Blackadder is Court-martialed

June & September written exam dates

June ------------->18th at 3.45pm

September -------------> 1st at 3.45pm

71-year-old grandma defeated sledgehammer gangsters with a handbag

 

VOCAB:

• passerby: someone who is walking past a place by chance -plural passersby
• viewfinder: the small square of glass on a camera that you look through to see exactly what you are photographing
• let loose: to speak or behave in an uncontrolled way
• a smash-and-grab(raid/attack): a crime in which someone robs a shop by breaking the window and stealing things quickly
• scooter:  a type of small, less powerful motorcycle with small wheels
• dawn on sb.: if a fact dawns on you, you realize it for the first time
• to clobber sb.: to hit someone very hard

ADVANCED 2 MOCK EXAM

3rd March (Mon)
Reading: 90 mins
Listening: 45 mins
 

5th March (Wed)
Writing (1 composition - 250 words): 55 mins
Orals: Dialogue in pairs: 10 mins 
                   (from 5pm & 7.30pm)

10th March (Mon)
Orals: Dialogue in pairs: 10 mins + Class

Problem-Solution Essay

You can get some ideas on how to write a problem-solution essay on p 49 and here.   

You can find useful language, here, here , here and here 

Oral Presentations

A couple of sites with some useful language and phrases to use in your presentations:

Here and here

Classes will be resumed tomorrow

Classes will be resumed tomorrow!

Another, other and others

• “Other” vs. “Another” Difference

  

• Another, other and others   

• another or other

No class for now

As you know, classes have been cancelled due to a problem with the heating.
To keep up to date go to the school's website 

Spain's Princess Cristina to testify over corruption charges

How many words related to crime or the law can you hear?