Lesson 1

Well, guys, it was nice to meet you today! I hope you liked the first lesson and you made some necessary conclusions about your exam preparation.

As you can remember, today we discussed our exam format, revised Grammar (present simple and present continuous) and listened to several records.

Your hometask for the next lesson is:

• GRAMMAR

1) To revise Grammar and to learn the rules by heart! (Igor, this task is for you specially)
2) To complete Grammar tasks in your worksheets (page 7, exercises A, C, page 8 exercises E, F)

• VOCABULARY

3) To learn the words from the least by heart (наизусть)! And to form some sentences with the words from the last table.

• LISTENING

4) You should listen to the record and mark the right answers. 

Here is the link to the recording: 

http://www.macmillan.ru/upload/iblock/5cb/03mcmillan_gia2013_03.mp3

• SPEAKING

5) You have a sheet on speaking. What should you do? 

    - You should read the text aloud (вслух) and record it with the help of a voice recorder (on your mobile phone or computer/laptop) and send it to me.

You can listen to this text before reading it aloud   Task 1.1,

    - You should answer 6 questions      https://vk.com/audios93321747?section=playlists&z=audio_playlist93321747_84848495

    - You should think over your monologue on friendship and record it with the help of a voice recorder and send it to me again. 

ADDITIONAL EXERCISES

Elementary level

http://www.really-learn-english.com/simple-present-exercises.html#01

http://www.really-learn-english.com/simple-present-exercises.html#02

http://www.really-learn-english.com/simple-present-exercises.html#03

http://www.really-learn-english.com/simple-present-exercises.html#04

http://www.really-learn-english.com/simple-present-exercises.html#05

http://www.really-learn-english.com/simple-present-exercises.html#06

http://www.really-learn-english.com/simple-present-exercises.html#07

http://www.really-learn-english.com/simple-present-exercises.html#08

INTERMEDIATE level

http://mrbrownslearningspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Simple_Present_1.htm

http://www.better-english.com/easier/presents.htm

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/presentsimple/wordmatch/1/wordmatch.html

http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/present-simple-progressive6.htm

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises?ex07

http://first-english.org/english_learning/english_tenses/comparison_tenses/03_tenses_simple_present_or_present_continuous.htm

http://first-english.org/english_learning/english_tenses/comparison_tenses/02_comparison_simple_present_or_present_continuous.htm

                             My result on one of the tasks is the following one and what is yours?!