Listening Practice for Tuesday´s exam

REMEMBER: YOUR LISTENING EXAM WILL BE ON TUESDAY 25TH APRIL

Holes vocabulary review

1. YOUR PRESENTATION MUST BE FINISHED FOR AFTER SEMANA SANTA

2. WE WILL HAVE A VOCAB TEST ON TUESDAY 18TH APRIL ON THIS VOCABULARY. 

3. IN THE TEST YOU WILL BE GIVEN A DEFINITION AND YOU YOU WILL NEED TO WRITE THE WORD CORRECTLY.

• A meadow 
• Roots 
• A nightgown 
• A very proper person 
• A leech 
• To snigger 
• To be flushed 
• A butcher 
• Contritely 
• A trail 
• Overhead 
• Pointless
• To shimmer 
• A mirage 
• Man-made
• Raspy 
• Sheepish
• A miracle 
• To take a sip 
• To peel 
• A layer 
• Murky 
• A cub scout 
• A prize 
• To be arrested 
• To sneak 
• To be evicted 
• To dunk 
• A throne
• To retrieve
• Sandpaper 
• To crawl 
• Dizzy 

You need to produce a PP presentation with definitions/ images and perhaps the Spanish version of the word... Do one slide for each word.

We will have a test on these words after Semana Santa so your presentation will help you prepare for the test...

Holes - Chapters 34 - 38

Read chapters 34-38 then answer the following questions:

1.Find an example of personification on page 152.

2.Define: Mirage.

3.Why do you think ‘Barf Bag’ stepped on a rattlesnake on purpose?

4.Why did Stanley keep taking a ‘mental snapshot’ of the Big Thumb?

5.Why was Stanley scared when he realised he was almost at the Big Thumb?

6.What was the first sign that Stanley and Zero were near water?

7.How was Stanley able to find water in the end?

Holes: Chapters 29 and 30 Comprehension Questions

1/ During the storm what does Stanley see? (Chapter 29)

2/ Why is it important what he sees?

3/ Whose birthday is it in Chapter 30?

4/ Who is first in line for the water? Why?

5/ What happens between the boys in Chapter 30 and why?

6/ How does Mr. Pendanski react at first to what is happening?

7/ Does the person in charge of Camp Green Lake think it is a good idea the deal between Hector Zeroni and Stanley Yelnats IV? Why or why not?

8/ What happens to Mr. Pendanski after this?

9/ Where is Hector Zeroni at the end of Chapter 30?

10/ What does the person in charge of Camp Green Lake order the counselors to do? 

Newspaper Article: The transformation of Kissing Kate

OPTIONAL EXTRA: How to age paper using tea

Instructions: How to age paper using tea

Listening Practice

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Preparation for Friday Criteria C and D exam

Criterion C:

1.A short writing task of 35-45 words

2.Writing an informal letter

Criterion D:

1.IN/ON/AT prepositions

2.Passive Voice

Preposition practice:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/structures/prepositions_at_in_on_time.htm

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-prepositions-at-on-in.php

Loads of passive voice exercises here:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/passiv.htm

Informal letter practice:

Here is the extract from a letter you have received from your English friend:

I have just got back from my school holidays, you have had a long weekend too in Spain, haven´t you? What did you get up to? Did your family make you do anything you didn´t like?

Write a reply of about 100 words