PATRICK - C2 - PROFICIENCY

Hi Students,

Hope you are all well.

Here are your class activities for this week!


FIRST ACTIVITY


Read this article online at AEON about the experience of being alone.
Then write a short summary about it showing you understand and giving your views on it:


https://aeon.co/ideas/time-alone-chosen-or-not-can-be-a-chance-to-hit-the-reset-button


SECOND ACTIVITY


Read the text on page 57 of the STUDENT BOOK and answer the multiple choice questions in exercise 1. I will post the answers at the end of the week.


THIRD ACTIVITY

Do the  listening exercise on page 58 of the STUDENT BOOK (exercise 3).
We will correct it soon:






FORTH ACTIVITY

Listen to this bucolic song by the Decemberists and try and put in the missing lyrics
I will post the answers soon:

JUNE HYMN – THE DECEMBERISTS

Here's a hymn to welcome in the day
…………….. a summer's early sway
And all the bulbs all comin' in
To begin
The thrushes' bleeding battle with the wrens
Disrupts my …………… again

Pegging …………….. on the line
Training jasmine how to vine
Up the arbor to your door
And more
Standing on the landing with the war
You …………….. all the night before

But once upon it
The yellow bonnets
Garland all the …………..
You were waking
Day was breaking
A ………….. of song
And summer comes to Springville Hill

A barony of ivy in the trees
Expanding out its ………… by degrees
And all the branches burst abloom
In the boom
Heaven sent this cardinal …………….
To decorate our living room

But once upon it
The yellow bonnets
Garland all the …………..
You were waking
Day was breaking
A ……………. of song
And summer comes to Springville Hill

And years from now when this old light
Isn't ………………anymore
Will I bring myself to write
"I give my best to Springville Hill"

But once upon it
The yellow bonnets
Garland all the …………….
You were waking
Day was breaking
A ………………. of song
And summer comes to Springville Hill
And summer comes to Springville Hill


FIFTH ACTIVITY

Find a topical article or news story to talk about in the conversation class on Wednesday.