1st Year Students 2025 - 2026
Lessons for group 1D will take place on Wednesday in Aula E (13h - 15h) and on Thursday in Aula D (11h - 13h).
Text Book: English File Digital Gold C1 (Oxford)
Work covered so far:
8/10 Presentation of course
Oral activities related to getting to know each other and finding things in common.
9/10 Introduction to the phonetic chart (p174 and 175 - textbook) both vowel and consonant sounds. A message is written on the board in phonetics to be translated by students, using the phonetic chart in their text book. Students working in pairs then write a messages for their partner using the phonetic chart. Their partner translates this message into words.
Oral discussions concerning home and family.
15/10 Reading Part one - page 16/17
Focus on new vocabulary
Oral and written activity - In pairs students tell their partner about a memorable event in their own childhood - (happy, sad, frightening etc.) and how it effected them.
Students then write a short story, which your would be happy to share with others, about an event which took place in their childhood - funny, strange, life changing, scary etc. Send your essays to rachel.pearce@unibo.it or hand them to me in paper form in class. Students then write this out in words and hand them in at the end of the class to be marked.
Non attenders: please feel free to mail your own story to rachel.pearce@unibo.it
16th October 2A (Do you Remember)- Reading by Roald Dahl p16+17 - focus on new lexis within the text and reading skills. + Discussion
22nd October p.2A p.144
23rd October Focus on grammar - past habitual events and specific incidents p17
5th November - Handed back student's corrected homework.
Discussion in pairs: What is your first memory in childhood?
Vocab. + Pron. p18/19
6th November
Focus: collocations
SS are given a definition of a collocation ? 'A pair of words that are frequently used together to creat a specific meaning.'
SS do ex. 1 on p22 then they then were asked to write their own sentences using each of the collocations presented.
SS then did the rest of the short exercises on p.22 with phrasal verbs, synonyms and register and idioms.
12th November
SS do 'revise and check' in pairs. Testing unit 1 +2 on p.24 + 5 (Made into a little competition with one pt. for each correct answer.)
Reading 'How children learn languages.'
Listening 3.4 + 3.5 + 3.6 - homework p28+29
19th November
Reading + Speaking p.26 + 27 + discussion - discuss the tone of the 2 articles with your partner (f - p27)
Grammar + Vocab. p29
Ex. 5 Speaking in pairs p29 'get questionnaire'
20th November
p31 History brought to life
In pairs one student reads about The Gladiator and the other student reads about The Darkest Hour. They then share information about the specific films they have read about. Later they discuss which film sounds more interesting.
Discussion on films p31 Ex 4 a. Speaking activity in pairs.
Focus on new vocab. and expressions from both texts.
The gladiator - a general, a plan, to be loyal, vengeance, vengeance, a stirring speech, a gripping scene,
Expressions - 'against overwhelming odds', to be at your best', to make your way to (a place),
The Darkest hour - 'the film is set in' (time/place), to be trapped, to be faced with something, to be desperate, a peace treaty, to be startled, to be inspired, the key scene
Discussion with partner - talk about a historical film or documentary you have seen recently which had a strong effect on you.
Homework - Listening p.32- 3.14 + 3.15 + 3.16 + exercises A-C
26th November - Video - Interview with Mary Bird p34
Adding emphasis through inversions 4 GRAMMAR p.27 Ex. a,b,c
ex. 1. Not only is this an entertaining book for children but it is ...... etc.
3rd December -
Writing an informal letter
Homework: You have recently gone to live in a foreign country for a year. Write a letter to a good friend telling him/her of your initial impression of the country and how you are settling in, plus tell your friend about an amusing or upsetting scenario that took place when you first arrived.
Published on: October 24 2025
