C1 & C3 - VARIOUS

December Lessons

C1

Tuesday, 2nd December

Friday, 5^th December

Tuesday, 16^th December – Mid-module test – Aula VI, 8,30 -10,30

C3

Thursday, 4^th December

Friday, 5th December

Thursday, 11^th December

Thursday, 15^th 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  28^th 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 .