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17 - GRAMMAR and LISTENING PRACTICE ONLINE

GO TO POST NUMBER 9 - There are some websites to practice grammar, vocabulary and listening. Go to the following website and choose what grammar you want to practice: http://englishteststore.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11387&Itemid=380 Go to the following website and choose what listening you want to practice: http://englishteststore.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11388&Itemid=357

16 - WORD REFERENCE link

http://www.wordreference.com/it/

15 - BRAINSTORMING

CLIL =  TTT ↓  STT ↑ BRAINSTORMING is a warm-up activity. This type of activity: - breaks the ice - catches / grasps  SS  attention - motivates SS to talk Some more information about how brainstorming can help SS writing skills as well: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-brainstorming-1692847?utm_campaign=grammartip&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=9471927&utm_term=

14 - MID-COURSE TEST

Corso di formazione metodologia CLIL per docenti DNL “Towards CLIL Methodology” A.S. 2016-2017 Mid-course Test Answer the following questions ( min. 50 words ): 1. How long have you been teaching? What methods have you been using in the classroom? (i.e. frontal learning, brainstorming, working in pairs or groups, project work, ibl, etc.) How has teaching/learning changed over the last decades? Did you use to have different teaching methods than you have now? Give some examples. (Think about subjects you studied when you were at school. What made them interesting? What were you doing while the teacher was explaining?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________...

13 - GRAMMAR REVIEW - Zero, First and Second Conditionals

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Zero conditional – present conditionnal (always true) If you heat water to 100°, it boils. If you eat a lot of chocolate, you get sick / get a stomachache. If   +    Present simple,   present simple First Conditional – future (probable, possible) condition If it rains tomorrow, I won’t go to the park. If + Present simple, future tense (will/won’t, be going to , present continuous, can/ could) If it doesn’t rain, we can/could go cycling. When / As soon as / After   / Before   /   Until   / Unless (if-not) Second Conditional – present situation I want to change/ improbable present If I were rich, I would buy a new house. If   +    Past simple,    would + base form of the verb If people recycled more, there would be less pollution. There would be less pollution if people recycled more.

12 - LISTENING PRACTICE - A clean sweep (Video material)

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If you want to practice your listening skills, watch video and then do worksheets that follow: With subtitles to check:

11 - KAHOOT

Kahoot can be a fun and interesting way for students to learn something new. It can be a helpful way to reinforce through repetition but in a fun way, since modern technology has overcome our everyday lives. First of all, You can create a kahoot to kick-off a lesson, introduce new concepts or preview content. What’s more, With Kahoot you can revise topics, reinforce knowledge, recap learning, pre-assess and practice before exams. Revisions has just got twice as nice. Kahoot can be a wat to brak the ice, re-energize a room, reward good behavior or just have fun. Moreover, Kahoot can also be a way to become a global classroom. Connect with classrooms in over 180 countries and play a kahoot together in realtime using screenshare. Apart from that, you can also turn learns/students into leaders. Challenge students to create their own cahoots, individually or in groups to deepen understanding, mastery and purpose. Last, but not least, Kahoot can also be used to assist in for...

10 - SPEAKUPONLINE

If you want to practice your reading comprehension and listening skills, you can practice at the magazine website Speak Up. You need to register at this website and they will give you the first 20 bonus points for free. Then you need to subscribe. It's an up-to-date magazinethat has articles of different levels beginning at level A2 and leading to C2. http://www.speakuponline.it/

9 - PRACTICE YOUR ENGLISH - B1 and B2

TO TEST YOUR ENGLISH you can go to these websites and do tests. At the end of the test, you will be given a level. Good Luck! 😀 This is the Cambridge website to test your level: http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/test-your-english/ This is EF to test students' levels: https://www.efset.org/it/ Level B1: Here is a link to test your Grammar: http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_grammar.htm Here is a link to practice GRAMMAR topics: http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_grammar.html Here is a link to test your VOCABULARY: http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_vocab.htm Here is a link to practice VOCABULARY topics: http://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/B1_vocabulary_topics.htm For listening practice: (On this website to the right of the page you will see other listening exercises) http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_listening_part1.htm GOOD LUCK!!!  😃

8 - FULL STOP - PUNCTUATION

We will be looking at the punctuation in the next lesson. . This is my book. -  "full stop" in a sentence www.speakuponline.com -  "dot" in an expression online, email addresses, websites, blogs, etc. 1.5m people - "point"  in numerical expressions  (one point five million) 10.5% (ten point 5 percent) ; :