Objectives: Practise using time phrases in a Part 2 task and improving grammatical range
OUR ENVIRONMENT
SPEAKING
USE TIME PHRASES
1a. Which of these environmental problems does your local area suffer from?
Rubbish in the streets or countryside
Noise pollution
Poor air quality
Polluted sea or rivers
Something else?
1b. Do you think environmental problems in your local area are worse or better now than they were 10 year ago?
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2. Read the test task. Does it ask you to talk about the present, the past or both?
Describe a place you know that has an environmental problem.
You should say:
What the place is
What environmental problem is
What caused the problem
And say whether the problem is better or worse now than in the past
USE A RANGE OF GRAMMAR
Find one or more examples of
A verb in the present simple
A verb in the present continuous
A verb in the past simple
A modal verb (can, should, must, ect…)
An adverb of frequency
A comparative
A superlative
An -ing form used as the subject of a sentence