Tuesday 16 June 2020

PATRICK - FCE MASTERCLASS


Hi Students,

Here are the final class activities of the course.
We will correct everything in a few days.

ACTIVITY ONE

Do the Review of unit 11 on page 140 (some of you have done exercise 1 already).


ACTIVITY TWO

Do the unit 12 Reading activity of page 142 and 143, exercises 3, 4, 5.


ACTIVITY THREE

Do the listening in unit 12 on page 146 (exercise 3).
Here is the audio:



Monday 15 June 2020

PATRICK - C2



Hi Students,

How are things?
We are reaching the end of the course!

Here are the final class activities.


ACTIVITY ONE

Continuing the theme of childhood, here is a TED talks video about how information is collected about children on the internet.
Watch it and think about these issues. In the next class we will talk about it:







ACTIVITY TWO

Do the activities on page 76 in the book 2, 3 and 4.
The second one is a listening test, here is the audio:





ACTIVITY THREE

Find five or six new words or expressions we have seen in recent months and make a simple question to ask the other students in the next class. A vocabulary quiz! Questions like: "Tell me a word which has the same meaning as ****** "

Sunday 14 June 2020

PATRICK - C1



Hi Students!

How is everybody?

We are nearing the end of the course!

Here are the final class activities!


ACTIVITY ONE

On page 152 there is the final REVISION of the book.
Do all activities apart from number 5 and I will post the answers in a few days.


ACTIVITY TWO

Do the listening on page 80 of the workbook.
Here is the audio:





ACTIVITY THREE

Here are the instructions for a writing activity (an essay).
Remember, it's formal English, so keep that in mind.
You can consult the reference section at the back of the book to help you.
Send me it by email to be corrected:





Tuesday 9 June 2020

PATRICK - FCE - Monday and Wednesday



Hi Students,

We are getting close to the end of our course!

Here are the class activities for this week.
We will correct them in the next Zoom Class.


ACTIVITY ONE


Do the reading activity in unit 11on page 131 exercise 3.


ACTIVITY TWO 


On page 133 do the sentence transformation (rewrites) exercise 15.


ACTIVITY THREE


Do the listening activity on page 136.
Here is the audio:



Monday 8 June 2020

PATRICK - C2


Hello Students!

Hope you are all well this Monday morning!

Here are the class activities for this week.


ACTIVITY ONE


We are going to continue a little with some more conditional forms.
Look at these sentences:

- We decided to move our business, otherwise it would have been affected by the floods.

- They would have gone to Paris, but the Covid 19 virus began.

- It would have been impossible for her to get through that difficult time without your help.

In the above sentences you can see that there is NO "If" clause but a conditional is still implied and we use a conditional clause. These are typical examples. We often use Otherwise, But and Without like this.

On page 73 of the book do activity 3 to practice this.

Then do exercise 4 (more general conditionals).


ACTIVITY TWO

Do the vocabulary exercises 5 and 6 on page 73.
Do the vocabulary exercises 1, 2 and 3 on page 74.


ACTIVITY THREE

Read the text on page 75 to find out what the "Age of the Goldfish" is and do the vocabulary exercise on page 75.  Think about the ideas in the text. What do you think? We will discuss this issue in the next class.





PATRICK - C1



Hello students,


Hope you are all well!

We are nearing the end of the course and about to do the last activities in our book.

Here are the activities for this week.


ACTIVITY ONE


On page 146 there is a listening activity, just like one of the activities in the CAE exam.
Do exercise 2 and 3.

Here is the audio:





ACTIVITY TWO


Here are some extra exercises to practice Inversions. These structures are important to know for C1 level, especially for your more formal writing skills. We will correct them soon:








































ACTIVITY THREE

On page 148 there is a multiple choice text from the USE OF ENGLISH part of the exam.
Do this activity and we will correct it in the next class.



Thursday 4 June 2020

JOHN and PATRICK - FCE Schools


Hello everybody! 

Here are the exercises for this weekend. 

We are getting close to the end of the course, so keep going it won´t be long now.

ACTIVITY 1

Do these exercise on ing or to + infinitive, in order to practice a little more.















































ACTIVITY 2

Do the listening on page 132 of the students book, i will give you the answers in the next class.
Here is the audio:






ACTIVITY 3

Do the reading in the workbook on page 70, we will also give you the answers in the next class.

Monday 1 June 2020

PATRICK - C2


Hi students,

Here are this week's class activities.


ACTIVITY ONE

In last week's class I mentioned that we would be looking at some conditional forms this week.
In particular we will look at mixed conditionals, inverted conditionals and uses of the 'unreal past' in sentences such as this one: If only I had more free time, in which we are not talking about the past at all but the present.

On pages 64 and 65 in the student book, I'd like you to do activities 1 to 8. If you have any doubts or questions you can ask me in the group.


ACTIVITY TWO

Read this essay about the attitude towards children in modern societies. You can also listen to the text being read too which I recommend. What do you think about these ideas in text? In the next class we will talk about them and you can contribute with your own thoughts and reflections


https://aeon.co/essays/why-are-american-kids-treated-as-a-different-species-from-adults



PATRICK - C1



Hi Students!

How is everyone?

Here are this week's activities.

ACTIVITY ONE

We are going to begin the last unit of the course book which is about the environment and the world around us. On page 142 and 143 there is a reading activity. Read the text and do exercise 3. Make sure you understand all the vocabulary.

ACTIVITY TWO

On page 144, do the vocabulary exercises 1 and 2.
Think about the questions in exercise 3, we will do those in class as a speaking activity.


ACTIVITY THREE

Do the listening activity on page 146 exercise 3.
Here is the audio: