This blog started in December 2008 as a tool for me and my students at the Official Language School in Granada.
My aim is to provide easy access to useful resources as well as information about what is going on in our lessons.
-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:
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!!!)
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!
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.
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
We were revising past tenses, we were learning about the structure of narrative texts and I gave you some hints to write argumentative texts. Don't forget to write your compositions and your opinions.
We also learnt how to use "Time clauses" with a preposition and a gerund , as well as how to speak about habits in the past with "used to" and "would", to be both aspects included in your compositions.
Thanks to Tíscar, Verónica, Juan and Loli, who told us some jockes and gave us some information about a sportsperson.
We also chose our students representatives! I know you two will do your best!
Don't forget your homework (Time clauses, workbook 1B, and compositions), try to practice as much as you can, and next week we will start learning the future.
Here you have the key to handout 9 (past tenses and articles)
