Personality Adjectives (Upper-Int 1)

So last week in class we looked at a few adjectives specifically used for describing personalities. Below are three links which take you to sites where you can revise these words' meanings and also enounter some new ones. The third link is for the 'New English File' website where you will find masses of material related to the course content this year. If you have any questions please write them in the coments box below the post. See you on Thursday!

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3

How much do you know about London??

Hello all,

Here is a link to a worksheet which contains lots of different exercises to do with London. There's a quiz, two or three reading exercises, some grammar-based stuff and even a 'London Underground' comprehension check! Some of you may have visited London before, in which case you might have a head-start, but I think that most of the things included in this 'webquest' will be new to you. Obviously, you don't have to do everything. Just choose the exercises you think are most beneficial to your learning needs.. (unless you're in the adolescentes class, in which case you must do what I tell you mwahhaha!!)

Just click here

Reading Comprehension

Here is an article taken from The Guardian (a British newspaper) about tatoos. It is supposed to be for upper-intermediate level so it should be a challenge to most of you. Before you read the article, complete exercise one. After reading, complete exercise two.

At this point you should have already noticed that some of the words in the text are highlighted in bold. These are pronouns which are used instead of nouns or noun phrases. So, in the first one, for example, "So when did this start?", 'this' refers to Mark's tatoos. Your third task is to decide what these pronouns refer to.

Have fun with it!

Article: Tattoo

Questions

Third Conditional Exercises

Hi everyone, below are two links for further practice of using the third conditional. One of them is interactive but the other one isn't so you'd have to print it and complete it by hand. I will mark it for you in class...

First

Second


Let me know how you get on..

Simpsons Episode

And for some light (yet still educational) entertainment, here is a link to a Simpsons episode for you to watch. However, wait until after the class this Wednesday to watch it because I'm going to give you some comprehension questions to answer while you watch it. Bring them into class and we can go through them together...

Episode 'The Secret War of Lisa Simpson'

Listening Exercises

Hi everyone. Well, all five of you! Below are a couple of links to some really useful listening exercises. You basically have to answer five questions whilst listening to the recording, and then there are one or two follow-up activities to do afterwards (the text completion one in particular is very good). The ones I have posted are meant to be easy but if i'm honest, I think they are quite tricky to be labeled 'easy'. If you're feeling brave try one of the 'medium' level recordings. If you want to get an idea of what listening exercises are like at advanced level then try a difficult one, but be warned!!

For the first one, click here

For the second, here

For the full list of recordings, here


Have fun.

Your loving teacher, Josh.

Quantifiers

Here is a link for a short grammar exercise on using phrases of quantity. Post your score in the comment box if you're proud of it!

Games!

Just click here

Using ´used to` and ´to be used to`. When and How?

Ok. So last week and today we looked at the uses of ´used to`in English. We have already dealt with the first meaning- a state or action that regularly took place in an earlier time in our lives, e.g. "I used to watch cartoons after school every day". The second meaning (to be used to) is used when we want to express that something is familiar and no longer strange, e.g. "The people in the UK are used to the terrible weather". Below are several links that give you practice in using both forms. However, the first link only practises the first meaning of ´used to`. This is your homework and must be printed and completed for Wednesday!! Hope this helps!

Homework

Link 2

Link 3

Second Conditional

Below are three different links for interactive exercises that practise the second conditional. Test yourself and see what you´ve learnt this week! There is also a link for the rules explaining the second conditional...

For the first test, click here

For the second test, click here

And for the third (which has a timed limit), here

Here are the rules to explain the second conditional.

When to use can/can´t, could/couldn´t or to be able to

So here is some further information to help you understand the differences between the modals of ability and possibility. There are some good exercises included as well...

Just click here

Modals of Deduction

Here are a couple of short grammar exercises covering what we did in class this week. Shouldn't take long. Copy and paste your results as a comment if you want!

http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.may3.i.htm

Modals for deduction, by slay3r
Find this and other modals exercises in English Exercises .org

Describing People

Here´s a youtube video that goes on a lot about describing people. You should know most of the vocabulary already but I think there will be a few new words in there for you to consider...