2015.11.11 Class 6

Reminders:

• In Class 7 (18 Nov), there will be a practice test (Reading & Use of English) in the first half of class – please be sure to attend!
• In Class 8 (25 Nov), there will be class from 15:00–16:00. After that, I will be available to speak with your parents in the basement auditorium. Please ask your parents to attend.

After reviewing the homework (see answers at the end of this pdf and this new Quizlet vocabulary list) and your summaries of Tick Tock (from the last class), you did a Vocabulary Quiz on Miscellaneous - Classes 4&5.

The most important point I mentioned from your summaries of Tick Tock is the difference between 'say' and 'tell'. There's a good summary of this on this Cambridge Dictionary page or this BBC page, or you can also remember:

tell + somebody (+something) e.g. I told them (the story of my trip to Tibet).
say + something (to somebody) e.g. I said 'thanks' (to the waitress).

Brackets () indicate something optional. The important point is that 'tell' always needs an indirect object and that 'say' does not. Please ask me about this if you don't understand it well; it's an important point for the FCE.

We then turned to the SB to continue preparing for the FCE, especially the Reading & Use of English paper, as that is what you will find in the practice test next week. We worked on SB p.16 and also looked at Part 4 Transformations on flo-joe, which is a great practice and reference site for you.

We then talked about the topic of cities and what it's like to live in one. Next we watched a short film called Signs and discussed it briefly afterwards. In the next class, you'll write a narrative (i.e. story) of the film as practice for Writing part 2.



Homework:

1. Study the Two Peas in a Pod vocabulary list on Quizlet
2. WB p.8, p.10 and p.11
3. If you haven't watched Signs, watch it before the next class.