MORE PRACTICE

 ESSAY PRACTICE

• Click on the icon
• Choose Band 6
• Read the essay 
• Correct the mistakes
• Check 

FAREWELL

Dear Students,

We have come to the end of the semester and this is a brief note to bid you farewell. I would like to wish you the best in all your undertakings in the future. I hope you have enjoyed the reading class and the class blog. I must say that I am very happy you have learnt about blogging so quickly - I was just lucky to teach a group of intelligent bloggers in my class. Once you leave the class you can still have access to the class blog and all the material and links provided for you. You are very welcome to keep your student blogs active if you wish.

                     

WEEK 14 - 15

 Digital Technology and Language Learning 

• Your Learning Goals and Needs
• What is DT?
• DT to support language learning
• DT and devices
• Online Privacy and Security

Internet Safety

• Read the news article
• Complete the activities
• Dscuss with classmates

WEEK 13 - Assessment Preparation

 Road Signs - Assessment Practice

• Click on the Road Signs
• Complete the Warmer 
• Complete the Key Words (vocabulary part)
• Read the text
• Complete the Comprehension Check
• Answer the questions
• Complete the Webquest online

Answers are at the bottom of the blog. Please complete the tasks before you check the answers

 TASK - Hi-tech car keys 

• Watch the video 
• Read the transcript
• Complete the activities

TEXT TYPE - REPORTS

TASK 1 - A Report - Complete the activities

• Preparation
• True / False questions
• Useful language
• Making recommendations

TASK 2 - Reading a Graph Quiz

• Complete the quiz

TASK 3 - Graphs and prepositions Quiz

• Complete the quiz

TASK 4 - Describing Charts - Complete the activities

• Preparation
• Task 1, and 3

TASK 5 - A Report about a School Trip abroad 

               

Complete the activities

• Preparation 
• Gap filling
• Multiple  choice

WEEK 8 - 9 Revision Practice

 High Blood Pressure - Encyclopaedia Extract

• Predicting
• Skimming
• Reading for detail 
• Summarising

Field Tenor Mode

Field – subject matter of the text

Tenor – relationship between the author and the audience

Mode – how the text is constructed (written-like or spoken-like)

Formal vs Informal Expressions

Information in an encyclopaedia is usually presented using clear, professional and often academic language. The language used in information texts, as we have seen, is:

·        formal

·        objective

·        impersonal

Gap-fill Vocabulary Activity

Vocabulary should be comprehended in context

Fill the gaps of the text

Subordinate and Coordinate Conjunctions

Coordination and subordination join two sentences with related ideas. Coordination joins sentences with related and equal ideas, whereas subordination joins sentences with related but unequal ideas. Sentences can be coordinated using either a coordinating conjunction and a comma or a conjunctive adverb and a semicolon.

Relative Clauses

A relative clause is one kind of dependent clause. It has a subject and verb, but can't stand alone as a sentence. It is sometimes called an “adjective clause” because it functions like an adjective—it gives more information about a noun.