more exercises about other topics that interest you from your classmates' vocabulary exercises and do it for homework.
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Voluntary homework: write a review.
You can send your teacher a message about one of the exercises you did. You can also do more of your classmates' exercises. -
Watch the first part (1'30") of this videoclip about
Amazing animal superpowers
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Do these exercises based on the transcript for the sequence about the hairy frog:
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b)
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Read this quote from Newton, one of the greatest scientists in history,
who was also a religious man:
"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all things and knows all that is or can be done." -
Read some forum messages.
A recurring topic in Internet forums is the controversy between "creationists" and "evolutionists". Here is an example, taken from the comments to the videoclip above. -
Give your opinion.
Choose sides and think of another comment that you could add to the discussion (not for real, though: some people out there sound a bit too aggressive, and we don't want to get into trouble with anyone). These are your options:
- Reply to ando1135, who strongly believes in science and disregards religious fanaticism.
- Reply to david otuwa, who believes "evolution makes no sense", or to Chad Temperton, who says that "evolution is fake".
- Reply to all of them and try to make a conciliatory comment, like Ravenclaw Pride's.
- Reply to them all in a way that does not offend anyone, and try to make them realise that scientific knowledge and believing in God are not incompatible.
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Write your comment and hand it in for correction.
Try to reply to one whose opinion, arguments or tone you can disagree with, but please keep it civilised even if you strongly disagree with them. Remember that it is very easy to disregard what a rude person says; if you want your opinions to be heard and seriously considered, you should always be polite. -
Did you know?
- Some of the greatest scientists in history were actually priests or monks, like Gregor Mendel, an Austrian Agustinian friar who discovered the laws of genetics. He was a biologist, meteorologist and mathematician, as well as the abbot of his abbey, or Georges Lemaître, a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist and mathematician who formulated the Big Bang theory.
- The geneticist Baruch Aba Shalev published a research paper which estimated that 75% of the scientists who won a Nobel prize between 1901 and 2000 belonged to the Judeo-Christian faith. Only 10% declared themselves atheists, compared to 35% of those who won the Nobel prize for Literature. (Source: aceprensa)
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Do the TopWorksheet listening activity about wolves that your teacher will assign you.
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Do this MOUSE exercise at home to practise transformations: 6TRANS5.TUT.
It is based on the last question of the university access exams in June and September 2015. -
Email me if you have any problems (technical or grammatical), or if you think there is a mistake,
or if you think there may be another alternative answer, or if you simply do not understand why your sentence was wrong. -
Study the model compositions on page 12 and the list of connectors on page 13.
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Choose one of these compositions and write an opinion essay in the classroom.
| Exam practice |
| Grammar work |
| Vocabulary work |
| Phonetics |
| Vocabulary work 2 |
| Reading |
| Writing |
| Listening |
| Grammar work 2 |
| Writing 2 |