10.06.2016
Hello everyone!
Unit 25, today! Reported questions!
Please complete Exam Folders 29 and 30 - the last 2!
Then, in your workbook, please complete Unit 25, ex. 1-2 on p. 52 and the whole of p. 53.
I'm really pleased with the progress you have all done thus far. Well done!
Gabriella
Friday, 10 June 2016
Friday, 3 June 2016
03.06.2016
Hello all! Here's a summary of what we covered in class today:
SB Unit 26 - Pronunciation + Activity - Superstitions p. 171
SB Unit 28 - What would you do? - The second conditional pp. 180-182
Your homework:
SB Expressions with prep's + Vocab Spot p. 183
SB Activity - A desert Island ex 1-2
SB Quiz: What are you like?
SB Exam Folder 27-28
WB Unit 28
Please check out BBC Radio 4 Desert Islands Discs - a very interesting programme and fabulous selection of music. Have it in the background while you cook or simply relax, I'm a great fan of passive listening - you learn without actively making an effort.
As requested, here's an additional exam simulation. Hope it works - it should be a computer based test. Good luck!
Cambridge English: Preliminary CB Sample Test (PDF, 68KB)
And for those who wish to check last week's work - here's the answer key!
Hello all! Here's a summary of what we covered in class today:
SB Unit 26 - Pronunciation + Activity - Superstitions p. 171
SB Unit 28 - What would you do? - The second conditional pp. 180-182
Your homework:
SB Expressions with prep's + Vocab Spot p. 183
SB Activity - A desert Island ex 1-2
SB Quiz: What are you like?
SB Exam Folder 27-28
WB Unit 28
Please check out BBC Radio 4 Desert Islands Discs - a very interesting programme and fabulous selection of music. Have it in the background while you cook or simply relax, I'm a great fan of passive listening - you learn without actively making an effort.
As requested, here's an additional exam simulation. Hope it works - it should be a computer based test. Good luck!
Cambridge English: Preliminary CB Sample Test (PDF, 68KB)
And for those who wish to check last week's work - here's the answer key!
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
31.05.16
Hello class!
Today we covered 'connected speech' in Pronunciation, p. 151 - please do the 'Corpus Spot' on the same page.
Then we met the First Conditional in unit 26 - please do all exercises under the heading 'Unless' on p. 170 in writing.
From your WB, please complete unit 26.
Happy homework! :-)
Gabriella
P. S. Here are the answer key pictures to last week's homework:
Hello class!
Today we covered 'connected speech' in Pronunciation, p. 151 - please do the 'Corpus Spot' on the same page.
Then we met the First Conditional in unit 26 - please do all exercises under the heading 'Unless' on p. 170 in writing.
From your WB, please complete unit 26.
Happy homework! :-)
Gabriella
P. S. Here are the answer key pictures to last week's homework:
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•1 week (7 nights) in standard
sharing rooms with host families (5-20
mins on foot from St. Julian’s Centre)
on HALF BOARD basis, including:
- Continental breakfast
- Warm dinner
-
Light
laundry service
COURSE
•20 lessons/15hrs
(45
minutes each lesson)
Monday
to Friday in classes of 10-15 students
to be held at the Adult Centre in Swieqi,
St. Julian’s (3
hrs per day held between 9:00 and 12:30).
•Certificate of attendance.
•Registration & Course Materials.
•Placement test.
FACILITIES
•FREE unlimited internet access at school.
• FREE Tea, coffee and water offered at
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•From Malta International Airport to
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Tour - Transport,
Professional Guide, visiting Upper Barrakka Gardens , Guided walk around Valletta
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Friday, 27 May 2016
Hello my dearest!
It was relative clause time, today! And, as Professor Einstein would say... all is relative! Hah, ha!
Your homework:
SB p. 151 Adjectives + Prepositions ex 2
SB Exam Folder 23 and 24
WB Whole Unit 23
Please note that the 'English in Malta' poster also invites adults to have the experience to learn English in sunny Malta so do please let me know if any of you or anyone you know is interested. Poster with details coming soon. N.B. If anyone is interested, the payment deadline is approaching fast.
It'd be nice to have an end of year get-together, wouldn't you say? Anybody up for that?
All the best,
Gabriella
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
24.05.16
Hello all!
So today we covered the reported speech and encountered some reporting verbs (announce, say, tell, explain) - Unit 22, in your SB.
I'd like you to complete all exercises in your SB, Unit 22, in writing, as we did most of them orally. Please leave the pronunciation exercises aside for we will do them together in class, on Friday. Do please complete the whole unit doing the vocabulary work and the part covering approval/disapproval, like/dislike, agree/disagree. If there are any doubts about this we will go over it quickly in class on Friday.
In you SB, please also complete Exam Folders 20, 21 and 22, preparing any written material so you can hand it in to me during our next lesson.
Please complete the whole of Unit 22 in your WB and do the Pronunciation exercise in Unit 19.
Thank you for all your work so far.
Gabriella
P.S. Here's the answer key to unit 19.
Hello all!
So today we covered the reported speech and encountered some reporting verbs (announce, say, tell, explain) - Unit 22, in your SB.
I'd like you to complete all exercises in your SB, Unit 22, in writing, as we did most of them orally. Please leave the pronunciation exercises aside for we will do them together in class, on Friday. Do please complete the whole unit doing the vocabulary work and the part covering approval/disapproval, like/dislike, agree/disagree. If there are any doubts about this we will go over it quickly in class on Friday.
In you SB, please also complete Exam Folders 20, 21 and 22, preparing any written material so you can hand it in to me during our next lesson.
Please complete the whole of Unit 22 in your WB and do the Pronunciation exercise in Unit 19.
Thank you for all your work so far.
Gabriella
P.S. Here's the answer key to unit 19.
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
IMPORTANT REMINDER - PLEASE TAKE THE TROUBLE TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY
Student Feedback Survey - May 2016: Please let us know what you think of your experience with us
Online Student Feedback Survey - Anonymous
Please tell us what we do well and what we can improve. This is the time to tell us. Remember, the survey is anonymous.
Thank you,
Gabriella
Student Feedback Survey - May 2016: Please let us know what you think of your experience with us
Online Student Feedback Survey - Anonymous
Please tell us what we do well and what we can improve. This is the time to tell us. Remember, the survey is anonymous.
Thank you,
Gabriella
Friday, 20 May 2016
20.05.16
Hello class!
So today we've completed unit 19 (well, almost).
In your SB, please complete exercises 1-3 on p. 27 (Giving Advice), we will do the Activity about Families and the pronunciation work on Tuesday, before moving on to Unit 22. Also, please do Exam Folders 19 and 20.
Additionally, please write true sentences about yourselves using all the expressions followed by the infinitive or by -ing we've seen in class today.
In your WB, please complete the whole of unit 19, except ex. 4 (Pronunciation).
Any written work, please hand in to me for correction on Tuesday.
If you wish to practise the writing exercises that you would find in your exam, please choose a mock test from the links that I gave you, write the email or story and give it to me for correction.
On a separate note, please be aware that there is only ONE English Aperitif venue on Tuesday 24.05.16 and that is via dei Crociferi 77. We can meet at Giga IH at 20.00 to get there for 20.30 or meet at 77, via dei Crociferi at 20.30. We all misunderstood the meaning of the poster.
Please do make the effort to come and enjoy an evening out with other English speakers (e non mi fate fare la figuraccia di andare da sola!). You don't have to stay too long.
Sending you all my best wishes for a lovely weekend,
Gabriella
Hello class!
So today we've completed unit 19 (well, almost).
In your SB, please complete exercises 1-3 on p. 27 (Giving Advice), we will do the Activity about Families and the pronunciation work on Tuesday, before moving on to Unit 22. Also, please do Exam Folders 19 and 20.
Additionally, please write true sentences about yourselves using all the expressions followed by the infinitive or by -ing we've seen in class today.
In your WB, please complete the whole of unit 19, except ex. 4 (Pronunciation).
Any written work, please hand in to me for correction on Tuesday.
If you wish to practise the writing exercises that you would find in your exam, please choose a mock test from the links that I gave you, write the email or story and give it to me for correction.
On a separate note, please be aware that there is only ONE English Aperitif venue on Tuesday 24.05.16 and that is via dei Crociferi 77. We can meet at Giga IH at 20.00 to get there for 20.30 or meet at 77, via dei Crociferi at 20.30. We all misunderstood the meaning of the poster.
Please do make the effort to come and enjoy an evening out with other English speakers (e non mi fate fare la figuraccia di andare da sola!). You don't have to stay too long.
Sending you all my best wishes for a lovely weekend,
Gabriella
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
17.05.16
Hello everyone!
Please write your thoughts about ONE of the two questions below:
Do you believe in happy endings? Why? Why not?
Do childhood dreams come true? Should we encourage our children to dream and follow their dreams?
I'd like you to try writing a story using Storybird (more details below). Create the story for a young relative; a son or daughter, a grandchild, a nephew or niece, or a cousin.
What Storybird looks like and how to use it
Create a simple story using narrative tenses on Storybird
All you have to do is create an account. I think this might bring out the storyteller in every one of you! Please do try and give me your feedback.
We start unit 19 on Friday. Please read the first page of the unit (p. 124) and complete the gaps.
Happy writing!
Gabriella
Hello everyone!
Please write your thoughts about ONE of the two questions below:
Do you believe in happy endings? Why? Why not?
Do childhood dreams come true? Should we encourage our children to dream and follow their dreams?
I'd like you to try writing a story using Storybird (more details below). Create the story for a young relative; a son or daughter, a grandchild, a nephew or niece, or a cousin.
What Storybird looks like and how to use it
Create a simple story using narrative tenses on Storybird
All you have to do is create an account. I think this might bring out the storyteller in every one of you! Please do try and give me your feedback.
We start unit 19 on Friday. Please read the first page of the unit (p. 124) and complete the gaps.
Happy writing!
Gabriella
Monday, 16 May 2016
16.05.16 - The Daily English Challenge
I’ve
tried it and it’s nice and engaging so I thought to share it with you. There are 3 levels: elementary, intermediate and advanced and
it’s really catchy. Here’s the link:
The Daily English Challenge
Have fun!
Gabriella
Dear All,
Ih Bristol has shared with us an online game they use with all their students and for which there are some prizes. Please sign up and play. You can win a two-week
free course but even if you don’t win, it is fun and teaches you a bit
of English.
The Daily English Challenge
Have fun!
Gabriella
Sunday, 15 May 2016
13.05.2016
Hello everyone!
Short and sweet from me, today.
Please complete the whole of unit 18 in both your SB (this includes the Exam Folder) and workbook. Additionally, please do the revision exercises for unit 13-18 (you find this in the pages after the Exam Folder 18).
We'll do a progress test on Tuesday.
Take care,
Gabriella
P.S. Please do not forget to complete the online survey/student satisfaction questionnaire. It is anonymous and we do need to have your honest feedback so we can improve. Thanks in anticipation.
Hello everyone!
Short and sweet from me, today.
Please complete the whole of unit 18 in both your SB (this includes the Exam Folder) and workbook. Additionally, please do the revision exercises for unit 13-18 (you find this in the pages after the Exam Folder 18).
We'll do a progress test on Tuesday.
Take care,
Gabriella
P.S. Please do not forget to complete the online survey/student satisfaction questionnaire. It is anonymous and we do need to have your honest feedback so we can improve. Thanks in anticipation.
Thursday, 12 May 2016
Student Feedback Survey - May 2016: Please let us know what you think of your experience with us
Online Student Feedback Survey - Anonymous
Please tell us what we do well and what we can improve. This is the time to tell us. Remember, the survey is anonymous.
Thank you,
Gabriella
Online Student Feedback Survey - Anonymous
Please tell us what we do well and what we can improve. This is the time to tell us. Remember, the survey is anonymous.
Thank you,
Gabriella
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
10.05.2016
Hello class (bye, Marco)
Here's the key to the homework from last Friday and part of today's:
For next Friday, please complete unit 17 in your workbook and do exam skills on p. 39 (from unit 18).
On your SB, please do the activity on p. 113 Predictions and exam folder 17.
Keep up the good work!
Bye for now (Hi Marco)!
Hello class (bye, Marco)
Here's the key to the homework from last Friday and part of today's:
For next Friday, please complete unit 17 in your workbook and do exam skills on p. 39 (from unit 18).
On your SB, please do the activity on p. 113 Predictions and exam folder 17.
Keep up the good work!
Bye for now (Hi Marco)!
Tuesday, 3 May 2016
03.05.16
Hello all and thank you for a fun class, earlier.
As mentioned, there are some good exam preparation books for PET, out there, on amazon.co.uk
Here's a selection.
Cambridge Preliminary English Test 3 Self-study Pack
PET Practice Tests:: Practice Tests With Key and Audio CD Pack Paperback
Pet Buster: Test Book - 4 Tests + Audio Cds (2) Paperback
The last one seems to be really popular with my colleagues in general.
If you can, please share the expense, and copy the book and CDs so that all of you can have the benefit of extra practice.
Here's the key to last week's homework:
HOMEWORK :
Please complete the whole of unit 16 in your workbook, and exam folder 16 in your student book. N.B. As there is going to be some writing to do, please remember to hand it in to me leaving lots of space for correction between the lines and writing your name on the top.
Also, please do exercise 3 of the Activity on page 107 of your SB.
Happy homework!
Hello all and thank you for a fun class, earlier.
As mentioned, there are some good exam preparation books for PET, out there, on amazon.co.uk
Here's a selection.
Cambridge Preliminary English Test 3 Self-study Pack
PET Practice Tests:: Practice Tests With Key and Audio CD Pack Paperback
Pet Buster: Test Book - 4 Tests + Audio Cds (2) Paperback
The last one seems to be really popular with my colleagues in general.
If you can, please share the expense, and copy the book and CDs so that all of you can have the benefit of extra practice.
Here's the key to last week's homework:
HOMEWORK :
Please complete the whole of unit 16 in your workbook, and exam folder 16 in your student book. N.B. As there is going to be some writing to do, please remember to hand it in to me leaving lots of space for correction between the lines and writing your name on the top.
Also, please do exercise 3 of the Activity on page 107 of your SB.
Happy homework!
Friday, 29 April 2016
29.04.16
Hello everyone!
Please keep working hard and doing your best and don't worry too much about the exam, yet.
For homework, please complete Unit 15 Risk and Exam Folder 15, and start Unit 16 by doing the Personality Test at the beginning of the unit.
Additionally, please complete the whole unit 15 of the workbook.
Here are some more online exercises:
had to / didn't have to
Modal Verbs 1: Permission, obligation, no abligation, prohibition
Modals of necessity, prohibition and permission
Happy homework!
Gabriella
Hello everyone!
Please keep working hard and doing your best and don't worry too much about the exam, yet.
For homework, please complete Unit 15 Risk and Exam Folder 15, and start Unit 16 by doing the Personality Test at the beginning of the unit.
Additionally, please complete the whole unit 15 of the workbook.
Here are some more online exercises:
had to / didn't have to
Modal Verbs 1: Permission, obligation, no abligation, prohibition
Modals of necessity, prohibition and permission
Happy homework!
Gabriella
Friday, 22 April 2016
22.04.16
Hello class! Well done for sitting the mock speaking test.
Here are a few websites to practise can + don't have to / have to + can't. You will find must and mustn't in it too but I believe this may make it clearer to you.
Please complete the whole of p. 32 on your WB, then do the Exam Folder 15 in your SB and after that, please do the Exam Skill practice 15 on your WB on p. 33.
Have and enjoyable long weekend!
Gabriella
British Council
Perfect English Grammar - Modals of obligation
Montse Morales - Permission and Obligation
Hello class! Well done for sitting the mock speaking test.
Here are a few websites to practise can + don't have to / have to + can't. You will find must and mustn't in it too but I believe this may make it clearer to you.
Please complete the whole of p. 32 on your WB, then do the Exam Folder 15 in your SB and after that, please do the Exam Skill practice 15 on your WB on p. 33.
Have and enjoyable long weekend!
Gabriella
British Council
Perfect English Grammar - Modals of obligation
Montse Morales - Permission and Obligation
Thursday, 21 April 2016
21.04.16
Hello all!
Marta's kindly offered her help with the Speaking Paper of the Mock Test tomorrow evening. This means that from 18.00 sharp to 19.00, I will send, in turns, a pair of you to her office and you will be mock examined by her. Please do not miss this opportunity.
All the best,
Gabriella
Hello all!
Marta's kindly offered her help with the Speaking Paper of the Mock Test tomorrow evening. This means that from 18.00 sharp to 19.00, I will send, in turns, a pair of you to her office and you will be mock examined by her. Please do not miss this opportunity.
All the best,
Gabriella
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Monday, 4 April 2016
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
22.03.2016
Hello all!
Here's the homework for 1st April (April Fools' Day):
Top 100 April Fools' Day Hoaxes of all time
Enjoy your latest bit of trivia! And don't pull any jokes on the teacher!
Gabriella
Hello all!
Here's the homework for 1st April (April Fools' Day):
- Writing folder in your student book on p. 97 - whole page
- Workbook - whole of p. 30 and ex. 5 on p. 31
Top 100 April Fools' Day Hoaxes of all time
Enjoy your latest bit of trivia! And don't pull any jokes on the teacher!
Gabriella
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Friday, 11 March 2016
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
08.03.2016
Hello all!
As we approach our Mock Test, this Friday, please try and do as much revising as possible so that you will get the best check-up of your knowledge so far.
Today, as promised, we completed Unit 12 - a good read
Your homework for Friday (though we shall not be able to correct it, then) involves a lot of writing and revising.
In your SB p. 81 activity - you have to write write a review like the sample I showed you in class. The advice is to keep it simple but include all the information required in the most grammatically correct way.
On p. 82 Writing folder - ex 5, you will write your own short story taking your inspiration from the titles you see in ex. 1. i gave you some sample answers for you to look at to help you with writing your story.
Still in your SB p. 84-85 you can review units 7-12 and use it as an excuse to look in the Grammar folder from p. 207 in your book. Remember the way I suggested to approach those exercises? Justify every answer you give. Why is it this and not that? If you don't know the answer, look it up in the Grammar Folder and memorise the rule.
I also gave you a Progress test to do. As mentioned, I shall be posting the key to the test on Friday morning. N.B. Only look at it if you have completed the test.
In your Workbook, complete all exercises in Unit 12.
All writing to be handed into me. You know the rules! Write clearly and leave ample space between the lines. Write your name and surname, too!
See you on Friday evening and good luck for the Mock Exam!
Gabriella
Hello all!
As we approach our Mock Test, this Friday, please try and do as much revising as possible so that you will get the best check-up of your knowledge so far.
Today, as promised, we completed Unit 12 - a good read
Your homework for Friday (though we shall not be able to correct it, then) involves a lot of writing and revising.
In your SB p. 81 activity - you have to write write a review like the sample I showed you in class. The advice is to keep it simple but include all the information required in the most grammatically correct way.
On p. 82 Writing folder - ex 5, you will write your own short story taking your inspiration from the titles you see in ex. 1. i gave you some sample answers for you to look at to help you with writing your story.
Still in your SB p. 84-85 you can review units 7-12 and use it as an excuse to look in the Grammar folder from p. 207 in your book. Remember the way I suggested to approach those exercises? Justify every answer you give. Why is it this and not that? If you don't know the answer, look it up in the Grammar Folder and memorise the rule.
I also gave you a Progress test to do. As mentioned, I shall be posting the key to the test on Friday morning. N.B. Only look at it if you have completed the test.
In your Workbook, complete all exercises in Unit 12.
All writing to be handed into me. You know the rules! Write clearly and leave ample space between the lines. Write your name and surname, too!
See you on Friday evening and good luck for the Mock Exam!
Gabriella
Sunday, 6 March 2016
Hello all!
Welcome to Carmela!
For Tuesday, please complete in writing exercises 4-6 on your Student's Book, page 80.
Please also do exercises 7 and 8 on page 81 of your Student's Book: we'll be correcting those in class.
Below, please find the links to the online PET exam practice:
Cambridge English - PET examination material
English Aula - PET preparation
Exam English - PET Preparation
Please work your way through them.
P.S. Here are a couple of synonyms for the verb to lie, lay, lain:
to stretch out, to rest
Until Tuesday!
Gabriella
Welcome to Carmela!
For Tuesday, please complete in writing exercises 4-6 on your Student's Book, page 80.
Please also do exercises 7 and 8 on page 81 of your Student's Book: we'll be correcting those in class.
Below, please find the links to the online PET exam practice:
Cambridge English - PET examination material
English Aula - PET preparation
Exam English - PET Preparation
Please work your way through them.
P.S. Here are a couple of synonyms for the verb to lie, lay, lain:
to stretch out, to rest
Until Tuesday!
Gabriella
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
01.03.2016
Welcome to Marco and Antonio, our two new fellow passengers on this voyage to a successful exam!
Please carry on working through the links I posted on 26.02.2016 and explore the following, too:
Cambridge English - PET examination material
Homework:
SB: Exam Folder 11
WB: complete Unit 11
Please check your homework for Unit 10 on the workbook by using the key below.
ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
The pictures you are about to see contain the correct answers to Units 10 AND 11 of your workbook! Please NO CHEATING! You must not use these pictures until you have done your best with all the exercises I gave you for homework!
ARE YOU CERTAIN THAT YOU SHOULD LOOK NOW?
HAVE YOU GIVEN YOUR HOMEWORK YOUR BEST SHOT?
OKAY, THEN! YOU MAY LOOK NOW! :-)
BUT ONLY IF YOU ARE CERTAIN! ;-)
Welcome to Marco and Antonio, our two new fellow passengers on this voyage to a successful exam!
Please carry on working through the links I posted on 26.02.2016 and explore the following, too:
Cambridge English - PET examination material
Homework:
SB: Exam Folder 11
WB: complete Unit 11
Please check your homework for Unit 10 on the workbook by using the key below.
ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
The pictures you are about to see contain the correct answers to Units 10 AND 11 of your workbook! Please NO CHEATING! You must not use these pictures until you have done your best with all the exercises I gave you for homework!
ARE YOU CERTAIN THAT YOU SHOULD LOOK NOW?
HAVE YOU GIVEN YOUR HOMEWORK YOUR BEST SHOT?
OKAY, THEN! YOU MAY LOOK NOW! :-)
BUT ONLY IF YOU ARE CERTAIN! ;-)
Saturday, 27 February 2016
27.02.2016
Hello all!
Thank you for your hard work on Unit 11 - Facts and Figures
The superlative
Numbers and Measurements
Countries, Languages and Nationalities
Your homework:
Student's Book p 74 Countries etc complete table 2
Workbook p. 24 #2; p. 25 #3 and 5
I'm inquiring about the listening material for your workbook. I'll let you have some guidance as soon as I know.
Have a nice weekend!
Gabriella
Hello all!
Thank you for your hard work on Unit 11 - Facts and Figures
The superlative
Numbers and Measurements
Countries, Languages and Nationalities
Your homework:
Student's Book p 74 Countries etc complete table 2
Workbook p. 24 #2; p. 25 #3 and 5
I'm inquiring about the listening material for your workbook. I'll let you have some guidance as soon as I know.
Have a nice weekend!
Gabriella
Friday, 26 February 2016
26.02.2016 - PET Preparation Websites
Hello all!
Please start practising your PET exam format on the following two very good websites.
English Aula - PET preparation
Exam English - PET Preparation
Keep up the good work and please let me know if you have any difficulties.
Gabriella
Hello all!
Please start practising your PET exam format on the following two very good websites.
English Aula - PET preparation
Exam English - PET Preparation
Keep up the good work and please let me know if you have any difficulties.
Gabriella
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
23.02.2016
Hello all!
I'll be brief, today. Just a quick memo regarding your homework.
Please complete Exam Folder 10 in your Student's book (pretend you are under exam conditions) and do any writing tasks on a piece of paper that you can hand in to me on Friday. Do please remember to leave ample space between the lines for me to make any corrections or annotations.
Additionally, please complete the whole of Unit 10 in your Workbook.
REVISE, REVISE REVISE all that we have done so far and let me know if you need to go over anything that remains unclear to this day for you.
Mock test on the approach!
Study hard but have fun into the bargain!
Until Friday,
Gabriella
Hello all!
I'll be brief, today. Just a quick memo regarding your homework.
Please complete Exam Folder 10 in your Student's book (pretend you are under exam conditions) and do any writing tasks on a piece of paper that you can hand in to me on Friday. Do please remember to leave ample space between the lines for me to make any corrections or annotations.
Additionally, please complete the whole of Unit 10 in your Workbook.
REVISE, REVISE REVISE all that we have done so far and let me know if you need to go over anything that remains unclear to this day for you.
Mock test on the approach!
Study hard but have fun into the bargain!
Until Friday,
Gabriella
Friday, 19 February 2016
19.02.2016
Hello everyone and welcome to Teresa and Sabrina!
Here's a reminder of the homework for Tuesday.
Write two sentences or (even better) two mini-dialogues with:
at all
at last
at once
at least
Complete the whole of unit 9 in your Workbook.
Revise all grammar seen so far in the Grammar section at the end of your book.
Here are the two pages for the benefit of Teresa and Sabrina:
And this is for you so that you don't despair of the time you'll understand English pronunciation! :-)
After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud, and we’ll be honest with you, we struggled with parts of it.
Hello everyone and welcome to Teresa and Sabrina!
Here's a reminder of the homework for Tuesday.
Write two sentences or (even better) two mini-dialogues with:
at all
at last
at once
at least
Complete the whole of unit 9 in your Workbook.
Revise all grammar seen so far in the Grammar section at the end of your book.
Here are the two pages for the benefit of Teresa and Sabrina:
And this is for you so that you don't despair of the time you'll understand English pronunciation! :-)
After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud, and we’ll be honest with you, we struggled with parts of it.
Dearest creature in creation,You’ve been reading “The Chaos” by Gerard Nolst Trenité, written nearly 100 years ago in 1922, designed to demonstrate the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation.
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
There’s also a video of the poem being read out should you want some help on couple of the more unusual words:
“The Chaos” by Dr Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Netherlands, 1870-1946
Have fun and enjoy your homework!
Gabriella
Thursday, 4 February 2016
02.02.2016
Hello everyone and welcome to Carlotta!
Thank you for your hard work on Tuesday.
As promised, here is the transcript of our 6 conversations with the nurse on Healthlink Helpline:
Please take a look at it and underline all the words that describe illnesses and all expressions used to ask for advice.
Please look up and revise all the parts of the body we learnt in class and more, if you can.
Please revise all verbs, particularly the irregular ones and refresh the three forms each one of them (i.e. infinitive, past simple and past participle : to sing, sang, sung).
Till I see you again, enjoy your learning and the Sant'Agata celebrations!
Gabriella
Hello everyone and welcome to Carlotta!
Thank you for your hard work on Tuesday.
As promised, here is the transcript of our 6 conversations with the nurse on Healthlink Helpline:
Please look up and revise all the parts of the body we learnt in class and more, if you can.
Please revise all verbs, particularly the irregular ones and refresh the three forms each one of them (i.e. infinitive, past simple and past participle : to sing, sang, sung).
Till I see you again, enjoy your learning and the Sant'Agata celebrations!
Gabriella
Tuesday, 26 January 2016
26.01.2016
Hello class!
Thank you for working so hard with me earlier. I hope you still managed to enjoy the lesson.
Your homework for Friday is to find another video or article you think it is interesting and effective in delivering its message. I'd like you please to present your choice to the class and explain your reasons for the choice. This is to be done orally.
If it is online material that you use, please would you send me the link by commenting on this post.
I'd like you to:
Needless to say, everything must be in English so do please prepare what you want to say but learn it as you will not be allowed to read your script.
I look forward to being presented your choice.
Gabriella
Hello class!
Thank you for working so hard with me earlier. I hope you still managed to enjoy the lesson.
Your homework for Friday is to find another video or article you think it is interesting and effective in delivering its message. I'd like you please to present your choice to the class and explain your reasons for the choice. This is to be done orally.
If it is online material that you use, please would you send me the link by commenting on this post.
I'd like you to:
- Present your video and briefly explain what it talks about.
- Tell us what made you choose that particular clip.
- What you like about it and why.
- What it makes you feel when watching / reading it.
- Show it to the class and ask us what we like / don't like about it and why and what it made us feel when watching / reading it.
- Exchange opinions.
Needless to say, everything must be in English so do please prepare what you want to say but learn it as you will not be allowed to read your script.
I look forward to being presented your choice.
Gabriella
Friday, 22 January 2016
22.01.2016
Hello everyone!
It was really good to listen to you in class, earlier, this evening.
Please complete exercise 5 in your Workbook: remember to write leaving double space between the lines. This exercise is like the ones we did in class today.
Please practise reading 'Glasses for your dog' aloud (many times and again!) as you will be reading it to me during the next class. Do not look up any words that you don't understand but use the context to help you. You have got the glossary for those idiomatic expressions that you don't know.
Do exercises 2 and 3, then, for exercise 4 you can use the dictionary or the Internet to find the correct word order and to understand these new idiomatic expressions. Additionally, to show me that you can use them, please write two sentences per expression. (Again, remember to leave double space between the lines.
Well done for your hard work today.
Enjoy your weekend!
Gabriella
Hello everyone!
It was really good to listen to you in class, earlier, this evening.
Please complete exercise 5 in your Workbook: remember to write leaving double space between the lines. This exercise is like the ones we did in class today.
Please practise reading 'Glasses for your dog' aloud (many times and again!) as you will be reading it to me during the next class. Do not look up any words that you don't understand but use the context to help you. You have got the glossary for those idiomatic expressions that you don't know.
Do exercises 2 and 3, then, for exercise 4 you can use the dictionary or the Internet to find the correct word order and to understand these new idiomatic expressions. Additionally, to show me that you can use them, please write two sentences per expression. (Again, remember to leave double space between the lines.
Well done for your hard work today.
Enjoy your weekend!
Gabriella
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
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