Wk 1 Introductions and punctuation - Aysha Aseef | Library

Hello there! Welcome to the first week of Level 2 English. I hope we can work together to improve your English languge skills and also enjoy the learning process. The tasks and activities below follow on from the activiites completed in class. They will help you consolidate new ideas and also practise the skills you pick up in class. These tasks are as important as classroom activities. 

The objectives for this week are: 
Identify and extract the main information and detail from short explanations
Follow the gist of discussions
Understand the main points in texts
Use basic punctuation correctly (e.g. full stops, capital letters, question and exclamation marks)

LISTENING

Listen the discussion below and answer the questions that follow

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What is the topic of discussion in this clip?

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Select the reasons why talking to strangers is good (select all that are correct)

GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION

Click on the link . Watch the video and complete the true or false questions below 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z2yqxsg

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Colons help structure a sentence, particularly if you make a point and then explain it in the same sentence.

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The apostrophe is used to show ownership and also to show when two words have been joined together.

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Commas show surprise or anger.

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Semi-colons link two words to make one short word.

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Full stops tell the reader where to stop.

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It is better to use three exclamation marks instead of one.

Rewrite the text correctly. You should refer to the correction code given to you.

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Use this space to type the text above correctly:

WRITING

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Use Igor's introduction above as an example and write a similar introduction about yourself (about 150 words). Remember to use capital letters and punctuation in the right places.