English in the Morning B1
My name is Gareth Mills. Welcome to the blog. I will post important course information for the group here .
News! You can find information about next term’s English courses below and you should have an email from Folkuniversitetet about English in the Morning courses that start in January 2024:
9.00-11.15
Mondays- Wednesdays 9.00- 11.15
Four weeks – 27 November – 13 December
Room : 338
If you need to contact me please do so via my regular email address gareth.mills@folkuniversitetet.se
Book: Empower B1 – Combo B – the book is optional for new students. I will hand out photocopies for students who do not have the book
Ferdosi Media Bookshop, , Address: Odengatan 21, Stockholm
Link : How to register with Cambridge to get online resources? https://cambridgeonehelp.cambridge.org/hc/en-gb/articles/4410617201426-How-do-I-create-an-account-on-Cambridge-One-
Homework – Don’t forget to do exercises in the workbook for extra practice
Lesson 6 Answers to grammar page 163 10b
a) 2 a 3 d 4 a 5 c 6 d b) Correct: 2, 3, 5, 7
c) 1 There aren’t many 4 A few of the; not soft enough
6 I love hot / very hot 8 too difficult
d) 1 There are/were too many people on the beach.
2 The soup is/was too hot. 3 She isn’t tall enough to reach the shelf.
4 The waiter spoke too quickly. 5 The service here is too slow.
6 Sorry, I don’t have enough money.
Lesson 5 page 142 Vocabulary 162/163 Grammar
Lesson 4 Unit review page 96 + 141 Pages 100/101
Lesson 3 page 90/91 reading + 94+95 reading + writing
160/161 9b Grammar
Write about the school system of your country?
Was your school strict? Were you a little angel or a little devil?
Lesson 2 Education handout Grammar – page 160-161 )a
Write about your primary school, secondary school r expereince at university
Lesson 1 page 88+89 reading + grammar page 140 Education
Write about yourself – your background, your work/ study situation, your family, and why you want to improve your English.
Extra online resources to help you learn English
Here are some sites for you to practise your vocabulary, grammar, reading and listening skills outside of the classroom.
The Local – Swedish news in English – https://www.thelocal.se/
Free online news sites :
- the guardian
- bbc news
- stuff.co.nz – NZ news
Vocabulary quizzes based on themes: http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/vocabulary/
ESL Gold: Phrases for conversation
Practise problem areas of grammar here: Using English – grammar quizzes
www.perfect-english-grammar.com/learning-english.html
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/
Learn English with Anglo-Link
Learn English with the BBC. Choose the section you would like to work with: BBC Learning English
Improve your spelling: http://eslus.com/LESSONS/SPELL/SPELL.HTM
Listening
You can practise your listening skills (together with transcripts) with a BBC podcast: Six-minute English or try 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
ted talks https://www.ted.com/
Listen to a news report from the BBC World Service and work through the accompanying exercises: BBC World Service radio