Oral Project Form. Return by 8.4.15

Hello, everyone. Here's a form I've drawn up for the Oral Project. I think it's pretty self-explanatory, but to summarise, you should form groups, agree on a project, and decide how you want to organise it. 

Each group should fill out a copy of the form for me by Wednesday 8th, and each member of the group should have the same information on their own form. 

Enjoy your break.

Class 23.3.15

Today we reviewed about:

1.- Future verb forms: going to, will, present simple, present continuos and future continuos.
2.- Then we talked about plans for easter.
3.- We also speaker about city wild life.
4.- Finally we did the exercises of page 43 students book.

HW WB p26 2 and p27

We have a break from 25th March-8th April but we have to do a writing 150 words about novel CDRom U5

Important: 27th April no class

Yesterday, we started doing the quick review on page 42. Also we talked in groups about what we had read in the text on this page and we answered questions in exercise 2 (b).

We checked in groups exercise 6 and 7 on page 41 and did exercise 8 on this page too.

Finally we practiced and learned the vocabulary of phrasal verbs on page 42 in exercise 1.

HW:   WB p26. Ex1 and     SB p44. Ex3b ; p45. Reading

IT WAS WRITTEN BY IRENE SANCHEZ.

Class 11.3.15

Yesterday we talked about pets, and we learnt about pets and its vocabulary, and read about Koi  (p. 40). We did exercises 1 and 2 (p. 40). Then we saw our exams. And finally we learnt comparatives and adejtives. and we did exercises 3 and 5 (p.41)

HW: SB p. 41. Ex 6+7. And WB pg 25/26, Ex 5A

Monday, 09/03/2015

 Yesterday, we started doing a quick review on page 38 in which we told our partner a memorable evening for practicing connecting words (actually, however, anyway…). We learned how to say we’re surprised or not surprised doing the exercise 3 of page 39 and exercises 4, 5, 6 and 7 of page 39. Finally, we remembered vocabulary about crime doing the exercises 1 and 3, the second conditional in exercise 2 and the third conditional doing the exercise 4, all in page 117. We only used the SB.

 Tomorrow we’ll have an exam of units 3 and 4, so if you need more practice, you can do and extra practice on pages 117 and 118 in the SB, use the DVD room or do the exercises that are posted on the blog (09/03/15).

 Good luck in the exam!!!

 Michel.

Review for Progress Test II 11.3.15

Hello, everyone.

Here's some material to help you review for our exam on Wednesday. 

The answers are at the bottom of the page, though you'll have to turn the image upside-down to read them. 

Just in case you're wondering how that's done, you can right click on the image, then 'guardar como..' and use either the arrows at the bottom of the page or right click again + 'Girar...'

See you in class.

Tom

Meanwhile vs while.

  

Here's a little more information on how we use 'while' and 'meanwhile'. I hope you find it useful. The answers to the practice section are available in the following post.

Meanwhile	While
Connects 2 sentences	I sentence. 2 actions
At the beginning of 2nd sentence.	At the beginning or middle of the sentence.
Followed by a comma.	No comma.
Followed by a subject.	Followed by a subject or an …ing verb.
Examples :  I went to a concert. Meanwhile, my dad was at a restaurant. Mom worked all day. Meanwhile, I was at school.	Examples: I’ll do my homework whil you watch TV. While you were singing, I took your photo. Every day I eat breakfast while reading the newspaper.
Practice:      1. People were at home watching TV.  ­­­­­­­­­­­­__________, aliens were planning to invade the earth.      2. __________ I was waiting for Irene, I heard a loud noise.      3.  I read a lot of books ________ I was on the cruise.

Meanwhile vs while - Answers.

1. Meanwhile.

2. While.

3. While.

Wednesday, 4-3-15

Today in class, we practised "connecting words" with the exercise 4.c, page 37, Student Book. In addition, we did the exercise 6 about more connecting words that when we hear we know what the speaker is going to do. To more practice, we did the speaking activity of page 111. Then, we worked about "ways of exagerating". We did the exercise 1 of page 38 to practice this vocabulary. In the end, we did a listening (exercise 2, page 38) about this topic.

HOMEWORK: Workbook: page 24, exercise: 1 and 2
Student Book: 2b, page 38 (YOU HAVE TO WATCH THE DVD ROOM, DVD 4D).

Monday, 2-3-15

Today in class, we did a crossword (wordbook, page 21) to review books vocabulary. After, we did a speaking activity telling about our novel to practise narrative tenses. If you want more practice of narrative tense, check the DVD Room, Unit 4A: "Narrative verb forms". To review the vocabulary of every unit, you can use the review video of the DVD Room, which is a soap opera and very usefull. Also, we did the 3a and 6 of studentbook, page 35 and we spoke about the April fool's day of page 36 (studentbook too).

HOMEWORK: Studentbook: page 37, exercise 4.a (you can check your answers with the book), and 4.b (IT IS IMPORTANT TO DO THIS EXERCISE BECAUSE WE ARE USE IT IN CLASS).
Workbook: page 21, exercise 2.
Extrapratice: www.perfect-English-grammar.com

Don't forget to continue reading your novel!