Fifth week

Hello everyone,

How is it going?

Last week we were revising the different ways to convey past actions adn the use of the article "the". We were also talking about football and hinted ways to improve our narrations and our opinion essays. In phonetics, we learnt how to produce and identify the vowel sounds in "horse" and "bird". I think you should practice saying them in different sentences.

Next week we will improve these two types of texts, we will continue talking about sport (you had to do the exercises on Vocabulary and Reading in unit 1B, don't forget to do that. We will also start speaking about the future using vocabulary related to families.

Here you have some more exercises on sports so that you can widen your knowledge and vocabulay about them.

Football
Answers to "Football"

Tennis
Answers to "Tennis"
Tennis" Glossary

Dangerous situations

Hello again everyone,

As we are going to start talking about sports and past anecdotes, here you have a vocabulary and listening activity which my colleague Laura Jiménez has selected for her students. I thought it would be a nice activity for you too.



You can download the document and key with transcript here
Sports

Good luck!

Fourth week

Hello everyone,

Last week we continued talking about food, but this time we included a restaurant situation. Do not forget to revise the typical expressions in a restaurant.

We also learnt some aspects about the use of articles and we advanced some grammatical uses of the past simple, continuous and perfect. You can do the activities on page 130 in your student book.

Here you have some extension on the uses of the past perfect with activities.

As for homework, you have to finish unit 1A in the workbook, and handouts 5 and 6. You can ask any questions in class. You also have to revise the speaking activity on page 7 in the book.

See you in class!

Fruit and Vegetable Idioms

Hello everyone,

Here you have a funny video to learn some idioms which include fruit names. Think about how you would say these expressions in your mother tongue.





And now, vegetable idioms:



After you watch them, if there is anything you don't quite understand, here you have the script to fruit idioms and the one to vegetable idioms.

I hope you enjoy them!

Third week

Hi there,

This week we have been talking about food...(yummm) and our linguistic focus was on phonetic transcriptions and on the present simple and continuous.

We also met our language assistant, Paul, who showed us what Afternoon Tea is.

As for homework, you can click on the numbers to get the key to handouts 2 and 3.

Here you have an extra reading activity to practice True/False sentences. Thanks to my colleague Laura Jiménez, who recommended it.

See you in class!

Podcasts

Hi there!

Our classmate Tíscar recommended this website in class:
http://www.listen-to-english.com/?cat=podcasts

You can either subscribe so that they will send you podcasts with exercises to your email or you can simply visit periodically that website and practice listening, reading, writing and even speaking if you try to do activities orally.

It will be quite useful for you, I am sure.
Thank you Tíscar!

Welcome everyone

Hello!!!

A new course has just started, new students, old friends... We are at intermediate level, so congratulations and let's get started!!!

After all the introductions, greetings and "I've heard a lot about you", a new relationship between Mark and Alli..., descriptions, and a couple of more exercises, our next step will be talking about FOOD and DIET.

You have handout 2 to learn more vocabulary, but do not forget to look up the words in the dictionary to check pronunciation. I will upload the key here next week.

You can have a look at these websites about food and check pronunciation. It is American English, so some lexicon might be different and of course, you will notice some changes in pronunciation:

Fruit
Vegetables
Food
Food 2

Have a nice weekend!