Friday, May 20, 2016

Role Play Exam: Running away from Home



Your role play needs to be 6 minutes in total and be about the topic of running away from home. Here are some ideas:


§ When the child decides to run away
§ Arguing with parents
§ Talking to friends about the idea
§ Police officers talking to the family about the disappearance of their child
§ The child’s new life
§ The parents talking to their child on the phone
§ The child returns home and talks with his/her parents

§The child never returns

What include?

1.A variety of conditionals
2.The passive voice
3.Reported speech
4.Phrasal verbs
5.A variety of past tenses (past simple/past continuous/present perfect/past perfect)
6.Connectives
7.Phrases + Preposition + Gerund
9.Adverbs / Adjectives

10.Present participles / Past participles

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Comparing and Contrasting Images Exam: Crit C 67% WEDNESDAY 8TH JUNE

1) Choose 2 contrasting images linked to the same topic/idea/theme from the following website:

Guardian Image of the Day

Choose carefully and ensure that you have a lot to say about them and that they are about a topic that you are interested in.

2) Save your images to a word document

An example:

Two images about technology: One showing modern development and the other showing an old-fashioned factory.

Copenhagen, Denmark: Visitors wear virtual reality headsets


Pyongyang, North Korea: A worker operates machinery at a silk mill

3) Prepare and write your presentation

You need to talk for 3 minutes

30 seconds - Describe image 1
30 seconds - Describe image 2
1 minute 30  - Compare and contrast similarities and differences
30 seconds - Explain why you chose them/ why you like or dislike them


Key Structures and Vocabulary for describing images

In the first image, there are/there is…
It looks like …/There seems to be …
Perhaps they are…
And maybe they are…
While the second image shows…
And it could be …
Or, on the other hand, there could be…
In the first image, I think that …
Or possibly, … because …
Whereas in the other image, I think …
They could also… due to the fact that…
So, overall, I think … although ….
On the left/right
In the background

At the front/back
Despite the fact that there is ..., there is also ...
Not only are there, there is also ...
Not only is there ..., there is also ...
I think these images differ in several ways such as ...
However, there are some similarities such as ...
These images make me feel ...
In my opinion, this images suggest/ show ...

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

English Exams Term 3

Thursday 9th June: Listening Exam 67% Crit A

Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd June: Speaking Role Play Exam - Crit C 33%, Crit D 67%

Wednesday 8th June: Comparing and Contrasting Images Exam - Crit C 67%

Monday, May 9, 2016