miércoles, 20 de diciembre de 2017

19th December. 2ºIntermedio

Tuesday

  • Homework correction
  • Copies pack how to describe a picture in the exam. Check EDMODO to have access to the theory
  • Copies page 2. Listening. Collecting things
  • Copies pack page 3. News and Events conversation. Newspaper sections
  • Book page 28. Stress Patterns
  • Copies pack page 7. Stress Patterns
  • Video. Garfield Christmas
  • Homework!! Check EDMODO. Christmas Homework (2 readings, 2 listenings and 2 voluntary writings)

martes, 19 de diciembre de 2017

18th December. 2º Avanzado

Monday

  • We have started unit 3A and discussed about why getting married (copy 1) and reasons why men/women either want or don't want to get married
  • Book page 24 1a) and 1c) Text reading
  • Listening exam practice. People in copies page 4. 
  • Group A. Cleft Sentences exercises copy
  • Video. Simpsons Christmas Stories
  • Christmas Homework!! Check Edmodo>Christmas Homework


miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2017

12th and 14th December. 2º Intermedio

Tuesday
  • Homework correction
  • Conversation copies. Bullying.
  • Conversation copies. Page 3. Typical age groups behaviour
  • Book page 26. 3a) Vocabulary and listening 2.10 and 2.11
  • Film clip. Past Simple vs. Continuous  
  • Copies page 2. Discussion
  • No homework!!
Thursday
  • Conversation copies. Punishment and teenage situations
  • Copies. Listening practice. Fill in the gaps
  • Book page 27. Group reading 27. Reading and Speaking. 5a) and b)
  • Song. Young Folks
  • Book page 28. Vocabulary 1b)
  • Photography copy. Conversation on page 1
  • Homework!! Book page 155. Photography Vocabulary

martes, 12 de diciembre de 2017

11th and 13th December. 2ºAvanzado

Monday
  • Homework correction 
  • Book page 96. Requirements for becoming a British citizen
  • Copies. Uk Quiz and Cleft Sentences exercises
  • Copies. Manners. Bad Habits. First part of the copy conversation
  • Book page 94. Listening 5.25 and 5.27
  • Homework!! Book page 97 exercise d) and book page 20. Suffixes, a) d) and f)
Wednesday
  • Homework correction
  • We have finished the bad habits manner copy conversation and video on behaviour
  • Vocabulary. False friends
  • Book page 97. Vocabulary 6. Words that are often confused
  • Book page 95. 5.28. Listening and Vocabulary
  • No homework!!


miércoles, 6 de diciembre de 2017

5th December. 2º Intermedio

Tuesday

  • Conversation copies. Age/Schooldays
  • What is the best age to...
  • Book page 25. Conversation. When I was young ...used to...
  • Copies. Minions. Used to. Conversation and video
  • Monologue exposition
  • Conversation on page 2. Sentences... more typical for young or old people?
  • Homework!! Grammar copy: Used to, past simple, past continuous... and Reading homework in Edmodo. Carpetas>reading practice. 5th December (two tasks with no dictionary and in 60 minutes)


martes, 5 de diciembre de 2017

4th December. 2ºAvanzado

Monday

  • Copy. British Culture conversation and listening to 3 speakers
  • Book page 158. Cleft Sentences
  • Copy. Immigration conversation and video. How has immigration changed Britain?
  • Homework!! Reading Practice to be seen in Edmodo. Carpetas>Reading Practice ("A thousand Splendid Suns and Values for Society) Remember to write the report as well

miércoles, 29 de noviembre de 2017

28th and 30th November

Tuesday
  • Revise and Check homework correction
  • Copies. Adjectives (exorbitant...) and food idioms
  • Book page 23. Listening 1.47
  • Copy. Units 1 and 2 revision and oral exam practice topics
  • Unit 3. Film clip. Conversation. Would you live forever??
  • Homework!! Book page 21. Reading c)
Thursday
  • Homework correction
  • Copies pack. Generation Gap conversation and sentence discussion
  • Copies. Video. Page 3. Will I lose my memory when I get old?
  • Group B. Film vocabulary (in the blink of an eye...etc)
  • Book page 24. 1a) and d)
  • Book page 136. Past Simple, Continuous or used to...
  • Copies. Used to. Celebrities
  • No homework!!

martes, 28 de noviembre de 2017

27th and 29th November

Monday
  • Homework correction
  • We have finished the copy of "Memories/Age". Vocabulary and Childhood questionnaire conversation
  • We have finished the copy of Intelligence and Brain. Conversation and two video watching
  • Book page 23.Video. True or False
  • Song. The Best Day
  • No homework!!
Wednesday
  • How to write and article. Book page 114. Copies model
  • Copies. Listening Practice, The Eastland
  • Copies. Culture Shock. Conversation and listening. What is culture Shock
  • Video. Chinese Culture Shock
  • Domino Sayings. To be uploaded in EDMODO
  • Homework!! 200 word article on the changes over marrige, dating and male and female roles over the past 30 years

miércoles, 22 de noviembre de 2017

21st and 23rd November. 2º Intermedio

Tuesday
  • Homework correction
  • Copies pack. Money and Shopping. Conversation on page 6 (3, 4 and 5)
  • Copies pack. Listening. Speakers. Shopping likes and dislikes
  • Book page 135. Possessives. Tasks a) and b)
  • Book page 20. Pronunciation. 4a) and 4b)
  • Book page 20. Coversation e)
  • Copies pack 1 (Money and Shopping). Task 1. Conversation. Do you agree or disagree?
  • No Homework!!
Thursday

  • Copies pack money problems conversation.
  • Listening practice. Plastic Money (true or false) 
  • Dicussion. Copies page 3. 
  • Debate. Sentences on page 4
  • Copy. Possessives practice
  • Video. Mr. Bean Shopping
  • Video. Story of Thanksgiving
  • Homework!! Book. Revise and check. Pages 22 and 23. Grammar, Vocabulary and Reading


martes, 21 de noviembre de 2017

20th and 22nd November 2ºAvanzado

Monday
  • Homework correction
  • Copy. Communicative. All about English
  • Copy. English accents (in group B, video and place pronunciation)
  • Copy. Memories. Conversation on ageing and age differences (attitudes...) What is the best age to...?
  • In group A monologue example
  • Book page 143. The past. Habitual Events and specific incidents
  • Book page 21. Listening. 1.39
  • Homework!! Book page 143 task b)
Wednesday
  • Homework correction
  • Copies on memory and age. Page 2. Conversation and discussion; Page 3. Video. Okinawa (True and False sentences)
  • Copy. Used to and would Practice
  • Video. Thanksgiving
  • Group B. Conversation on page 3. Sentence discussion
  • Homework!! Copies. Narrative Tenses and Revise and Check from book pages 22 and 23 (grammar, vocabulary and reading)

miércoles, 15 de noviembre de 2017

14th and 16th November. 2º Intermedio

Tuesday
  • Homework correction
  • Copies. Question forms (and conversation) and present tense revision
  • Copies. Off the beaten track destinations. Conversation. 
  • Homework!! For next Tuesday the 21st, write a report on the worst/best holiday you have ever had. Model and hints in the last copy of the pack
  • Copy. It's nice in Nice: Nice adjectives....we have written alternatives
  • Homework!! For Thursday substitute the "awful" adjectives
  • Book page 18. Short conversation on shops and services
  • Copies. Shopping habits conversation
Thursday
  • Homework correction
  • Copies pack. We have talked about online shopping and healthy shopping
  • Book page 19. Listening and Speaking. Tasks 2b) and listening 1.40
  • Video on Black Friday and conversation
  • Homework!! Book page 154. Shops and Services vocabulary

martes, 14 de noviembre de 2017

13th and 15th November. 2ºAvanzado

Monday
  • Conversation about language learning (alternatives to language learning, etc)
  • Copies. Tongue Twisters and Rhymes
  • Video. David Crystal
  • Book page 15. Pronunciation
  • Book page 142. Grammar. Pronouns. Task a)
  • Homework!! Book page 142. Tasks b) and c)
  • Copies. Conversation. Common frustrations when learning a language
Wednesday
  • Homework correction
  • Copies. Language learning conversation and prepositions
  • Polyglots conversation (last copy page) Video. Fawlty Towers
  • Copy. Grammar. Pronouns
  • Homework!! Task b from pronouns copy
  • Monologue speech
  • Book page 17. Listenings 1.29; 1.31; 1.32
  • Homework!! Vocabulary on page 16
  • Dialects Video (only group A)


miércoles, 8 de noviembre de 2017

7th and 9th November

Tuesday
  • Homework correction
  • Copies. Holidays and Travelling conversation: Disastrous holidays, complaints
  • Video. A disastrous holiday with Airbnb
  • Book page . Listening 1.31
  • No homework!!
Thursday
  • We have discussed several holiday types destination and agreed on three. Page 4 in copies
  • We have also commented on several controversial holiday issues on page 4. What is your opinion?
  • Listening to Melissa a travel writer on page 2
  • Book page 15. Cheap holiday ideas
  • book page 134. Grammar. Present Tenses. Exercises a) and b)
  • Copy page 4/5 alternative tourism
  • Homework!! Book page 16. Reading task 6B

martes, 7 de noviembre de 2017

6th and 8th November

Monday
  • Homework correction
  • In your copies pack we have talked about office space, stress and being a workaholic (with an audio)
  • Book page 13. In the Street listening and conversation in 4.
  • Homework!! Edmodo. Reading file (Shoppers Beware, multiple choice)
Wednesday
  • Reading homework correction
  • Copy. Oral exam practice for unit 1 (topics compilation)
  • We have started unit 2. Book page 14. Listening 1.25
  • Book page 15. We have read the text
  • Copy. Minimal Pairs.
  • Video. David Crystal on technology and language
  • Running Dictation
  • No homework!! 

miércoles, 1 de noviembre de 2017

31st October/ 2nd November. 2ºIntermedio

Tuesday
  • Reading Homework correction
  • Copies on clothes and fashion. Conversation on pages 3/4 from copies pack
  • Listening exam practice on copies page 3. Loius Vuitton Suitcase. You can find the audio in EDMODO
  • Copies pack page 2. Colour codes vocabulary
  • Halloween Kahoot (Game)
  • Copy. Comparatives and Superlatives conversation
  • No homework!!

Thursday

  • We have finished the comparatives grammar copy
  • Copy. Film Song. Tangled. We have worked with different adjectives
  • Book page 14. Listening 1.27.
  • Book page 14. /s/ vs. /z/ sounds
  • Copy. Holidays. Holiday types and what are the benefits of travelling (conversation)
  • Homework!! Book page 153. Holidays vocabulary; Copy in clothes and fashion. Vocabulary (sentence completion);  Quiz vocabulary


martes, 31 de octubre de 2017

30th October. 2º Avanzado

Monday

  • Book homework correction
  • Conversation and video. Best job in the world. Three candidate analysis
  • Book pages 112 and 113. How to write a formal (covering letter) 
  • Copies. How to write a formal letter; linking words
  • Homework!! Copies. Linking words (complete the two copies) and write a formal covering letter for the position described on page 113 in the book
  • Halloween Kahott/ Video. Zombies in plain English


miércoles, 25 de octubre de 2017

24th and 26th October. 2º Intermedio

Tuesday
  • Copy. Pronouns revision. You will find some expra practice in EDMODO
  • Book page 6. Listening 1.7 and Speaking on page 7
  • We have finished the Ads and Brands copy. With some listening practice and Ads conversation
  • Homework!! Book page 152. Adjective Suffixes and Story composition
Thursday
  • Homework correction
  • Clothes and Fashion conversation
  • Book page 9. Listening 1.15
  • Copies. Conversation. Ask Anita
  • Book page 133. Task a) Adjectives
  • Copies. Song. New Shoes
  • Homework!! Complete two reading tasks in no more than 60 min. To be found in EDMODO

martes, 24 de octubre de 2017

23rd and 25th October. 2ºAvanzado

Monday
  • Homework correction
  • Copies. We have finished the "Speed Flatmating copy" talking about good and bad flatmates. Similes vocabulary (as clear as mud...)
  • Book pages 6. Reading a) and 7. Text vocabulary (you can take the text at home if you wish, since we have not taken it in class)
  • Book page 9. Task f)
  • Homework!! Book page 8, tasks d) and e)
  • Professions copy. Listening exam practice. Multiple choice. Ebay
  • Copies. Page 2. Fact File. Conversation
Wednesday
  • Homework correction
  • We have worked with professions vocabulary (copies)
  • Book page 10 tasks 3a) and 3c) and listening on page 11 1.13
  • Book page 141. Discourse markers. Task a)
  • Homework!! Book page 141 tasks b) and c) and voabulary on page 161. Work
  • Copies conversation on job interviews. Video. Heineken job interview

miércoles, 18 de octubre de 2017

17th and 19th October. 2º Intermedio

Tuesday
  • We have finished your introduction copies (talking about language learning preferences)
  • Listening practice (you can listen to it again in EDMODO)
  • Book page 4. Exercise 3b)
  • Copies. What is in a name? Conversation and the origin of names...
  • Homework!! Book page 5 task e) and the listening exercise in EDMODO (multiple choice- report on parents and children)
Thursday
  • We have finished "What's in a name copy"
  • Book page 4. Listening 1.2
  • Book page 132. Pronouns grammar
  • Copies Ads and Brands. Conversation. Ads analysis
  • Homework!! Paragraph writing copy

martes, 17 de octubre de 2017

16th and 18th October. 2º Avanzado

Monday
  • Homework correction (grammar from book and listening from EDMODO)
  • Book page 5. Conversation 2B
  • Copies Family Life. Conversation and vocabulary. Family types and how to agree and disagree
  • Copies. Listening practice. Speakers' partners
  • Copies. Vocabulary to describe photographs and family relationships (we have not finished the copy yet)
  • Homework!! Book page 160. Personality Vocabulary
Wednesday
  • Homework correction (book vocabulary page 160)
  • Copies. Families relationships vocabulary (envious of...)
  • Copy. Song. Kiss the bride
  • Book page 6. Vocabulary Personality. Task 4
  • Copies. Conversation. The Survivors. Personality adjectives
  • Speed Flatmating. Video and Conversation
  • Homework!! Go to EDMODO and in the Reading Exam practice Folder you will find a reading task. On Monday I will give you the answers

miércoles, 11 de octubre de 2017

10th October 2ºIntermedio

Tuesday
  • Star presentation
  • Vowel sounds. Cards practice
  • Song. Adele. Phonetics. Copies presentation number 4
  • Game. Grammar and Vocabulary revision
  • Copies. Conversation copy 1(question formation revision)
  • Voluntary Homework!! In Edmodo you will find some grammar and vocabulary test with its answers. Take it if you wish

martes, 10 de octubre de 2017

9th and 11th October. 2ºAvanzado

Monday
  • Warm-up copies. Conversation. How do you feel about the new course?
  • Phonetics. Vowels revision. Cards exercise
  • Song. Adelle. Fire to the rain. (Phonetics)
  • Conversation. Warm-up copies 2
  • Quirky news. (conversation and short reading)
  • Voluntary Homework!! Video Keep Calm and carry on (task on page 1 and complete video y EDMODO) and grammar and vocabulary revision (answers are attached in EDMODO)
Wednesday
  • We have finished with the warm-up copies. Copy pages 3 and 4, we have read the text and debated on the topic later
  • Listening on page 9 (multiple choice)
  • Homework! Copies pack page 10. Listening Speakers. To be heard in EDMODO (answers will be given on Monday)
  • Game. Vocabulary revision (path choices)
  • Book page 140. Have as an auxiliary and main verb. Task a)
  • Homework!! Task b) page 140
  • Copies Family Life. Video and Conversation The Cason Family

lunes, 9 de octubre de 2017

5th October. 2º Intermedio

Thursday
  • Presentación del curso
  • Decálogo del buen alumno/profesor
  • Getting to know each other (conversation)

jueves, 5 de octubre de 2017

4th October. 2ºAvanzado

Wednesday
  • Presentación del curso
  • Decálogo del buen alumno/profesor
  • Getting to know each other. Conversation copy