Polish Christmas Food

Follow the link and read the article:

The 12 Dishes of Polish Christmas

The Alcatraz Lesson

What do you know about Alcatraz? Brainstorm ideas in a group.

CC Alcatraz Island by Alex Green (licence)



Now watch the video and answer the questions (0:00-7:37):

Why was Alcatraz built?
How was it built?
Who are the people interviewed in the film?
What do they say?

Watch the video again and explain the context for the following words and phrases:

1. organised crime
2. mobsters
3. supergangster
4. superprison
5. my first glimpse of
6. a mug shot
7. a thug
8. the slammer
9. icy currents
10. out it would go
11. the fate of Alcatraz was sealed
12. would have cost millions to repair

After you have watched the video twice, look at fragments (1:30) and (6:30).
Note down 2 sentences where the word supposedly is used.
Why is it used? What is the position of the word in the sentences?













Alcatraz was the biggest concrete structure in the world and, supposedly, the most secure prison on the planet.
An investigation revealed that the supposedly escape-proof concrete was to blame for the breakout.
The OLAD dictionary entry for supposedly
The BNC corpus examples

Come up with 2 sentences with the word which would be true for you.

Discussion:
What do you think may have happened to the three prisoners? Do you think they survived? Why? Why not? Try and use hypothetical conditional structures in your answers:
If they had..., they might have..., could have..., would have....



Now read the following article. Do you think the Dutch scientists could be right?:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30349106

Analyse the two options below and make at least two hypothetical conditional sentences (one for each):
Start like this:  Had they....., they .... (hint: think about what would have happened depending on the moment they decided to get in the water)

Worst Case Scenario

Best Case Scenario

Go back to the article. Compare your sentences with all the hypotheses made in the text.

Do you think these scientists are wasting their time and resources? Would you  nominate them for the Ignoble Prize?

English Food Lesson

Intro

What dishes come to mind when you think of traditional English cooking? Which ones have you had?

Picture by: Mike Fleming (CC BY 2.0)

Reading
Now read the article and see if you have tried any of the items mentioned:
10 British foods no other country understands

Vocabulary
Look at the text again, find the following items and decide what they mean:
Up the ante 
Must be magic
the snooty Swiss roll 
poshed up with bits of Parma ham
Snobs may turn their noses up at
it's been a childhood staple since
this frugal dish
it was once all the rage at
A sure-fire way to pile on the pounds
it tastes sublime
is anyone's guess
it was deliberately left unpierced
batter it with breadcrumbs
Myth has it that
the school tuck shop
You may want to use this dictionary to look things up:
http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

Practice
Follow the link and do the task:
Gap-fill with picture

Gap-fill (no picture)

Task
Now prepare your own presentation about a traditional dish of your choice from your country.
Use the link below to access the online PowerPoint tools and save your presentation:
http://1drv.ms/1D9SnNu

Present to the trest of the class.

Discussion
Discuss the following questions:

• What new foods have you tried this month?
• What is the strangest food you have ever tried?
• Do you have any food allergies?
• Which food from this country do you like the least?
• What do you think about super-sizing?
• Should fast food restaurants serve healthier food?
• Are food portions too big for our health?

Richard's IELTS People

Follow the link and reconstruct the text:

http://www.textivate.com/nextword-j7hjn1

The Link

http://1drv.ms/1F6kJG0

Covering Letter

Follow the link and recostruct the text:
http://www.textivate.com/nextword-udljn1

Practise with Corpus

If you want to practise some words using a corpus, follow this link:
http://www.lextutor.ca/conc/multi/

Have (something) done...

Follow the link and play the game:
http://quizlet.com/57211624/scatter

For those who dare... try this one:

https://quizlet.com/57211624/spacerace

You can ask your partner to help you out by dictating the ending off a printed sheet.

Formal Writing

Read the model answer (CAE Gold p.200).

Follow the link and reconstruct the text:
http://www.textivate.com/nextword-ugijn1


Read the task. http://www.ielts.org/PDF/120430_academic_writing_task_1A.pdf
Plan your answer.
Include any information you think is important in your plan.
Follow the link and read the model answer:
http://www.textivate.com/j7hjn1

Then reconstruct the text:
http://www.textivate.com/nextword-j7hjn1

Ways of walking

Follow the links and do the exercises:

http://www.ihbristol.com/free-english-exercises/test/esol-smc-ways-of-walking

http://quizlet.com/56771959/test

Ebola

Please follow the link and read the article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29878939

What are your predictions?

Now follow this link and complete the exercise:

http://www.textivate.com/udgapfill-93ljn1

The Art of Conversation

Follow the link for some discussion questions:
http://quizlet.com/54586777/flashcards


For the just a minute game topics, follow this link:
http://quizlet.com/23402054/flashcards

Funny Gifs

Dear teachers,
Please follow the link to find some hilarious gifs:
http://www.funlyest.com/articles/view/460/page:1

Sharing Economy

Task 1:

Group A: read this article:

10 sharing economy underdogs you should know

Group B: read this article:

11 sites that want to rule the share economy

Stop after each item to discuss the following questions:

What is it?

How does it work?

What are the plus sides?

What are the dangers?

Would you be willing to invest in this business? Why? Why not?

Once you have finished reading, rank the businesses according to their attractiveness and potential for success.

Get together in pairs (A and B). Discuss your findings. Compare your rankings.

Be ready to tell your partner about the business they did not read about.

Task 2:

The Sharing Economy Boom Is About to Bust

For what reasons the sharing economy boom might end.

Now read the article and list the problems that the author mentions.

Can you add anything to the list?

Privacy on the Internet

Group A:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2770079/We-e-not-Snapchat-sluts-Two-sisters-sue-app-claiming-founders-caused-emotional-distress-using-bikini-photos-free-advertising.html

Group B:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2770822/Would-start-relationship-ve-NEVER-met-One-seven-people-partners-ve-spoken-online.html

Immigration Jigsaw Reading

Group A please read and make notes:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/labour-mp-chuka-umunna-immigration-4306091

anGroup B please read and make notes:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-strongly-rebuked-making-4198255

Aptis informal writing

http://www.textivate.com/7vjjn1

Aptis formal writing

http://www.textivate.com/6vjjn1

Model Report (C1)

Follow the link and listen to your teacher's instructions BEFORE you start doing anything.
Thank you for your cooperation. Ehm...
Here's the link:
http://www.textivate.com/rujjn1

IELTS Task 1 Model Answer

Follow the link aand choose the type of exercise you woulod like to do.

http://www.textivate.com/menu-rtjjn1

The Great Coherence Experiment

Before you start the sequence (text 1 followed by text 2), please log in using the student password.
Your username: your first name (don't forget punctuation!)
Your Class code: RandT

We can then compare times together. Analyse the results of the experiment ;-)

Now, here are the links:

TEXT 1: http://www.textivate.com/sequence-gtjjn1

TEXT 2: http://www.textivate.com/sequence-htjjn1

It is now time to start the experiment my dear participants. May science prevail!

The scariest church in the world.

Please follow the link and do the exercises:
http://www.textivate.com/sequence-nrjjn1

Bucket list

First do this exercise:
http://www.textivate.com/nextword-8rjjn1

Then decide what else will be in the list.

Then read the article here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2575487/Travel-bucket-list-25-things-AFTER-retirement.html

Burger Plan!

Follow the link to create your own burger plan.
http://www.classtools.net/education-games-php/burger

Indirect Questions

Follow the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/145_gramchallenge36/

FCE Article - Model Answer (Celebrations)

Follow the link and reconstruct the text of the article from page 211:
http://www.textivate.com/nextword-qbjjn1

Johnny Cash I hung my head.

Put the words in the gaps. They should rhyme with some other words in the lines near the gap.
Follow the link:
http://www.textivate.com/udgapfill-q2jjn1

Prezentacja - Szkoła z klasą

Witam Państwa!
Dziekuje za przybycie. Jeśli chcecie Państwo śledzić moją prezentacje na ekranach tabletów to proszę kliknąć na poniższy link:

http://prezi.com/oaemjfgm-mpv/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Quizlet - Szkoła z Klasą

Waszym zadanie jest przetestowanie poniższych funkcji używając zestawu fiszek Colours for Soren:
1. Flashcards
2. Learn
3. Speller
4. Test
5. Scatter (gra)
Na test macie kilka minut.
Poniżej link:
http://quizlet.com/_2nivh

Textivate - Szkoła z Klasą

Dzień Dobry!
Waszym zadaniem będzie:
1. Przeczytanie tekstu na stronie Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej o tej konferencji (pierwsze dwa akapity):
http://www.ceo.org.pl/pl/szkolazklasa2zero/news/konferencja-targi-szkoly-z-klasa-20
2. Po przeczytaniu tekstu, przejdź do ćwiczeń (link poniżej).
http://www.textivate.com/sequence-q0jjn1
3. Po wykonaniu ćwiczeń zaloguj się do strony textivate. Zapytaj się nauczyciela o login i hasło. Wpisz swoje imię (imiona - jeśli pracujecie w parach). Wpisz kod swojej grupy/klasy: CEO.

Gratulacje! Jeśli wykononałeś wszytkie powyższe czynności - jesteś ZWYCIĘZCĄ!

FCE Model Report

Follow the link and:
1. Play Who wants to be a millionaire game
2. Then reconstruct the text.

http://www.textivate.com/sequence-uvijn1

FCE Gold p.210

CAE Competition Entry - Famous Person I Admire...

Follow the link and reconstruct the text about Elvis:
http://www.textivate.com/nextword-ptijn1

Informal letter NEF Upp-Int p.17

http://www.textivate.com/nextword-gpijn1

Penny Lane

Follow the link:
http://www.textivate.com/m_1in5-zmijn1

and match the words to the verbs. Good luck!

Agree,disagree and interrupt

Follow the link and match the phrase to an appropriate function:
http://www.textivate.com/m_1in3-bkijn1

Illnesses and Injuries

http://quizlet.com/15141294/flashcards

CAE Letter of Complaint

Please follow the link and reconstruct the text:
http://www.textivate.com/nextword-ugijn1

Character Reference CAE

Follow the link and try to reconstruct the text of this sample character reference:
http://www.textivate.com/nextword-oeijn1

Hurling, covers, diehard or stuffed???

Follow the link and fill the gaps by dropping the menus down.
http://bit.ly/1m7pUiO
Good luck!

FCE Gold-Review: The Lord of the Rings

Follow the link and reconstruct the text of the review for the film:

http://www.textivate.com/nextword-53ijn1

What will the text be about?

http://www.tagxedo.com/artful/4e7778b650824e17

Say,speak,talk,tell (FCE Exam)

Follow the link and do the exercises:

BNC Corpus (written)
bit.ly/1fxQzT9

BNC Corpus (Spoken)
bit.ly/1d4EJLL

Multi concordances for FCE: believe-consider-judge-think

The two activities below will help you to practise using four words (verbs) with similar meaning: believe-consider-judge-think
Activity based on BNC (Spoken) corpus:
bit.ly/1frvKbT
Activity based on BNC (Written) corpus:
bit.ly/1ah3Vyv

Have fun!

Multiple Concordances for CAE 2

Follow the ling and fill the gaps with an appropriate word from the list:

http://conc.lextutor.ca/concordancers/multi/conc.pl?inputs=frankly%2C+actually%2C+basically%2C+apparently%2C+personally%2C+clearly%2C+obviously&this_corp=bnc_spoken.txt&limit=12&wid=large&format=want_quiz&dico=Eng_Eng&language=&cumul_score=