Quick summary of this week's class.
1. - We held a 'grammar auction' where you all bid for sentences from your compositions. Fun and learning had by all, and great profits made!  I'll attach the sentences so that you can look at them again. Can you still remember the corrections? :)
2. -  We did the Writing Focus on page 14 of the coursebook. 

Homework
1. Look at my comments on your composition. Try to understand your mistakes, and self-correct where possible. Next week, there will be an opportunity to ask about anything you don't understand.
2. Write an essay about promoting greater contact between neighbours. Write about 220-260 words. Use the notes on pages 14, 186 and 187 of the coursebook to help you. Deadline: Hand in next Friday, October 31, if at all possible, otherwise the absolute deadline is November 7.
3.  If you didn't do very well on any part of the test, look at the Exam Maximiser and do the exercises which look at that area of the test. This will help you to consolidate the language. If you still don't do very well or don't understand something, make sure to ask me!

Inversions, Corpora, and Wingsuits

 Hi Everyone!

First of all, here's the link to that video we watched at the beginning of the class last week, in case you missed it or want to see it again.
http://goo.gl/6LHtDZ

If you'd like some more practice of inversion for emphasis (page 13 of the student's book), here's an online activity you can do:
goo.gl/quPLSH

I mentioned the British Council LearnEnglish-Teens Facebook page a couple of weeks ago - do check it out, as there's a lot of good stuff there:
http://goo.gl/Tl7aMV

The British National Corpus simple search is here:
http://goo.gl/Borh51

Do play around with it and see how it works. If you find it interesting, and want to explore further, you can access several English language corpora on the BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY here:
http://corpus.byu.edu/

The British National Corpus on Brigham Young is here:
http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

You will probably find that the BNC simple search is enough for most of your needs, but if you're interested in exploring corpora and what they can do, do take a look at the Brigham Young University links, as they have functions that the simple search does not.

Remember there's a TEST this Friday on Unit 1 of the student's book and the two units of English Vocabulary in Use Advanced that you need to study.

And finally, if you didn't give me your homework last class, it's essential you give it to me this week! 

Have a good week! :) 

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