Exam V Bimester

Sooner than we all expected, the end of the school year is here and it's time to study for the V bimester exam.

The exam date is: Monday June 17 at 10:00 AM.


The vocabulary will cover the working life words from unit 9 and some space words from unit 10.
 To study check the vocabulary list.

The grammar will include the future in the past and passive voice.  Check your grammar notes, the guide on passive voice and as customary, you can practice online at the following links:

For vocabulary  on working life go to
For future in the past go to
For vocabulary on space go to
For passive voice go to

For more practice on passive voice go to and also go to



Good luck to all!

IV Bimester Practice Exercises.

This bimester we've been reviewing some modal verbs as well as mixed conditional sentences.
The vocabulary words revolve around climate change and the internet.

Following are the pages from the Student's book  you should study for the exam this week:
As always, you can also check your grammar notes.


Vocabulary:

Global warming - page 71
Environmental protection vocabulary - page 135
The Internet - page 81
Phrasal verbs with off and on - page 136

Grammar:

Modals to speculate in the past, present and future - (page 76)
(must, may, might, could, may, can't)
(must have, may have, might have, could have, couldn't have)
Modals in the past - page 82
(should have, ought to have - might have, could have - needn't have, didn't need to)
Mixed conditionals - page 86.

Go to the following links to practice these topics:

click here to practice vocabulary on the environment.

click here  to practice modals for advice, obligation and prohibition and also speculate.

click here for vocabulary on the internet.

click here to practice modals in the past and mixed conditionals.

There isn't any on line practice for the phrasal verbs so make sure you check your book.

III Bimester Practice Exercises.

In the III bimester exam we will cover the vocabulary for units 5 and 6 from our book and the grammar topics will be: Reported speech and Question forms.

The topics for the exam are as follows:

Vocabulary:   Words in the text about the price of fame (exercise 6, page 53).
                       
                        Phrases to describe graphs (exercise 6, page 55)
                       
                       Vocabulary about opinion and belief, exercise 1 page 59.
                        

Grammar:     Reported Speech: Statements, questions and commands. (Notebook,
                       Student's page 50)  
                 
                      Reporting verbs: Student's book page 54, exercises 1/2
                      Direct/Indirect questions: Notebook and student's page 60.


 Please find some practice below:

Click here to practice reported speech.

Go here to practice statements with the introductory verb in the past.

Go here to practice reported questions.

Go here and here to practice requestsGo here for a quick test.

Click here to practice question forms.

Last, get one extra credit if you re-write this joke in the "comments" box,  using reported speech.

The doctor to the patient: 'You are very sick' 
The patient to the doctor: 'Can I get a second opinion?' 
The doctor again: 'Yes, you are very ugly too...'

It's exam time!

It's exam time!

Our English exam for the second bimester will be on Thursday Dec. 6 for
2nd ABCD and 3rd ABCD and on Friday Dec. 7 for 2nd EFG and 3rd EFG.

The topics will be as follows:

Vocabulary

. Stages of Life, Unit 3.
. Phrasal verbs with up and down, Unit 3.
. Animal parts, Unit 4.
. Idioms with animals, Unit 4
. Animals and their young, Unit. 4
                                    . Collective nouns, Unit 4
                                    . Animal noises, Unit 4

                   Grammar: Future forms, Unit 3.
                                      Talking about ability, Unit 4.
                                      Nominal clauses with that, all and what, Unit 4.

Following you will find some practice for all these topics. You can also check your grammar reference notes in your notebook and student book.

 Go here to practice stages of life.
 Go here to practice future forms.
 Go here to practice future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous.

 Go here to practice vocabulary on animal parts.
 Go here to practice on how to express ability .
 Go here to practice nominal clauses.



One last word:

 All through Unit 4 we have been learning about animals: Names for their body parts,  how they communicate, how we call their young and  why so many are endangered and maybe we think that there is not much we can do to stop that since none of us hunt them or take away their habitat but I would like you to take a look at this short clip which I am sure will leave you thinking....




                            

EXAM PRACTICE, FIRST BIMESTER

Sooner than we expected, the first bimester exams are here. Following you will find some links to practice grammar and vocabulary.

For past and perfect tenses please go here

For past perfect and past perfect continuous go here

For vocabulary, unit I  go here

For vocabulary, unit II go to

For determiners, unit II go to

For verb patters unit II go to

To practice when we have things done for us,  go to

Finally,  to play a game on gerunds and infinitives, go to

Best wishes for the 2012/2013 school year!

As the  summer days  begin to shorten and at the peak of the rainy season, we are back to school. One more year of learning, growing, friendship and changes.

This new school year brings a new opportunity to learn, share thoughts, discover opportunities and consolidate our language learning.