Here are your results from today's test:
Student # 25 your score is 10 out of 40
Student # 21 your score is 15 out of 40
Student # 18 your score is 16 out of 40
Student # 14 your score is 17 out of 40
Student # 99 your score is 20 out of 40
Student # 08 your score is 20 out of 40
Student # 01 your score is 25 out of 40
Student # 66 your score is 27 out of 40
Student # 77 your score is 32 out of 40
Student # 88 your score is 34 out of 40
Student # 17 your score is 35 out of 40
Student # 13 your score is 35 out of 40
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Speaking Practice Questions
If you would like to practise, here are some questions for the IELTS exam, particularly for part 1 & 3: click here. Just choose the topic you'd like to talk about, and ask a friend to ask you a question.
Homework Answers (worksheet - unit 4)
Vocabulary
1 1) actroyms 2) nonverbal communication 3) slang 4) idiom 5) collocations 6) jargon
Grammar
2 Time: after, as, as soon as, before, once, since, until, when, whenever, while
Place: where, wherever
Reason: as, because, since
Purpose: so that
Condition: even if, if, unless
Concession: although, even if, even though, though, whereas, while
31) when they were first coined (lines 30-31)
2) When a football manager, asked how he felt.....early 1970s (lines 32-36)
3) until the cows come home (lines 44-45)
4) if you deny us the use of cliche. (lines 49-50)
5) because the are....something. (lines 57-58)
6) if you denied....they were cliches. (lines 61-64)
7) because they were cliches (lines 63-64)
8) if it is the best way of saying what I want to say (lines 67-68)
Reading
5 1)G 2)D 3)B 4)H 5)E 6)A
1 1) actroyms 2) nonverbal communication 3) slang 4) idiom 5) collocations 6) jargon
Grammar
2 Time: after, as, as soon as, before, once, since, until, when, whenever, while
Place: where, wherever
Reason: as, because, since
Purpose: so that
Condition: even if, if, unless
Concession: although, even if, even though, though, whereas, while
31) when they were first coined (lines 30-31)
2) When a football manager, asked how he felt.....early 1970s (lines 32-36)
3) until the cows come home (lines 44-45)
4) if you deny us the use of cliche. (lines 49-50)
5) because the are....something. (lines 57-58)
6) if you denied....they were cliches. (lines 61-64)
7) because they were cliches (lines 63-64)
8) if it is the best way of saying what I want to say (lines 67-68)
Reading
5 1)G 2)D 3)B 4)H 5)E 6)A
Homework Answers (worksheet - unit 5)
Reading
2 1) conventional 2) interact with 3) reaction 4) impregnated with 5) optimal concentrations 6) inner layer
Vocabulary
3 1) prevent 2) track 3) introduce 4) stay 5) cause 6) consume 7) control (The vertical word is protect.)
Grammar
4 1) can/may be kept 2) are made 3) was invented 4) to be used 5) has been found 6) are related
5 1) More goods are being produced in plastic.
2) A plastics recycling scheme has just been introduced by our local council.
3) Plastics are used in the manufacture of pills.
4) A new type of biodegradable plastic bottle is about to be launched.
5) The factory's glassmaking division might be shut down, to concentrate on plastic.
6) If plastic hadn't been invented, what materials would be being used today?
2 1) conventional 2) interact with 3) reaction 4) impregnated with 5) optimal concentrations 6) inner layer
Vocabulary
3 1) prevent 2) track 3) introduce 4) stay 5) cause 6) consume 7) control (The vertical word is protect.)
Grammar
4 1) can/may be kept 2) are made 3) was invented 4) to be used 5) has been found 6) are related
5 1) More goods are being produced in plastic.
2) A plastics recycling scheme has just been introduced by our local council.
3) Plastics are used in the manufacture of pills.
4) A new type of biodegradable plastic bottle is about to be launched.
5) The factory's glassmaking division might be shut down, to concentrate on plastic.
6) If plastic hadn't been invented, what materials would be being used today?
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Homework Answers (worksheet - unit 3)
Our homework tonight is the reading exercise on the worksheet.
Reading
2 1 NG The article says that Skoda owners couldn't claim to be leaders of fashion (line 7), but we aren't told if any makes of car were less popular.
2 NG "...the Czech government, Skoda's owner, decided the business needed foreign investment. In 1991, it went into partnership with the German car manufacterer Volkswagen" (lines 10-13). We aren't told if the government negotiated with other companies as well.
3 Y (lines 17-18)
4 N (lines 25-26)
5 N (lines 33-35)
6 NG The writer doesn't compare the quality of the Fabia and the other two models, apart from saying it was more successful.
7 Y (lines 44-45)
EXTRA:
If you have more time, please do the second page on grammar & vocabulary.
Grammar
3 1) the Fabia 2) in the 1980s 3) at the end ofthe century 4) the Felicia 5) that the business needed foreign investment 6) the fact that the company's costs had increased 7) high 'brand awareness'
4 1) logo 2) competition 3) goods 4) launch 5) consumer 6 ) marketing 7) purchase 8) image 9) service 10) retail
Reading
2 1 NG The article says that Skoda owners couldn't claim to be leaders of fashion (line 7), but we aren't told if any makes of car were less popular.
2 NG "...the Czech government, Skoda's owner, decided the business needed foreign investment. In 1991, it went into partnership with the German car manufacterer Volkswagen" (lines 10-13). We aren't told if the government negotiated with other companies as well.
3 Y (lines 17-18)
4 N (lines 25-26)
5 N (lines 33-35)
6 NG The writer doesn't compare the quality of the Fabia and the other two models, apart from saying it was more successful.
7 Y (lines 44-45)
EXTRA:
If you have more time, please do the second page on grammar & vocabulary.
Grammar
3 1) the Fabia 2) in the 1980s 3) at the end ofthe century 4) the Felicia 5) that the business needed foreign investment 6) the fact that the company's costs had increased 7) high 'brand awareness'
4 1) logo 2) competition 3) goods 4) launch 5) consumer 6 ) marketing 7) purchase 8) image 9) service 10) retail
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Week 3 Vocabulary List - 41 words
Here is the final list of 41 words - there are NO more to come:
environment
scheme
acquire
affected
alternative
appropriate
benefit
considerable
contrast
culture
establish
factor
global
identify
impose
involve
involvement
normally
participation
predictable
prediction
process
project
proportion
reaction
research
significant
statistic
symbolic
target
technology
traditional
underestimate
undertake
uninvolved
unpredictable
awareness
consumer
purchase
image
investment
environment
scheme
acquire
affected
alternative
appropriate
benefit
considerable
contrast
culture
establish
factor
global
identify
impose
involve
involvement
normally
participation
predictable
prediction
process
project
proportion
reaction
research
significant
statistic
symbolic
target
technology
traditional
underestimate
undertake
uninvolved
unpredictable
awareness
consumer
purchase
image
investment
CLASS TEST SCHEDULE
*Thurs 1/10/09 Writing Test(60 mins)
*Thurs 8/10/09 Reading Test(60 mins)
*Thurs 15/10/09 Listening Test(30 mins)
*Thurs 22/10/09 Speaking Test(11-14 mins)
*Thurs 29/10/09 Reading, Listening & Speaking(1hr 45mins)
*Thurs 5/11/09 Writing Test(60 mins)
*Thurs 12/11/09 Reading Test(60 mins)
*Thurs 19/11/09 Listening Test(30 mins)
*Thurs 26/11/09 Reading, Listening & Speaking(1hr 45mins)
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