Vocabulary exercise created with Hot Potatoes

Conditionals: Exercise created with Hot Potatoes

Listening Comprehension: Education

THE BOOKMOBILE: 

How a book changed my life

1. Watch the video and decide if the following statements about the girl in the video, Storm, are true or false.

1 She grew up in a poor family.
2 She owned a lot of books.
3 She found volcanoes really exciting.
4 She didn’t really enjoy reading.
5 When she was 15 she left the migrant camps.

2. Match the opinion adverbs on the left with their meaning on the right. 

Writing: How to Write a Report

 HOW TO WRITE A REPORT

A report is a specific form of writing that is organised around concisely identifying and examining issues, events, or findings that have happened in a physical sense, such as events that have occurred within an organisation, or findings from a research investigation.

These events can also pertain to events or issues that have been presented within a body of literature. The key to report writing is informing the reader simply and objectively about all relevant issues. There are three features that, together, characterise report writing at a very basic level: a pre-defined structure, independent sections, and reaching unbiased conclusions.

Pre-defined structure

At a very basic level, a report can be distinguished from an essay by the creation of headings into which information is organised. Broadly, these headings may indicate sections within a report, such as an introduction, discussion, and conclusion.

Within the main section(s) making up the body of the report (the discussion in the example just given), there is often an opportunity to create your own structure according to the literature you have sourced, your development of ideas, and the task assigned.

Functional Language: Expressions at School

                                   Expressions at School

➜Beginning the class 

• Hello! Hi! Good morning! Good afternoon!
• Take off your jackets, please. Close the door, please. Write the date on the board, please. 
• Take out your books, please. Give out the books, please. Alicia, share your book with Laura, please.
• Exercise one at the top of page three. Activity two at the bottom of page three. Which exercise are we doing? 
• Work in groups of three. Work in pairs. Work on your own. 
• Have you done your homework? 
• Juan isn’t here today. He is not well. 
• Have you got a pencil? Can I borrow your rubber? Can you lend me a rubber, please? 
• Ready? Let’s start. David, you start. 
• What did you say Juan? 
• Just a moment. Wait a minute. Hold on a second.