Friday 29 April 2016

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

Thursday 28 April 2016

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

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?


Tuesday 5 April 2016

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.
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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