09 November 09 - NI2 A

• Vocabulary Revision
• Reading - Danger! Sense of humour failure - Adapted from Notes From a Big Country, Bill Bryson.

Did you enjoy it? Would you like to know more about its author? Maybe you could try and read one of his books. Here you'll find more information.
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bryson

• Grammar - Position of adverbs
  

1. manner: specifically, innocently
2. frequency: never, always
3. time: recently, at once
4. degree: very much, almost
5. sentence adverbs: luckily, actually
   

• Vocabulary Bank
  

1. Adverbs which are often confused

1. lately / late
2. At the moment / actually
3. hard /hardly
4. near / nearly
5. specially /especially
6. In the end / at the end
   

2. Common sentence adverbs

1. basically
2. eventually
3. apparently
4. in fact
5. obviously
6. anyway
7. ideally
8. gradually
   

3. Adverbs of degree

1. A little: a bit, slightly
2. Quite: fairly, rather
3. Very: extremely, incredibly, really
   

• Noughts and crosses...with adverbs!

Homework - Grammar Bank, p. 131. 1C.
Bingo - Prepare your sentences for next day.

I forgot to tell you some other exercises I wanted you to do for next Wednesday, so please if you check the blog before next day, try to them too, and if possible try to inform your colleagues. Thanks a lot!!

Practical English - pp. 16, 17.
Revise and check - p. 19.