My name is Gareth Mills. Welcome to the blog. I will post important course information for the group here .

Room 338

Course –  7 classes      March 30 to April 22

Mondays + Wednesdays 9.00-11.15

 

Book: Empower B1+ Combo B

Ferdosi Media Bookshop, , Address: Odengatan 21, Stockholm

If you haven’t been able to get the book this week you can order it online :

ISBN   978-1-108-96152-3

 

Homework:

Lesson 5      page 81+82 +      page 84   Vocabulary

grammar  page 156/157 7a

Write about your home. Do you live in a house or apartment? Do you own it or rent it? How long have you been living there? Is it very different from where you grew up? What do/did you like about it?

 

Answers – Unit 6 review page 78

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

c)  1 go orange    2 went really well   3 goes wrong   4 gone   5 goes around

6 goes with my eyes     7 go bad

Lesson 4        Workbook Unit 6          to practise grammar

page 139 Vocabulary + page 81 Reading

Write about your most satisfying dining experience. Where were you? Who with? What did you have?

What made it so satisfying?

 

 

 

How was your Easter Holiday?

Where did you go? What did you do? Did  you eat anything special?

Lesson 3    Page 72/73    Page 154/155 6b

Page 76/77  reading   + writing skills        page 78  Unit 6 review

Write about any interesting social customs, laws and regulations I should know about if I visit your country. What is different from Sweden?

Lesson 2 :    grammar page 70+154/155(a)    vocabulary – 137+138

Write about your Easter holiday –

Lesson 1: page   68+69     Travel vocabulary Handout

Write about your last holiday? Where did you go? Who did you go with?

What did you see and do there? What was the weather like? Did you enjoy yourself?

 

 

 

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/

 

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