What do you know?
Can you use many, much, a lot of, few, a few, little and a little?
ACTIVITIES:
A. This week we cover pages 31 to 36 from the book Active Reading II.
B. Discuss the following questions with a classmate.
1. What is your favourite movie?
2. How often do you go to the movies?
3. What is your favourite kind of movies (horror-comedy-action-adventure-thriller-animated, etc.)?
4. If a book has been made into a movie, which do you prefer to do first, see the movie or read the book? Why?
5. What is the worst movie you've ever seen?
6. Who is your favourite actor or actress?
C. Study the following presentation about pronouns (subject-object-possessive-demostrative) and then click on the button that takes
you to a webpage where you will find about 20 exercises for you to practice.
B. Discuss the following questions with a classmate.
1. What is your favourite movie?
2. How often do you go to the movies?
3. What is your favourite kind of movies (horror-comedy-action-adventure-thriller-animated, etc.)?
4. If a book has been made into a movie, which do you prefer to do first, see the movie or read the book? Why?
5. What is the worst movie you've ever seen?
6. Who is your favourite actor or actress?
C. Study the following presentation about pronouns (subject-object-possessive-demostrative) and then click on the button that takes
you to a webpage where you will find about 20 exercises for you to practice.
USEFUL VOCABULARY |
Go to the resources section (recursos) and there use the online dictionary to look for the meaning of the following words:
-scene -cast -stunt -belief -star (verb) -crucial -agree -preserve -box office -sold-out
-scene -cast -stunt -belief -star (verb) -crucial -agree -preserve -box office -sold-out
Go to the following link and solve the following vocabulary exercise:
Activities- Reading (Breaking News English)
Click on the button below and solve the vocabulary exercise.
There will be (1) ____ mixed-gender events and more women at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said men and women would (2) ____ together in archery, athletics, judo, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, and triathlon. There will be a 4x400m mixed relay (3) ____ athletics and a 4x100m mixed relay in swimming. British Olympics swimming champion Adam Peaty told the BBC (4) ____ having mixed events in Tokyo would make the Olympics "more fun". He said "It's something that would make things a little (5) ____ more fun….It's great to mix things up from what they've been for so long as it adds a little (6) ____ and [mixed events] are great to watch."
The IOC also announced that there would be more sports at the Tokyo Olympics. IOC president Thomas Bach said the Games will be "more (7) ____, more urban and include more women". Not everyone is happy (8) ____ the introduction of the new events. Some people said it was wrong to (9) ____ urban sports like skateboarding, 3-on-3 basketball, sport climbing and BMX freestyle. These are to try and get more young people to watch the Games. Having newer sports (10) ____ there will be fewer athletes in more traditional events (11) ____ weightlifting and wrestling. Tokyo will be the most gender-balanced Olympics (12) ____. Women will make up 48.8 per cent of athletes who will compete at the Games.
Which of these words go in the above text?
The IOC also announced that there would be more sports at the Tokyo Olympics. IOC president Thomas Bach said the Games will be "more (7) ____, more urban and include more women". Not everyone is happy (8) ____ the introduction of the new events. Some people said it was wrong to (9) ____ urban sports like skateboarding, 3-on-3 basketball, sport climbing and BMX freestyle. These are to try and get more young people to watch the Games. Having newer sports (10) ____ there will be fewer athletes in more traditional events (11) ____ weightlifting and wrestling. Tokyo will be the most gender-balanced Olympics (12) ____. Women will make up 48.8 per cent of athletes who will compete at the Games.
Which of these words go in the above text?
- (a) be (b) being (c) been (d) become
- (a) complete (b) competition (c) compete (d) compact
- (a) at (b) of (c) in (d) on
- (a) what (b) thus (c) which (d) that
- (a) bite (b) byte (c) bit (d) bitten
- (a) space (b) spice (c) species (d) special
- (a) youth hostel (b) youthful (c) youthfulness (d) youth
- (a) to (b) with (c) of (d) but
- (a) conclude (b) preclude (c) include (d) elude
- (a) meaning (b) meanie (c) meanings (d) means
- (a) liking (b) likelihood (c) likely (d) like
- (a) even (b) never (c) every (d) ever