Speaking Exam preparation

Four Yorkshire Men Sketch

Preparation for Speaking Exam: Past Simple, Present Perfect and Superlatives

Simple Past

Simple Past Exercsie 1: Regular Verbs

Simple Past Exercise 2: Regular Verbs

Simple Past Negation 1

Simple Past Negation 2

Simple Past Negation 3


Present Perfect

Present Perfect Exercise 1

Present Perfect Exercise 2

Superlatives

Superlative Practice

Superlatives and Comparatives

Story telling adverbs

Adverbs of Frequency



http://esl.about.com/library/beginner/bl_bgadverbfreq.htm

Adverbs of Manner

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/advman2.htm

The following adverbs go at the BEGINNING of a sentence and they describe a verb.

§Cautiously – With care

§Timidly – In a timid way

§Silently – Very quietly

§Vigilantly - Carefully

§Recklessly – without care of the danger

§Warily – with caution

§Fearfully – in an afraid way

§Cagily – in a cautious way

Story telling Connectives

• Therefore / Consequently  = as a result / for this reason

Example: The little girl could not reach the doll, and could not help it down, and therefore she cried.

• Although/however/ but = connective to show contrast

•Example : Although he didn’t quite trust her, he decided that the best option was to follow her.

He was petrified and he was shaking. However, he continued down the creepy corridor.

• Furthermore / Moreover / Besides = In addition / Another thing

•Example : This governor is an incompetent leader. Furthermore, his government is financially irresponsible.

Creepy Story Writing Exam: Friday 13th May Crit A and D 33%

EXAM CONTENT


You must include a description of:

·         The setting you are in (a description of the place)

·         Your first glimpse of the creature (a physical description of the creature)

·         How the creature moves, acts, talks etc. (a description of the creature’s actions)

You must also include:

·         Creepy story adjectives from class (at least five)

·         Connectives (at least three different ones)

·         Adverbs (at least four different ones)

·         One simile

·         One metaphor

·         One superlative

·         Alliteration (at least two)


Creepy Story Adjectives





Extra, wonderful Vocab!

• cracked creaky stairs
• light as brilliant as lightning flashing
• broken ancient clock that hung at the highest point of the haunted house
• dark mossy tombstones leant to the right like an old grandpa
• twisted turrets and tall towers
• spiral staircase
• dilapidated walls
• rafters
• columns
• pillars
• covered in dust
• spider webs — swayed or hung or draped or dangled
• crumbling mortar
• weather-beaten shingles
• twisted chimneys
• tangle of trees
• ivy covered columns
• ghostly mist curled eerily from a rusty grate
• a room that had never been seen by the world
• stained glass windows
• cobwebbed arches
• silent shadow
• forbidding front door yawned open
• secluded corner
• a narrow window stood ajar
• huge iron padlock
• winter, bare and lifeless
• bare wooden floor
• dim interior
• intricately detailed

Skellig Vocab 3 and 4 - You will have a test on BOTH lists on Friday 29th April

Skellig 3

Skellig 4

Skellig Vocab Test: Thursday 21st April

List 1

List 2

Skellig Vocabulary

Skellig 1

Kensuke's Kingdom Descriptive Writing Assessment:Thursday 25th February 67% Crit A and Crit D

There is a variety of features to include in your descriptive writing piece this week, such as:

• Irregular past simple/ past participle verbs
• First and second conditionals
• Kensuke's Kingdom vocabulary
• Vocabulary to describe people
• Vocabulary to describe places
• Metaphors
• Similes
• Alliteration
• Personification
• The five senses (ie. what can you see, hear, touch, taste and smell?)

How to revise?

• Conditionals

1st Conditional

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3226

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/first-conditional-exercise-1.html

2nd Conditional

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3227

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/second-conditional-exercise-1.html

• Irregular verbs

Irregular Past Simples
Irregular Past Simples 2
Irregular Past Tenses 3

Homework for Thursday 18th February: Kensuke's Kingdom Chapter 8

1.What does Kensuke use the outrigger for?

2.What did Kensuke used to do for a living?

3.What do we learn about Kensuke’s family?

4.What happens to Kensuke’s home town during the war?

5.How does Kensuke end up on the island?

6.How does Kensuke feel about his situation when he first arrives on the island?

7.List 2 reasons why Kensuke does not want to leave the island?

8.Why did Kensuke not want Michael to stay on the island at first?

9.What does Michael find on the beach?

10.What does he do with the object he finds?

11.In one sentence, explain what happens at the very end of the chapter.

Term 2 Exams

• Thursday 25th February: Descriptive Writing Exam on Kensuke's Kingdom

67% Criteria A and D

• Thursday 3rd February: Reading Exam 67% Crit B

1st and 2nd Conditionals

1st Conditional

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3226

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/first-conditional-exercise-1.html

2nd Conditional

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3227

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/second-conditional-exercise-1.html

Crit B: 33% Reading Exam Friday 22nd January

Crit D: Irregular Past Simple Verbs 33% Thursday 21st January

Irregular Past Simples
Irregular Past Simples 2
Irregular Past Tenses 3

Irregular Past Simple 3

Irregular Past Tenses 3