C1 – English in the Afternoon Start Feb 15

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Classes: – 8 lessons  starting 15  February – finshing 11 April

No class 28 March  

Email: gareth.mills@folkuniversitetet.se

Book :    Empower C1 Combo A
Ferdosi Bookstore  Address: Odengatan 21, Stockholm.                 

If you are interested in continuing with C1, starting on the 18th, the link below provides more information and a place to register

English in the Afternoon C1 – Folkuniversitetet

 

Homework

Lesson 7     Page 146/147 grammar              Page 162 vocabulary

Page 66  –

Choose – one or two of the topics you have talked about today and write a more detailed account of your experience.

Lesson 6        page 18+30+42+54

Page 144   Answers

b)    2 the train station        3 a brilliantly written book

 

Writ ing – Write about your own sixth sense.

When do you trust your gut instincts and follow your hunches? When do you do things on impulse, when do you prefer some organisation?

Do you belive in fate, or is everything just coincidence

Lesson 5   Page 142     Answers

a)   2  a 2 b 1             3  a 1 b 2             4   a 1 b 2                     5  a 2 b 1

b) 2 Only in the evenings did we feel relaxed.

3 Barely had I got home when the phone rang.

4 Seldom does Rita take responsibility for her actions.

5 Not a single shop did we find.

6 On no account will I accept.

c)   2 No sooner had I arrived   3 not in a million years did I think

4 Not until 9 pm did I find    5 not a single person did I see

6 Rarely have I been / Rarely had I been

44/45 + 161 Vocabualry

Write about a travel adventure or any rewarding travel experience you have had?

Lesson 4

ANSWERS  Grammar page  141

a)  2 going         3 will you be            4 going            5 ‘ll be standing                                6 planning       7 going              8 ‘ll be wearing

b)               (forms that are not possible)

page 32/33/ 34(5)   – Reading + vocabulary

35,36,37 – Vocabulary + reading      Page 160

Write about your own preferences regarding music, exercise, climate, travel,  and food. Justify them!

Lesson 3    Page 140/ 141  – Grammar

Answers   a) 1 and   2 the   3 considerably/slightly/way

 

Page 170 2d

Page 20/21    – Reading        page 159  Vocabulary

Write about some of the most important changes in your life in the last five years, and how they have changed you? What changes/improvements would you like to make in the future?

Lesson 2

Answers  Page 13   c)  1 interpret   2 distinguish

3 differentiates    4 illustrate  5 indicate   6 conveyed    7 embodies

page 139  b)  1) ‘ve eaten    2) ‘ve been living / ‘ve lived

3) hadn’t bought        4) ‘d been doing

5 won’t finish / won’t have finished 6 will have lived / ‘ll have been living

7 ‘ve been running        8 ‘ve seen

c) 2 have suggested     3 has accepted       4 had been established

5 has become      6 will have invented

page 169   a) 1 possibly think; the point      2 to say; isn’t true

3 spot on; go along; mixed feelings    4 nonsense / a load of rubbish

5 make sense      6 on the head

Write about a skill you have learned? How often do you practise/use this skill? How did you learn it? What do you need to do it well to get good at it? hwo difficult or easy would it be to teach someone else?

 

Lesson 1     grammar page 138

Answers

a  3 ✓    4 … utterly exhausted.  5 ✓     6 Beforehand, I … / … feeling beforehand.  7 Certainly, that was the best … / … certainly the best 8 ✓

vocabulary page  158

Write your own introduction

 

 

 

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