Test Wednesday 2nd December

Reading Exam Feedback

Irregular Past Tenses 2

Feedback and Vocab from Term 1 Reading Exam

Term 1 Reading Exam

Past Tenses

Irregular Past Tenses 2

Past Simple and Past Perfect
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-pasper/exercises
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-pasper/exercises?ex03
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-pasper/exercises?ex05


Past Simple and Past Perfect
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-present-perfect-1.html
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-present-perfect-4.html

Past Simple, Past Perfect and Past Continuous
http://www.englishtenses.com/quiz/sherlock

Mixed Past tenses
http://www.englishtenses.com/test/romance_novel_past_tenses

Summative Speaking Exam: Criteria C and D - 5th and 6th November

Reminder: Reading Exam 66% Summative - Friday 13th November

Useful sentence starters:

Structure of paragraphs and ideas

- Firstly/ First of all
- Secondly
- Thirdly
- Finally
- To sum up/ All in all

Sentence starters

- Good morning/ good afternoon 9C
- I hope that I am going to persuade you all into agreeing with me that ______ is the worse thing in the whole world.
- I would like to put ... in Room 101 because not only is it ____ and ____, but it is also ________.
- First of all, we all know it is true that ...
- As far as I´m concerned, ...
- The real problem is that/ the real issue is that ...
- In my opinion, ...
- I believe that ....
- Undoubtedly/ without a shadow of a doubt ______ should go into Room 101 because ...
- Also/ moreover/ in addition (for adding extra reasons)
- Therefore/ as a result/ consequently (to explain the REASON)
- As is often the case, 
- __________ is one of the most heinous things that exists
- On one hand ... on the other hand ...
- The fact that ...
-The lack of ...

Knocking down the other side of the argument

- I know that some people claim that ...
- However, some people argue that .... Yet, I disagree because ...
- Many people will disagree with me, but I think ...



Criteria C

üContent should be varied, interesting and developed

üYou should use all 10 persuasive techniques and actually be persuasive

üYou should have AT LEAST 3 different reasons why you want to put this thing in Room 101

üIt should last about 3 – 4 minutes (500 – 600 words)

Criteria D

üLanguage should be grammatically accurate with very few errors

üYou should use a wide range of idiomatic vocabulary

üSpeech should be clear and easy to follow

üAccent clear

Persuasive devices for Speaking Assessment

1.Anecdote
2.Rhetorical question
3.Repetition
4.Emotive language
5.Facts and Statistics
6.Exaggeration
7.Personal pronouns
8.Alliteration
9.Knocking down the other side of the argument
10.List of three

       Queuing is the most pointless, useless and boring waste of time. Personally, I find it most frustrating in a shop, post office or airport. Why should you have to wait in a long queue just to buy something? Why doesn´t the company just employ more people?

      Firstly, I find this exasperating because I am an impatient person and I really hate waiting. In my opinion, it is a massive waste of time, time that could be used to do something productive, useful or worthwhile.

       Secondly, I think that queuing has a negative effect on business because so many people give up and leave the queue, put their product back on the shelf and storm out of the shop defeated and angry.

        Finally, according to new research, British people spend will spend 6 months of their lives queuing. 6 hours, can you imagine! The average British adult wastes 5 hours a month queuing in supermarkets. I find this appalling. What a waste of time!

Room 101 Vocab

Room 101 dislike words

          All day breakfasts in a tin are the most heinous, offensive and vile food stuffs that exist. Firstly, I abhor beans. Their smell and texture revolt and repulse me, leaving me feeling violently sick. Not only do all day breakfasts in a tin contain beans, but they also, and perhaps more offensively contain sausage, burger, bacon, lamb cutlet, mushrooms and egg. Why would you put cooked egg in a tin? More to the point, the percentages of the tin’s content on the back has given me many sleepless and restless nights. Allegedly, the tins only contain 8% meat but more than half of the contents are supposedly meat. Worrying.

          My dislike for all day breakfasts in a tin was perpetuated by an experience I had in the house that I lived in during my first year of university. Vividly, I remember coming downstairs, hung-over, into our communal kitchen. My five other housemates were standing around, drinking tea and chatting about the previous night. Meanwhile, my housemate from Bolton, in her broad Bolton accent was struggling to get the all day breakfast out of the tin. She shouted from the corner of the kitchen where the cooker was, ‘Can’t get ‘t out, it’s stuck, tin’ s farting!’ Due to the breakfast’s horrendous texture and consistency, it was literally making slurping noises as it came out of the tin. This was followed by a ghastly smell of congealed fake meat and beans. Vile!

Term 1 Vocab: Test on Wednesday 28th October

1) Vocab Term 1

2) Prepositions

Room 101

Animals who dress as humans













Foreign food

Hotel Room Bins

English Tea

Jon´s brain

People who drop litter

Hotdogs or legs?

Death Metal Music

Pick and Mix

Mime

Disney

Animals behaving badly in zoos

Emails

Children climbing up slides

Overuse of the word "Literally"

James Bond

Review of the Past Tenses: Present and Past PERFECT

Present Perfect

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3


Past Perfect

Exercise 1

Persuasive Speech

Mobile phones are a public hazard

Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. I am pleased to be here in person, and not on the end of a digital phone link. I believe that mobile phones are a hazard to the public, and I have three very good reasons to support my view.

First, and most important, is the danger of mobile phones to road users. How many times have you seen a driver speeding along with only one eye on the road, one hand on the wheel and all his attention on the phone? Police forces across the country have recorded a 50% increase in accidents in which drivers were using mobile phones. All of us are at risk from these mobile madmen. We must act together to keep our roads safe and ban the use of mobile phones in cars. Just as important as “Don’t drink and drive” should be “Don’t talk and travel”.

The second danger associated with mobile phones is related to our health. A worrying number of medical reports have linked the use of mobile phones with tumours on the brain. Professor John Smith from Oxford University said “People who think this risk is unimportant should ask themselves why the phone companies now recommend that people use special protective cases for their phones, which are designed to block harmful radio waves. Why are these needed if mobile phones are safe?”. When cigarettes were first sold, no-one realised how harmful they would be, but look at the damage they have caused to the nation’s health. Until mobile phones are proved to be safe, they should carry the same health warnings as cigarettes.

The third reason for my opposition to mobile phones concerns crime. Our streets are already so dangerous that people are afraid to go out after dark. Mobile phones simply add to the problem. Carrying an expensive mobile phone makes you a walking target for the mugger who is looking for something valuable and easy to steal. It’s like leaving a key in the ignition of an unlocked Porsche. It is ironic that many parents have provided their children with mobile phones for safety, little realising that by doing so they have increased by 40% their children’s chances of being mugged. If you are one of these parents, I hope that you don’t find out the hard way what an expensive mistake you have made.

Mobile phones appear to be fashionable, high-tech and desirable, but when you next see an advertisement for Orange or Vodafone please think about what it doesn’t mention: the hazard of mobile phones on our roads, to our health and on our streets. Together we can oppose the spread of these digital disasters and promote the message that it can be dangerous to dial.

REVISION for 33% Summative Exam - Criteria C and D: Thursday 8th October

·         The 4 past tenses (past simple, past continuous, present perfect, past perfect)

   FCE book (Unit 5.2)

·         On the Sidewalk Bleeding Quizlet list

·         Adjectives and adverbs of degree used to express emotions from the FCE

  Student Book (Unit 5.1)

·         The 3 conditional tenses (1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd)

·         Persuasive devices

Conditionals

1st Conditional

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3226

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/first-conditional-exercise-1.html

2nd Conditional

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3227

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/second-conditional-exercise-1.html

3rd Conditional

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3233

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/third-conditional-exercise-1.html

Irregular Past Tenses and Past Participles

1) Irregular Past Tenses

2) Irregular Past Tenses

3) Irregular Past Tenses

4) Irregular Past Participles

On the Sidewalk Bleeding Vocab

Quizlet: On the Sidewalk Bleeding Vocab