Hiya!
I hope you are having a nice weekend!
What I remember best from last Tuesday is that we had the great oportunity to taste red pepper jam with cheese spread over toasts... Thank you Ana!!
Then, we revised the narrative structure and you did peer corrections of your partners' stories. They were quite funny, I must admit!
Later, we were talking about spas and health farms, and we did the listening activity on unit 5B. We also checked a great deal of homework!! and learnt how to pronounce "how words work (in the world)" (sounds /3:/ and /o:/) and the different phonetic realisations of the article "the".
We also talked about "men things" and "women things"... We drew the conclusion that maybe they are all stereotypes, but sometimes they are true! Click here to listen to a "6 Minutes English" article entitled "Men are the weaker sex".
Then on Thursday we recorded your stories and did a listening activity about "Friends reunited".
We were using "used to" in the after-listening activities, and we will check it next Tuesday. You had handout 9 to practice it, and here you can download its key. Of course, you have more grammar activities on the grammar bank, workbook and Multi-ROM.
If you click here, you will listen to an article from BBC Learning English about Friends Reunited, which you can also read (I highly recommend this activity, but remember: first, listen twice or three times before you give up to read).
And, as homework, you had to do some activities on page 63 (how words work and opinions)
See you on Tuesday!
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Remember, remember the 5th of November...
Tonight is Bonfire Night!!
Watch this:
And on this video, we have an American's point of view on what happens in Lewes (the most famous city for their celebrations on the 5th of November)
Watch this:
And on this video, we have an American's point of view on what happens in Lewes (the most famous city for their celebrations on the 5th of November)
Seventh week
Hello everyone,
This week we have been learning how to use the article and revising how to give opinions. We will be doing this all throughout the year, so that is why it is so important.
We also revised how to pronounce the final -ed. If you need some more practice, click here.
Remember the importance of reading aloud. If you feel like no-one is correcting you, play the audio CDs that come with the readers. Read aloud,then listen to the same text and correct yourselves.
We were also revising the use of narrative tenses. Here you have the key to handouts 7 and 8.
And the key to handout 10 (use of the article)
Next Tuesday you will have to read your stories about Daniel, the mutant cockroach and another extra-character. Remember the strategies you have to use (The grammar, the vocabulary, the textual structure, and sequencing adverbs).
Now the "dark" news: Homework:
- Complete your workbook units 1B and 5B
- Pages 144-145 in the student's book
- Grammar units 1B and 5B in the student's book (pages 130 and 138).
- Listen to some stories from the link I wrote in last week's entry.
- Practice pronunciation reading aloud and revising phonetics symbols using your CD Rom.
Finally, you can see here our Halloween party, with Daniel,our winner!!
I hope this will be soon published on the School Youtube channel.
eoi granada halloween from maribel alvarez on Vimeo.
This week we have been learning how to use the article and revising how to give opinions. We will be doing this all throughout the year, so that is why it is so important.
We also revised how to pronounce the final -ed. If you need some more practice, click here.
Remember the importance of reading aloud. If you feel like no-one is correcting you, play the audio CDs that come with the readers. Read aloud,then listen to the same text and correct yourselves.
We were also revising the use of narrative tenses. Here you have the key to handouts 7 and 8.
And the key to handout 10 (use of the article)
Next Tuesday you will have to read your stories about Daniel, the mutant cockroach and another extra-character. Remember the strategies you have to use (The grammar, the vocabulary, the textual structure, and sequencing adverbs).
Now the "dark" news: Homework:
- Complete your workbook units 1B and 5B
- Pages 144-145 in the student's book
- Grammar units 1B and 5B in the student's book (pages 130 and 138).
- Listen to some stories from the link I wrote in last week's entry.
- Practice pronunciation reading aloud and revising phonetics symbols using your CD Rom.
Finally, you can see here our Halloween party, with Daniel,our winner!!
I hope this will be soon published on the School Youtube channel.
eoi granada halloween from maribel alvarez on Vimeo.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Sixth week
Hi there!
Are you enjoying your bank holiday? I really hope so.
I have been reading your recipes and I am just waiting for you to send them back so that I can publish them in the blog are create a book in isuu.
I found a site in BBC Learning English were people are sending their recipes. Maybe you could also participate and send them!! Click here to have a look at some of the recipes and send yours if you like. I want to thank Jessyka, as she was the only one who sent a picture of herself cooking paella... I would like to have a picture of all of you to include in our cookbook, please!!
Last Tuesday we were revising the narrative structure and narrative tenses. You had to re-tell a sport anecdote following the given structure.
We were also revising the uses of past simple, past continuous, past perfect and the use of the gerund after "after" and "before".
Next day we will continue practicing this.
Here you have the Power Point Presentation that we used in class to study the uses of the narrative tenses. The extracts were taken from The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Times:
As we are learning the narrative structure, you can listen to one story every week on this site: http://storynory.com/ They are stories for children, so very easy to understand. I specially recommned the three last horror stories.
As homework, you had to do some handouts, especially 7 and 8 for next day. Next week we will work on handouts 9 and 10.
On Thursday, we celebrated Halloween. I am a bit disappointed because only Daniel came, but I am REALLY HAPPY for him, as he won the FIRS PRIZE!!! Congratulations Daniel!!
Are you enjoying your bank holiday? I really hope so.
I have been reading your recipes and I am just waiting for you to send them back so that I can publish them in the blog are create a book in isuu.
I found a site in BBC Learning English were people are sending their recipes. Maybe you could also participate and send them!! Click here to have a look at some of the recipes and send yours if you like. I want to thank Jessyka, as she was the only one who sent a picture of herself cooking paella... I would like to have a picture of all of you to include in our cookbook, please!!
Last Tuesday we were revising the narrative structure and narrative tenses. You had to re-tell a sport anecdote following the given structure.
We were also revising the uses of past simple, past continuous, past perfect and the use of the gerund after "after" and "before".
Next day we will continue practicing this.
Here you have the Power Point Presentation that we used in class to study the uses of the narrative tenses. The extracts were taken from The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Times:
As we are learning the narrative structure, you can listen to one story every week on this site: http://storynory.com/ They are stories for children, so very easy to understand. I specially recommned the three last horror stories.
As homework, you had to do some handouts, especially 7 and 8 for next day. Next week we will work on handouts 9 and 10.
On Thursday, we celebrated Halloween. I am a bit disappointed because only Daniel came, but I am REALLY HAPPY for him, as he won the FIRS PRIZE!!! Congratulations Daniel!!
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Fifth week
Hello again, how is it going?
In our usual summary, I have to say that last Tuesday we met our language assistant, Chanelle. She will be with us every second week and I am sure we will have a great time with her.
That day we were also revising some words related to food and how to prepare it, and common phrases which are used at the restaurant.
On Thursday we role-played a situation at the restaurant. Don't forget to revise those common sentences.
Here you have some audio activities in which you can listen to a situation at a restaurant and do some activities.
And here you can watch another role-play situation. Let's see if you can understand it properly:
We also held a debate on whether the government has or doesn't have the right to control what we eat. It was really interesting and you all presented very good arguments... but we didn't reach any conclusion.
Here you can listen to the complete interview with professor Bruce Traill, from the University of Reading, talking about the Eatwell project. Remember it is an authentic interview and you don't have to understand everything.
And here is the edited version which we listened to in class (it seems the sound quality is not very good here, sorry)
And of course, as Damian asked for, the script.
Don't forget that next Thursday we will celebrate Halloween!!! Please come with a pumpkin and a knife and our language assistants will teach you how to carve a pumpkin. We will also give you recipes so that you don't throw away the pulp and can cook something with it.
See you on Tuesday!
In our usual summary, I have to say that last Tuesday we met our language assistant, Chanelle. She will be with us every second week and I am sure we will have a great time with her.
That day we were also revising some words related to food and how to prepare it, and common phrases which are used at the restaurant.
On Thursday we role-played a situation at the restaurant. Don't forget to revise those common sentences.
Here you have some audio activities in which you can listen to a situation at a restaurant and do some activities.
And here you can watch another role-play situation. Let's see if you can understand it properly:
We also held a debate on whether the government has or doesn't have the right to control what we eat. It was really interesting and you all presented very good arguments... but we didn't reach any conclusion.
Here you can listen to the complete interview with professor Bruce Traill, from the University of Reading, talking about the Eatwell project. Remember it is an authentic interview and you don't have to understand everything.
And here is the edited version which we listened to in class (it seems the sound quality is not very good here, sorry)
And of course, as Damian asked for, the script.
Don't forget that next Thursday we will celebrate Halloween!!! Please come with a pumpkin and a knife and our language assistants will teach you how to carve a pumpkin. We will also give you recipes so that you don't throw away the pulp and can cook something with it.
See you on Tuesday!
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Fourth week 2010_2011
Hello everyone,
Last week was short, we only had one lesson!!
We were learning more things about food and diet, for example, we made some comments about the theory which relates blood type and diet. We also read through the photocopies about vegetables, fruit, meat, poultry, etc. Keep on trying with the phonetic transcriptions of words and say them aloud. Remember to download Sephonics to help you with this, you have a link on the right (Phonetics and Phonology programme)
You have a handout to practice and learn more vocabulary about food and ways to prepare it as well as their phonetic transcription. Please, revise it for next Tuesday. It will be very useful to do your homework: writing the recipe of your favourite dish. It can be a starter, a main course or a dessert. I am sure we will write an excellent cookbook together. It would be a brilliant idea if you add a picture it as an illustration to the recipe!!!! (If you appear on it, even better)
I have been thinking that all of us should follow the same text structure:
0. Introduction. Name of the dish and why you like it / why you recommend it.
1. INGREDIENTS FOR (NUMBER) SERVINGS
2. DIFFICULTY (HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW)
3. PREPARATION TIME
4. COOK TIME
5. METHOD
6. TIPS (if you have some secrets to make this dish tastier)
7. NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION (if you think it is healthy or not and why - you can base your opinion on the food pyramid)
Deadline: Thursday 21st October. Please, send it by email if possible.
We also checked Grammar in 1A, and you have to complete this unit in the workbook. Remember this is your responsibility. We'll check any problems you may have had in class next Tuesday.
You have some grammar extension here. For practice with state verbs, click here.
For next day, you also have to read the handouts about healthy lifestyle and about the restaurant, as we will go through them in class and do some role-play activities.
To read about Chile miners, click on this BBC News lilnk, on this New York Times link or on this The Guardian link. We will discuss this in class.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!!
Last week was short, we only had one lesson!!
We were learning more things about food and diet, for example, we made some comments about the theory which relates blood type and diet. We also read through the photocopies about vegetables, fruit, meat, poultry, etc. Keep on trying with the phonetic transcriptions of words and say them aloud. Remember to download Sephonics to help you with this, you have a link on the right (Phonetics and Phonology programme)
You have a handout to practice and learn more vocabulary about food and ways to prepare it as well as their phonetic transcription. Please, revise it for next Tuesday. It will be very useful to do your homework: writing the recipe of your favourite dish. It can be a starter, a main course or a dessert. I am sure we will write an excellent cookbook together. It would be a brilliant idea if you add a picture it as an illustration to the recipe!!!! (If you appear on it, even better)
I have been thinking that all of us should follow the same text structure:
0. Introduction. Name of the dish and why you like it / why you recommend it.
1. INGREDIENTS FOR (NUMBER) SERVINGS
2. DIFFICULTY (HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW)
3. PREPARATION TIME
4. COOK TIME
5. METHOD
6. TIPS (if you have some secrets to make this dish tastier)
7. NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION (if you think it is healthy or not and why - you can base your opinion on the food pyramid)
Deadline: Thursday 21st October. Please, send it by email if possible.
We also checked Grammar in 1A, and you have to complete this unit in the workbook. Remember this is your responsibility. We'll check any problems you may have had in class next Tuesday.
You have some grammar extension here. For practice with state verbs, click here.
For next day, you also have to read the handouts about healthy lifestyle and about the restaurant, as we will go through them in class and do some role-play activities.
To read about Chile miners, click on this BBC News lilnk, on this New York Times link or on this The Guardian link. We will discuss this in class.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!!
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Third week
Hiya!
Last week we were learning a lot about food and diet.
On Tuesday, Juande was talking about the two kinds of food pyramids, and on Thursday, Cristina spoke about a very interesting topic: the relationship between diet and blood type. If you click here you can learn more about this topic, and you should indeed, as someone is going to speak for 5 minutes about it next Thursday! I would like you to tell the class which type of diet is most suitable for the different blood types.
I found out in your "Autoevaluaciones" that most of you don't know many idioms, so I looked for some funny videos on BBC Learning English in which "The Teacher" explains idioms related to food. Click here to see them. You can click on any you feel curiosity about. I recommend you idioms related to food, as it is our topic of study now.
Would you like to see what Marilyn Manson has to say about the food pyramid? lol
We were also having a dialogue about our diets and I tried to correct your mistakes. I found that some of you have some problems with the sound /d/. In this song, apart from practicing the present simple tense, you have plenty of examples of "do" and "does", which include this sound. So sing along, have fun and practice this difficult sound /d/
And now... homework!! You had to read the text on page 4 of your book and do the activities on page 5. Then, go to page 130 and read Grammar 1A. Try to do the activities. We will solve any problems you may have encountered in class.
Have a nice week and keep on practicing your pronunciation every day!!
Last week we were learning a lot about food and diet.
On Tuesday, Juande was talking about the two kinds of food pyramids, and on Thursday, Cristina spoke about a very interesting topic: the relationship between diet and blood type. If you click here you can learn more about this topic, and you should indeed, as someone is going to speak for 5 minutes about it next Thursday! I would like you to tell the class which type of diet is most suitable for the different blood types.
I found out in your "Autoevaluaciones" that most of you don't know many idioms, so I looked for some funny videos on BBC Learning English in which "The Teacher" explains idioms related to food. Click here to see them. You can click on any you feel curiosity about. I recommend you idioms related to food, as it is our topic of study now.
Would you like to see what Marilyn Manson has to say about the food pyramid? lol
We were also having a dialogue about our diets and I tried to correct your mistakes. I found that some of you have some problems with the sound /d/. In this song, apart from practicing the present simple tense, you have plenty of examples of "do" and "does", which include this sound. So sing along, have fun and practice this difficult sound /d/
And now... homework!! You had to read the text on page 4 of your book and do the activities on page 5. Then, go to page 130 and read Grammar 1A. Try to do the activities. We will solve any problems you may have encountered in class.
Have a nice week and keep on practicing your pronunciation every day!!
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