A-level English

UNIT 6 __ Modals
INDEX
  1. EXAM PRACTICE
  2. GRAMMAR: modal verbs
  3. VOCABULARY WORK 1: Using other / another
  4. PHONETICS: /n/ and /N/
  5. VOCABULARY WORK 2: Vocabulary quizzes
    — Anglo-Saxon and Celtic culture and history
  6. LISTENING
  7. WRITING: connectors
  8. GRAMMAR 2: modal verbs extra practice

Before we start...
UNIT 1Verb tense revision & relative clauses
UNIT 2Verbs followed by -ing or inf
UNIT 3Reported speech (revision) & connectors
UNIT 4Passive voice (revision)
UNIT 5Conditionals / I wish
UNIT 6 Modals
UNIT 7Grammar review: rephrasing & exam practice.
ExtraExtra activities.



    Exam practice

  1. Download and print the materials for unit 6.

  2. Choose one of these university access exams:


    Alcohol and teenagers
    Internet addiction

  3. Practise with it next day in class.

  4. Practise with the other text at home.

  5. Correct both exams with your teacher's help.




  6. Grammar work

  7. Study pages 5 to 8 of this unit's materials and do the exercise on page 8.

    You can use this modal verbs list for reference.
    Write down any questions or problems you may have and bring them to class next day.

  8. Correct the exercise on page 8.


  9. Study page 9 of this unit's materials and do the exercise on page 10.

    Write down any questions or problems you may have and bring them to class next day.

  10. Correct the exercise on page 10.

  11. Do the rephrasing exercises on pages 11 and 12


  12. Vocabulary work

  13. OTHER / ANOTHER

    Read these classnotes about the meaning and use of other / another.

  14. Do the self-correcting exercises in the other / another webpage.

  15. Do some worksheets about other / another that your teacher will assign you.


  16. Phonetics

  17. Do the exercise on page 12 of this unit's materials.

  18. Read these classnotes about velar /N/.

  19. Do this exercise about velar /N/.

  20. Do the exercise on page 13 of this unit's materials.


  21. Vocabulary work 2

  22. Learning vocabulary.

    a) Choose a topic related to one of these issues which is interesting for you.
    b) Find an interesting text about it on the Internet (150-200 words long).
    c) Choose 10 words that are directly related to that topic and replace them with gaps in the text.
    d) E-mail your teacher your text with gaps and the list of words for the gaps, to be turned into an interactive exercise. Don't forget to include the source of your text.

    Here are some topics related to Anglo-Saxon and Celtic culture and history:

    • British films
    • Celtic music
    • Irish folklore
    • Scottish traditions
    • English, Irish or American literature
    • British cooking (it is not true that the English cannot cook.)
    • Colonisation — the British Empire
    • The relationship with Ireland
    • The birth of the USA
    • Australia as a penal colony
    • The Commonwealth

  23. Choose one or more of your classmates' texts from this list of interactive exercises.

  24. Voluntary homework: write a review.

    You can send your teacher a message about one of the exercises you did.


  25. Listening

  26. Do the listening task that your teacher will assign you.


  27. Writing

  28. Study these class notes about connectors.

  29. Do the interactive worksheets that your teacher will assign you.




  30. Grammar work 2

  31. Do more exercises about modal verbs (they include the answer key at the end).



































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