Practice with gap-fill (cloze) texts

Easy B1 level - with multiple choice options:

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/preliminaryenglish/reading/pet_reading_practise_test_part_5.htm

https://www.englishaula.com/en/cambridge-english-test-exam-preparation/cambridge-english-preliminary-pet-b1/reading/exam-parts/exercise-practice-test/3-5-7-5175650340044800/

https://www.englishaula.com/en/cambridge-english-test-exam-preparation/cambridge-english-preliminary-pet-b1/reading/exam-parts/exercise-practice-test/3-5-7-5196876336857088/

Easy B1 level - texts just with gaps (open cloze):

https://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_reading_part5.htm

https://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_for_schools_reading_part5.htm

https://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_reading_part5_test2.htm

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/oc019-new-york.htm

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/oc004-moving-house.htm

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/oc003-gap-year.htm

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/oc023-visitors-from-space.htm

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/oc022-brighton.htm

and other texts at intermediate level by clicking on the links on this page:

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/open-cloze-index.htm

click on the PDFs:

http://www.autoenglish.org/PET/PETReadingPart5.htm

cloze texts all levels

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/open-cloze-index.htm

cloze texts – B2 level

https://englishapple.ru/index.php/exams/fce/use-of-english/open-cloze

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate/fce-046-open-cloze-exercise.php

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate/fce-047-open-cloze-exercise.php

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate/fce-048-open-cloze-exercise.php

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate/fce-001-multiple-choice-cloze-exercise.php

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate/fce-002-multiple-choice-cloze-exercise.php

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate/fce-003-multiple-choice-cloze-exercise.php

https://www.englishlearner.com/intermediate/cloze-1.shtml

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/oclts2.htm

https://todayschool.es/fc/

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/FCE-Part-2-Open-Cloze.htm 

lots here:

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/open-cloze-index.htm

and sentences:

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate-open-cloze.php

with multiple choice options:

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/FCE-Part-1-Multiple-Choice-Cloze-Practice-Test.htm

Homework for the second semester in 2022 for Gruppo 2A Lettorato II

Student's Book – Revise Units 1-5, if possible, with other students on social media and talking in English. Use your online materials to do and check the exercises.

Workbook – revise pages 172-207, if possible, with other students on social media and talking in English. Use your online materials to do and check the exercises.

Vocabulary – revise pages 152-157

Grammar – revise Units 1A-5B, pages 132, 141

Extra Grammar Practice (see previous homework sections too):

Writing – revise pages 115, 116 and 117  

Extra Grammar Practice (see previous homework sections too):

Unit 5A, page 140, Unreal Conditionals

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/second-third-conditionals/

https://www.e-grammar.org/if-clauses/test1-exercise4/

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/mixed_conditionals.htm

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/upperint/grammar/grammar_09_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/conditional-mixed-exercises.html  All the pages!

Unit 5B, page 141, wish for present/future and wish for past regrets

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/wish-exercises-verb.html

https://esolonline.wordpress.com/level-1/level-1-some-grammar-exercises/structures-after-wish/ the exercises are at the bottom of the page

https://www.englishgrammar.org/structures-grammar-exercise/

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/preint/grammar/grammar_08_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://elt.oup.com/student/result/engupp/a_grammar/unit09/9c?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/upper-intermediate/wish-2

more wish + would

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/upper-intermediate/wish-3

Have a look at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/persian/features/6-minute-english

and https://www.examenglish.com/

and for general revision:

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/tenses_index.htm

Do and check (by the end of February) pages 1-75 of New First Certificate Language Practice with key, Michael Vince, Macmillan, 2009 or more recent edition.

Set book, ‘Room with a View’ by E.M. Forster – download the edition from the link on my blog and then read1-120 by the end of February, taking notes on the vocabulary. Try and watch the film. Here’s a clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-gFsXfbF08

Google Classroom – Go to Lavori del Corso, go to bottom of page and click on ‘Mostra altro’ 3 times until your get back to the first page. Then start doing the exercises at the bottom: ‘Practice Exercises’, ‘Where are they now?’, ‘Sites where you can learn and practice English’, ‘Cambridge PET, FCE and Advanced practice test books’ and ‘Lettorato II practice exercises’ (very important for the cloze exercise in the exam), the three songs, ‘Sleep’, ‘Rich and happy’, ‘The Vatican’, Blind Date’, ‘Relationships’, ‘Going to school in Dublin’, ‘Dreams’, ‘Moving House’, ‘Hospital’, ‘Mrs Lovell’ and ‘Robot’.
Then continue with whatever else you can do.

Homework for the second semester in 2022 for Gruppo 1D Lettorato I

Student's Book – Revise Units 1-5, if possible, with other students on social media and talking in English. Use your online materials to do and check the exercises.

Workbook – revise pages 172-207, if possible, with other students on social media and talking in English. Use your online materials to do and check the exercises.

Vocabulary – revise pages 152-158

Writing – revise pages 115, 116 and 118  

Grammar – revise Units 1A-5B, pages 132, 141

Extra Grammar Practice (see previous homework sections too):

Unit 5A, page 140, narrative past tenses, simple, continuous, perfect

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/2/

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/3/

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/advanced/grammar/grammar_02_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://elt.oup.com/student/result/engupp/a_grammar/unit02/2c?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_01.htm

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_02.htm

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_04.htm

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_05.htm

http://fluencyspace.com/exercises/narrative-tenses/

Unit 5B, page 141, past and present habits

https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/intermediate3/grammar/file05/nef_int_grammar05_b04?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/upperint/grammar/grammar_02_012e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/used-to-exercise-1.html

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/int/grammar/grammar_02_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-17482.php

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/to-be-used-to.html All the pages!

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/used-to-be-used-to-get-used-to

Have a look at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/persian/features/6-minute-english

and https://www.examenglish.com/

and for general revision:

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/tenses_index.htm

Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use with answers (Intermediate), Cambridge University Press - any edition – Do and check units1-100 by the end of February.

Set book, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee – download the edition from the link my blog and read pages 1-180 by the end of February, taking notes on the vocabulary. Try and watch the film. Here’s a clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44TG_H_oY2E

Google Classroom – Go to Lavori del Corso, go to the bottom of page and click on ‘Mostra altro’ 3 times until your get back to the first page. Then start doing the exercises at the bottom, ‘Practice Exercises’, ‘Grammar Review’, ‘Where are they now?’, Callas’, ‘Marrakech’, ‘I want to be alone’, ‘Shark attack’, ‘Save Karyn’, ‘It’s always summer’, ‘School in Korea’, ‘Dave Carter’, ‘Nightmare Jobs’, ‘three Generations’ ‘Blind Date’, ‘Childhood Vacations’, Sleep’, ‘Christopher Reeve’, ‘Great Love Affairs’, ‘Stay Healthy’ and ‘Rich and Happy’.

Then continue with whatever else you can do.

Homework for Thursday 25 November 2021 for Gruppo 1D Lettorato I with Chris Young

 Student's Book – Unit 5, page 47, Exercise 4, Reading, sections A-E, if possible, with other students on social media and talking in English. Use your online materials to do and check the exercises.

Writing – page 118, Telling a story

Workbook – pages 203-207, if possible, with other students on social media and talking in English. Use your online materials to do and check the exercises.

Grammar – revise Units 5A and 5B, pages 140, 141

Extra Grammar Practice:

Unit 5A, page 140, narrative past tenses, simple, continuous, perfect

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/2/

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/3/

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/advanced/grammar/grammar_02_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://elt.oup.com/student/result/engupp/a_grammar/unit02/2c?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_01.htm

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_02.htm

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_04.htm

https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_05.htm

http://fluencyspace.com/exercises/narrative-tenses/

Unit 5B, page 141, past and present habits

https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/intermediate3/grammar/file05/nef_int_grammar05_b04?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/upperint/grammar/grammar_02_012e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/used-to-exercise-1.html

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/int/grammar/grammar_02_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-17482.php

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/to-be-used-to.html All the pages!

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/used-to-be-used-to-get-used-to

and for general revision:

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/tenses_index.htm

Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use with answers (Intermediate), Cambridge University Press - any edition – Do and check units 91-100

Set book, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee – download the edition from the link my blog and read, pages 91-100, taking notes on the vocabulary.

Google Classroom – Go to Lavori del Corso, go to the bottom of page and click on ‘Mostra altro’ 3 times until your get back to the first page. Then start doing the exercises at the bottom, ‘Practice Exercises’, ‘Grammar Review’, ‘Where are they now?’, Callas’, ‘Marrakech’, ‘I want to be alone’, ‘Shark attack’, ‘Save Karyn’, ‘It’s always summer’, ‘School in Korea’, ‘Dave Carter’, ‘Nightmare Jobs’, ‘three Generations’ ‘Blind Date’, ‘Childhood Vacations’, Sleep’, ‘Christopher Reeve’, ‘Great Love Affairs’, ‘Stay Healthy’ and Rich and Happy.

See you on Thursday.

Homework for Thursday 25 November 2021 for Gruppo 2A Lettorato II with Chris Young

Student's Book, Unit 5, pages 54-55, Colloquial English, Video, sections1-3, if possible, this should be done with a partner on social media, using your online materials and talking in English. Then check the answers with your online book.  

Writing – page 117 – essay, ‘For and Against’. Don’t do the titles in the book, do this one ‘Taking part in the Erasmus program: what are the benefits and drawbacks?’

Workbook pages 203-207, do and check exercises with answers, use online Workbook for Listening sections

Revision of grammar, Unit 5A, 5B, pages 139-140

Extra Grammar Practice: 

Unit 5A, page 140, Unreal Conditionals

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/second-third-conditionals/

https://www.e-grammar.org/if-clauses/test1-exercise4/

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/mixed_conditionals.htm

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/upperint/grammar/grammar_09_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/conditional-mixed-exercises.html  All the pages!

Unit 5B, page 141, wish for present/future and wish for past regrets

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/wish-exercises-verb.html

https://esolonline.wordpress.com/level-1/level-1-some-grammar-exercises/structures-after-wish/ the exercises are at the bottom of the page

https://www.englishgrammar.org/structures-grammar-exercise/

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/preint/grammar/grammar_08_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://elt.oup.com/student/result/engupp/a_grammar/unit09/9c?cc=it&selLanguage=it

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/upper-intermediate/wish-2

more wish + would

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/upper-intermediate/wish-3

Have a look at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/persian/features/6-minute-english

and https://www.examenglish.com/

and for general revision:

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/tenses_index.htm

Do pages 46-50 of New First Certificate Language Practice with key, Michael Vince, Macmillan, 2009 or more recent edition.

Set book, ‘Room with a View’ by E.M. Forster – download the edition from the link on my blog and then read pages 91-100, taking notes on the vocabulary.

Google Classroom – Go to Lavori del Corso, go to bottom of page and click on ‘Mostra altro’ 3 times until your get back to the first page. Then start doing the exercises at the bottom: ‘Practice Exercises’, ‘Where are they now?’, ‘Sites where you can learn and practice English’, ‘Cambridge PET, FCE and Advanced practice test books’ and ‘Lettorato II practice exercises’ (very important for the cloze exercise in the exam), the three songs, ‘Sleep’, ‘Rich and happy’, ‘The Vatican’, Blind Date’, ‘Relationships’, ‘Going to school in Dublin’, ‘Dreams’, ‘Moving House’, ‘Hospital’, ‘Mrs Lovell’ and ‘Robot’.

See you on Thursday.