CVIČENÍ - 4. ROČNÍK
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Education – the Czech Republic
The environment, global problems
Literature in English 1 (up to the 19th century)
Literature in English 2 (20th and 21st centuries)
Famous sportsmen from the Czech Republic
London and other cities in the UK
Washington and other cities in the USA
Prague and other cities in the Czech Republic
I do not guarantee that this list is complete - ask your regular teacher for more solid information.
HOMEWORK
B) The Origin of Easter (an article) + a quiz about it
C) Five Easter Idioms (a video) + a quiz about it
Deadline: 25 April, 11 o’clock p.m.
B) Writing Skills: The Paragraph (a video) + a quiz about it
C) Steven Pinker on Good and Bad Writing (an interview) + a quiz about it
Deadline: 25 April, 11 o’clock p.m.
A) A quiz about writing in the maturita exam (in Czech)
B) Writing letters: formal and informal language (a video) + a quiz about it
C) Writing Tips for the FCE Exam (an article) + a quiz about it
Deadline: 4 April, 11 o’clock p.m.
A) A quiz about American cities
B) Breaking into Alcatraz (an article) + a quiz about it
C) New York and Los Angeles compared (a video) + a quiz about it
Deadline: 28 March, 11 o’clock p.m.
B) The Great Fire of London (an article) + a quiz about it
C) Moving to London - Advice (a video) + a quiz about it
A) A quiz about Czech literature
B) Roger Scruton and Czechoslovakia (an interview) + a quiz about it
C) Rick Steves’ Europe: Prague (a video) + a quiz about it
Deadline: 28 February, 11 o’clock p.m.A) A quiz about the Czech Republic
B) Roger Scruton and Czechoslovakia (an interview) + a quiz about it
C) Prague - first impressions (a video) + a quiz about it
Deadline: 21 February, 11 o’clock p.m.
Maturita writing. Follow the instructions here. Do both tasks. You have to actually physically write it on a sheet of paper and bring it to school. You can find more information about writing in the maturita exam here.
Deadline: 15 February
B) Nunavut FAQs (an article) + a quiz about it
C) Things to do in Montreal (a video) + a quiz about it
Deadline: 8 February
B) An Overview of New Zealand (an article) + a quiz about it
C) Top 7 Incredible Places in New Zealand (a video) + a quiz about it
Deadline: 31 January, 11 o’clock p. m.
B) 15 Reasons Why Sydney Is the Greatest City in the World (an article) + a quiz about it
C) 7 Terrifying Australian Creatures (a video) + a quiz about it
Deadline: 24 January, 11 o’clock p. m.
A) A quiz about famous literary characters
B) 12 books banned in some American schools (an article) + a quiz about it
C) Figures of speech: oxymoron, anaphora, apostrophe, alliteration, onomatopoeia (short videos, about 2 minutes) + a quiz about them
Deadline: 17 January, 11 o’clock p. m.
1) A quiz about literature in English
2) Gothic fiction (a video) + a quiz about it
3) Good Readers and Good Writers (an article by Vladimir Nabokov) + a quiz about it
The article is by far the best thing I have ever read on this subject.
Deadline: 17 January, 11 o’clock p. m.
B) An article about Jesse Owens + a quiz about it
C) The Greatest Paralympic Scandal of All Time (a video) + a quiz about it
Write an article. Follow the instructions here (do task 1 only). You have to actually physically write it on a sheet of paper and bring it to school. You can find more information about writing in the maturita exam here.
B) An article about Jesse Owens + a quiz about it
C) A short movie about a girl’s first ultramarathon + a quiz about it
A) Environment vocabulary quiz
B) Why I Live a Zero Waste Life (a video) + a quiz about it
C) An article about consumption + a quiz about it
Deadline: November 29, 11 o’clock
A) Travel vocabulary test (30 items)
B) Travel vocabulary video + 10 questions about it
C) An article about self-driving cars + 13 questions about it
Deadline: November 1, 11 o’clock
B) 9 things to know before working in London (a video, feel free to turn on the subtitles) + 12 questions about it
Deadline: October 11, 11 o’clock p.m.