Friday, December 20, 2019

Climate change

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Thursday, December 12, 2019

B2.2 - 4B Grammar: Conditionals and future time clauses

2 a and b / 3a / 4b / 5 b and c / 6c / 7 a and c / 8 a and b / 9a / 10c / 11b / 12 a and c / 13 b and c / 14 a and b / 15 c

B2.2 - 4A Grammar: Future perfect and continuous

1 won't be thinking / 2 will still be working, will have been promoted / 3 will have left / 4 won't be using / 5 won't have gone, will still be watching / 6 will have graduated, will be looking for / 7 won't have had / 8 Will you be coming / 9 Will you be picking me up / 10 will they have visited / 11 will have finished, will be celebrating / 12 won't have saved 

B2.2 - 3B Grammar: Adverbs and adverbial phrases

Ex a
2 do you really mean that / were absolutely awful / 3 England played well / 4 Unfortunately, England never play well / 5 were incredibly lucky / 6 do you ever have / 7 To be honest, England were quite lucky / 8 were extremely lucky / 9 Personally, I thought both teams played badly / England were a lot better, especially in the second half / 10 in Munich next / how they do there

Ex b
2 slowly / 3 quickly / 4 earlier that day / 5 obviously / 6 actually / 7 angrily / 8 a little / 9 badly / 10 incredibly / 11 here / 12 always / 13 well / 14 naturally / 15 in quarter of an hour

B2.2 - 3A Grammar: Narrative tenses

Ex 1
1 hadn't noticed / had stopped
2 had been (carefully) saving / had been concentrating / had been watching / had (only) been looking
3 was leaving, was happening, were looking

Ex 2
2 asked / 3 mentioned / 4 had been looking / 5 had accused / accused / 6 had searched / searched / 7 made / 8 had said / 9 jumped up / 10 made / 11 had never seen / 12 drove / 13 parked / 14 had taken place / 15 came / 16 started / 17 had never stolen / 18 made / 19 found / 20 had stopped / were watching

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

B2.1 - 4B Grammar. First and second conditinals

3 won't, works / 4 had, wouldn't need / 5 would get , had / 6 comes out, we'll go / 7 were,  would try / 8 won't  get, have / 9 spoke, would be able to work / could work / 10 weren't / wasn't,  wouldn't take

B2.1 - 4A Grammar: Future forms

2 Shall I turn on / 3 it's going to rain / 4 I'm going / 5 It'll probably rain / 6 I'll change / 7 it's coming / 8 (both) / 9 Are you going to move / 10 shall we go / 11 I won't be / 12 (both)

B2.1 - 3B Grammar. Prepositions

2 in, at / 3 about, for / 4 under, past / 5 -, for / 6 from, about / 7 out of, towards / 8 with, for / 9 over, round / 10 to, on / 11 of, for / 12 on, under / 13 to, about / 14 on, at / 15 about, -

Don't forget to study the list of dependent prepositions on p.164, and once you're there, you could as well revise the irregular verbs on p.165...

B2.1 - 3A. Grammar: past simple, past continuous or used to?

2 used to live there / 3 didn't read / 4 was having / 5 was making / cut / 6 used to go / bought / 7 got up / was having / 8 stayed / 9 used to have or had / 10 wasn't driving / 11 spent / 12 did she stop / 13 used to play / broke / 14 shared / 15 was listening

B2.1 - Revise and Check p 42-43. Key

Grammar
1c / 2a / 3b / 4c / 5a / 6b / 7a / 8c / 9c / 10b / 11a / 12c / 13b / 14b / 15c

Vocabulary

Ex a
1 tennager / 2 in his/her early twenties / 3 toddler / 4 pensioner / 5 in his/her late fifties

Ex b
1 photographer / 2 flash / 3 upload / 4 bottom right-hand / 5 file / 6 background

Ex c
1 dustman / refuse collector / 2 cardboard / 3 lid / 4 bin bag / 5 wrapper / 6 landfill site

Ex d
1 covering / 2 residence / 3 qualifications / 4 apply / 5 lectures / 6 vacancies / 7 trail / 8 minimum

Pronunciation
To be done in class

Can you understand this text?

Ex a
It is mostly negative.

Ex b
1F / 2T / 3T / 4F / 5T / 6F / 7T / 8F / 9F / 10 T

Can you understand these people?
1a / 2a / 3b / 4a / 5b