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=Hello,= =This is where you can find details of work done and homework in case you miss a class. I will aslo be posting some homework exercises here. Please tell me if you have any problems accessing the page or opening files.= =All the best,= =Daniel=

Fruit slices recipe.

Blend together 175gms of soft butter with 175gms of soft brown sugar.

Add 100gms of porridge oats (copas de avena)

Add 225 of plain white flour and a teaspoon of baking powder and a little salt.

Press half of the mixture firmly into a greased sandwich tin.

In a separate bowl put a tin of peaches (without the juice), chop into small piece. Add the grated skin of a lemon and mix together. Place this mixture on top of the mixture in the tin.

Press half the remaining half of the mixture on top of the fruit mixture and press down.

Bake in a medium oven for about 40 minutes.

This is a useful link to explanations and exercises for relative clauses: []



Friday 19th - work done in class. Page 24 exercise 4, Page 25 exercise 5.

Homework: check modal verbs (p.24) Read the article on page 26. Writing assessment (see below)

Please find the Powerpoint for vocabulary if you were away on Thursday:


 * __2nd writing assessment task__**.


 * //Choose ONE of the options below. Please give it (or send it) to me before Thursday 25th.//**
 * //Length should be between 200 and 250 words.//**

1. A travel magazine has asked people to write about a place they know in a series called //“Off the Beaten Track.”// You should write about a place that is not a typical tourist attraction, saying what it is like and telling people why it is worth visiting.

2. A foreign friend is planning to spend a long weekend in your town/city. He or she has asked you for advice about what to see, which places to visit and for some general information about transport, shop opening times, food and drink etc.

3. A magazine has invited readers to enter an essay competition, you should write your response to the question //“In today’s world, do we live to work or work to live?”//

4. A travel website has asked people to send emails answering the question //“Travelling by plane, what’s your experience?//” for an on-line forum.

Wednesday 17th - work in class from the book - Unit 4, exercises 1 and 2.

Tuesday 16th - here are the solutuon to the letter and the easily confused words exercise:

This is the Cambridge link (look for the heading "free materials") This is the Advanced but there is also an FC page on the same site: [] The other address was [|www.flo-joe.com]

HOMEWORK For the week beginning Tuesday 16th Have another look at the language in exercises 5 and 6 page 21.

Download the following file; This is a letter from a friend to someone called Anna. The writer has made a number of grammar mistakes. Read the letter and identify as many of the mistakes as you can.

If you have time, review some of the new language from last week's classes.

Please remember to bring the CONFUSING WORDS sheets to class on Tuesday.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND

We did exercsies 1-3 on page 20 today (Thursday 11.) Here is the listening file: media type="file" key="05 Track 05 1.mp3" width="240" height="20"

Homework - exercise 5, page 21.

Tuesday - Please read the article on page 17 (just the article, you needn't do the questions) for tomorrow's class.

Work done in class Monday 8th - exercsies 5 and 6 page 15. Homework - review 5 and 6 - here is the listening:

media type="file" key="02 Track 02 1.mp3" width="240" height="20" Listening exercise 5.

media type="file" key="02 Track 02 1.mp3" width="240" height="20"Listening p.16 (for Tuesday)

Work done in class Friday 5 - speaking about jobs, reviewing collocations from yesterday. We went though and discuss the vocabulary and idioms in exercises 1 and 3.

Homework for Monday - the writing task (someone important in my life) and pleae review the exercises and vocabulary we have looked at this week. We'll do a review exercise on Monday. OPTIONAL - have a look the TED TALKS: [|www.ted.com]

Work done in class Thursday 4th. From the book: Discussed article (p.13) and focus on collocations - Exercise 5. Homework for Friday - Unit 2, exercises 1 and 3, Page 14.

Work done in class Wednesday 3 from the book: Exercise 6, p.11. Exercise 1, p12.

Homework: Please read the article "Typical" on Page 13. You don't need to do the questions.

USEFUL LINK: []` For searching examples or words and phrases in sentences. Check out Lev on Youtube - Tales of Mere Existance Interested in reading novels in English? Here you will find the books we have read/are reading in the British Council Book Club: [|www.miguelangelbookclub.blogspot.com] Many of the books are available from the Multi Media Centre.



Tuesday 2nd Exercise 4 Answers

1 watch my weight //(be careful about your weight)// 2 stick to a diet (//maintain a diet)// 3 ramble on about grammar (//talk in a boring way)// 4 get a word in edgeways //(used with “can’t…”, someone who doesn’t let you speak because they talk all the time)// 5 correct everybody else 6 be stuck next to that guy //(be somewhere where you cannot get away)// 7 look you in the eye //(make eye contact)//

8 mumble to himself //(talk to himself indistinctly)// 9 fiddle with his pens //(touch something – pens in this case – constantly)// 10 fancy him //(find someone attractive)// 11 eye you up and down //(look at someone very intensely, rather rudely)// 12 give me the creeps //(is revolting)// 13 wind you up //(annoys / irritates you)// 14 make it up to you //(do something to compensate for a negative action)//

Homework: For Wednesday please review the vocabulary from exercises 2 and 4 page 10.

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Powerpoint for unit 1 vocabulary



Homework for Tuesday 2nd, set Monday 1st.

media type="file" key="01 Track 01 1.mp3" width="240" height="20"

Page 10, exercises 3 and 4. Listen to the conversation and read the transcript (p.146) to do the exercises.