SECOND YEAR BASIC LEVEL NOTICEBOARD
2nd year-Pre-intermediate. EOI CHICLANA
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS OF YOUR TEXTBOOK
Some of these contents might change or be reduced during the year.
Unit 1: Word order in Questions. Present Simple/present continuous. Describing people´s appearance. Clothes, Preositions of place.
Unit 2: Past simple, regular and irregular verbs. Past Continuous. Time sequencers and connectors. Prepositions of time and place. Verb phrases. Unit 3: be going to (plans and predicitions). Present continuous (future arrangements). Defining relative clauses. Unit 4: Present Perfect. (yet, just and already. Present Perfect vs Past simple. Shopping. Something, anything, nothing. Adjectives ending in -ed and -ing. Unit 5: Comparative adjectives and adverbs. Superlatives (ever + Present Perfect. Quantifiers. |
Unit 6: will/won't. Shall. Review of tesnses: present, past and future.
Unit 7: Uses of the infinitive with "to". Gerunds. Have to, don´t have to, must/mustn´t. Unit 8: should, If present+ will- First conditional. Possessive pronouns. Unit 9: Second Conditional. Present perfect with for and since. Unit 10: Expressing movement. Word order of phrasal verbs. The passive. Unit 11: used to, might, so, neither. Unit12: Past perfect, Reported Speech. Questions without auxiliaries. |
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 in our Drive.
Practical English. In this section we will always do the most important section in the classroom. The rest of activities, you should them do at home. Find the audio and the answers in our Drive.
Revise and Check section. Always do all the activities except for Can you understand these people? and Can you say this English? Check the answers on Drive/ Grammar and Vocabulary Corner/student's book keys.
5C Reading on page 72. Do activities a, b and d.
Revise and Check section 3. Pages 74-75 as mentioned above.
6A Page 84- Vocabulary bank Opposite verbs. Page 243. Grammar bank 6A on page 222. Reading on page 85. Do activities from a-e.
6B Grammar bank 6B on page 222.
6C Grammar bank 6C on page 222.
Revise and check 5 and 6 as stated above.
Revise and Check section. Always do all the activities except for Can you understand these people? and Can you say this English? Check the answers on Drive/ Grammar and Vocabulary Corner/student's book keys.
5C Reading on page 72. Do activities a, b and d.
Revise and Check section 3. Pages 74-75 as mentioned above.
6A Page 84- Vocabulary bank Opposite verbs. Page 243. Grammar bank 6A on page 222. Reading on page 85. Do activities from a-e.
6B Grammar bank 6B on page 222.
6C Grammar bank 6C on page 222.
Revise and check 5 and 6 as stated above.
Are you studying the irregular verb lists? Go to http://www.manythings.org/repeat or get the files in our Drive/Vocabulary and grammar corner- past_1.zip
COMPOSITIONS
FOR GENERAL COMMENTS ON PREVIOUS COMPOSITIONS GO TO
COMPOSITION 7. Writing and speaking activity in the classroom. Peer correction in th classroom. Page 204. Do all the activities and check them with the Teacher´s Guide in Vocabulary and Grammar corner/grammar/English File in our Drive. You will also need to revise the past simple and the present perfect. Also, find revision worksheets with answers in the REVISION folder of our Drive. Remember that the present perfect (in general) describes an action that comes from the past and it is connected to the present somehow, while the past simple describes an already finished action.
Instructions for the written biography and the activity in the class (do not follow the instructions in activity c on page 204, except for the structure of paragraphs in a biography): Your biography will be of a relative or a friend of yours, NOT A FAMOUS PERSON. 150-175 words. You will need to have your composition ready on 23rd April as you will need to tell your partners in the classroom about your relative's or friend's biography. Your partner or partners (groups of maximum three students) will help you with the necessary corrections of your composition, that you will need to hand in at the end of the activity that very same day.
Instructions for the written biography and the activity in the class (do not follow the instructions in activity c on page 204, except for the structure of paragraphs in a biography): Your biography will be of a relative or a friend of yours, NOT A FAMOUS PERSON. 150-175 words. You will need to have your composition ready on 23rd April as you will need to tell your partners in the classroom about your relative's or friend's biography. Your partner or partners (groups of maximum three students) will help you with the necessary corrections of your composition, that you will need to hand in at the end of the activity that very same day.
READERS
Free readers for you to download. You will need to register if you are not registered yet: https://english-e-reader.net/ , freegradedreaders.com/wordpress/a2/, https://aj3000.com/wp/free-graded-readers/
You can also search pre-intermediate and intermediate audiobooks on Youtube. Here are some suggestions: The train journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rg-ir7RznM Learn English through stories: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSvdL27Kuzg, Forrest Gump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_5O2NyrDmg
LISTENING ACTIVITIES FROM AUDIOBOOKS (NOT THE WHOLE BOOK): www.blackcat-cideb.com/en/free-listening-activities
You can also search pre-intermediate and intermediate audiobooks on Youtube. Here are some suggestions: The train journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rg-ir7RznM Learn English through stories: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSvdL27Kuzg, Forrest Gump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_5O2NyrDmg
LISTENING ACTIVITIES FROM AUDIOBOOKS (NOT THE WHOLE BOOK): www.blackcat-cideb.com/en/free-listening-activities
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.
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
Tv series and films: Use the service of your choice with subtitles. Netflix, HBO, etc.
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 a .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
Tv series and films: Use the service of your choice with subtitles. Netflix, HBO, etc.
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 a .pdf file with more free English Toolkits.