Dear All,
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- Today's tasks: Writing and Speaking exam practice
Writing: send me an email with your writing production.
Part 1: Choose ONE of the two options:
A) Write a report
Page 121 Ex G: Exam Task:
You recently completed a course at a prestigious university. You have been asked by the course coordinator to write a report on the course. You must describe the course and evaluate the content, teaching facilities and extracurricular activities available for students. You should also assess the usefulness of the course for prospective students and give any recommendations.
B) Write an article
Page 137 Ex F: Exam Task
An international magazine has asked readers to send in articles on the topic of independence. You decide to write an article in which you describe your first job. You should explain what you learnt from the experience and say how it helped you to develop as a person.
To see how to write articles click here and also here. Finally, you can find useful language for writing here.
Part 2: Mediation task: Write a comment
You are a member of your school’s C2 online reading group and you
have just read “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. Your group leader has
posted the following questions to start the discussion:
Which phrases do you think
are especially important to the story and why?
What questions about
character or motivation or plot does this story leave in your mind?
Write a comment for your reading group
outlining your personal response to the story.
"The Story of an Hour" by
Kate Chopin (1894)
Knowing that
Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break
to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.
It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences. Her
husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in
the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received,
with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed."
She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's
arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone.
She would have no one follow her.
She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke
repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her
eyes. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of
intelligent thought.
There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it,
fearfully. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to
possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will. When she
abandoned herself, a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips.
She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" The
vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes.
They stayed keen and bright.
She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. She knew that she would weep
again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had
never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw
beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong
to her absolutely. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was
only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.
There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she
would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that
blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose
a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention
made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.
And yet she had loved him– sometimes. Often she had not. What did it
matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this
possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest
impulse of her being!
She arose at length and opened the door. There was a feverish
triumph in her eyes. She descended the stairs. Richards and her sister stood
waiting at the bottom.
Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently
Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack
and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even
know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at
Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease – of
the joy that kills.
Useful language:
Speaking:
Part 1: spoken production
P. 119 Ex C: Exam Task: Selecting a way to spend the school money
Choose ONE:
Student A (page 119)
Student B (page 201)
(Record a 2' minute message and email it to me)
An easy way to record a message is on this website:
https://www.speakpipe.com/voice-recorder
Go to: Start recording
Allow microphone use
Start speaking
Press STOP
Click on "Save on server"
Write: YOUR NAME. Exam Practice. P. 119 Ex C (Example: Tomeu. Exam Practice. P. 119 Ex C)
Click on "SAVE"
Copy the link and email it to me.
Part 2: Oral Mediation: click on two of the links below and choose ONE.
(Record a 2' minute message and email it to me)
An easy way to record a message is on this website:
https://www.speakpipe.com/voice-recorder
Go to: Start recording
Allow microphone use
Start speaking
Press STOP
Click on "Save on server"
Write: YOUR NAME. Exam Practice. Mediation. TOPIC (Example: Tomeu Exam Practice. Health)
Click on "SAVE"
Copy the link and email it to me.
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- Announcements:
Third term exam practice:
24 Apr: writing and speaking
5 May: listening
7 May: reading and use of English
Official exam dates: http://eoicalvia.com/examens/
Final exam:
Speaking test: End May / June (online)
Written test: 4 Sept at 16.00 at the EOI
Results: September
RESITS:
Speaking test: September at the EOI
Written test: 5 Oct at 16.00 at the EOI
Results: October
- This year will not count towards the maximum number of years students can do the same course.
- What's on guide
- Questions to discuss in our next session:
- HW:
- Read an article/short story (weekly).
- Compositions:
1. Write a profile of a classmate. Read the instructions here. You will find a profile writing guide here. (150 words) (Deadline 15 Oct)
2. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing." Under what circumstances might someone not act to prevent
evil? What do you think people should do when faced with evil? Support
your opinion with reasons and examples. You can get more information on
writing essays on pages 16 &17, here and here. You will find useful language, here, here , here , here and here.(200 words) (Deadline 5 Nov)
3. Write a report
Your
company paid for your enrolment at the EOI this year. After a couple of
months at the EOI they want to know if their money was well invested
and if more needs to be done. Therefore, you have been asked to write a
report about your classes, your achievements, your goals, your
experience in general, your needs and any recommendations you have for
the continued success of the programme.
These are some of the points you need to include in the report:
Evaluate the effectiveness of the education programme
Reflect and recognise what you are learning
What progress you have made toward learning goals
Key learning objectives you have accomplished
Key learning objectives you would like to accomplish
What you should do to improve
What you need to do to perform successfully
What else you need from the programme
More information about reports: How to write a report?
(180 words) (Deadline 5 Dec)
4. Mediation: Write a review comparing two adverts. Useful vocabulary here:
(180 words). Deadline 19 Dec
5.
(180 words). Deadline 21Jan
6.
- Close-up p 47 Ex H: Article on worthy causes about a charity you support
(180 words). Deadline 18 Feb
7.
(190-200 words) Deadline 5 March
8.
Close-up p 61 Ex H
(160 words) Deadline 26 March
9.
- Write a review comparing the books you have read this academic year. Deadline 23 Apr.
