C1A - weekly summary and exercises

This week we've been looking at:

- unit 10, conditionals (diagnostic test and review)

- general conversation

- English colloquial idioms (for a copy of the handout, click here)

- the 'unreal' past (unit 11.2, grammar books)

- short stories (1st years - 'The Landlady', 2nd years - 'The Signalman')

First year students: as I mentioned, click this link to download the document of 'The Landlady' useful terminology that I prepared.

It's a little tricky to work on the short stories in class given that there's a mix of first and second year students working on two different books. However, as you said that you'd like to look at the short stories in class, then we will do more work on them in the future. In the meantime please do continue reading the short stories independently, in preparation. Whenever you do any story summaries or exercises then please let me see them. The short story work is quite important and could form the basis of part of your oral exam, so it's important that every member of your work groups gives input in the discussions.

Please do the comprehension and composition which I mentioned in class today. You can either photocopy the test in the faculty office, or download it here.

First years: "Man's Best Friend" - download the text here and the questions here.
Second years: January 2008 - download the text here and the questions here.