Saturday, 22 October 2022

POST 5: CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

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Write about some changes that could be made to your study programme (career)
Among others, think about:

> The curriculum (the subjects you have to study)
> Workload and length of studies
> Faculty facilities (buildings and infrastructure)
> Use of technology
> Teaching methods

- Word Count: 240
- Leave comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts.

Some faculty facilities you may want to talk about:
  • Study areas
  • Accomodation for students from other regions or countries
  • Library
  • Green areas
  • Canteen and dinig areas
  • Car/Bicycle parks
  • Classrooms (size, air conditoning, seats, noise, etc)
  • Computer lab
  • Study rooms
Useful vocabulary:

  • I suggest   ..............ing    --> I suggest changing
  • I suggest/ recommend  that   x be   --> I suggest the ..... be changed
  • I suggest that ..... should ...
  • We need to...                  We need to     change....
  • We could...
  • Why don’t we ...?
  • How about ....ing?
  • ... (these changes) are required   / (this change) is required
  • ... needs to be improved.
  • ... should be    reassessed / reevaluated / replanned / redrawn / redesigned
  • We have too many...    /  There are too many...
  • We don’t have enough... /   There aren’t enough ...  / We need more (and better)..........
  • We have too much... / There’s too much...
  • The ...............is/are    too         ...small.....
  • The ................... is /are not        ....big.....         enough


Thursday, 13 October 2022

POST 4: TIME TRAVEL TO THE PAST OR THE FUTURE

 


 Dear all,

In order to write today's topic you will have to use your imagination. You have to write about a travel you would do to either to the past or the future, if the time machine were invented.

Please include the following information:

-Where and when would you go? Why?

-Who would you go with? 

-What would you do there?

Would you like to stay there? Why? / Why not?

 

Please write 220 words  and remember to write coments on three of your classmates' posts.


 

Thursday, 6 October 2022

PET (Preliminary English Test) Practice

  Dear students,

This week you are expected to have some practice for the final test. Please click on the links and do the exercises.

Session 1

Reading:

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_reading1.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/reading1.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_reading2.htm

Listening:

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_listening_part1.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_listening_part2.htm

Vocabulary:

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_vocab.htm


For additinal practice the following sites are suggested:

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/preliminaryenglish/

https://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/pet.php