UNIT 2

Additional practice on shortened clauses

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Try your hand at these online exercises as well:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Also,

EXTRAS

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As your extras for this unit, you will study Topic 6.

First, take the quiz in 6A and then listen to the text first and then do the following exercises:

-6CDFGHIJ and listening comprehension exercise 6L

Also, work on the Read On text in Topic 8. Do exercises 8BCEFG

The need-to-do things

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In Unit 2, you will study Topic 5 as your key text.

Listen to it first here:
Nature's secrets:

The sailing stones of Death Valley:

The Secret of the zebra's stripes:

The puzzle of ball lightning:

The exercises you need to do are:
5DEFGHIL and listening comprehension exercise 5M, to which the audio can be found here:

+ do the following "hand-outs".
OT5_Text combings_Topic5.pdf
OT5_Storylines_Topic5_1.pdf
OT5_Storylines_Topic5_2.pdf

You will also need to study shortened clauses (pp. 199-208) and do all the exercises in the book. We will also cover this topic in detail together. You can find the Google slide presentation to shortened clauses here. We'll study the topic in class based on these slides.

In addition, you will also study the theme vocabulary in Topic 7 by doing the exercises on pages 82-85. Here's the audio for exercises 7A and 7B: