IELTS

Intermediate Objective IELTS Lesson 2 Communicate

Warm up

1. What do you think would be most difficult thing for a foreigner to learn Chinese?

2. Why are some dialects or languages disappearing in China?

Grammar

Here are two special forms for verbs called voice:• Active voice• Passive voice

The active voice is the "normal" voice. This is the voice that we use most of the time. You are probably already familiar with the active voice. In the active voice, the object receives the action of the verb:

Active

subject verb object   • Cats eat fish.

The passive voice is less usual. In the passive voice, the subject receives the action of the verb:

Passive

subject verb object  

Fish are eaten by cats.

Object of the verb

The object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb:

•   subject verb object

active • Everybody drinks water. • passive • Water is drunk by everybody.

Grammar the passive

• Complete the activity on the passive.

Pronuniciation and Numbers

• Review of Pronunciation of Spelling and Numbers

• Dictation practice – numbers and dates

Listening page 9

• Pairwork – decide the information you will need for the following on task 10

• Note the instruction for the task

Test folder 1

• Complete the test folder

IELTS Speaking Task 2

Describe an occasion when you needed to communicate with a friend by phone but you could not.

You should say:

When did this occur

Who did you want to communicate with

Why this was an inconvenience and explain how you felt at the time.

Homework

Review the chapter from this week

Complete the chapter 1 from the Objective

IELTS Workbook pages

4-5 Work on your vocabulary

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