JANUARY 21, 2017 CLASS 7/12

LEVEL TEST:

1. https://www.esl-languages.com/en/study-abroad/online-tests/english-test/index.htm

VOCABULARY:

1. http://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/academic_wordlist.html
   • Group 3

READING:

1. https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice
   • Level B2

PUNCTUATION:

1. http://www.englishliteracysite.com/comma-splice-exercise1.html
2. http://www.englishliteracysite.com/comma-splice-exercise2.html
3. http://www.englishliteracysite.com/comma-or-semicolon1.html
4. http://www.englishliteracysite.com/comma-or-semicolon2.html
5. http://www.englishliteracysite.com/comma-semicolon-colon1.html
6. http://www.englishliteracysite.com/comma-semicolon-colon2.html

COMMON ERRORS:

1. Word Choice
   • http://www.englishliteracysite.com/confusing-words-in-english5.html
   • http://www.englishliteracysite.com/confusing-words-in-english6.html
2. Spelling
   • http://www.englishliteracysite.com/commonly-misspelled-words4.html
   • http://www.englishliteracysite.com/commonly-misspelled-words5.html
3. Subject-Verb Agreement
   • http://www.englishliteracysite.com/subject-verb-agreement1.html
   • http://www.englishliteracysite.com/subject-verb-agreement2.html

WRITING CHALLENGE 005: NARRATIVE ESSAY

1. http://www.filminute.com/films/2015/1-0/
2. http://www.filminute.com/films/2015/force/
3. http://www.filminute.com/films/2015/a-minute-of-silence/
4. http://www.filminute.com/films/2015/my-mum-the-wrestler/
5. http://www.filminute.com/films/2015/rematch/
6. http://www.filminute.com/films/2015/wojtek/

Please watch the videos above. Each video is approximately one minute long.

Choose one of them and tell the story of this short film from the point of view of one of the characters. Please use details of the five senses (see, hear, smell, etc.) to describe this. You may write in the first person “I” or the third person “he/she/they”.

As always, compose this essay in Grammarly!

150-200 words

 

LINKS OF INTEREST:

1. https://neuroanthropology.net/2010/07/10/we-agree-its-weird-but-is-it-weird-enough/
2. http://personality-testing.info/tests/LSRP.php