Lesson 22nd October 2008

Writing a questionnaire

1. Could you tell me if there is a particular school that necessary to attend before studying law?
- I think that the best school is Classic high school because it is possible to study the human subjects and it gives a complete preparation to study the right
- The school that is necessary to attend before studying law is scientific high school because it gives a scientific studying-method
2. Could you tell me where you come from?
- I come from Catanzaro in Calabria
- I come from Naples. There are many students that come from South Italy
3. Could you tell me what kind of difficulties you had in your first year of University?
- The greatest difficulty was to start a new life, to find new friends
4. Do you think that Luiss website can help first year student to resolve these problems?
- Yes because Luiss web-site lets to communicate with teachers
5. Could you tell me if necessary to attend all courses?
- Yes, to listen to teachers helps and improves the study
6. Could you tell me if you have used the same study’s method that you used at school?
· No, because here the subject programs are very long and we need of much time to study
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7. Could you tell me if the University offers extra activities?
· Yes there are many activities, it is possible to play some sports, doing and listening radio, seeing films and talking about them
· Luiss University gives the big possibility to study abroad with the Erasmus
8. Could if it is useful to talk to tutors?
· No, because we haven’t never gone
9. Could you tell me if it is important to have e relationship with other students?
· Yes, because it is possible to compare with the others
· Yes, because it is useful to study together
10. Do you prefer to study at home or in the studying room?
· We prefer to study at home, because in the studying room confusion, even if there is comfortable library too
11. What do you think about the university library?
· The library is very comfortable but it is far from the university
12. What do you think about the canteen-service?
· It’s good, I have lunch at the canteen-service three days in a week
· Very good, when we have a short time to come back home between two lesson we have lunch there


Grammar

Past tense
- Past Simple (worked, stopped, went, ecc.)
· I didn’t go to school last Monday
· They got married last year
· What time did you wake up this morning?
Use the past simple for finished past actions.

- Past Continuous (was/were + verb + ing)
· What were you doing at six o’clock last night? I was watching TV. It was a cold night and it was raining.
Use the past continuous to describe an action in progress at a specific time in the past.

- Past Perfect
· When they turned on the TV the match had finished. I felt nervous because I hadn’t flown before.
Use the past perfect when you are talking about the past and you want to talk about an earlier past action

Exercise page 7 number 1 (Workbook)

Complete the sentence with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the past simple, past continuous or past perfect.
1. I was waiting (wait) to play tennis yesterday when my partner called (call) me to say that he couldn’t (not can) come because his car had broken down (break down).
2. Ireland beat (beat) England yesterday. England were winning (win) 1:0 in the first half but Ireland scored (score)two goals in the second half.
3. We were late when we arrived (arrive) everyone had finished (finish) their lunch and they were sitting (sit) in the garden having coffee.
4. I ran (run) to the station but the six o’clock train had already left (already leave). The station was (be) empty except for three people who were waiting (wait) for the next train.
5. It started (start) raining when he was walking (walk) to work. He stopped (stop) a taxi because he wasn’t wearing (not wear) a coat and he didn’t have (not have) an umbrella.
6. They were driving (drive) to the airport when they suddenly remembered (remember) that they hadn’t turn off (not turn off) the central heating.
7. I didn’t recognize (not recognize) many people at my old school reunion because everyone had changed (change) a lot in twenty years.
8. The match had already started (already/start) when we turned on (turn on) the TV. Scotland were losing (lose) 1:0 and they were playing (play) very badly.

Discussion Topic One: Cinema & English

In my opinion to see a film in English is a great and funny mode to learn English. In this way you can listen the stress of several words. You can learn new phrases, can listen to real voice of your favourite actors and in some films you can listen the slang used in the dialogue and it’s very different by English that we know. To watch films with subtitles is useful because it’s possible memorize better the words.