Focus on Listening Wildlife Film Festival

In todays lesson we will be practicing the exam skill of recognising and listening for numbers and abbreviations… Please download task 1 of today’s lesson

Task 1

Focus on Listening 1 Wildlife Film Festival

Task 2

Now that you have practiced with the guided exercise lets try practicing our listening skills on an independent IELTS listening exercise

Independent Exercise Section 2 Listening

Enrichment: Job Interviews

This semester the enrichment project will be based around a mock interview and a thank you letter to an interviewer, it is hoped that by completing this enrichment you will be ready for any possible job interviews that may come up in the future. As high school students it is important that you plan ahead and start thinking about college and possible career options which is why the focus of this semesters enrichment project is career based.

Interview skills are essential in assisting you to be successful in not only getting a job when you graduate school but in getting a job that you want.

Task 1: 

In task 1 you will carry out a web quest answering the questions in the worksheet The worksheet will need to be typed and printed out. Please remember that task 1 is worth 10 points and will be included

Enrichment Task 1 Term 2

 

Discussing Animals

Essential Language

I find…

(quite/very/really)

(Absolutely)

interesting/ attractive/ enjoyable etc. 

annoying/unpleasant/noisy/dirty

fascinating/horrible

Using the essential language above work with a partner and create a presentation discussing animals. Your presentation should cover the following points:

  •  Are there any animals that you and your partner particularly like? (if so why?)
  • Are there animals you and your partner can’t stand ? (If not why?)
  • Have you or your partner ever kept a pet?
  • Which animals are popular as pets in the UAE?
  • What kind of pet would you advise for the following people:

As well as covering the above points it should also briefly talk about whether the animal will be suitable as a pet for one of the people shown below:

    1.    an elderly person living alone
    2.    a seven year old child living in a house with a small garden
    3.     a single professional person living in a city apartment

Describing an animal (Describing Dimensions)

Essential Language

Describing Dimensions: 

It has a height /weight/ length etc. of approximately / up to / between … and…
It weighs approximately /up to / between … and…
It is (approximately) … high / long/ wide etc.

Using the above essential language choose two of the following endangered animals  listed below and describe the following features

Endangered Animal List 

  1. Cheetah 
  2. African elephantcheetah-jump_493_990x742
  3. panda
  4. zebra
  5. dolphin
  6. killer whale
  7. Orangutan
  8. siberian tiger
  9. Malayan Tapir
  10. leather back sea turtle

Features that need to be described

  1. Size (Height and Weight)
  2. Found in
  3. Habitat
  4. Diet
  5. Status
  6. Threats

Please remember that you will need to use the essential language to describe the animals and that you should one paragraph for each of the animals you have chosen

Employing Strategies for Locating Information

Tips and Strategies: 

The following is an example of question that requires you to locate information within an IELTS reading:

(Example of question)

Questions 1-5: The passage has ten paragraphs labelled A-J

Which paragraph contains the following information? 

Write the appropriate letters A-J in boxes 1-4 on your answer sheet

NB you may use any letters more than once. 

1.  Concern that recycling is not profitable. 

2. Explanation of why fees for dumping waste should be increased. 

3. The best way to deal with garbage

4. The problem of decaying organic waste 

5. Recycling of automobiles

When your faced with this kind of question you need to use the following tips and strategies:

  • Read the instructions carefully 
  • Quickly read the statements to get an idea of what the text is about. 
  • Take the statements one by one. Underline the key words. 
  • Next search the text to find where the information is mentioned. 
  • Remember to look for synonyms and parallel expressions because it is likely that the statements express the ideas differently to the way they are expressed in the text.

Please read the following text and answer the guided exercises

Polar Bear Reading

Polar Bear Locating Information

Try completing the following independent task: 

Independent Exercise for locating information

Independent Reading Locating Information

 

Polar Bears (Matching Headings to Paragraphs)

Review through the following tips for matching headings to paragraphs 

Tips for Paragraph heading matching

Pre-Reading Task 

Use the following links according to your class and mind map as many ideas about polar bears as you can

11. 4 

11.5 Polar Bears

11.6 Polar Bears

Reading Task: 

Silently read through the following passage and complete the reading task

Polar Bear Reading

Independent Reading Task:

Using the strategies that have been introduced complete the following independent reading task:

Independent Exercise for matching headings to paragraphs

Independent Reading For Headings to Paragraphs

Core Vocabulary: Wildlife; transitive and intransitive verbs

Welcome back,

In today’s class we will be looking at the core vocabulary based on this unit as well looking at transitive and intransitive verbs. Please remember that it is important for you to be fully aware of vocabulary that is based on the unit as this may appear in future exams.

Task 1: 

Complete the following exercises:

Vocabulary- Wildlife

** Please note that you will be having a vocabulary test based on the vocabulary covered in these exercises 

 

Task 2: 

In the first part of Task 2 you will need to identify words in the following task match their definitions and decide what form the word takes. The reading is shown below:

Polar Bear Reading

After completing the first part of Task 2 you will need to identify Transitive and  Intransitive verbs

In order to help you understand the second part of Task 2 here is an explanation of transitive and Intransitive verbs

Study the following sentences carefully: 

  • She no longer feeds and instead lives off her stored fat through out the winter. 
  • Then the family leaves and makes its way to the sea ice, where the mother feeds and protects her cubs. 

As you can see from the two sentences feed is used in two ways. In the first sentence, feed means the same as “eat”. In the second sentence feed  means “give food to”.

The word is used intransitively in the first sentence and transitively in the second sentence. A transitive verb must be followed by a noun or noun phrase but an intransitive verb isn’t.  A few words like feed can be used in both ways, however most can only be used in one way

form and mean Transitive and intransitive verbs (exercise)

Task 3: 

Please complete the following vocabulary tasks

IELTS Vocabulary Builder Unit 6