FIRST YEAR BASIC LEVEL NOTICEBOARD
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ON THIS PAGE WE WILL PUBLISH HOMEWORK AND OTHER IMPORTANT NEWS OR ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1st year OSL Chiclana. Welcome!
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS OF YOUR TEXTBOOK
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Unit 1: Verb "be", possessive adjectives, days of the week, countries and nationalities, numbers, classroom language, some vowels and consonant sounds, etc.
Practical English: Offering things, Accepting and Refusing, Asking somebody to do something, Checking into a hotel. Unit 2: Indefinite Articles, Demonstratives, adjectives and modifiers. Imperatives and feelings. Long and short vowel sounds. Unit 3: Present simple and verb phrases. Word order in questions. Consonants /s/ and /z/, sentence stress and some vocalic sounds. Practical English: At a coffee shop. Telling the time. Order food and drinks, meet and introduce people. Unit 4: Whose. Saxon genitive. Vocabulary: Family. Pronunciation: The letter "o". Prepositions of time: at, in, on. Everyday activities: Present simple. Linking and Sentence Stress. Adverbs of Frequency: Position. Pronunciation: Letter h. |
Unit 5: Can/Can´t. Verb phrases: buy a newspaper, etc. Present Continuous. Pronunciation: Velar /ŋ/. Difference present simple and continuous. Vocabulary: The weather and the seasons. Places in London. Practical English: In a clothes shop.
Unit 6: Object pronouns. Phone language. Pronunciation: /i/, /i:/, /ai/. Like+ verb +ing. Dates, ordinal numbers. Revision be or do?. Vocabulary: Music. Pronunciation: /j/ Unit 7: Was/were. Word formation.Regular and irregular past. Expressions with go, have and get. Giving Directions Unit 8: Past simple regular and irregular verbs. There is, there are, some and any. There was, there were. |
Homework
Grammar, Reading, Vocabulary, etc.
TIP: Remember to do the activities in your Workbook (included in your textbook) after finishing every unit. The keys are on Downloads/Grammar.
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GRAMMAR CONSOLIDATION
There are some extra activities with answers that you can print after every unit to consolidate your learning. Find them on Downloads |
EXTRA LISTENING HOMEWORK: Remember to revise your extra listening activities of the Practical English section after every unit.
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Practical English section: Vocabulary bank: Time on page 243.
Lesson 4A: Grammar bank 4A on page 216. Vocabulary bank 241.
Lesson 4B: Vocabulary bank on page 242. Reading on page 56 activities a and b. Grammar bank 4B on page 216.
Lesson 4A: Grammar bank 4A on page 216. Vocabulary bank 241.
Lesson 4B: Vocabulary bank on page 242. Reading on page 56 activities a and b. Grammar bank 4B on page 216.
Irregular verbs revision on http://www.manythings.org/repeat or get the files on Elementary downloads
COMPOSITIONS
FOR GENERAL COMMENTS ON PREVIOUS COMPOSITIONS GO TO
Composition 3: An article. Find the answers to the activities on downloads. Write an article using the instructions of activities c-f on page 200. Deadline: 16th January.
Women in the English Speaking World: In small groups, you will need to choose and search information of an important woman from an English speaking country. Then, make one slide of a Powerpoint file with a short biography (2-3 paragraphs) of her, including a picture or photograph on the Powerpoint slide. Visit two or three different sources and avoid copying full sentences.
Every leader of the group should send me the name of the woman chosen and the number of the group, class, and names of the members of the group to joepinetreebush@hotmail.com before Friday, 17th January.
Once finished, please send it to joepinetreebush@hotmail.com. Please, apart from the Powerpoint slide, include the class (1st D, B, Cal or Semi), your assigned group number and your names in the message. Deadline: 30th January.
Useful links:
15 Inspiring British Women: https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/british-women-who-have-changed-the-world-inspiring-a3784506.html
17 Famous Women In American History: https://www.mydomaine.com/famous-women-in-american-history
11 Inspiring Australian Women Who Changed History: https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/11-inspiring-australian-women-who-changed-history/
Women in the English Speaking World: In small groups, you will need to choose and search information of an important woman from an English speaking country. Then, make one slide of a Powerpoint file with a short biography (2-3 paragraphs) of her, including a picture or photograph on the Powerpoint slide. Visit two or three different sources and avoid copying full sentences.
Every leader of the group should send me the name of the woman chosen and the number of the group, class, and names of the members of the group to joepinetreebush@hotmail.com before Friday, 17th January.
Once finished, please send it to joepinetreebush@hotmail.com. Please, apart from the Powerpoint slide, include the class (1st D, B, Cal or Semi), your assigned group number and your names in the message. Deadline: 30th January.
Useful links:
15 Inspiring British Women: https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/british-women-who-have-changed-the-world-inspiring-a3784506.html
17 Famous Women In American History: https://www.mydomaine.com/famous-women-in-american-history
11 Inspiring Australian Women Who Changed History: https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/11-inspiring-australian-women-who-changed-history/
COMPOSITIONS PROCEDURE
Please, do not ask me if I can correct your composition after the deadline. The answer will always be "NO" under any circumstances!
You can always write down the next composition or you can also compare your composition with your classmates.
I do not double-check compositions either. Once the composition is corrected, it is your responsibility to check your copy of your composition, give me the original corrected and try to improve next time.
Remember that I prefer your compositions handwritten for your own interest.
After every composition I will make some comments in the classroom that you can download from the downloads section of your level.
VERY IMPORTANT: I will not mark any compositions which were partially or completely copied from the internet, articles , magazines, etc.
Please, do not ask me if I can correct your composition after the deadline. The answer will always be "NO" under any circumstances!
You can always write down the next composition or you can also compare your composition with your classmates.
I do not double-check compositions either. Once the composition is corrected, it is your responsibility to check your copy of your composition, give me the original corrected and try to improve next time.
Remember that I prefer your compositions handwritten for your own interest.
After every composition I will make some comments in the classroom that you can download from the downloads section of your level.
VERY IMPORTANT: I will not mark any compositions which were partially or completely copied from the internet, articles , magazines, etc.
COMPULSORY (OBLIGATORY) READERS
As the English Department wants to improve your reading skills there will be three recommended readers this year. I recommend reading audibooks from the library or buying from the Black Cat Catalogue on Amazon. You will need to choose an elementary (A1) reader for the first term and a pre/intermediate (A2) reader for the second and third terms. Once you finish reading it, do the activities if you want to. I will leave book reports in the classroom for you to complete when you finish your audiobook.
For those who bought a book that has the app, remember that the name of the app is DeA Link and you can get it on Google Play.
For those who bought a book that has the app, remember that the name of the app is DeA Link and you can get it on Google Play.
What else can I do?
Apart from all the material you can get on downloads and the rest of pages of my website, Facebook is a very good tool to get material to improve your English as well. It is difficult to divide Facebook pages into the 4 skills as their posts are normally about any of them. I did my best to collect some of them for you but consider that these pages are in general about anything concerning English learning at any level. Here are some examples taken from Facebook...
4 skills: British Council, BBC Learning English, Grammarly, English Language Teaching, English Learn Sites, English Online Resources
Listening: Multimedia English
Speaking: How to practise speaking outside the classroom
Grammar/Vocabulary: Daily English Grammar, Learn English Grammar, Learn English Through Pictures
Writing/Speaking: English Fluency
Reading: The Guardian, Graded Reading British Council
TV and Radio in English (No subtitles): From Google Play: UK radio, tvtap.net/.
On the internet: Transponder TV
Series, TV, and Films: Mobdro.sc
Visit Cultura Colectiva to get 25 links to watch movies and TV series for free.
Free English Toolkits from British Council, Suscribe to EnglishwithKristine on englishwithkristine.com and get pdf file with more free English Toolkits.
4 skills: British Council, BBC Learning English, Grammarly, English Language Teaching, English Learn Sites, English Online Resources
Listening: Multimedia English
Speaking: How to practise speaking outside the classroom
Grammar/Vocabulary: Daily English Grammar, Learn English Grammar, Learn English Through Pictures
Writing/Speaking: English Fluency
Reading: The Guardian, Graded Reading British Council
TV and Radio in English (No subtitles): From Google Play: UK radio, tvtap.net/.
On the internet: Transponder TV
Series, TV, and Films: Mobdro.sc
Visit Cultura Colectiva to get 25 links to watch movies and TV series for free.
Free English Toolkits from British Council, Suscribe to EnglishwithKristine on englishwithkristine.com and get pdf file with more free English Toolkits.
