Websites

Today we will look at different websites to help with English and exam practice

choose three of the websites on the following page. Check with the other class members to see they are not doing the same one.
MAKE SURE YOU ARE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT WEBSITES TO OTHER STUDENTS

http://entry3am.blogspot.com/


when you have tried some different sites share your information with other students

LEGAL and ILLEGAL DRUGS

A
Discuss these questions with a partner

1. Do you hate taking medicine?
2. How often do you take medicine?
3. Should all medicine be free?
4. Is laughter the best medicine?
5. Does medicine always work for you?
6. Do you have any side effects after you take medicine?
7. What do you think of alternative medicines like homeopathic medicine and aromatherapy?
8. What medicines are in your medicine cabinet?
9. What do you think of herbal and Chinese medicine?
10. Do you think medicine is too expensive?
11.Would you ever buy medicine online?
12. Do you agree with testing on animals to find new medicines?
13. Do you think that one day, there’ll be medicine to cure all illnesses?
14. How has medicine changed in the past hundred years?


B

Now discuss these questions

1. Do you consider alcohol a drug? Do you drink?
2. Should doctors be allowed to prescribe marijuana? If so, to whom and for what reasons?
3. Why do you think so many famous people use drugs?
4. Can a person become addicted to prescription drugs? Which ones? Are there any illegal drugs that a person can't become addicted to?


C

http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/articles/u/uk_drugs.shtml

What do you think of her opinion?


http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-cappuccino-2

Is there anything wrong with advertsing coffee? Why? Why not?

D
What are the most common drugs (illegal and legal)?

Choose 3 drugs.
Use to internet to find out what they do to your body and mind.

Write your information and find another group to share your information with.

Video sites

Video sites are featuring more in my classes. This is due to a timetabled session in an IT suite. We are able to use listening sites and video. It's interesting to wee which students like using video sites. They turn on their machines and plug in the headphones. Within minutes Jose is logged onto a music video site and is singing the words out of tune. “At least it is in English”, I reassure myself. Pavel is watching a short film which has been sent him from his country. He calls me over to watch it with him. I am drawn to it, but know I must attend to the class. He is immersed in it. He keeps playing the film over and over again. It seems he is day dreaming, but at the same time attached to the screen by an invisible cord.

Problems and advice

We are going to practice some writing today on health and giving advice.


Activity A _ Talk about home remedies
Do you always take medicine when you are ill? What do you do if you have an
insect sting, a cough, a sore throat or a headache? Are there any home remedies
that you use? Tell other learners what you do.


Activity B _ Write about home remedies
Write an article of about 160 words about a home remedy that is used in your
country. Word-process the article if you can.


Activity C _ Read advertisements for health products on the internet
Look through a variety of pages and find advertisements for health products.
Which advertisements are the most effective and why?
Discuss your ideas with a partner.


Read the two problems and write an answer to one of them (120 words)

Problem 1

I have done something really stupid. It's our wedding anniversary soon and I wanted to buy my wife something really special. I borrowed money to pay for my present and now I am having trouble paying it back. I have taken on extra hours at work and my wife wonders why we are not better off financially because of it. I'm sure she thinks I am having an affair. I can't tell her what I have done. Have you got any advice?


Problem 2

I am 25 and have been married for five years. I thought I loved my husband but I've just started a new job and my new boss has made it obvious he fancies me. He is 45 but is very attractive. Should I give in and have an affair? I'm sure my husband would never suspect as he is too engrossed in his own work. What advice can you give?

DIET

1. FAST FOOD:

Find some pictures of fast food on the internet.

Walk around the class and talk to other students about fast food. Change partners often. After you finish, sit with your partner(s) and share your findings.

2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words are most interesting and which are most boring. Find their meaning using an online dictionary


research / unhealthy / walking distance / strokes / social status / strong relationships / heart attacks / killers / diets / risk / poorer neighbourhoods / less educated


3. NEARBY DANGERS:

With your partner(s), talk about the dangers of living near these things.

Fast food restaurants
Nuclear power station
Prison
Volcano
Crocodile farm

Would you live nearby? Why (not)?
Write down your ideas.
Change partners and share what you wrote.

4. RESTAURANTS: Jason will explain how to do this activity

Students A strongly believe all fast food restaurants should be banned; Students B strongly believe there’s nothing wrong with them. Change partners again and talk about your conversations.

5. FOOD: In pairs / groups, talk about the following kinds of food. Give each a score from 10 (I love this and could it every day) to 1 (I wouldn’t eat this if you paid me).

____ Fast food

____ Fried food

____ Baby food

____ Packaged food


____ Slow food

____ Airplane food

____ Junk food

____ Raw food

6. FRUIT AND VEG

Go to this site and find out why fruit and vegetables are healthy. Make notes to help you.

http://www.videojug.com/interview/fruits-and-vegetables-2#what-is-juicing

7. Choose another video connected with diet and health. Share what information you have with other people in the class.

8. Think of a healthy meal. Write down the ingredients and how to prepare the meal.

We will upload your recipes on the blog. The class will decide which ones are the tastiest and healthiest.

If you want some homework then go to this site and complete the exercises

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0902/090224-fast_food.html

Health

Today will we be looking at health


1. Go to this site

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/venturesadulted/WB1_U04.pdf

Complete Lesson A Question 4 (page 39)

Complete Lesson B Questions 1, 2, 3, 4


2. Go to this site http://www.esl-lab.com/office/offrd1.htm

and follow the instructions

IMPORTANT!!!! You will need headphones and you will need to open the audio in real player or windows media player

USE THE SCRIPT TO HELP

3. Go to this site and follow instructions

http://esl-lab.com/sick1/sick1.htm


4. Go to these sites and match the sentences

http://esl-lab.com/sick1/doctorvisit-mix.htm

http://esl-lab.com/sick1/doctorvisit-match.htm

5. go to this page

http://www.videojug.com/tag/colds-and-flu

Choose a video .... make notes on it and then tell a class mate what your video is about

Defining Relative clauses

Remember that we use the words which, who, where, when, that to make sentences longer

Do the following exercises to help you:

1. http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses/exercises?08

2. Do this one with a partner. You will have to discuss the answers and write them down

http://www.vivquarry.com/wkshts/relative1q.html


3. Yesterday you looked at places to go on different holidays.

Today you are going to choose one country and you are going to write a short travel guide to a country of your choice.

You can use some of the information that you found yesterday if it is useful.

You will need to include the words which, who, where, when, that in each paragraph. The group who uses these words the most CORRECTLY are the winners.

When you write your travel guide choose from the following information:

people
food
customs
arts
transport
cities
history
places of interest
daily life
advice for travellers
anything else

4. Write your file in word and save it to your workspace, my flash drive

We will be displaying the work in class. If it is nice :-)

Reporting what someone has said

RULES OF REPORTED SPEECH ARE FOUND HERE:

http://valenciaenglish.netfirms.com/reported.htm

to download use:

http://valenciaenglish.netfirms.com/pdffiles/reported.pdf



Today we will be looking a how to report what someone has said.

1. Please complete the following exercises

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/reported_speech/statements.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/reported_speech/statements2.htm

http://valenciaenglish.netfirms.com/reportedex.htm


2. Go to the following website and choose a video

http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/archive/

3. Using the rules of reported speech watch the video and report what they said.

Write down what they said eg She/He said ....................

4. Find another person. Tell them the information you found and then show them the video.

The E3 Class

The better life we came to find in UK
Coming from Portugal (Guinea Bissau) with sunshine Afrom Latin hot blood
Coming from Poland, Kurdistan, Czech, Sudan, Angola
All brought cultures, languages foods
Put in a big wok and let it boil about 1 hour
and mix with English flavours (vegetables etc)
And you will see what is going to happen
We get two great full meals forever and for everyone in UK

Our Class

Mix Diman, Nikola and Natali.
Fry them together and add some Nariman and Dilshad for some spice taste
Sprinkle Hermas and Gosia very lightly
Take some Liborio and Adam
Blend with Jamal
Put everything together then serve it with some nice Kasia and Dorota

Morning!

We are going to continue looking at the past simple today. You will need a pair of headphones...... REMEMBER TO CLICK THE MUTE SIGN IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER





1. Use this website and work through the exercises

http://www.real-english.com/reo/43/43-1.htm

2. When you have finished these exercises you can continue with the exercises from last week. Remember to click at the top/bottom of the page to They are on this page:

http://www.real-english.com/reo/46/46-1.htm

Have a good weekend!

3. Finish the writing work from yesterday and email it to me.....

CHECK YESTERDAYS BLOOG ENTRY!

Past Progressive

1. Go to this page to get an explanation of Simple Past and Past Progressive

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro

2. Do the following exercises (use an online dictionary to help with new words)

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises?ex02

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises?ex03

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises?ex04

3. Go to this page and go to page 8. Complete Activity A (1, 2, 3)

http://rwp.excellencegateway.org.uk/readwriteplus/bank/esol%20e3%20unit%201.pdf

4. I want you to think about an ancient civilisation

Romans, Vikings, Normans, Saxons, Celts (people originally from England)

Just choose 1.....and work with a partner

Use the internet to find out about them. Use the simple past and past progressive to write a short story about them (100 words) Use microsoft word

DO NOT COPY AND PASTE!!!!!!

Add some pictures to make it look nice, and email it to me:

jsearing@cityplym.ac.uk

See you soon

Jason

Past Simple

1. Go to this website and complete the questions


http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises

2. Do the same with this website

http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.pastsim.i.htm






3. Go to this web site

and work through the exercises......

You will need headphones. If you want to record your voice
you will need a microphone


http://www.real-english.com/reo/46/46-1.htm


In 1981 I started school and in 1987 I passed my exams

In 1987 I passed my driving test and got a car

I left UK and went to live in Greece in 1991

I lived in Greece for two years

Then I lived in Israel. I worked on a diving boat and lived by the sea.

After that I moved to Hong Kong. I worked there for two years.

I loved Hong Kong but I went to work in Thailand

In 1999 I fininshed university and began a new life in Spain.

I spent two years in Spain from 1998 to 2000, where I learnt Spanish.

I moved to Plymouth in 2001. From 2001-2004 I worked at the university.

I started working at City College 4 years ago.





STOP HERE AND WAIT FOR INSTRUCTIONS


http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml

Comparisons of places (cities)

What are the differences/similarities between Barcelona and Plymouth?




Today we will continue comparing cities

Yesterday it was difficult to write about two cities.

Follow these instructions to help:

1. Go to the web page below:

http://rwp.excellencegateway.org.uk/readwriteplus/bank/esol%20e3%20unit%201.pdf

2. Go to page 5

3. Read the information and find the meanings of these words:

take.....time
chaotic
horns
bazaar
port quayside
coast - coastline
look forward to

Use an online dictionary to help you. Ask me if you need help.

4. Complete activity A on page 5


5. Underline the words/phrases in my text Plymouth and London which compares two places.


6. Choose your two cities, and discuss the differences. Try to practice using the new words to compare places


7. Plan your writing. Decide which for areas you want to write about

Buildings
Transport
Places of interest
Traffic
Noise
Pollution
Location
Weather

8. Write the text and add photos of the places

Friday 18th September 2009

Today we will be looking at some questions about Britain

A. First complete the following quiz



1.What is the only venomous snake in Britain?
2.What is the Welsh word for Wales?

3.What is the longest river in Scotland?

4.What is the oldest University in Britain?

5. Roughly how many languages are said to be spoken in the world today: 1000, 2500 or 7000?

6. What is the living language most closely related to Welsh?

7. Roughly how many languages are spoken in UK?

8. English is spoken as an official language in how many countries?

9. Which country in the world is the home to the greatest number of languages?

10. Where does the English language come from?

B. Watch these video clips

http://www.livevideo.com/video/5879D0D1494A490AA64DE4D0B9D015ED/little-britain-usa-lou-and-a.aspx

http://www.livevideo.com/video/290FE3F20360430FBAE551CD6F0A9695/ali-g-interview-on-weapons.aspx

Do you think people like this exist in UK?

C. Use the information you have found during the past week and today. Write an article for a magazine in your country, about Britain and the British people. Decide who the magazine is for. Use word and email it or save it on my key.


Homework

complete the following quiz

http://www.pearsonlongman.com/country_quiz/britain.html

Friday 11th September 2009

Welcome to the Study Centre

We will use computers in this session.

Use the internet to help answer the questions.


Follow the instructions.

A

1. What country does this flag belong to?

2. What do you know about this country?


B
1. Open the internet and click on the following link:


http://rwp.excellencegateway.org.uk/readwriteplus/bank/esol%20e3%20unit%201.pdf




2. Go to page 2 Activity A

3. Read and answer the questions (2, 3, 4)

4. Choose a country you don't know

5. Using Microsoft word, write about that country (120-180 words)

DO NOT COPY AND PASTE YOUR WORK

6. Save your work (VERY IMPORTANT!!!!)

7. Ask me and we will upload your work onto our blogg.

8. Read other work by other students on the blogg