My name is Gareth Mills. Welcome to the blog. I will post important course information for the group here .
Room 338
Course – March 25 – April 17 No class – April1
If you need to contact me please do so via my email address: gareth.mills@folkuniversitetet.se
Book: Empower B1+Combo B –
Ferdosi Media Bookshop, Address: Odengatan 21, Stockholm
Link : How to register with Cambridge to get online resources?
April 17
Practise your English at Folkuniversitetet’s Language Cafe
It’s free for you and any friends who you might want to invite but the school would like you to register if you want to go so they know how many will be there. Register below:
Språkcafé – engelska – Folkuniversitetet
If you want to register for the English B1+course starting on the 22 April click on this link: https://www.folkuniversitetet.se/kurser-utbildningar/sprak/engelska/engelska-fortsattning-b1/stockholm/28777/
Homework:
Lesson 6 Grammar page 156/157 7b
Reading Page 88+89 Page 90 Unit 7 review
Write about a city you know well. Compare it to Stockholm.
What did you like about living/staying there? What would be worth seeing or doing there?
What would make the city a better place to live in?
Lesson 5 Page 84/85 – Vocabulary + grammar
Towns + cities – vocabulary handout.
Write about your home – Where do you live? What does it look like?
How long have you lived there? What do you like about your home? What improvements would you like to make?
Compare your home in Stockholm, with the home you grew up in.
Lesson 4 vocabualry page 139 Reading page 81+82
Page 156/157 7a modals of deduction.
Write about your preferences- give reasons, practise your comparatives and superlatives, or write about your favourite restaurants/cafes.
Lesson 3
Answers
Page 78 Unit 6 review
Grammar a) 1 can 2 should 3 must / ought to 4 should / have to
5 shouldn’t 6 don’t have to 7 should 8 don’t have to
b) 1 slightly cheaper than 2 a bit hotter than 3 much faster than 4 by far the spiciest 5 nearly as expensive as
Vocabulary a) 1 pedestrian crossing 2 air conditioning
3 rush hour 4 public transport 5 traffic jam 6 traffic lights
7 cycle lane 8 vending machine
b) 1 light 2 sweet/rich 3 raw 4 sour
Wordpower a) 1 c 2 a 3 b 4 e 5 f 6 d
b) look similar / look good together: 3 go towards: 1
go wrong: f describe how things happen: 2 describe a change: e
c) 1 go orange 2 went really well 3 goes wrong 4 gone
5 goes around 6 goes with my eyes 7 go bad
Page 76/77 reading+ writing skills
Writing page 70 (e) Give some advice to visitors to your country regarding these topics
Lesson 2 March 27 – page 70 grammar + page 154/155 6a
Page 71 Vocabualry Page 72/73 Grammar+ reading page 154/155 6b
Writing : Are you still suffering from culture shock after moving to Sweden? How different is Sweden/Stockholm from your country/hometown?
- Food
- Stockholm City
- Transport – getting around
- Climate
- People
Lesson 1 Page 68 + 69 reading + vocabulary
137+138 – vocabualry
New Students – write your own introduction.
Other Students – Is there a fruit or vegetable or a special dish that you miss from your country?
How often do you eat seafood, sushi, fish + chips?
Are you a good cook?
Extra online resources to help you study English
Here are some sites for you to look at for extra practice:
Listening :
BBC podcast: Six-minute English (together with transcripts)
www.ted.com/watch/ted-ed
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/qpp5u-436c6/Learn+English+Through+Listening
https://www.theguardian.com/podcasts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts
Reading :
a good site for reading every day The Local: Sweden’s news in English
Free Online Media
Guardian website : https://www.theguardian.com/international
BBC website: https://www.bbc.com/
Grammar quizzes: Using English – grammar quizzes
Vocabulary quizzes: http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/vocabulary/