WRITING ASSIGNMENT

Write an email telling a friend about a recent event that went wrong. Choose one of the situations below:

- At a party or special event.

- On holiday

- At work or college.

Length: 150 words

Deadline: January 13^th

LINGRO, MAKING YOU READING EASIER

Dear students,

Here's a great tool to make your reading easier and to improve your vocabulary. Lingro is a great site every student of English should know.

Lingro will help you surf the Internet in English when you are exploring a website full of new words you don't know. It will allow you to quickly look up and learn new vocabulary.

All you need to do is enter the name of the page you want to read on Lingro's homepage, and it will make all the words on the clickable. Then you can click on any word to find out what it means in English or in 11 different languages.

Isn't that cool? Now you have no excuse for not reading in English ;)

READING ASSIGNMENT

FIRST READING ASSIGNMENT

Read a book of your choice and complete the SHEET your teacher will give you with information about it. We will use it for a CLASS DISCUSSION of the books you and your classmates have read on JANUARY 27^th.

The book should be FICTION

and have at least LEVEL A2 (PRE-INTERMEDIATE/LOWER-INTERMEDIATE)

LEARNING IRREGULAR VERBS

Dear students,

Are you already revising English irregular verbs? Do you find it too difficult to remember all of them?

TAKE IT EASY!

There are several ways you can try to learn them, the point is to find one that suits your learning style.  All it takes is a little dedication. Here are some:

- Grouping verbs according to the patterns they follow.

- Making flashcards to test yourself, putting the infinitive on one side and the past simple and past participle forms on the other.

You can also do something more sophisticated like this "foldable verb organiser".

- Downloading an application on your smartphone to listen to their pronunciation or to test yourself.

- Playing a game.  Here’s a nice tool to get some practice while playing: Macmillan Irregular Verbs Wheel 

Maybe it's a good idea to revise them before playing: Macmillan Irregular Verb Wheel 

- Reading or listening to stories. Remember the main events in a story are expressed using past simple. So you will find lots of past forms in most narrations. Here’s an example, you can listen to the story and complete the corresponding exercise.

- Using rhymes or music: Irregular verbs song.

Can you think of any other useful ways of learning the verbs?