Friday, 25 December 2015

MERRY XMAS

 
 This is the best compilation of Christmas songs for you to play background while you're having lunch today! Don't stop English and Merry Christmas!!!! 

C1: 21st december 2015

Merry Xmas and sorry for my delay!

On our last class, we revised some phrasal verbs related to phone conversations. We role-played both formal and informal telephone conversations. The second part of the class was devoted to a pub quiz to make our last class before Christmas a bit fun :)

Homework:
Revision Units 1-5 pp.38-39 ex. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7
p. 45 ex. 5-6
Phrasal Verbs worksheet (on Zona de Usuarios)

Enjoy your holidays and happy Christmas!!!

2NA: 22nd December 2015

Merry Xmas!

On our last class, we saw the diferent ways to speculate in English (you have all the grammar on p.146). We played a pub quiz towards the end of the class to make our last class before Christmas a bit fun :)

Homework:
Grammar Bank p. 146
I'll also email you some tests to do during holidays.
Study! Our exams are just round the corner!

Enjoy your holidays and happy Christmas!!!

Saturday, 19 December 2015

2NA: 17th December 2015

Good morning everybody!

Last Thursday we revised the vocabulary we'd seen the previous class about the sounds and other verbs that hmans do. We had a look at some pronunciation problems we have when we have to pronounce 2 or 3 consonants sounds together. We talked about the five senses and prepared a little interaction about this topic. To finish with, we did a debating game in which you had to defend controversial points of view

Homework:
Modals of Speculations worksheet (on Zona de Usuarios)

Remember that on Tuesday we'll have our last class before Christmas holidays. We'll finish Unit 4A with the topic of the modals of speculation. See you there!

And have a nice General Elections weekend :)

Thursday, 17 December 2015

C1: 16th December 2015

Good morning everybody!

Yesterday we continued talking about Mobile Phones. From the book, we worked with the text on pages 42-43, seeing some phrasal verbs and collocations in context. Then, we did a listening about phone voice messages (p. 40) and we finished the class having a look at some more phrasals related to the topic we are dealing with.

Homework:
Book p. 41 Vocabulary ex. 1 + Corpus Spot (Collocations)
Book p. 40 Phrasal verbs (1) ex. 2 + 3

I remind you that on Monday we'll have our last class of the year. We'll finish Unit 6, doing some speaking practice on telephone comversations.

Enjoy your weekend and see you then!

2NA: Tuesday 15th December 2015

Good morning and sorry for my delay!

Last Tuesday we revised some vocabulary fro the previous unit 3B about Conflict and Warfare. We also started talking about Sounds and the senses. From the book, we did the listening on page 35 and the Vocabulary bank on page 164.

Homework:
Study vocabulary!!!
Read text p. 35 and do ex. 3c p. 34.

See you in a few hours!!

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

C1: Monday 14th December 2015

Good morning everyone!

Yesterday we started talking/revising Relative Clauses. We'll continue tomorrow with the correction of the last two exercises from the worksheet. We also played a game of Taboo and started talking about Mobile Phones. At the end of the class, we did a speaking activity about controversial topics while you were defending points of view that you don't really believe.

Homework:
Finish Relative Clauses worksheet (in case you haven't done it yet)
Do p. 37 ex. 4 and 5 (about relative clauses too)

That's all. See you tomorrow!

Saturday, 12 December 2015

C1: 9th December 2015

Hello! I'm so sorry for my delay but you know I've been very busy these days :(

On Wednesday we rehearsed different job interviews. Some of you were even chosen for a new job!! ;) We also did a Listening Task on the same topic. At the end of the class, you did a mock Reading exam, -which actually went really well!!!-.

Homework:
Relative Clauses worksheet (Zona de Usuarios). Try to do all the activities, in class we'll check some of them and I'll give you the key for the rest.

That's it for now. Have a nice weekend and see you on Monday!

Friday, 4 December 2015

2NA: 3rd December 2015

Good morning everybody,

yesterday we finihed Unit 3. We checked some vocabulary about Conflict and Warfare (p.163), saw different discourse markers (p.145) and spoke about memorable film scenes. We also discussed about history doing a couple of Listening tasks (p.32 Part 2 and p.33 In the Street).

Homework:
Discourse Markers worksheet (on Zona de Usuarios)
Write a summary (120-150 words) of a memorable scene of any film/series. (Deadline: Thursday, 10th):
  • Write a brief introductio of the film
  • Explain what happens in the scene
  • Say what made the scene memorable for you
That's all for now. Please, have a superb looooooooong weekend. See you on Thursday, 10th.

Thursday, 3 December 2015

C1: 2nd December 2015

Good morning!

yesterday we revised how to write Letters of Aplication (or Covering Letters). You can find the worksheet on which we based the class on the Zona de Usuarios. We also did a mock Listening Test.

Homework:
Vocabulary ex. 3-4 p. 36
Job Application Worksheet ex.D
Write a letter of aPplication answering one of the following adverts (deadline Wednesday 9th):
  • Skyscanner (on Job Application worksheet p. 1)
  • Global Stage UK (on Job Application worksheet p. 3)
  • Great Barriers Reef (book p. 35 Listening. If you didn't attend the class, you can find the script on p. 187)

Just in case you want to learn more about how to say different jobs in English check out the following link.
Next Wednesday we'll finish Unit 5 talking about Job Interviews. Meanwhile, have a superb long weekend!

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

2NA: 1st December 2015

Good afternoon,

yesterday we saw some common mistakes you made in your last Writing. We saw the differece between especially and specially and revised some basics about the order of the words in questions and statements. We reviewed some general vocabulary about Cinema and did a speaking activity about this topic. From the book, we did page 30 and, at the end of the class, we did a couple if Listening tasks based on the audios on page 31.

Homework:
(if you haven't done it yet) Vocabulary Bank p. 163
Read the texts on pp. 28-29 and do ex.b on p. 28
Grammar Bank p. 145 ex. a

See you tomorrow!

Tuesday, 1 December 2015

C1: 30th November 2015

Good morning!

yesterday we started a series of 3 sessions devoted to the topic of Work. We saw some vocabulary about the topic and we discussed about ideal jobs (page 34). Towards the end of the class, we did a challenging listening exercise about the company Skyscanner.

Homework:
Vocabulary worksheet ex. B (on Zona de Usuarios)
Reading p. 35 and do ex. Reading 2 on p. 34 (and write a line summarizing paragraphs 4 and 5)

Tomorrow we'll revise how to write a Covering Letter. And we'll also do a little Listening test :)

See you and...