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