FCE 2 - Unit 15

The Natural World

Class materials:
20th/21st October Powerpoint: Here

Here is a very interesting page on the different tourist destinations around the world and how tourists affect them:
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/eco-tourism/photos/15-travel-destinations-being-ruined-by-tourism

Vocabulary tests:

http://www.fcepracticetests.com/fce-vocabulary-vocabulary-building-5/

http://quizlet.com/19144302/fce-vocabulary-environment-flash-cards/

Speaking paper on the environment for FCE:

1. http://aglikapastras.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/pollution.doc
2.

I'd like you to compare and contrast these photographs, saying how you would feel walking on each of these paths. Here are your two photographs. They show two paths in the English countryside.

Reading paper on the environment for FCE:

http://www.autoenglish.org/listening/plasticReading.htm

http://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/41.html

All parts of the FCE paper on the environment:

http://efllecturer.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/what-can-we-do-about-environment.html

Word formations

The third part of the Use of English paper in the First Certificate Examination is word formation where you have to use a root such as 'able' and create an appropriate word (disable, unable, ability) to fill the gap in a text. Think first .... if you need a verb, adjective, noun or adverb in the sentence! This can be done using clues such as word order. For example, if there is an article preceding the gap,  you will need to place a noun after it. If there is already a noun after the gap,

then you will need an adjective etc.

http://www.flo-joe.com/fce/students/strategy/p3pt5a.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_use_of_english_part3.htm

18 different pages of exercises here: http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate-word-formation.php

http://www.tinyteflteacher.co.uk/learning-english/FCE/word-formation-verbs.html

http://englishaula.com/en/use-of-english-part-3-word-formation-exercise-exam-2-fce-cambridge-first-certificate-english.html

http://todayschool.es/blog/first-certificate-tests-2/word-formation-5/

Countable and uncountable nouns



Grammar pages and exercises: Here
-If you wish to complete the grammar pages, hand in the answers to me on a separate piece of paper in class for marking

Litter and Rubbish - For Ana

What is Rubbish?

Rubbish is the stuff that people throw away. It might be broken, empty or something that we don’t want any more. We all throw away rubbish every day. Think about your lunch or dinner. To What rubbish was left over?

When we throw stuff in the bin it becomes rubbish. Some people throw stuff they don’t want on the ground. When this happens it becomes something else.

What is litter?

We should all throw our rubbish into the bin, but some people are too lazy or don’t care and drop it on the gound. This is litter!

Throwing litter causes lots of problems.

It looks untidy and it costs a lot of money to clean up.

Litter like broken glass and sharp metal can be very dangerous and standing on these things hurts many people and animals.

'Form' - For Quin

verb - to bring together parts or combine to create (something).
         "the company was formed in 1982" 

1. synonyms:

   set up, devise, establish, found, launch, float, create, bring into being, put in place, organize, institute,start, begin, get going, initiate, bring about, inaugurate, lay the foundations of

Homework: 
You can print this at home or just view it online and write the answers on a separate piece of paper. It is up to you. Obviously, don't do the listening part. Only do page 1 and 2.

FCE2 class on Mondays, please complete this worksheet for Monday 10th November

or

FCE2 class on Tuesdays, please complete this workheet for Tuesday 11th November

Jobs (Unit 14) Homework worksheet: Here

COUNTABLE / UNCOUNTABLE / QUANTIFIERS:

• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 6
• Exercise 7
• Very good page to understand how we count uncountable things.

PET 2 (Compact PET) - Unit 1

Present Simple

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/simple-present-1

Present Continuous vs present simple

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs1.htm

Present Perfect

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/present-perfect-simple-1

Education vocabulary/collocations

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/preliminaryenglish/vocabulary/education-collocations.htm

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/preliminaryenglish/vocabulary/classroom-vocabulary.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/b1_education.htm

 

Connecting words:

unless = if not

Unless is similar in meaning to if not and can be used instead ofif not in certain types of conditional sentences. We normally useunless with present tenses when we are referring to the future:

You won't get in to see the show, if you don't have reserved seats. OR:
Unless you have reserved seats, you won't get in to see the show.

Let's play tennis on Saturday, if it's not raining. OR:
Let's play tennis on Saturday, unless it's raining.

I'll see you at the gym this evening, if you're not too tired. OR:
I'll see you at the gym this evening, unless you're too tired.

if not

However, we cannot use unless in questions:

• What will you do if you don't pass those exams?
• If I don't pass those exams, I won't be able to study in Australia
• I won't be able to study in Australia, unless I pass those exams.

And we cannot use unless with would to talk about unreal future situations:

• If he didn't take everything so seriously, he would be much easier to work with. 
• If he weren't so bad-tempered, I would help him to get the work done

We cannot use unless with would have to talk about unreal situations in the past either:

• If you hadn't driven so recklessly, you wouldn't have had this accident.
• If you hadn't had that last glass of wine, this would never have happened.

So or because

http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/sobe.html

Quiz: Although, Though, Despite and However

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/89.html

PET 1 (More4 Book) - Unit 1 and 2

Unit 1

Grammar
Test yourself using these exercises

Present Simple

Present Continuous

Present Perfect

Vocabulary - SPORTS

Vocabulary tests: http://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/b1_sport.htm

Worksheet: http://exams.richmondelt.com/downloads/worksheets/pet/pet_unit5_worksheet.pdf

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7slweZWNV5A

Test yourself on the whole unit from the MORE 4 Book:
http://www.more-online.com/more4int_online/index.html

Homework: 

You can print this at home or just view it online and write the answers on a separate piece of paper. It is up to you. Obviously, don't do the listening part.

Please hand in answers on Monday 10th November

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=9E0697AB12501B56!19627&authkey=!AOOE_2JlcSesmsU&ithint=file%2cpdf

 

Unit 2

More 4 website: http://www.more-online.com/more4int_online/index.html

Vocabulary - Travel
http://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/travel.htm
http://www.flo-joe.com/preliminaryenglish/travel.htm

Grammar - Past perfect
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/past-perfect-simple
exercises: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/past-perfect-simple-1

Past simple vs Past continuous
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/past-continuous-and-past-simple
exercise: http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-past-continuous-exercise-1.html
worksheet: http://www.macmillaninspiration.com/new/files/2010/12/Grammar-EXTRA_NI_3_Unit_1_Past-simple-and-past-continuous.pdf
quiz: http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/pastsimpleorcontinuous/exercise1.html

FCE 2 - Unit 14

Expressions with make and do

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/support-files/make_or_do.pdf

Raquel - The answer to your question: Collocations are just to be learnt and normally without rules as they are expressions but sometimes there is a 'pattern' as we saw in class

http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/collocations-learn-correct-english

The answer to your question on 'happen to/with' - 
http://thegrammarexchange.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/340600179/m/759105058

Please note that if your questions are not related to what we are studying right now, they can always be found online or in the back of your book. :)

The difference between make and do

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/make-or-do-exercise-1.html

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1215#a

All and Whole

This is a very good video to review the explanation we went over in class: 

http://www.espressoenglish.net/common-errors-in-english-all-whole-every/

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-48856.php

http://www.vitutor.com/gramatica_inglesa/nouns/nouns_ej17.html

Perfect tenses

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-simple-or-present-perfect-continuous.html

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-perfect-continuous.html

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-perfect-continuous-use.html

Career related vocabulary

Negative prefixes:

For the FCE exam, there's nearly always at least one negative in the word formation paper. There are lots of prefixes and suffixes we can use to make negatives.

1. Negative prefixes can be used with nouns, verbs, adjective and adverbs. For example disapproval, disapprove, disapproving, disapprovingly.
2. Usually im + p (impatient) but not always (unpleasant).
3. Often il + l (illegal) but not always (unlikely).
4. Often ir + r (irregular) but not always (unresponsive).
5. Usually -ful changes to -less (harmful/less) but not always (endless).
6. If you can't remember, choose un - it's the most common negative prefix.

un-	in	dis-	im-
unexpected unaware unbelievable unknown unable	inaccurate inappropriate inefficient incapable ineffective	disapprove dislike disagree disbelief dishonest	improbable impossible impolite imperfect impatient
il-	ir-	mis-	-less
illegal illiterate illogical illegible	irregular irresponsible irrational irregular	misbehave misunderstand misspell misuse	careless harmless helpless endless

Test your knowledge of the prefixes:
http://random-idea-english.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/negative-prefixes-with-adjectives.html

Class Materials:
Wednesday/Thursday 8th/9th October Powerpoint on collocations and all or whole: here

Lucia - You asked about adobe: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe


              A house made from Adobe

                               Brush vs Comb

Perfect Tenses

Class Powerpoint: Here

Present perfect: I have eaten pizza today

Past perfect: I had never eaten pizza until now

Present perfect continuous: I have been studying spanish this weekend

Past perfect continuous: The students had been studying a lot for their exams

Future perfect: I will have finished this powerpoint by tomorrow

Future perfect continuous: I will have been living here in Spain for 4 years by the end of the month.

Exercises

Present perfect: http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-exercise-4.html

Past simple vs. Present perfect: http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-present-perfect-1.html

Past perfect: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/past-perfect

Present perfect continuous: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs7.htm

Past perfect continuous v past perfect: http://www.englishtenses.com/test/romance_novel1

Future Perfect: http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/future-perfect-exercise-4.html

Future perfect continuous: https://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/grammar/jumbled-tenses-future-perfect-continuous-1.htm

Helpful videos:

Songs using the perfect tenses:

Maria -  Time expressions

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2540

For/since in perfect tenses: http://www.grammarbank.com/since-vs-for-exercises.html

http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentPerfect1D.html

Mixed perfect tenses exercise: 

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs14.htm

http://a4esl.org/q/h/0101/ig-perfect.html

http://www.grammarbank.com/perfect-tenses-worksheet.html

Choose the correct tense (not just perfect)

http://a4esl.org/q/j/ck/mc-vf02.html

http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=913

FCE 2 - Unit 13

Reported Speech Basics:

Here is a word document that reviews the tenses, time expressions and modal verbs:
Reported Speech Rules

This is a good video that covers most of the tenses:

Exercises:

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_reported1.htm

Education

http://quizlet.com/31467550/flashcards
http://hoe.cocohvteam3.nl/Interactive_year4/FCE/education1.htm
http://hoe.cocohvteam3.nl/Interactive_year4/FCE/education2.htm
http://hoe.cocohvteam3.nl/Interactive_year4/FCE/education3.htm

http://hoe.cocohvteam3.nl/Interactive_year4/FCE/education4.htm

Questions in Reported Speech

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-7.html 

Reported Speech verbs

http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.report2.p.htm

Who Wants to be a Millionaire Game for 

the vocabulary of unit 13:

http://www.superteachertools.com/millionaire/online/game1416784049.php