Lesson 4
Welcome back to the course blog.
In our fourth lesson we looked at Chapter 2B: ‘Do you worry about exams?’
For vocabulary, we spoke about studying, and time.
For grammar, we spoke about Present Simple Tense for questions and short answers.
Here is a simple video explaining how to correctly tell the time:
Here is a video explaining how to use the Present Simple to ask questions:
For some extra pronunciation practice, you can see the British Phonemic Alphabet on page 129.
Here is a video that explains how to pronounce all of the sounds in British English:
For homework, you need to complete all of the exercises for Vocabulary Focus 2B on page 164. Next, you need to read the information for 2B on page 140 and then do the grammar exercises for 2B on page 141 of the textbook. Finally, I asked you to do the exercises for Unit 2B in the Digital Workbook.
If you would like to do some extra writing homework, you can do exercise 4 on page 27. Send me an email with your writing and I will check it for you.
That’s all for today.
Steve
Lesson 3
Hello again.
In our third lesson we looked at Chapter 2A: ‘She loves her job.’
For vocabulary, we spoke about jobs.
For grammar, we looked at the Present Simple Tense (positive & negative). Here is an excellent video that explains how to form the Present Simple Tense correctly:
Here is a video that explains how to pronounce the final ‘s’ at the end of words:
For homework, I asked you to read the information for 2A on page 140 and then do the grammar exercises for 2A on page 141 of the textbook. You also need to complete the exercises for 2A on page 163. Finally, I asked you to complete the exercises for Unit 2A in the Digital Workbook.
If you would like to do some extra writing homework, you can write a profile about yourself. You can tell me where your name, your nationality, your home town, your job, and what you like to do in your free time. Do not use google translate or any other help, just write it by yourself as well as you can. Send your writing directly in an email to steven.brown@folkuniversitetet.se and I will check it for you.
Below are some extra videos that you may find interesting if you wish to do a bit of extra study.
Here is a short video with some examples of asking for and giving information:
Here is a short video explaining when we use capital letters:
Here is a short video about punctuation. (PLEASE NOTE: The ‘full stop‘ is British English. A full stop is called a ‘period‘ in American English.):
That’s all for today. I’ll see you in our next lesson.
Steve
Lesson 2
Welcome back to the blog.
In our second lesson we looked at ‘1B She’s a lovely person.’ For grammar we looked at how to use the verb ‘be’ for questions and short answers. For vocabulary we spoke about personality adjectives.
Here is a video about using the verb ’be’ to make questions:
And here is a video that also looks at using the verb ’be’ to ask questions and give short answers:
For homewor, you need to read the Grammar information for 1B on page 138 and then do the exercises for 1B on page 139. You should also do exercise 4d on page 13.
You also need to do the Vocabulary exercises for 1B on page 163.
Finally, you should complete Unit 1B in the Digital Workbook.
This is not official homework, but I recommend that you also work through Unit 1C and 1D in the textbook.
If you would like to do some extra writing homework, you do exercise 4 on page 17. Send your work directly in an email to steven.brown@folkuniversitetet.se and I will check it for you.
That’s all for today!
Steve
Lesson 1
Hello everyone, and welcome to the course blog!
This blog is intended to help you get the most out of this course. After each lesson I will update it with a brief outline of what we cover in each lesson, as well as inform you of the homework that has been set. In future blogs I may also include links to videos or other web-pages to read to help your learning.
We began our first lesson by introducing ourselves to each other. It was very nice to meet you all. We have students from a variety of different countries and cultures.
The textbook we will be using is Cambridge English EMPOWER Second Edition Elementary A2 Combo A with Digital Pack.
The easiest and quickest place to buy the book is from Ferdosi Bookshop, Odengatan 21, Stockholm.
These books have a code that will let you use the supporting website for the textbook. The code is on the inside cover of your textbook (You need to carefully scratch the grey material to see the code underneath). You will need then need to scan the QR code OR go to http://www.cambridgeone.org to register your textbook. Before you can register your textbook you will need to create an account. CLICK HERE to see instructions for how to create an account.
*PLEASE NOTE: You do NOT need to Join a Class, that is only for online courses. However, I recommend you use the ‘Self Study’ section. Please have a look at all of this website, it is very helpful. The ‘Getting Help’ section might be useful if you have any problems.
After our introductions we had a quick revision of the alphabet, vowels and consonants. After that we had a quick revision of nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Next, we started to look at the first chapter of the textbook: “1A – I’m from France.” For vocabulary we spoke about countries and nationalities.
Here is a long video with examples and practice exercises for the verb ‘be’ in positive and negative form:
For your homework, you should practise your pronunciation of the alphabet. You also need to read the Grammar information for 1A on page 138 and then do the exercises for 1A on page 139.
Next, you should complete the Vocabulary exercises for 1A on page 162.
Finally, you should complete Unit 1A in the Digital Workbook (OR you can do them in the black and white section at the back of the textbook on page 4).
That’s all for today!
Steve