SECOND 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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Please, email to joepinetreebush@eoiaracena.com
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Sequence of contents of your textbook
1st term: 1,2,3, 6A, 6B
2nd term: 4, 5, 6C,
3rd term: 7, 8, 9, 10C
Library Loan
The library loan at EOI Jerez will be available from 4th December 2017.
You will be able to borrow a book, audiobook, a film, etc. for a month.
If you want to take advantage of the loan please, tell me about your intention to loan a book in advance in the classroom or send me an email telling me when you are coming. But remember that I will only lend you something before the class, precisely 10 minutes before the class starts. (This also applies to the Blended Learning group)
You will be able to borrow a book, audiobook, a film, etc. for a month.
If you want to take advantage of the loan please, tell me about your intention to loan a book in advance in the classroom or send me an email telling me when you are coming. But remember that I will only lend you something before the class, precisely 10 minutes before the class starts. (This also applies to the Blended Learning group)
Homework
Grammar, Reading, Vocabulary, etc. Next Week:
TIP: Remember to do the activities in your Workbook. The keys are included in your Workbook.
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VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR CONSOLIDATION
These are extra activities with their answers that you can print after every unit to consolidate your learning. Find them on Downloads |
EXTRA LISTENING HOMEWORK: Remember to do your extra listening activities of the Practical English section after every unit. The answers will be uploaded to DOWNLOADS before we finish every lesson.
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Review the irregular verbs on http://www.manythings.org/repeat or get the files on Pre-intermediate downloads
Revise and Check section. All the activities except for Can you understand these people? and Can you say this in English?
9A Page 68. Grammar p.142, grammar bank and vocabulary bank p.161.
9B Page 71. Grammar bank p.142. 6. Reading, activities a, b and c.
9C Page 72. 2. Reading, (not in pairs). Activities a, b, and c. Grammar bank p. 142.
Practical English section. All the activities
10C Page 80. Grammar bank p. 144. Page 81, Reading, activities b and c.
9A Page 68. Grammar p.142, grammar bank and vocabulary bank p.161.
9B Page 71. Grammar bank p.142. 6. Reading, activities a, b and c.
9C Page 72. 2. Reading, (not in pairs). Activities a, b, and c. Grammar bank p. 142.
Practical English section. All the activities
10C Page 80. Grammar bank p. 144. Page 81, Reading, activities b and c.
Blended Learning: You are expected to finish studying units 1- 10 before the end of May.
COMPOSITIONS
7th composition Page 116. A Biography. Find the answers to the activities on downloads. Do all the activities and follow the instructions and tenses that your textbook suggests and write a biography. Do the activities and check the text on pages 72-73 if needed. Find the answers to the activities on downloads. If you use some information from the internet to help you, IMPORTANT: DO NOT COPY, just summarise and explain the person´s life with your own words. Write 175-200 words. Deadline: 26th April
FOR GENERAL COMMENTS ON PREVIOUS COMPOSITIONS GO TO
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.
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. However, you can compare your composition with your classmates.
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.
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. However, you can compare your composition with your classmates.
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.
1st TERM EXTRA ACTIVITY: PRESENTATIONS IN NOVEMBER
This activity is over.
You are expected to give a 3-minute presentation about some of the topics we are learning in front of the class. Use the vocabulary section of your textbook to help you, apart from your class notes.
You need to choose one of these topics:
-Describe a relative, a friend or a person you know well. Their personality and their appearance. You can also tell the difference between what they were like in the past and at present.
-Describe a picture, a painting or a photograph you know well or you have in your house. Use the prepositions we learnt to describe the different parts of the picture and the position of things or people in it. Use the present continuous and there is/are to describe what is happening in the picture.
-Describe what you, a relative, a friend or a person you know well normally wear/wore, where they buy/bought their clothes, etc.
-Describe where you, a relative, a friend or a person you know well go or went on holiday, the activities they do/did.
Find a list with the dates you have to give your presentation, and a guide on how to make a presentation, to give it afterwards, on downloads/speaking.
You were assigned a compulsory date. If for any reason, you need to change it, you can do it with a classmate and tell me to do the necessary changes on the list afterwards.
Those people who did not do the presentation the day they were assigned and/or did not make the necessary changes previously will not have any other chance to give the presentation.
You are expected to give a 3-minute presentation about some of the topics we are learning in front of the class. Use the vocabulary section of your textbook to help you, apart from your class notes.
You need to choose one of these topics:
-Describe a relative, a friend or a person you know well. Their personality and their appearance. You can also tell the difference between what they were like in the past and at present.
-Describe a picture, a painting or a photograph you know well or you have in your house. Use the prepositions we learnt to describe the different parts of the picture and the position of things or people in it. Use the present continuous and there is/are to describe what is happening in the picture.
-Describe what you, a relative, a friend or a person you know well normally wear/wore, where they buy/bought their clothes, etc.
-Describe where you, a relative, a friend or a person you know well go or went on holiday, the activities they do/did.
Find a list with the dates you have to give your presentation, and a guide on how to make a presentation, to give it afterwards, on downloads/speaking.
You were assigned a compulsory date. If for any reason, you need to change it, you can do it with a classmate and tell me to do the necessary changes on the list afterwards.
Those people who did not do the presentation the day they were assigned and/or did not make the necessary changes previously will not have any other chance to give the presentation.
COMPULSORY (OBLIGATORY) READERS
As the English Department wants to improve your reading skills there will be three compulsory readers this year. I recommend reading audibooks from the library or downloading an audiobook from downloads. You need to choose a compulsory Pre-intermediate reader for the first term. Once you finish reading it, do the activities if available. I will leave compulsory book reports in the classroom for you to complete when you finish your audiobook.
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
Books and materials of 4 skills: Santos downloads free English books
TV and Radio in English (No subtitles): From Google Play: TV Catch Up, UK radio. Using Google Search: UKTVnow.net
Series and Films: Mobdro.to, Terrariumtv.com (with subtitles)
Visit Cultura Colectiva to get 25 links to watch movies and TV series for free.
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
Books and materials of 4 skills: Santos downloads free English books
TV and Radio in English (No subtitles): From Google Play: TV Catch Up, UK radio. Using Google Search: UKTVnow.net
Series and Films: Mobdro.to, Terrariumtv.com (with subtitles)
Visit Cultura Colectiva to get 25 links to watch movies and TV series for free.
