British Council at ANIA Lesson 13

Lesson 13 
(Tuesday 9th June 2015)

Group 5 
C2

12:30 pm

Class

1. Commonly Confused Words: foreign/strange, thin/slim, tall/high classic/classical. See also: historic/historical, continuous/continual, childish/childlike, similar/alike, exhibit/exhibition
2. Listening Skills - the features of natural spoken English 

Homework/Holiday Work

1. Grammar Audit: Take a look at the yellow "Corpus" boxes that appear throughout your text book. Which of these areas are you confident with and which do you need more practice on. Which of these would you like us to look at in more depth come September?
2. Exam Listening Practice: have a go at the CPE listening exam in the Youtube video below. Don't treat it as a test but analyse the question and task types, what you need to listen for and possible distractors in the multiple choice questions. Which tasks did you find easiest/hardest? 

You will find an answer key in the notes underneath the video and a link to the audio transcripts. 

For more online tests go to: 

http://www.examenglish.com/cpe/CPE_listening1.htm

CPE Handbook 

http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams/proficiency/how-to-prepare/

3. Writing Practice: Take a look at the Writing Folders in your textbook. If you want to practice the exam tasks or preparation exercises, I will be happy to give you feedback. Either email your writing directly to me or leave hard copies with Alessandra on the 4th floor and I will nick them up when I am in during July. 

4. Natural English: Notice the features of natural English in this lesson based on a scene from Woody Allen's Annie Hall. 

Group 7
C1

2:00 pm

Class

1. Vocabulary in context - GET
2. Modals
3. Future Forms

Homework/Holiday Work

Finish reading the notes and complete the exercise on modal auxiliary verbs in the link above.