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