Week 5
Fifth week (September 22-23)
Hello, dear students! I hope you’re enjoying your week!
By Friday next week (September 24), you will be handing the link for your first video.Please, read carefully the instructions on what to include on your video:a. Say hello and provide basic personal information. Base on the following questions to organize your information:
a.1 What’s your name?
a.2 How old are you?
a.3 Where are you from?
a.4 Who do you live with?
a.5 Have you got any pets?
a.6 What do you study?
a.7 What do you do in your free time?
You must include all the bullet points above.
Additionally, we are going to include two of the speaking activities from the topics we have studied in class:
b. (File 4B, page 32) Think about a normal day in your life, and answer the following questions:
b.1 What time do you get up?
b.2 What do you do after getting up?
b.3 Do you work?
Where do you work?
What time do you start work?
What time do you finish work?
b.4 What time do you start school (university)?
What time do you finish school?
b.5 Do you relax in the evening?
What do you do?
b.6 What time do you go to bed?
b.7 How do you feel at the end of the day?
Make sure to cover all the bullet points above!
c. Speaking Exercise (page 71):
Short preparation:
Make a food diary for yesterday. Write what food and drink you had (ate/drank):
· Breakfast: a cup of coffee, some cereal…
· Lunch: ….
· Dinner: ….
· Maybe some snacks in the middle?...
c.1 In your video, say what you had (ate/drank) yesterday (for breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc). Say where you had it and who made it.
Example:
I had breakfast at home, and I made it. I had/drank a cup of coffee and some cereal…
Important: To refer to food, use quantifiers from files 9A and 9B.
Length of the video: between 1 and 3 minutes
Technical aspects:
Record your video horizontally.
Use good illumination.
No background music or noise. You must talk clearly and loudly!
Smile!
No reading is allowed!
Due date: Friday 24th of September 2021 11:59 PM.
Please, upload your video to google drive and paste the link on Coes to hand in your work. Do not upload your video to Coes.Additionally, these are the materials for the topics we are going to cover next week:
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Before we start with the materials for next week, I would like to ask you to watch the videos carefully. At first, it might be a bit demanding. However they can be of great help not only to understand the topics, but also to be in touch with the language, listen to some native speakers and see how they express naturally.
The first topic for week five is going to for predictions. As always, here you can watch a related video:
Below, you’ll find the summary of the topic and the corresponding practice. Don’t forget to do all the exercises for the comming week before our session next Wednesday ( No olvidar hacer todos los ejercicios de la semana entrante antes de nuestra session del próximo miércoles 2:00 pm). 😊
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Or second topic is the present perfect. This is an illustrative video:
Please, study following the summary with the corresponding practice:
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Finally, the third topic is the contrast between the present perfect and the past simple? Watch carefully the following video:
Next, please read the summary and complete the exercises on the topic:
