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1. Write a paragraph about the weather and about the surroundings. What's the time? 

~ Where are you? What's around you? What is that sight famous for?

~ Describe the weather.

~ What's the temperature?

~ How strong is the wind? 

~ What activities can you do there?

~ How do you feel?

You can also write about something that happened before 10am or where you are going next. 

2. Write a paragraph about the second photo. What's the time now? 

~  Where are you now? How did you get there? What's the place like? 

~ What's interesting or important about this place? What do you know about its history? 

~ How do you feel?

~ What are you doing there or plan to do later? 

You can also write about something that happened between 10am and 3pm and what are you going to do next?

Present Perfect

 Present Perfect 1 / multiple choice (easy)

Present Perfect: for or since?

Present Perfect 3

Present Perfect 4

Present Perfect 5 - type sentences

Present Perfect

 

A Tourist Attraction

 Padlet: Tourist attractions

Poetry

1) Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"

2) William Shakespeare "Seven Ages of Man"

3) Emily Dickinson "Hope is the Thing with Feathers"

4) Robert Frost "The Road not Taken"

5)  E.E Cummings "I carry your heart with me"

6) Walt Whitman "I hear America singing" 

7)  Walter D. Wintle "Thinking"

8) Rudyard Kipling "IF"

9)Maya Angelou  "I know why the caged bird sings"

10) Mary Oliver "Wild Geese"

Writing a poem

1) Things that make you happy, lifted, positively emotional / things that make you sad, angry, upset

2) What is the general topic or issue?

3) What is the place? 

4) What's the time? Determine whether your poem is written in the past, present, future or it has mixed tenses. 

5) Write 5 important nouns needed for your poem. Find at least one rhyming word for each. 

6) Write 5 important verbs....

7) Write 5 important adjectives .... 

8) Description (Choose => describe the feeling, place, nature, weather etc.)

9F: measures and dimensions

 1) How high is the highest mountain? 

2) How deep is the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean?

3) How tall is the tallest building in the world?

4) How long is the longest river?

5) How long is the longest country in the world?

6) How deep is the deepest lake in the world?

7) How narrow is the narrowest street in the world?

8) How long is the longest bridge / viaduct in the world? 

9) How many centimetres is one foot?

10) How many centimetres is one inch?

Burj Khalifa, Dubai

Danyang-Kunshan grand bridge

1. 8,848.86 m; 

2. 10,911 m; 

3. 828m; 

4. 6,650km; 

5. 4,395; 

6. 1,620m; 

7. 31 cm; 

8. 164,851m / 16,5 km

9. 30.48 cm; 

10. 2,54 cm

Gerund or Infinitive (to do / doing)

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