WEEK 25: UNDER THE WEATHER WITH THE WEATHER
This week we've been practising vocabulary related to the weather and weather change, and also how to interpret and compare information from charts or tables.
- Find out on the Internet 2 pieces of news about weather issues, and highlight the vocabulary related to the weather. Upload this to your blog.
- Upload 2 graphs or tables about the same issue and try to interpret and compare the info found in them.
- Tell us what you've done this week to improve your English.
WEEK 24: NATURAL WONDERS
This week we've been dealing with descriptive texts about natural wonders of the world.
- Browse the Net and upload a descriptive text of a well-known place, and underline all the expressions used for describing the place. Add other sentences by yourself to improve the text selected.
- Tell us what you've done this week to improve your English.
WEEK 23: PERSUASION
In the last weeks we've been dealing with the language of persuasion and the language of hipothesising, which are two communicative functions of the language.
- Find out expressions to express persuasion, different from the ones offered in the textbook.
- Find a text on the Internet where a hypothesis is discussed and underline the expresions for hypothesising.
- Tell us what you've done this week to improve your English.
WEEK 22: NARRATIVE ESSAY WRITING
This week we've been dealing with a new type of essay, the narrative essay.
- Find out on the web 2 different links where narrative essay writing is explained and summarise the main characteristics. In which way is it different from discursive essay writing?
- Tell us what you've done this week to improve your English.
WEEK 21: TELLING THE TRUTH
During this week, we've been dealing with the psychological reasons for telling lies, and the ways to discover someone is lying. In addition, we've been practising emphasis in many different ways.
- Browse the Net and find sites where lies are approached. make a list of the characteristics shown by a person who lies according to these websites.
- Try to watch the film Liar, Liar and give your opinion on it.
- Tell us what you've done this week to improve your English.
