Satura rādītājs:
Teorija
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | From Busy Streets to Open Fields | This vocabulary unit helps students learn and practise key words and phrases for describing urban and rural areas, places of residence, population, advantages and disadvantages, and for explaining ideas with relevant examples. |
| 2. | Exploring the Urban Jungle | This vocabulary unit helps students learn and practise key words and adjectives for describing city buildings, urban features and different types of cities, and for expressing opinions about city life clearly and accurately. |
| 3. | A Journey Through the Countryside | This vocabulary unit helps students learn and practise key words and adjectives for describing countryside landscapes, farming, livestock, rural buildings and tools, and for expressing preferences about rural life. |
| 4. | Turn Up the Comparison | This grammar unit helps students understand and practise using intensifiers and modifiers to express large, small or no differences in comparisons, and form regular and irregular comparative and superlative adjectives accurately. |
| 5. | The Power of Quantifiers | This grammar unit helps students understand and practise using quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns, including few, a few, little, a little, either, neither, both, each, every, all, no and none of, clearly and accurately. |
Uzdevumi
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Tips | Grūtības pakāpe | Punkti | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Vocabulary Routes | 1. izziņas līmenis | zema | 3 p. | Organises place-related vocabulary into semantic categories. Task description: In this matching task, students have to match each vocabulary item with the correct meaning group. |
| 2. | Comparative Power | 1. izziņas līmenis | zema | 6 p. | Applies knowledge of regular and irregular adjective comparison. Task description: In this writing task, students have to read each base form and write its correct comparative and superlative forms. |
| 3. | Places in Focus: A Reporter’s Journey | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Refines vocabulary understanding through contextual clues. Task description: In this multiple-choice reading task, students have to read each sentence from a reporter’s travel notes and choose from four options the meaning closest to the highlighted word in that context. |
| 4. | A Vocabulary Walk Through Edinburgh | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Applies city-related vocabulary in context. Task description: In this drop-down reading task, students have to read a fact file and sentences about Edinburgh and choose the most precise word to complete each sentence. |
| 5. | A Stone Village by the Sea | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Builds listening comprehension and recognition of countryside vocabulary from spoken descriptions. Task description: In this matching listening task, students have to read the fact file about Skara Brae, listen to a description and match it with the vocabulary word that best fits the meaning. |
| 6. | City Life or Country Life? Spot the Strength of the Comparison | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Consolidates understanding of comparison structures and their degree of difference. Task description: In this matching task, students have to read each sentence and match the highlighted comparison structure with the correct category. |
| 7. | Reading the Clues: Quantifiers in Context | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Checks understanding of quantifiers and equivalent meaning in context. Task description: In this multiple-choice reading task, students have to read each short situation and choose from four options the sentence that expresses the same meaning. |
| 8. | Urban Clues | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Checks understanding of ideas and supporting details across several texts. Task description: In this matching reading task, students have to read four texts about urban development and match each statement with the text that mentions the idea. |
| 9. | Trieste: A City Between the Sea and the Hills | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Demonstrates understanding of stated, contradicted and unstated information in a descriptive text. Task description: In this matching reading task, students have to read a text about Trieste and match each statement with true, false or not mentioned. |
| 10. | Beyond the Green Postcard | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Connects numerical details with their significance in an informative text. Task description: In this matching reading task, students have to read a text about life in the Irish countryside and match each statement with the number that supports it. |
| 11. | The Language of Difference | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Applies understanding of comparison structures and degrees of difference in context. Task description: In this drop-down reading task, students have to read each short situation and choose the comparison phrase that best completes the sentence. |
| 12. | In the Valley of Waterfalls | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Applies knowledge of quantifiers, countable and uncountable nouns, and subject–verb agreement in context. Task description: In this drop-down reading task, students have to read a fact file and short travel situations about Lauterbrunnen and choose the correct option to complete each sentence. |
| 13. | 26 Different Endings | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Checks understanding of stated, contradicted and unstated information. Task description: In this multiple-choice listening task, students listen to an audio guide about Mark Power’s “26 Different Endings” and decide whether each statement is true, false or not mentioned. |
| 14. | Discovering the Hidden Rhythm of Tbilisi | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Identifies specific details in an audio report. Task description: In this listening-and-writing task, students listen to a recording about Tbilisi and complete each sentence with two or three words from the recording. |
| 15. | Piornedo | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Checks understanding of specific details and the speaker’s message. Task description: In this multiple-choice listening task, students listen to a local speaker talking about Piornedo and choose the best answer to each question from four options. |
| 16. | A Tale of Three Capitals | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Compares key characteristics of three European capitals. Task description: In this matching listening task, students listen to a short talk about Ljubljana, Bern and Bratislava and match each sentence with the correct capital. |
| 17. | Freiburg’s Urban and Rural Identity | 3. izziņas līmenis | augsta | 3 p. | Applies vocabulary inference and text-search skills. Task description: In this reading-and-writing task, students read a text about Freiburg and use each definition and paragraph number to find and write the exact word or phrase from the text. |
| 18. | The Biology Behind Moving to the Countryside | 2. izziņas līmenis | augsta | 3 p. | Identifies stated, contradicted and unstated information in an audio report. Task description: In this drop-down listening task, students listen to a recording about the biology behind moving to the countryside and decide whether each statement is true, false or not mentioned. |
Papildu uzdevumi (slēpti no skolēniem)
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Tips | Grūtības pakāpe | Punkti | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Word Alchemy | Citi | augsta | 3 p. | Refines word-formation accuracy in urban and rural contexts. Task description: In this writing task, students complete each sentence by changing the word in brackets into the correct form. |
| 2. | Grammar Repair Challenge | Citi | vidēja | 3 p. | Applies knowledge of quantifiers and subject–verb agreement in context. Task description: In this error-correction writing task, students find the grammar mistake in each sentence and rewrite the whole sentence correctly. |
| 3. | The Essay Blueprint | Citi | augsta | 3 p. | Connects an essay plan with an appropriate thesis statement. Task description: In this multiple-choice reading task, students read the essay title, introduction idea and main arguments and choose the thesis sentence that best represents the whole plan. |
Testi
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Ieteicamais ilgums: | Grūtības pakāpe | Punkti | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Life Between the City and the Countryside I | 00:20:00 | vidēja | 21 p. | This training test includes vocabulary, reading, listening and writing tasks on the topic of cities and countryside, with a focus on recognising key topic-related vocabulary, understanding factual and implied information, and using language accurately in context. Students also practise grammar connected with adjectives, comparative structures, quantifiers and word formation in exam-style tasks. |
| 2. | Life Between the City and the Countryside II | 00:20:00 | vidēja | 18 p. | This set of tasks includes vocabulary, reading and listening activities on the topic of cities and countryside, helping students build topic-related vocabulary, understand information in context and recognise key details in spoken and written texts. Students also practise grammar connected with comparison and quantifiers before moving on to more challenging exam-style tasks. |
Mājasdarbu testi (slēpti no skolēniem)
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Ieteicamais ilgums: | Grūtības pakāpe | Punkti | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Life Between the City and the Countryside II* | 00:40:00 | vidēja | 33 p. | This test includes grammar, vocabulary and listening tasks on the topic of cities and countryside, with a focus on comparison structures, quantifiers, contextual vocabulary use and synonyms. Students also practise identifying factual information in spoken texts and correcting grammar errors in sentences about city and countryside life. |