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.
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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

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