12:30pm C1 (CAE preparation)
Class
Discussion & Error Correction of Paper 1.
Formative Assessment - Paper 2, Writing Part Two (BC Advanced West Test)
Homework
Read the strategy for the Cross Text Multiple Matching exercise and apply it to part 6 in Paper 1. Work backwards from the answer.
2:00pm C2
Class
1. Speaking - the week in popular culture:
Sense 8
2. Off the beaten track or off the beaten path? Most dictionaries will list both. See: https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/off-the-beaten-track-path and https://www.dictionary.com/browse/off--the--beaten--track Off the beaten track was first recorded as a phrase in 1638 so is most probably the oldest version which might account for why Proficiency have it as the correct option and not path. However, if we look at usage, we get a different picture. The English Ten Ten Corpus which contains over 19 billion words taken from texts on the internet shows that beaten path is the more common collocation (see below)
The British National Corpus (BNC) though, only lists the collocation beaten track. The BNC is a 100-million-word collection of samples of a written and spoken language of British English from the later part of the 20th century. The BNC consists of the bigger written part (90 %, e.g. newspapers, academic books, letters, essays, etc.) and the smaller spoken part (remaining 10 %, e.g. informal conversations, radio shows, etc.).
In conclusion beaten track seems to be the older, more traditional term which has now been surpassed by beaten path.
3. Formative Assessment:
- open cloze
- word formation
- key word sentence transformations
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