B2 is rumored to understand Passive Voice!

Study Passive with Reporting Verbs here

4. Passive reporting structures - putting it all together

Exercise 4

Make passive sentences starting with the words in italics. Don't use contractions and don't add any punctuation.

1.	It is felt that the project is too expensive.  .
2.	It was said that the tax changes helped poorer people.
3.	It is alleged that a fight between rival fans broke out after the match.  .
4.	It has been reported that more bad weather is on the way.  .
5.	It was believed that the company were about to announce redundancies.
6.	It was later considered that his behaviour had been unacceptable.  .
7.	It is expected that new supplies will arrive soon.  .
8.	It had been claimed that the drug was perfectly safe.  .
9.	It is presumed that everybody escaped unharmed from the wreckage.  .
10.	It is now thought that the number of injured is lower than was feared.

If I were you, I'd...

Our WRITE RIGHT global Project is taking us to the USA!

 

Technology Literacy  Project 

 

Group 36    Group 37    Group 38    Group 39    Group 40

 

Group 41    Group 42    Group 43    Group 44    Group 45

 

Group 46    Group 47    Group 48    Group 49    Group 50

 

Group 51    Group 52    Group 53    Group 54    Group 55

 

Group 56    Group 57    Group 58    Group 59    Group 60

...so what would you do if you were me?

Now, you may want to improve your Conitional skills!
To do that, visit this page.
There are the rules for you, visual learners
and practice for everyone!
Do activities 1-8 BEFORE only if you want to be successful at your B2 exams!

If I were you, I'd love to be a MILLIONAIRE!

..and here is a song for today...

Jokes!!!

1. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

2. What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?

6. Billie was born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible?

PASSIVE VOIVE
Practice here, here here and here

A trip to the past

Present tenses Progress test
Stative verbs with two meanings
Future Tenses Progress test

Our flipped class has taken off!

Practice how responsible you are for your learning here

Today we're going to review how to talk about the past...
1. Watch the tutorial

2. Practise here

3. Write a short story about the funniest thing that has ever happened to you (no names pls) using ALL the past tenses

Back to the future

Will you play for me?

Present tenses Progress test
Stative verbs with two meanings

Our flipped class has taken off!
Practice how responsible you are for your learning here

Today we're going to review how to talk about the future.

Fist, study these tutorials

will or going to?

Future Continous/ Future Perfect in this video

Now, you can practise doing activities
1. mixed future tenses (beginner)
2. mixed future tenses (advanced)

Now, A song to practise the future tense

Here is a song by the Black Eyed Peas to practise the future tense and your pronunciation.

First, listen to the song and pay attention to the lyrics

Activity 1: Now go to the lyricstraining website to fill in the blanks in the song lyrics:

Activity 2: Finally, go to the Black Eyed Peas official website. Find the latest news about them and write about them in a comment to this post. You can also include your opinion about this band, your favourite songs, etc.

Mind Boggling Queries!

1. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

2. What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?

6. Billie was born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible?

How to learn?

Sc   Life Rule No 1

Revision

1. Test your skills with double meaning verbs

2. Test your skills -general

3. Gerunds & Infinitives Summative Assessment

Flipped Classroom - Present Tenses

So here comes our first aim: REVISION of PRESENT TENSES!
Watch these tutorials and THEN do the activities in the handouts given to you in class.
Note down anything that is a challenge to you so that we can discuss it in class.

Now practice here

We want to have fun while learning, so we are also going to listen to the songs you chose.

If you want your songs to be heard, write a list of your favourite ones as a conment to this post.

Your Song

Here's the first one of a band I like a lot. (but remember...this is YOUR class, what are YOUR choices?) Let's sing it together!

The Mirror who Talked

Have you ever seen a mummy? Where?

Sentence Magic!

Connect the two sentences:

Ancient Egyptians made their dead into mummies. 

They lived in the Nile area.

Flipped Classroom 

Video Fan 

1. Study the   Mummies video

2. Perfect your Relative Clauses here . Do all the activities with 2 or more yellow circles next to them.

See you soon!!!

What do they have in common?

Me, myself and I- WHO?

So, YOU are in the epicentre this year! So let's talk about... you!

 What do you want the team to know about you?

What are your hobbies, favourite bands, songs, holiday places, cartoon heroes, or anything else you want to share.

YOU chose how to present yourself in a FUN way! Here are a few ideas and of course you are free to use any other way you want!

1. Create a Pinterest board with 10 pins that summarize them.
2. Create a 30 second podcast that introduces themselves. Then you can present them or play them on separate devices in class as an audio gallery.
3. Write a blog post in the classroom blog  introducing yourself to the rest of the classroom.
4. Create a quick comic strip to describe yourself or to recreate a recent funny moment in your life.
5. Create a word cloud to describe yourself and share with the rest of the class.
6. Create your own Voki avatar that introduces yourself to the class. It's going to be even funnier when you are creative with the backgrounds, characters and details of the avatar to reflect your own personality and preferences.
7. Create a graffiti online  that speaks to your interests and personality and share with the class.
8. Create mashup videos of yourself with Weavly to introduce their interests to the class.
9. Create a Google map of 5 places you have visited and share with the class
10. Research your birth date in history and share interesting events with the class.

Flipped Classroom 

1. Practice

2.Test

3. I can't stop looking for new exciting ideas for our class!

So, here's our flipped class for today...
What do you know about Halloween?
How about watching this video to learn more
and brush up on your infnitive-gerund knowledge.


You can also study the tutorial here,
paying special attention to Part 2 and 3.
Practice with a choice of activities:
PART 2
One out of 11-13
One of 14 or 15
One out of 17-10
PART 3 (Remember to pay special attention to this part's theory!)
Activities 22, 26

Here's the choice of a song from last year's class. What are YOUR favourite songs?

Share them in the class Viber Group and you''ll listen to them in class.

 IT"S A PROMISE and you can take it to the bank!!!

The Write Right Project

What a great opportunity, to be able to discuss daily issues of great importance with partners from around the globe! What a great way to become Citizens of the World!

This time we collaborate with our partner school in USA for a writing project.
I know you are womdering: How can we write collaboratively? Well, there's no limit to what creative minds -with a little help of modern technology- can do! 

1. Log in this link

2. Click on your number
B2a
1. Michael
2. Diana
3. Eva
4. Marianna
5. Deppy
6. Spryros
7. Tony
8. Dimitra

B2b
26. Prokopis
27. Athena
28. Margaret
29. Joanna
30. Christina
31. Alex

3. Write your essay on the subject:
Research shows that doing random acts of kindness considerably raises happiness levels in people of all ages. Why do you think this is? What such acts have you done or are planning to do in the future?

4. Connect with the document while in class and see LIVE as your partners in USA are editing your work and helping you improve with real life language!

Group 36 - Spyros
Group 37 - Tony
Group 38- Dimitra
Group 39 - Mariana
Group 40 - Diana
Group 41- Deppy
Group 42 - Eva
Group 43 - Michael

Group 44 - Alex
Group 45 - Christine
Group 46 - Margaret
Group 57 - Joanna
Group 58 - Prokopis
Group 59 - Athina

What's stopping you?