How are you today? Ready to keep on practising. Let's concentrate on the second part of the PEvAU exam. According to the new format you will have to choose 6 questions out of 12. So Concentrate on the choice that you have and choose the 6 best questions for you with the least possibility of mistakes. Remember correctors will only correct 6 of them , so in case you answer over that number , they will only take into account the six first answers.
Set your timer or stopwatch to 30 minutes and write an answer on the blog. I would like you to tell me how long did it take for you to answer. Answers will be corrected on the blog until 16.00.
You are still on time to catch up. Try to do today's exercise and do and correct yesterday's comprehension exercise as homework. Leave your results as a comment on yesterday's post.
As I told you yesterday we will be reviewing passive structures . Since this is a very broad topic and there are different levels of achievement about it according to your previous experience and practice I am going to divide the topic in two sections ; INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCE. My advice is that you start practising with intermediate exercises and move up the level as you review. You can look over the exercises and jump to the ADVANCE LEVEL if you want to. There will be a micro-test on passive forms tomorrow. Let's start reviewing for that!
TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT: READING COMPREHENSION AND PRACTICE PASSIVE, READING COMPREHENSION.
( Play the video and read the information on it. You can check the specific vocab on the right)
Answer the questions on the video ; grammar and content questions.
All exercises are self correcting ones. I will be waiting for your questions in the comment section👇, in case you have any. I hope you find the practice useful and gain a higher level of confidence on this topic.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO POST THE ANSWER OF THE EXERCISES ON THE BLOG, JUST QUESTIONS ON THE TOPIC OR/EXERCISES, JUST PRACTICE.
Hi all!
How is your week coming along? Well, this 6th week of lockdown is about to end...doesn't time flight?
I would like to offer some grammar today. Here is the topic of the participle clauses. These are subordinate clauses , with no subject, which use an -ed or -ing form, to express event order, time, cause and effect. They are really useful in written communication because they include information without making long or complicated sentences. When we talk about PRESENT PARTICIPLES WE REFER TO= -ING FORM When we talk about PAST PARTICIPLES WE REFER TO= -ED FORM / 3rd. COLUMN IRR VERB.
This could seem a difficult content but it isn't , really. Anyway, I am going to help you walk through it nice and slowly. :-). Let's follow the following STEPS. The estimated time to do all the tasks is 45 minutes 🕘 STEP 1. (VIDEO)
Ready to start? WATCH THIS 4.08-minute VIDEO attentively for a general explanation.
Pause the video every time you see the little blackboard to pay full attention to example sentences. Write them down on your notebook to understand them better and play the video again.
STEP 2. (ACTIVITIES)
Have a look at this site⇩ There you'll find a quite extended explanation of the different usage, active and passive versions , examples.. again take notes on your notebook for a better study of the topic. EXPLANATION AND EXERCISES. Do all the self- correcting exercises. Take note of your mistakes.
STEP 3. (COMMENTS)
Leave a comment on the comment section asking questions about your doubts , parts that you do not understand , examples that you have found difficult to get or if you need an explanation about your mistakes. I will be filming a video this weekend about common mistakes and difficulties on this matter. Please , leave a comment as soon as you go through the material, so that I can offer the footage asap. I appreciate your cooperation.
In case you want to use your book go to lesson 75 ( lesson, not page), and see SOME STRUCTURES WITH -ING FORM ( see sections B and C) and do your exercises.
