December Lessons
C1
Tuesday,
2nd December
Friday, 5th
December
Tuesday, 16th
December – Mid-module test – Aula VI, 8,30 -10,30
C3
Thursday, 4th
December
Friday, 5th
December
Thursday,
11th December
Thursday,
15th January , 2015 – Mid-module test –Aula V ,8,30-10,30
The
tests will begin at 8,30
promptly. Students are required to
be in the classroom at least 15 minutes before the start.
Dictionaries
are not permitted. Non-core lexis will
be glossed.
Lesson Preparation
- C1 & C3
Here
is the key to the test we did in class
on Friday 28th November.
Check your answers .The translation
will be discussed in class.
Translation
– This is not identical to the text you were given to put
into English but rather the news
item the Italian version was based on. Please pay special
attention to use of tenses
Pizza
Hut Waitress Gets $10,000 Tip
It was just
a typical day on the job at the Pizza Hut
for 20-year-old Jessica Osborne when out of the blue, she received a
gift that would change her life: a
$10,000 tip from one of her customers. The tip of a lifetime came from a family
of regular customers who want to be known as Becky and her family. Becky said Osborne
always came to the table with a smile on her face. "She was sweet and
bright and cheerful and never complained," Becky said. "She was just a
sweet waitress. "But Osborne had recently been let down by financial
troubles that were keeping her ambitions at bay. She had enrolled in a local
college but was forced to withdraw because of a lack of financial aid. She told
Becky's family about the textbooks she had bought and kept in the trunk of her
car and her dreams to become a photographer.
"I
thought, 'This is a very generous person,'" Becky said, "and we
enjoyed just talking to her, finding out about her life." Osborne got to
know Becky and her family through their weekly pizza dinners, but she didn't
realize that they had recently suffered a great tragedy. Becky's husband and
eldest daughter were killed in a car accident, and she had been left with a
large settlement.
Once Becky
heard about Osborne's broken dreams, she decided to use some of the money from
the settlement to make them come true. "We decided we needed to help
Jessica and she was there, we were there, and it just seemed like the right
thing to do," Becky said.
C1 Mid- Module test- key
Transformation Exercises
1) He is always late and it really
annoys me. WISH
I wish he wouldn’t always be late.
2) Most people think global
warming is the reason for the recent
freak weather. THOUGHT
Global warming is thought to be the reason for the recent freak weather..
3) He
realized that the man was following him. BEING
He realized
he was being followed
4) My advice for you is to apply for the job. ADVISE
I advise
you to apply for the job.
5) This is the first time I’ve ever done an exercise like this. NEVER
I’ve never
done an exercise like this before.
6) I think it was wrong of you to speak to him
like that. SHOULD
You shouldn't have spoken to him like that.
Cloze Text
According to a poll of 2,000 people, 5.4
million British tourists have uploaded their pictures within just ten minutes
of arriving at their holiday destination. Twenty-five per cent of British
travellers share a photo within an hour, although the average time people wait
before boasting is almost three hours.
Among the top ten
things people capture when using their smartphone or tablet on holiday are the
“view from the hotel window”, “my bed” and the “surrounding area and landscape”
such as the beach or pool. Almost three-quarters of those questioned used smartphones to take and share photos
while on holiday, with the most popular platform being Facebook.
What’s more, a
third of Britons take and share photos that involve only themselves when they
arrive on holiday, be it surrounded by cocktails, by the beach or pool, or
pulling the latest trendy face, such as the
‘duckface’ – pursing one’s lips and pouting at the camera.
The survey found
that among the top ten photos taken were also “myself in sunglasses”, “myself
in swimwear” and “my bed”. research found that 6.5 million people crop
unflattering shots before posting. Men were more likely to do this than women –
five percent of males admitted to doing so, versus two percent of women.
2) Complete the
cloze text below
It is the only
(1) …………….. of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World for which the location has (2) …………. centuries
remained elusive. Now, though, an academic from Oxford University (3) ………….. she has solved one of the world’s
last great archaeological mysteries (4) …………. identifying the precise spot on
(5) ……………. the Hanging Gardens of Babylon once stood. Dr Stephanie Dalley
focused (6) ………… search hundreds of miles north of the site of the ancient city
of Babylon to support her theory (7) ………….
the lush, elevated marvel (8) …………….. in
fact built near the city of Nineva. From piecing together clues (9) ……………..ancient texts, the academic has
uncovered evidence that the gardens were in fact produced (10) ……………… by the
Babylonians and their king Nebuchadnezzar, (11) …………….. has traditionally been assumed, (12)
………….. rather by their neighbours and foes, the Assyrians around 2,700 years ago .