Unit 3 Listening Test

We are doing this test created by  by Damien Zellers.

1. Where are Tom and Janet from? A. Europe B. USA C. Canada D. Africa

2. Where did they go on vacation (for holiday)? A. Europe B. USA C. Canada D. Asia

3. How long were they on vacation? A. ten days B. two weeks C. a month D. three weeks

4. Who were Tom and Janet telling about their vacation? A. Tom's parents B. their friends C. Janet's sister

5. Which is correct? A. They had gone to London before they went to Paris B. They went to London after they had gone to Paris

6. In which city did they stay for six days? A. London B. Paris C. Toronto D. Washington D.C.

7. In Paris, they saw the Eifel Tower after they had visited the Louvre museum. A. TRUE B. FALSE

8. Every morning they "slept in" until... A. 9:00 B. 9:15 C. 9:30 D. 9:45

9. Including this trip, how many times has Janet been to Paris? A. one B. two C. three D. four

10. Tom had never visited Europe before this trip. A. TRUE B. FALSE

11. How many countries had Tom and Janet visited before returning to Canada? A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6

Tom and Janet are from Canada and just returned from a three week vacation (holiday) in Europe. They were telling their friends where they had been and what they saw. Tom and Janet said they had gone to London first for four days before they went to Paris for six days. In Paris, before they saw the Eifel Tower they had visited the Louvre museum. They told their friends that they had usually "slept in" every morning until quarter after nine.
Tom and Janet's friends asked them if they had been to Paris before. Janet said that she had been to Paris three times before this trip when she was young, and Tom said that he had never been to Europe before. Tom told his friends that before he and Janet came back to Canada that they had been to six countries.

A language learning experience

Today you are going to write about your English learning experience, after reading a model and practising time expressions with different tenses.

You must follow the instructions in page 38.

Your compositions will be corrected over ten. These are the criteria followed in the correction:

• Writing plan (instructions on exercise 2 page 38): 3 points.
• Word order for subject + verb + object: 1 point.
• Use of the present perfect with for and since: 1 point.
• Use and form of past perfect and past simple with 'before': 1 point.
• Irregular past forms and past participles:  1 point.
• Uses and forms of other tenses:  1 point.
• Extra-grammar and content: 1 point.
• Presentation and creativity: 1 point.

Good effort!

Chess tournament online

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School in Movement Online Chess Tournament

You will play up to 4 games at a time in this event. Vacation time is not allowed. New rounds will start when all games in the current round are complete. 
This tournament has been created as a part of the Erasmus + project called School in Movement: enjoying wealth being in good healthcreated to develop strategies related to health and welfare of young people in four schools from Italy, Latvia, Spain and Turkey. This project is funded by the European Union. 
 Good luck to everyone!

British and American English

Here you have a reflection on British and American English:

Dos mundos, un idioma

First Impressions Of England by an American person. A few months after moving to England from the States, these are his thoughts on some British customs. Can you name five issues he reflects on?



In 'An Englishman in New York' by Sting, you can read this:

'I'm an alien. I'm a legal alien'.

Why does he say this?





Here you can find some vocabulary differences:

British and American vocabulary

Can you name something called different in USA and Britain?

American Vs. British Words

Now you are ready to do exercises on p. 35.

Present Perfect and Past Simple.

The use of these tenses is very easy. Watch this short video and read the explanation on your workbook (p.102). Who volunteers to explain the difference?

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