May Week Two

Hello Everyone,

A few students have asked me about the end of the course.  FYI, our standard conversation groups run through the end of June (the last classes are June 25th, 26th, and 27th).  However, if anyone is interested in the summer session, please email me to begin making arrangements.

This week we worked a bit with reported speech (a.k.a. indirect speech).  You may need to review some of the rules. Check your grammar with this quiz.

For listening, try the activity from a segment of The Purple Rose of Cairo or the short clip Is he a slob? and relay the information in indirect speech.

For reading, try Telling Stories or Guess Who I Bumped Into. For original version reading you could check out some He Said/She Said relationship advice or some online celebrity gossip magazines like TMZ or Jezebel.

Now, last but not least, for writing. Please write some sentences regarding things you were asked or told to do in the following situations:

• when you were a child
• when you first started learning English
• in your first job
• on your first day at school/university

Best,

Kelly