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Adverbs and Listening Comprehension

1) The document provides listening and writing exercises about celebrating holidays in Scotland, focusing on Christmas and Hogmanay (New Year's Eve). 2) It discusses how celebrating Christmas was banned in Scotland for 400 years but is now widely celebrated. Hogmanay, however, remains an important Scottish holiday with traditions like singing "Auld Lang Syne" at midnight. 3) The exercises require listening to passages about these holidays and their traditions, answering true/false and fill-in-the-blank questions, writing a 100-word summary, and identifying adverbs and their functions in sentences.

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Adverbs and Listening Comprehension

1) The document provides listening and writing exercises about celebrating holidays in Scotland, focusing on Christmas and Hogmanay (New Year's Eve). 2) It discusses how celebrating Christmas was banned in Scotland for 400 years but is now widely celebrated. Hogmanay, however, remains an important Scottish holiday with traditions like singing "Auld Lang Syne" at midnight. 3) The exercises require listening to passages about these holidays and their traditions, answering true/false and fill-in-the-blank questions, writing a 100-word summary, and identifying adverbs and their functions in sentences.

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MODULE 3 - GOOD DAYS, BAD DAYS

Section B - CELEBRATE: Listening and writing, Adverbs

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You may write the answers in your book or notebook or for some tasks in the space provided here.

Open your books to page 76 and look at the pictures.

What are the people celebrating?

______________________________________________________________________________

How do you celebrate this holiday?

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

Part I : Listening

Task 1

Listen to the text by scanning the lightning bolt on page 76.

Before listening read the following statements and while listening decide whether they are true or
false.

1. The Scots have a long heritage associated with the celebration of Christmas. T F
2. Protestant Reformation caused that many Scots didn't celebrate Christmas. T F
3. In Scotland, there are many traditions connected to the New Year's Eve. T F
4. The Scots were obliged to pay all their debts before midnight. T F
5. Only the Scots sing „Auld Lang Syne“at midnight. T F

Task 2

Listen to the text again and complete the first 6 sentences in exercise 2 in your books on page 76.

Then open your books to page 165, read the text Hogmanay and complete sentences 7, 8 and 9 in
exercise 2.

Task 3

Look at exercise 3 in your books. Use the prompts to make questions. After you have made questions
write down the answers.

1. What _______________________________________________________?

Answer: ________________________________________________________
2. How _______________________________________________________?

Answer: ________________________________________________________

3. Whose _______________________________________________________?

Answer: ________________________________________________________

4. What _______________________________________________________?

Answer: ________________________________________________________

5. How _______________________________________________________?

Answer: ________________________________________________________

6. Where _______________________________________________________?

Answer: ________________________________________________________

Task 4

Write a short summary (no more than 100 words) of the text about Hogmanay. Tasks 2 and 3 above
will help you.

Your summary should give the following information:

1. what Hogmanay is
2. when it is celebrated
3. three traditions that you remember
4. what Hogmanay is like today

Task 5

Go to page 38 in your workbooks and do exercises 1, 2 and 3.

Part II : Grammar - Adverbs


Look at the sentence taken from the text Hogmanay - New Year's Celebration in Scotland.

What Part of speech (vrsta riječi) are the two underlined words?

It may not be widely known, but celebrating Christmas was virtually banned in Scotland for around 400
years, from the end of the 17th century to the 1950s.

Both of these words are ______________________.

Task 1

Open your books to page 75 and read the text about adverbs and then answer the following
questions.

1. Which other parts of speech do adverbs modify? (HINT – verbs, …..)


_______________, ________________, _______________, ________________

2. How do we call the adverbs that describe when something happens?

Adverbs of _________________

3. How do we call the adverbs that describe why something happens?

Adverbs of _________________

4. How do we call the adverbs that describe how something happens?

Adverbs of _________________

5. How do we call the adverbs that describe how often something happens?

Adverbs of _________________

6. Look at the following sentences. What type of adverbs are the ones underlined in the sentences
below?
a. I haven't been going out lately. ______________________
b. There were toys everywhere. ______________________
c. Mia woke up and stretched lazily. ______________________
d. I rarely eat fast food these days. ______________________
e. He therefore joined the group of volunteers to help the people in need. ____________________
7. What is the superlative of the adverb well?

__________________________________

8. What is the comparative of the adverb badly?

__________________________________

9. What are the three main positions of adverbs in English sentences?

They can be at _____________________________, __________________________________ and


______________________________.

Task 3

Do exercises 1, 2 and 3 in your books on pages 75 and 76.

Task 4

Do exercises 1 and 2 in your workbooks on page 39.

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