Friday 13 December 2013
Wednesday 4 December 2013
A2 - Writing - Discursive Essay
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WRITING ASSIGNMENT
Choose ONE of these topics and write a discursive essay of about 250 words.
1 "Animals should be treated with the same respect as humans." Do you agree with this?
2 "One language spoken worldwide would lead to better international relations." Discuss.
3 Genetic engineering poses a number of worrying problems, both moral and practical. Discuss some of these problems and suggest what could be done to overcome them.
4 "Fear and ignorance are the root causes of racial hatred." Discuss this statement and offer some possible solutions to the problem of racial prejudice.
2 "One language spoken worldwide would lead to better international relations." Discuss.
3 Genetic engineering poses a number of worrying problems, both moral and practical. Discuss some of these problems and suggest what could be done to overcome them.
4 "Fear and ignorance are the root causes of racial hatred." Discuss this statement and offer some possible solutions to the problem of racial prejudice.
5 What annoys you most about the opposite sex. Discuss.
Monday 2 December 2013
Wednesday 20 November 2013
Thursday 7 November 2013
Wednesday 6 November 2013
Monday 4 November 2013
Wednesday 30 October 2013
Monday 28 October 2013
A2 - Lexical strategies for speaking - Key
For the key to 85 Lexical strategies for speaking, please click here
Sunday 27 October 2013
Thursday 24 October 2013
A2 - B2 Women's Rights
http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2013/10/women-should-ads
Interesting ad for the defence of women´s rights.
Interesting ad for the defence of women´s rights.
Wednesday 23 October 2013
A2 - Blood type compatibility
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20170787
Here's the article about blood type compatibility in Japan. Give me the good old star signs any day!?
A2 - Vocabulary key - Character and personality
Click here for the key to Unit 34 Vocabulary, Character and personality
Wednesday 16 October 2013
A2 - Will - would
WILL AND WOULD:
HABITS AND CHARACTERISTICS
Will and would can be used to talk about repeated
and habitual behaviour. Will refers to the present. Would refers to the past.
When nobody's looking, she'll go into the kitchen and steal
biscuits.
He'll often say something and then forget what it was he said.
On Sundays, when I was a child, we would
get up early and go
fishing.
He would never let anybody know what he was doing.
With a strong
stress on will or would, the meaning becomes one of criticism.
You 'will keep forgetting
things.
Stressed would is used to criticise
one action — the meaning is often 'that's typical of you'.
You 'would tell Mary about the party - I didn't want to invite
her.
Will is used to talk about the natural behaviour of
things.
If you put a match to it, real
amber won't melt, but imitation will.
Gold won't dissolve in
hydrochloric acid.
Thursday 10 October 2013
A2 - "Frumpy" and the Duchess of Cambridge
How come the word "frumpy" is next to one of the world's most elegant women's name?
Click here to find out!
Click here to find out!
Tuesday 8 October 2013
Monday 7 October 2013
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Tuesday 30 April 2013
Monday 29 April 2013
B1 - Grammar - Someting, Anything, Nothing...
Please Click here for the key to the exercises in units 77 and 78.
Wednesday 17 April 2013
Monday 8 April 2013
Wednesday 20 March 2013
A2 - Key to Review B, pp 66 and 67
For the key to Review B on pages 66 and 67 of your books, please click here.
Thursday 14 March 2013
A2 - Second Term Novels
Suggested books - second term -A2
The Ghost Writer, Robert Harris
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
How It All Began, Penelope Lively
Girl With A Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
Mutiny On the Bounty, John Boyne
The Ghost Writer, Robert Harris
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
How It All Began, Penelope Lively
Girl With A Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
Mutiny On the Bounty, John Boyne
Tuesday 5 March 2013
A2 - yet and moreover
Yet can be used as an adverb as well as a co-ordinating conjunction. Let’s look at its function as a conjunction.
yet as conjunction
Yet is similar in meaning to but. But is a co-ordinating conjunction used to contrast two statements:
They can speak Arabic but they can’t read or write it.
He tried to book a holiday on Bali, but he didn’t have enough money to pay for it.
We use yet as the preferred alternative to but when we want to emphasise that contrast to achieve a stronger effect:
She can play the piano very well, yet she can’t read music at all.
The yachtsman had lost all sense of direction, yet he refused to give up in his attempt to cross the Atlantic.
We sometimes put and in front of yet when it is used in this way or use even so as an alternative to yet or and yet:
She can play the piano very well, and yet she can’t read music at all.
The yachtsman had lost all sense of direction. Even so, he refused to give up in his attempt to cross the Atlantic.
From BBC World Service, Learning English
Click here for info about moreover
yet as conjunction
Yet is similar in meaning to but. But is a co-ordinating conjunction used to contrast two statements:
They can speak Arabic but they can’t read or write it.
He tried to book a holiday on Bali, but he didn’t have enough money to pay for it.
We use yet as the preferred alternative to but when we want to emphasise that contrast to achieve a stronger effect:
She can play the piano very well, yet she can’t read music at all.
The yachtsman had lost all sense of direction, yet he refused to give up in his attempt to cross the Atlantic.
We sometimes put and in front of yet when it is used in this way or use even so as an alternative to yet or and yet:
She can play the piano very well, and yet she can’t read music at all.
The yachtsman had lost all sense of direction. Even so, he refused to give up in his attempt to cross the Atlantic.
From BBC World Service, Learning English
Click here for info about moreover
Monday 4 March 2013
Sunday 24 February 2013
Monday 4 February 2013
Wednesday 23 January 2013
A2 - Key to U4 Discourse Makers
For the key to Linking Words and Discourse Makers, please click here.
And for I can use discouse makers here.
And for I can use discouse makers here.
Thursday 17 January 2013
Wednesday 16 January 2013
Wednesday 9 January 2013
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