Mistakes to be avoided Written Test IV BL


1)NEWS (Uncountable) but it was used in the plural!!!! 
ex The news are good

Correct forms 
Tell me if  there's some news
That's the best (piece of) news I've heard  for a long time!

2) POISON (a substance that can make people or animals ill or kill   them if they eat   or drink it)
    POTION( a liquid that is believed  to have a a magical effect on someone who drinks  it)

Correct the following mistakes

3) HE denys????

4) an holy shrine

5) I lost a very great party 

6) at the Juliet's party

7) There weren't people  

8) determinated! determinate!

9) I waited her for all night!

10) Romeo thought that Juliet was death

11) She's death

12) a chocolate's cake 

13) I was talking to the phone?!!!

14) ........she would have took an umbrella

15) expecially 

16) They fall in love at the first sight 

17) I can't remember what was that praise

18) I asked for directions to a person!

19) We had a discuss!

20) I didn't think to her!

21) read the news by their mobiles

22) the theme of love interest!!!

23) the problem of TENSE COHERENCE!!!!

Romeo is very courageous because when he found Juliet apparently dead, he decided to kill himself

24) the count Paris 

25) in the people lifes!!!

26) get a decision

27) Juliet appears died!!!

A Conversation with Jacqueline Wilson 
(taken from AREA INVALSI    Listening Comprehension LEVEL B1)
https://invalsiareaprove.cineca.it/docs/2019/1_A%20Conversation%20with%20Jacqueline%20Wilson.mp3

0 Jacqueline Wilson is launching 

A a nonfiction contest for teenagers.      B a writing game for children.

       C an essay competition for adults.           D a story writing contest for kids. T

Q1 Children often ask Jacqueline Wilson how to

A publish their books.                                               B write good stories.

C become successful writers.                                    D have their stories advertised.

Q2 One of the prizes will be to

A receive a collection of books.                       B share J. Wilson's passion for books.  

C spend one day with J. Wilson.                      D be included in one of J. Wilson's books.

Q3 Participants must

A be children over 12.                                               B come from England.

C be at least 7.                                                          D attend primary school.

Q4 The competition will accept

A very short stories.                                                  B stories in J. Wilson's style.

C stories of various kinds.                                        D only detective stories

Q5 The competition wants to

A develop creativity and enjoyment.                        B check spelling and grammar.

C increase the length of the stories.                          D find a new talented writer.

Q6 The best story should

A show grammar accuracy.                                       B have a formal style.

C give strong emotions.                                            D be new and imaginative.

Q7 J. Wilson believes that all children stories nowadays

 A deal with sentiments.                                            B are  about unoriginal topics.

 C have troubled characters.                                     D are about historical events

FIRST CLASSES


Mistakes to be avoided
Correct the following sentences

My aunt HAVE got a white cat
Madonna hasn't got A short hair
She's from FRENCH
His hair ARE red

IT'S LONG BROWN HAIR
IT's BLUE EYES
He's A QUIET tall
IT's BROWN HAIR
Their eyes IS blue
They're german
Are they good-looking? Yes, there are.

His nationality is Ireland
Their hair ARE red
Her hair it's brown
In my opinion, Sean HAS good-looking
They are GERMANY
They've got A fair hair
Cecile HAVE 16 years old
Sean came from Ireland
Cecile HAS 16 years old

Her hair IT'S brown
THEYR eyes are blue
He CAMES from ireland

Days of the Week, Months and Seasons in English

Answer the questions

How many days are there in a week?
How many days  in November?
How many days  in  December?
How many days begin with S?
How many days begin with T?
Which days do you go to school?
Which day don't you go to school?
What is the name of the first day of the week?
Which days do you have English?
How many months are there in a year?
How many months in 2 years?
How many weeks are there in a month?
How many weeks are there in a year?
When is your birthday?
How many days are there in a year?
Which month is the coldest in your country?
Which month do you like best?
Which month does summer begin?
Which month does winter begin?
Which month does your school begin?
Which month does your school end?


Write the name of the day that comes before:

 ____________ comes before Monday.

 ____________ comes before Friday.

 ____________ comes before Saturday.

 ____________ comes before Wednesday.

 ____________ comes before Sunday.

 ____________ comes before Tuesday.

 ____________ comes before Thursday.

Write the name of the day that comes before:

 Sunday comes after ____________.

 Tuesday comes after ____________.

 Saturday comes after ____________.

 Monday comes after ____________.

 Wednesday comes after ____________.

 Friday comes after ____________.

 Thursday comes after ____________.

Historical Background 19th century

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 19th century

1799 The Combination Acts made TRADE UNIONS illegal

1811-1812 The Luddite Riots.The Luddites were a radical group of English textile workers and weavers in the 19th century who destroyed weaving machinery as a form of protest

1819 11 people were killed by soldiers during a public meeting in St Peter's Field near Manchester


1832 The right to vote was extended to middle-clas men

1834 Poor Law Amendment Act- The system of workhouses was established

Workhouses were where poor people who had no job or home lived. Those people earned a living by doing jobs in the workhouse.

Also in the workhouses there were orphaned (children without parents) and abandoned children, the physically and mentally sick, the disabled, the elderly and unmarried mothers

Workhouses were often very large and were feared by the poor and the old.

1837 Queen Victoria came to the throne

1842 The Mines Act banned the employment of women and children in mines

1847 The 10 hours Bill limited the daily work of workmen and young people in textile factories

Mouth exercises for CLEAR SPEECH

Is Social Media Hurting Your Mental Health? | Bailey Parnell | TEDxRyersonU

Words and verbs referring to smartphones

PHUBBING (phone+snubbing)
the habit of ignoring a person or one's surroundings to use a mobile

SMOBIE a person on a street who walks slowly and without attention to their surroundings because he is focused on his phone

FOMO the fear of missing out, of being out of the loop

HIGHLIGHT REEL the most exciting or memorable events in your life  or a special period of time  

SOCIAL CURRENCY

ONLINE HARASSMENT



TO BE IN TOUCH WITH

TO BE GLUED TO

TO RELY ON MOBILES TO DO EVERYTHING

TO BE ADDICTED TO

USEFUL EXPRESSIONS and ideas to talk about

• There hasn't been much research into the dangers....
• I'm not so addicted to being on my mobile
• I wouldn't give it up for all the money in the world
• Technology is overtaking our daily lives
• Every time we check the latest buzz, we take our minds away from what we're doing
• There's a danger of losing some abilities
• Students shouldn't be allowed to bring them to school
• They ultimately create harmful habits
• To be sit in front of a computer screen for hours
• We consider smartphones an extension of ourselves, a best friend, even a soul mate
• So the question is: when do smartphone become a real addiction
• Anything can be abused and moderation is the key
• What should we do with smartphone addiction, which is  causing damage to our lives, bodies, brains and relationships?
• There's life beyond a phone....

Learn English Grammar: How to use the 3rd conditional

Practice the Third Conditional with "Once Upon a Time"

A Game THIRD CONDITIONAL

Ask a student, a volunteer hopefully, to leave the room. While that person is out of the room you and the rest of the class decide on something very unusual that could have happened while they were out of the room. A good example is two students get married, the OHP explodes, basically whatever the students can suggest.

Then, the person who has left the room comes back in and asks each student in turn only one question and the full question is 'What would you have done if this had happened?'

And each student in turn answers in a full sentence for example, 'If this had happened, I would have bought some flowers'.

Now, they mustn't mention the names of anyone involved because at the end the student who is guessing has to work out what happened to whom and, if they can't, you can go round again with new answers.

GAMES
https://tefltastic.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/third-conditionals-sentence-completion.pdf


REVISION FIRST-SECOND-THIRD
https://mikeastbury.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/1st-2nd-and-3rd-conditionals-game-mikeastbury-wordpress1.pdf

Becoming Jane (2007) Official Trailer - Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy Movi...

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JANE AUSTEN (1775-1817)

LIMITS

• The same plot (courtship, marriage)
• No overall vision of the historical and social events of her time
• No references to the FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789)
•                             the AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1776)
•                             the NAPOLEONIC WARS (1793-1815)
• No refernces to the problems caused by English urbanization and industrialization
• No concern with the dominant literary movement  of her time (Romanticism)
• Restriction to provincial England

POSITIVE QUALITIES

• Focus on everyday life (dinners, visits, dances, excusrsions)
• Characterization (the country gentry, the middle class, the clergy)
• Objectivity - she seldom intrudes into her works with comments or judgements (unobtrusive)
• Psychological study (a journey towards self-knowledge and self-awareness)
• Humour (unexpected paradoxes)
• Conversations-long dialogues
• Letter-writing
• Precise use of words

Main question

What is a good marriage?

A good marriage is based on calm judgement and on mutual understanding (no wealth or sudden passion)

CHARACTERS- PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Elizabeth Bennet

·               Aged 20, she's the second of five daughters.

·         Her father's favourite, she's not beautiful but really attractive. She's intelligent, playful, witty. 

·         Elizabeth is independent of thought.

·         She can be impulsive.

·         Elizabeth is very loyal, loving and protective 

·         She makes bad errors of judgement

·         She can be mature (she realises the mistakes others have made in marriage; advises her father not        to let Lydia go to Brighton).

·         She's the romantic heroine of the novel.

Fitzwilliam Darcy

·              He's rich, powerful and from a very well-respected family.

·         He can be aloof and superior, easily offending people.

·         He's naturally shy and reserved, which is mistaken for arrogance.

·         Privately, he's loyal and kind (he treats his tenants and servants well).

·         Darcy is very proud.

·         He can be generous with money

·         He's very well mannered and acts like a gentleman on almost every occasion.

·         He loves Elizabeth deeply, but struggles with his pride and prejudices to admit the fact and act            on it.

·         Darcy is the romantic hero of the novel.

Jane Bennet

·             Jane is the eldest of the Bennet girls.

·         She's the most beautiful.

·         She always sees the good in people.

·         Jane isn't capable of being nasty or deceptive.

·         She has a very close  relationship with Elizabeth.

·         

Charles Bingley

·            Bingley is rich but, unlike Darcy, his money comes from his father's business rather than inherited       wealth.

·         He's very easy-going.

·         He isn't a snob, and not particularly bothered about Jane's family background.

·         He seems to be not very strong-minded, because he allows Darcy to persuade him to leave Jane.

George Wickham

·              Wickham is a very handsome, well-mannered man who charms people with his smooth talking.

·         He is good at  deceiving people (including Elizabeth).

·         He grew up with Darcy.

·         Wickham's a selfish guy who, after spending a lot of money given to him by Darcy, tries to elope        with Darcy's 15-year-old sister, Georgiana, to get more money.

·         He successfully elopes with Lydia Bennett (only 16), again to get money.

·         Wickham seems to have no feelings for anyone but himself (this includes Lydia, who becomes his      wife).

·         He can be seen as the opposite of Darcy.

Mrs Bennet

·         Mrs Bennet is the mother figure whose only interest is to see her daughters get married.

·      Her actions are selfish. She's only concerned with how she and her family look to others, rather than   the true happiness of her daughters.

·      Although she's essentially a comic character, she can also be seen as having a destructive influence   on her children.

·     She is moody, changing  from ecstasy to depression, depending on how her daughters' relationships are progressing.

·     Mrs Bennet is ignorant, and not very bright.

·     She's completely without subtlety and embarrasses her family on several occasions with her  direct, loud comments and behavior

Mr Bennet

·         Mr Bennet is the traditional  father and husband who wants an easy life and his children to be happy.

·       He's a 'gentleman' by birth, meaning he inherited his property.

·       He married his wife only for her looks, and regrets doing so, although he tries to make the best of        things.

·       An intelligent man, in contrast to his wife, he often retreats to his library to read and to get some         peace and quiet.

·       He's witty and capable of interesting observations on life and relationships.

·       Mr Bennet is a rather weak and laidback parent, lacking the personality to be a strict father (Elizabeth blames him for Lydia's elopement).

·       He can be insensitive and make comments without realising their cruelty.

·       Despite his faults, he's a likeable character. The genuine love he has for his daughters is obvious.

William Collins

·        Collins is best described by Elizabeth, as "conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly".

·      A man of the church, he seems more concerned with his patron, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, than  God.

·      He's always formal in his speech and manner. This makes him look ridiculous.

·     Collins is very superficial (he lacks true 'depth' or genuine emotion), He shows that when he proposes to both Elizabeth and Charlotte within a week of each other.

·         

Lady Catherine de Bourgh

·         She's the person with the highest social standing (and Darcy's aunt).

·      Austen develops her character to reflect the very worst attitudes of the upper classes.

·      Lady Catherine's a bully who's full of her own self-importance, which isn't based on anything she's  achieved, simply her inherited wealth and social standing.

·     She's very rude and insensitive.

·     Lady Catherine expects to be obeyed at all times. 

·     Her overbearing nature has made her daughter weak and timid.

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