Tenth week

Hi there again,

Last week we were revising quantifiers.We were talking about ways to improve our city, and we made four different political parties in class. You made political campaings. Congratulations to Auxi and Verónica, who will be excellent mayoresses. They promised to soundproof all pubs and bars in the city among other measures.

We finished unit 5A, so now you can finish all the activities in the workbook.
We also started unit 2A in the book. We revised vocabulary related to money as well as the phonetic transcriptions of some words (Book, page 147).

We introduced the differences between the Present Perfect Tense and the Past Simple tense.

Homework: - handouts 15 and 16 to practise present perfect.
- reading on page 22.

Next week, on Thursday, we will celebrate Thanksgiving. If you like history, here you can read about the origins of this celebration at the beginning of the 17th century. It is about the relationship between the Puritans and the native Americans. I recommend you to read it, as it is quite interesting!

See you in class next Tuesday!

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Hi everyone,

Next Wednesday we celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Here you have a listening activity related to this topic.

Ninth week

Hi everyone,

This week we revised personality adjectives with Taran, and we studied quantifiers. How are you getting on with them?

Here you have the key to handout 14 and Revise and Check Unit 1 (the green pages (18-19) in the book.

You have a quiz on quantifiers here.

For homework, you had to do handout 14, pages 18 and 19 in the book, and exercises in the workbook related to quantifiers (Unit 5A)

See you in class!

Eighth week

Hello everyone,

Last week we learnt many things!!

-How to refer to the future: arrangements, intentions, predictions (with or without evidence), decisions (instant or planned), promises, offers, suggestions.... That's a lot! So congratulations; you did very well.

- Personality adjectives. Try this quiz!! You will listen to a definition, for example: "A person who is quick at learning new things", and you have to choose one of three adjectives.

Here you will find a useful activity about synonyms related to this topic.

- We also learnt reflexive pronouns and reciprocal pronouns.

You have several handouts as homework: Handout 12 and 13; finishing unit 1C in the workbook and preparing a monologue: you will speak about two members in your family next Tuesday.

Watch this video "We are family" by Sister Sledge and do the activity in handout 13. It is a very special live performance:


Here you have the key to handout 13


We also spoke about "Bonfire Night", which is celebrated every 5th of November. Lewes is a town in England which is famous for this celebration. You can watch here what happened in that city last Thursday while we were in class. (How jealous!!!)

Listening UFOs and November the 5th

Hi there!

You can listen to a story which happened to a girl called Sue.
Download the activities here.

You can listen to the conversation here.



Would you like to learn more about what happened on the 5th of November 1605?
Click here and listen to the complete story. You can also download the script and do a quiz. Come on, try it!

Seventh week HALLOWEEEEEEN!!

Hi everyone,

This week we met Taran, our language assistant this year. Welcome Taran!
I am sure we will learn a lot with him.

We also solved questions related to time clauses and we talked about our past habits using "used to" and "would"

On Thursday, we celebrated Halloween.

Here you have the video that we watched in class:



And this is the spooky story that we were working on in class. You had to tell that story in the five steps/paragraphs, using sequencing adverbs, the past tenses, and including descriptions and dialogues.



Thanks to Paco and Miguel who did a great job. We enjoyed your story very much!


And here you have "This is Halloween", one of my favourite songs about Halloween



Don't forget to revise the future, vocabulary about personality and the family.

See you on Tuesday!

Halloween

Hello everyone,

Halloween is round the corner!! What would you like to do in class? Maybe you could write some suggestions here!

As we are learning how to tell stories, I think that it could be a good idea if you prepared a scary story to tell the rest of the class.

Watch this Simpsons episode! It is quite funny!
Maybe you will need to know these words:
- light switch
- breathing
- crafty
- sucking
- shivering
- footsteps



HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

For extension, you can visit these websites:
Celtic traditions related to Halloween
Halloween: History Channel. With videos, quizzes, texts, etc.