IELTS Essay

The task:

Now write your reply:
https://goo.gl/forms/Tu9q3lYnkaWxPqWz1

Ready for Advanced: Unit 3 Writing - Report (page 35)

Follow the link and reconstruct the text:

http://www.textivate.com/nextword-gzyjn1e30?colscheme=aqua

If you have finished, you may want to try to fill the gaps with 'hide words' on:
http://www.textivate.com/udgapfill-gzyjn1s110?colscheme=green

Now work in pairs/groups:
Plan your own response to the task.
Make your ideas relevant to the situation where you live.
Write the ideas down.
Add language that you think might be useful to your plan.
Use your plan rather than the model answer in the book to write your own response
Write it in pairs/groups.
Share the workload
Write it using a word processor (use the spelling check tool) and paste here:
https://goo.gl/forms/DdxlAqSHMsG2enAO2

Advanced 1: Film Review

Look at the review on page 24. Use the language from this review and the accompanying exercises to write up a review of a film of your own choice. Use any other online resources you may need but make sure you don't plagiarize.

Use this form to submit your review.

Gold Experience B1+ Unit 2 page 21: Nick vs. Nina

Read the text about Nick and fill the gaps.


Read the text about Nina and fill the gaps.

Both teams need to complete the User-Defined Gap Fill activity.

Time for the ultimate challenge!

Ready for IELTS Unit 2 page 26: Essay

Read the task:

Prepare a plan for the essay.

Read this model answer and then reconstruct it.

You can also do this gap-fill activity

Lower Secondary Upper Intermediate 1 Autumn 2016: Time to write the Essay

Success criteria for the Burger Plan:

1. You should work with your partner(s) and help each other.
2. You should have your won copy of the plan.
3. Your plan should include ideas to write about.
4. Your ideas must be explained and you should give examples.
5. Your plan cannot include full sentences.
6. Your plan should have some vocabulary in each section that you want to use to write about your ideas.
7. Your plan should be clear and prepared neatly so that others can read it.

Success criteria for writing the essay:

1. Your essay should be based on your Burger Plan.
2. Your essay should have FOUR paragraphs.
3. You should work with your partner(s).
4. You can discuss everything you are going to write.
5. When you agree what to write, all of you should write the sentence in your copy of the essay.
6. If you are not sure what to write or how to write it, ask the teacher for help.
7. Click 'SUBMIT' button at the bottom of the form only when the whole essay is ready.

If your Burger Plan is ready and you want to start writing the essay, click on the link below:
https://goo.gl/forms/Trx98NrC2lqgT2K73

GOLD Experience Unit 1 page 12 : clothes

Follow the link and listen to the teacher.

my dream job

Lower Secondary Upper Intermediate 1 Tue/Thu 15.45

Follow the link.
Find your file.
Edit the text so that it is about you and your job.


LINK

Formal/informal

Follow the link and edit the letter to make it informal.

https://1drv.ms/w/s!Ala3gbxDotZMgUhJcfQRneyPiqm3

Summer 2016 Advanced Skills: Word and phrase - working with a language corpus

Today marks exactly one year since I came to London! When I made the decision to leave Singapore, it was incredibly exciting. Soon, though, I had to face the challenge of experiencing a different way of life. It hasn't always been easy, living on (literally) the other side of the world. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that people who have grown up in different places have different ways of behaving, thinking and expressing themselves.

Before I set off on my adventure, I had certain images of English people: polite, serious people, always drinking tea, obsessed with the weather These things aren’t exactly false, but they're only the tip of the iceberg. I soon realised that people's behaviour wasn't always consistent with my preconceptions.

Let's start with the things I love. London is a big, bustling, cosmopolitan city. So, in that respect, things weren't totally new to me. There are lots of things to do all year round and I can go to museums, musicals and plays whenever I want. Also, because of where London is, I can easily just pop over to Paris or Brussels for a weekend getaway.

But after going through the ‘tourist phase’ of finding everything completely new and exciting, more and more things started to surprise me. I discovered the ‘iceberg’ hidden under the water and started to gain some insight into British culture. For example, some of the TV programmes and newspapers were a bit of a shock. Sometimes it seems that, in the media, anything goes. The English sense of humour is really interesting, too. A lot of the time, it's really self-deprecating humour. Sometimes it can be quite obvious and crude (and not at all polite). At other times, you don't really know if they're being sarcastic or being serious. It took me a while to get used to that and read between the lines. But it helped to watch a lot of chat shows and comedies (English people love watching TV — in fact, that's what a lot of their conversation and cultural references are about). In fact, these programmes are a rich source of information about the British and the British way of life.

All this got me thinking about culture — not just in England, but everywhere. It's like a kind of social glue, it holds society together. We learn about the culture of our own society in a very natural way as we grow up — it's the ‘dos’ and ‘don'ts’ about how we treat people, what is acceptable behaviour.

The aspects of culture you can see are based on those values and beliefs that you can't. It will take a long time to understand those deeply held values and beliefs because you have to notice them slowly and work them out.

My advice to anyone going to a new country is this: don't be afraid to try out new things. That's the whole point of going and how you gain experience. But before you go, check out good websites for information about the place and get a good guidebook. When you’re there, explore it as much as you can — get out and make friends with ‘real’ people! You'll find that the more you do, the more you'll gain confidence.

Paste the text (ask the teacher for details) into this website and look for important collocations:
http://www.wordandphrase.info/

EYTP Writing

Part 1

Reconstruct the text of the opinion essay you have just read (Cutting Edge Int Unit 11 page 115):

http://www.textivate.com/nextword-ajvjn1e3


Part 2

Topic: The aim of prison should be to re-educate rather than to punish. Discuss.














Plan your essay.














Follow the link.
Find the document with your name.
Get together with other members of your group.
Use your plan.
Write your essay.
You should work together with other members of your group.

https://1drv.ms/f/s!Ala3gbxDotZMgSWEFiMbRosW7AtM

To uni or not to uni - that is the question!

What do these words mean?

haven
surge
charity
community
increase
defer
come away
wealth
fit in
drawbacks
urge 
advance
beyond

Work in pairs/groups.Think of a topic that would allow you to use as many of these phrases as possible. Tell us what the topic is.









Watch the video - what is the topic?

Now replay the video from 1:08 to 1.32 as many times as you like and reconstruct the text.

Choose a gap year option for yourself:
A's
B's

Now compare and justify your choices in pairs.

Ready for First Unit 3 Essay

Look at this task:

Work in pairs and p[lan your response.
How many paragraphs will you have?
Think of:

• topic sentences
• development
• examples

for each paragraph.

Now compare your plans.
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Try to reconstruct this model answer:
Task 1
Task 2


Now look at this task:

Plan your response and then use the link below to write it:
http://goo.gl/forms/9GOaEQavLv

Cambridge Advanced: Writing Task 2 - a review

Read the task:

You have a few minutes to discuss how you would plan your response to a task like this:
- how many paragraphs?
- what goes into them? (which elements of the instructions tell you that?)


Now try to reconstruct the text of the model answer. There are 4 paragraphs titled:

1. Shopping in Linz
2. Melanie's 
3. The Parallel
4. My recommendations

Link 1

Link 2

Now write down words or phrases which:

- can help you write any review

- are relevant to the topic and are 'advanced' English (show off writer's range of vocabulary)

Which stylistic features of the text are worth remembering when planning your own review?

Sustainable Tourism: Copy and Paste Project (C&P Project)

With the members of your group read the three articles below.
Decide what excerpts you need to answer the task in the book on page 119.
Copy them and paste them into the documents to which the links are provided below.
You can't just 'steal' sentences. You will need to add your own sentences and vocabulary to link all the things you read about to create your own essay.

Example:

What would you take out from this article (first 3 paragraphs)?
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/sustainable-tourism-travel-industry-duty

The global tourism (industry) business has reached an unprecedented level of demand.
+
The sector has been growing exponentially since the 50s. (own sentence)
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Given (these statistics) these facts, it is little surprise that tourism is one of the world's fastest-growing industries. 

(You might want to use it in the intro.)

Links to articles:

Article 1:
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/sustainable-tourism-10-key-issues-investors

Article 2:
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/sustainable-tourism-indigenous-communities

Article 3:
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/six-reasons-mass-tourism-unsustainable


Links to documents:

Group 1:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=4CD6A243BC81B756!149&authkey=!AJ__sTR1NkRCHzY&ithint=file%2cdocx

Group 2:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=4CD6A243BC81B756!149&authkey=!AJ__sTR1NkRCHzY&ithint=file%2cdocx

Group 3:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=4CD6A243BC81B756!150&authkey=!ANre2i1LqbNRv4o&ithint=file%2cdocx

Group 4:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=4CD6A243BC81B756!152&authkey=!AN7QWSP__Fi8Syw&ithint=file%2cdocx

STAGE 2:

Follow the link.
Find the document with your name.
Get together with other members of your group.
Now, work on the document, paste selected sentences into the relevant parts of the table and edit them to write your essay.
You should work together and end up producing an (almost) identical essay.
Ask the teacher if you need help.
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=4CD6A243BC81B756!129&authkey=!APHRKhmHtadQ4ew&ithint=folder%2cdocx

Complete Advanced Unit 9 Essay

Reconstruct the text:
http://www.textivate.com/1in5-xotjn1

YA FCE 1 Ready for First Informal Letter Text Reconstruction

http://www.textivate.com/nextword-92tjn1e1

Open-cloze - Sharapova

Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasilevich/

Students A:

Follow the link read the text and create an open-cloze gap-fill.

http://www.textivate.com/n6tjn1

Students B:

Follow the link read the text and create an open-cloze gap-fill.

http://www.textivate.com/o6tjn1

Ready for Advanced Report page 201

Follow the link and reconstruct the text:
http://www.textivate.com/nextword-m0tjn1e3

Ready for First Unit 1 Writing Task 2 Informal Letter

Follow the link and complete the exercise.
http://www.textivate.com/jumble-92tjn1?colscheme=green

First Gold Unit 8 Letter of Application

Follow the link and reconstruct the text:
http://www.textivate.com/nextword-c0tjn1e3

Complete Advanced Unit 8 Proposal

Follow the link and reconstruct the text:
http://www.textivate.com/nextword-8ssjn1e3

Links for Latitude

You can download a word document with the links from our session here.

Your opinion about Edmodo.

Please complete a short survey about your Edmodo experience. Many thanks!
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/6ZZQ8LS

CAE Letters (Complete Advanced)

Business letter page 193:
http://www.textivate.com/nextword-jmrjn1e3?colscheme=blue

Letter of Complaint page 148:
http://www.textivate.com/jumble-kmrjn1