Writing: Essay (lesson from Unit 3)

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Look closely! Can you see what today's picture is?

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It's the ring pull on a can of drink.

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Second Test Week
Write an FCE style Essay
You have 40 minutes to write an FCE essay. The text will be an essay and should be 140-190 words long. This will be graded as a 2-Test. You will need to write a plan before you start writing your essay, the plan needs to be handed in but is not graded.

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Agenda
  • Week 3: Use pages 44 and 45 to write an essay: 
Homework: Write the essay task in ex. 9 p.45
  • Week 4: Check your essay in the class,
Look at tops and tips for writing an essay.
Homework: Write an essay assignment using Write and Improve
Week 5: Revise how to write an essay using the FCE booklet
Homework: Write a second essay assignment using Write and Improve

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What kind of help can each of these people give each other? 
Teacher
Elderly person
Friend
Parent

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Look at the photo on page 44
Discuss the following questions
What is the woman doing?

What kind of help is she giving?
How does the girl feel? - How do you know?
How would you feel in the same situation? 

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Look at exercise 2 on page 44
In Pairs: 
Read the task and  answer the following questions

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Turn to page 146 for extra help
Possesion: 's / s' 
Singular possessive nouns  need and apostrophe..
Before the "s"
The teacher's desk is tidy.
The baby's mother is tired.
That's my friend's house.
regular plural possessive nouns need an apostrophe..
after the "s"
The dogs' bowl. (There are two dogs)
The teachers' desk. (There are lots of teachers)

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both ..... and 
not only one person or thing but also the other.

example
Both Mrs Corrigan and Ms Penning are English teachers at our school.

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neither ..... nor 
when something is not true about two things or people.
example
Neither Mrs Corrigan nor Ms Penning were born in the Netherlands!

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either ..... or 
when there is a choice about two things, people or situations but only one is possible.
example
Either Mrs Corrigan or Ms Penning will help at the open day. 

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Exercise 3 
Choose the correct option in questions 1-5 
example
Either Mrs Corrigan or Ms Penning will help at the open day. 
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Exercise 4
Read the essay task...Can you suggest a third point?? 

Work in pairs
Possible answers
1. health benefits
2. a better social life
3. why it is good for the community
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Exercise 5: Plenda - H/W
Read the essay ...Try to find out what points the writer makes about the ideas 1 and 2 from the task in exercise 4 and what third point was made?
Complete ex.5 before tomorrow's lesson

P.45 

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