Holy week – First Period Recovering Workshop

Holy week – First Period Recovering Workshop

This workshop has to be handed in on the first day of classes after Holy Week.

FIRST PART: WRITING

Exercise 1: Copy the entire passage.

Morning

            ¹It’s morning in the park. ²A young man is walking with his dog. ³Every day he buys a newspaper at the newsstand. ⁴The news dealer greets him. ⁵The man takes his newspaper to a nearby bench. ⁶He sits by himself and reads. ⁷His dog runs in the trees.

Exercise 2: Rewrite the entire passage, but change young to old in sentence 1, and change nearby to empty in sentence 5.

Exercise 3: Rewrite the entire passage, but change A young man to A young lady in sentence 2.

Exercise 4: Rewrite the entire passage, but change A young man to Two young men in sentence 2.

Exercise 5: Rewrite the entire passage, but change morning to yesterday morning in sentence 1, and take out the words Every day in sentence 3.

Exercise 6:

Copy the entire passage in your notebook.

English is Tough

¹English is an extraordinary language. ² Sometimes it is simple and sometimes it is complex.

            ³It has a very rich vocabulary. ⁴If a person wants to describe a simple thing, he can find simple words. ⁵On the other hand, if a person wants to talk about a very complicated thing, he can think of the right words.

            ⁶English has a difficult sound system and a ridiculous spelling system. ⁷There are 14 vowel sounds and 26 consonant sounds in English, but there are only 26 letters in the alphabet. ⁸This makes reading and writing a real problem.

            ⁹An exceptional student can learn English in a few months, but the most people need more time.

Exercise 7: Rewrite the entire passage

but change the following words: Change extraordinary to curious in sentence 1; change very to extremely in sentence 3; change simple to uncomplicated in sentence 4; change think of to come up with in sentence 5; change ridiculous to stupid in sentence 6; and change exceptional to superior in sentence 9.

Exercise 8

Copy the complete passage in your notebook.

Explode the Myths

¹The following are true:

            ²Dragons were intelligent.

            ³Columbus discovered America

            ⁴Life was easier in times past.

            ⁵Methusalah lived for 969 years.

            ⁶When kissed by the princess, the frog turned into a prince.

            ⁷People worked harder in the old good days.

            ⁸Ponce de Leon found the Fountain of Youth.

            ⁹World War II brought everlasting peace.

            ¹⁰Men from Mars landed in New Jersey.

            ¹¹Henry VIII had eight wives.

Exercise 2: Change the myths to facts by making each statement negative.

Sentences 1 and 2 will be:

            The following are true:

                        Dragons weren’t intelligent.

Exercise 9

Copy the entire passage in your notebook.

Free – Lancing

            ¹Jan Holmes is a free – lance writer. ²She doesn’t work in an office for one company. ³She doesn’t have a steady job. ⁴Instead, she works at home.

            ⁵Jan writes articles and sends them to different magazines. ⁶Sometimes a magazine chooses to print one. ⁷The the magazine pays for it.

            ⁸Jan finds pleasure in this kind of work. ⁹Nobody tells her when to work. ¹⁰Nobody tells her what to write. ¹¹She can be as ambitious or as lazy as she wants. ¹²Free – lance writing is the right work for her.

Exercise 10: Rewrite the complete passage,

But change Jan to John. Write about a man instead of a woman throughout the passage. Sentence 1 will be:

            John Holmes is a free - lance writer.

Exercise 11: Pretend that this person lived in the past.

Rewrite the complete passage in past time. Sentence 1 will be:

            Jan Holmes was a free – lance writer.

Exercise 12

Copy the entire passage in your notebook.

To Marry or Not

¹A young woman gives the opinion on weddings:

²”Weddings are simply expensive affairs. ³They’re meaningless. ⁴A wedding is only a show for parents. ⁵It’s just an old-fashioned idea. ⁶Two people can live together happily without a legal wedding.”

⁷A young man talks about marriage

⁸”A couple should live together before marriage. ⁹It’s a good way for two people to know each other. ¹⁰Afterwards, they can really make a wise decision. ¹¹Young people’s views on marriage are very different from their parents’ views. ¹²A young person is wiser about marriage than his parents.”

Exercise 13: Rewrite the entire passage in your notebook,

but change the following words: Change show to event in sentence 4; change old-fashioned to traditional in sentence 5; change legal to official in sentence 6; change good to excellent in sentence 9; and change wise to intelligent in sentence 10.

Exercise 14: Rewrite the entire passage in your notebook,

But change A young woman to An old woman in sentence 1, and change A young man to An old man in sentence 7. These two old people have the opposite opinions from young people. Change all the sentences in the quotations to NEGATIVE. However, DO NOT change sentences 1 and 7 to negative. Sentences 1 and 2 will be:

            An old woman gives her opinion on weddings:

                        “Weddings aren’t simply expensive affairs.

LISTENING PART

Listen to all the videos, study them and be ready to answer questions about them

And don't forget to answer the questionaries on lessons 2 and 3 from the book.

I will ask questions about the book too, for the second period.