Showing posts with label C1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C1. Show all posts
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Perspective (U6-C1)
PART 1: Make notes as you watch the above video and then write a summary of what it is about. Compare it to your classmates' summaries.
PART 2: Watch the second part of the video (minute 4:25) and draw a table with the following categories:
artist/painting :: content/ topic/theme :: colour/composition/brushstrokes/lines
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Fairness (C1-U5)
PRISON BREAKS
- Watch the video about Alcatraz. While you watch, make notes and then use them to summarise the main ideas.
- Explain what "institutionalised" means within the context of this scene from Shawshank Redemption.
RELATIVE CLAUSES: Video, explanation, practice
Join these sentences using a relative clause. If it is possible to omit the relative
pronoun, write it in brackets.
1 The man told me you were out. He answered the phone.
The man
2 The museum was shut. We wanted to visit it.
The museum
3 I didn't get the job. I applied for it.
4 The party wasn't very enjoyable. We went to it.
5 The storm caused a lot of damage. Nobody had been expecting it.
6 The postman was late this morning. He is always on time.
How to Choose the Right Career Path in 7 Simple Steps
MODAL VERBS: WILLINGNESS, OBLIGATION, NECESSITY
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Watch the video and complete the expressions.
1 You’re staying with Emma at the moment, if my memory __________ me correctly?
2 I was__________ the impression that you were writing another book?
3 No __________ you heard that from that guy from the radio interview.
4 What __________ out in my mind most is that that interview was a total disaster!
5 I’d __________ a guess that he hadn’t even read my book.
6 __________ , you’re a technician, like Emma’s boyfriend, right?
7 I think I __________ Emma saying that her boyfriend’s a technician at City FM.
8 __________ you’d known, would you still have agreed to meet with me?
LITERATURE
The Hitchhiker, Roald Dahl
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (2002 film trailer)
CONSCIOUSNESS (C1-U4)
THE PASSIVE CAUSATIVE
PASSIVE AND CAUSATIVE EXERCISES
EVERYDAY ENGLISH (4C)
1. What has been the same about Nadia’s behaviour and what has been different?
2. How do you think Sara feels when she is asking Alex for Max’s phone number? Why?
3. What advice does Alex give Sara? Why?
LITERATURE
Sunday, 5 May 2024
Fairness (C1-U5)
PRISON BREAKS
Watch the video about Alcatraz. While you watch, make notes and then use the notes to summarise the main ideas.
MODAL VERBS: WILLINGNESS, OBLIGATION, NECESSITY
Tuesday, 16 April 2024
RELATIVE CLAUSES
EXPLANATION AND PRACTICE
RELATIVE CLAUSES 1
We can drop the relative pronoun when it is the object.
- She loves the chocolate (which / that) I bought.
- We went to the village (which / that) Lucy recommended.
- John met a woman (who / that) I had been to school with.
- The police arrested a man (who / that) Jill worked with.
Watch the video. Which relative clauses are defining and which are non-defining?
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Travel and Adventure (C1- U3)
Look at the film posters. Make predictions about what you think the film will be about. Then watch the trailers. Were your predictions accurate?
YOUTH VOLUNTEERS
1. Watch the video. What are some advantages of being a youth volunteer?
2. Would you like to be a youth volunteer? Why or Why not?
3. Do you think there is anything negative about being a youth volunteer?
Why does JK Rowling try to dissuade young people from participating in
volunteer projects in, specifically, orphanages?
1. What are some problems with Volunteer Tourism, according to Samantha Nutt?
2. What can people who want to help do instead?
As you watch the above video, make notes on some of Charlotte Baker Maher's main points.
Write a summary of her Ted Talk.
HELP OTHERS, HELP YOURSELF
A VOLUNTEER PROJECT
INVERSION
PRACTICE
Inversion after negative adverbials
Inversion with negative adverbials – adding emphasis 1
More notes on Inversion
NARRATIVE TENSES
GRAMMAR: NARRATIVE TENSES
NARRATIVE TENSES: FUTURE IN THE PAST
MORE ABOUT NARRATIVE TENSES
LET'S PRACTISE
NARRATIVE TENSES
WOULD AND USED TO
AN INTERVIEW: EVERYDAY ENGLISH
Sunday, 21 January 2024
CONSCIOUSNESS (C1-U4)
THE PASSIVE CAUSATIVE
PASSIVE AND CAUSATIVE EXERCISES
EVERYDAY ENGLISH (4C)
1 What has been the same about Nadia’s behaviour and what has been different?
2 How do you think Sara feels when she is asking Alex for Max’s phone number? Why?
3 What advice does Alex give Sara? Why?
Sunday, 26 November 2023
TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE (U3)
YOUTH VOLUNTEERS
1. Watch the video. What are some advantages of being a youth volunteer?
2. Would you like to be a youth volunteer? Why or Why not?
3. Do you think there is anything negative about being a youth volunteer?
Why does JK Rowling try to dissuade young people from participating in volunteer projects in, specifically, orphanages?
1. What are some of the problems with Volunteer Tourism, according to Samantha Nutt?
2. What can people who want to help do instead?
As you watch the above video, make notes on some of Charlotte Baker Maher's main points. Write a summary of her Ted Talk.
A VOLUNTEER PROJECT
INVERSION
PRACTICE
Inversion after negative adverbials
Inversion with negative adverbials – adding emphasis 1
More notes on Inversion
NARRATIVE TENSES
GRAMMAR: NARRATIVE TENSES
NARRATIVE TENSES: FUTURE IN THE PAST
MORE ABOUT NARRATIVE TENSES
LET'S PRACTISE
NARRATIVE TENSES
WOULD AND USED TO
AN INTERVIEW: EVERYDAY ENGLISH
Sunday, 5 November 2023
Going to Extremes (C1-U2)
Watch the video. How does this compare with your reasons?
EXTREME SPORTS AND VERBS OF MOVEMENT
1. Watch the video and write down the names of the sports featured.
2. Which of the following verbs describe movement in each sport:
- soar
- whizz
- roll
- zoom
- plunge
- hurtle
- whoosh
- whirl
GIVING ADVICE
WRITING A REPORT
Cambridge: 220 to 260 words
EOI: 250 to 300 words
Saturday, 7 October 2023
Sunday, 2 October 2022
1. YOURSELF AND OTHERS
What are your resolutions for the new school year?
ADVANCED
LISTENING: HELP OTHERS, HELP YOURSELF
DISCUSSION: Would you like to be a volunteer? What kind of area would you volunteer in?
WRITING: In 230 words, describe your life.
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