APRIL 4th CLASS

Good morning!

For today we have the following tasks:

Lesson 8.2 pgs. 96-97

• Finish exercises on Ellipsis and Substitution
• Vocabulary: Memories 
• Speaking: Talk about special memories
• Writing: A Personal Story - Learn to improve descriptive writing.

Lesson 8.3 pgs. 98 and 99

• Vocabulary: Collocations with Time
• Functional Language: Discussing Ideas and solicit more information
• Speaking: Ways of Saving time.

Ellipsis and Substitution:

Do exercise 6A in book page 96 - In each pair of sentences choose the correct alternative to complete the answers. Read the phrase with the word of your choice and make sure it makes sense.

Then, for exercise 6B, cross out any words that can be left out from the conversation without making it unintelligible.

Listen to check that your work is correct. The recording is in your book's DVD or in the Class Material folder that I am sharing with you in Google Drive.

Exercises C and D - Listen to the recording again and pay attention to the way in which words are linked. Then, read the conversations and record your reading. Listen and check your pronunciation. Practice until you feel it is very close to the recording :)

Finally, for exercise 7- Andrea and Claudia and Carolina y Gustavo, you can do the activity in pairs. Ale, you can do it on your own. 

The ones who are working in pairs, one of you is going to be "A" and go to ex.8.2 on page 163 and the other is going to be "B" and needs to go  to page 162.

Student A starts by asking a question to Student B. Student B has to find an appropriate answer and responds to A. After you practice, record your conversation and send it to the chat as an audio message.

Ale, you will have to take both roles. You can first record the Student's A part, making a pause after each question/statement. Next, take B's part, play the recording and find an appropriate response for each question. You can then record all the questions-answers and send it as an audio message to the chat.

Vocabulary: Memories

Before you do exercise 8A, you need to identify if the words in brakets are verbs, adjectives, adverbs, nouns, etc. It is important because you will have to put the correct word in the right place. When you do that, check that the sentence makes sense, for example:

1. This place lots of memories for us. (gets/holds)

 a) get/hold - verbs, therefore, it should be placed after the subject.

 b) This place (gets/holds) lots of memories for us. (Which is the right one?)

 c)  This place holds lots of memories for us.

When you finish, check the Answer Key in the Google Drive folder. After correcting your job, classify the expressions in two groups:

words you can use to talk about          Words you can use to talk about

       strong memories                         memories that are not so strong

Finally, do the exercises on this topic on page 155 (Check your answers in the Answer Key)

Speaking: Memories

Exercise 9A - You have to read the description of a website and answer a question:

 Would you use or visit a website like this? why? why not?

Then, for exercise B you will need to choose a stage of your life, organize your ideas about that time.

You will have to record an audio message to share in the chat, first answering the question in 9A and  then, talking about that special stage of your life. 

Writing: A Personal Story

This part of the lesson is about reading a sample story and analyzing the way in which it is written.

You will have to answer the questions in exercises 10A and B. The objective is to find evidence in the article that the writer is following the advice to write a good story.

It is a good idea to take notes about the key information that you will use to write a story of your own.

Exercise 11 on page 97 consists of two parts. The first part describes some guidelines and gives examples. Read and understand the guidelines. Add this information to your own notes.

Then you will find somes instructions to analyze the text- Find the answers. You can then check your answers with the answer key.

Remember that when you write a story, you need to use words wisely to create a vivid picture in your readers' minds. 

Finally, exercise 12 gives you the instructions for you to write a personal story.

Write your story in a Word document, double spaced and 220 to 250 words long. You will have time to proof read your work and make any necessary changes before submitting the final version, due for delivery April 13.

In the second part of today's class we will cover Lesson 8.3: Time Savers. For this, Find the PDF presentation for this lesson in the Class Materials folder and follow it. 

Do the activities in your own notebooks. You will see a video on Time Management and you will have to take notes on important ideas in the video.

For the last activity, Speaking exercise 11A-B, You will have to share an audio message in the chat answering the question: Describe as many ways  as possible to save time while working, studying, travelling or doing house work, you can think of. Then, explain how you are organizing your time to accomplish all your tasks during thhis contingency period.

Good luck! and don't forget you can contact me if you have questions or need help.