Week 9: December 2nd & 4th, 2013 - Unit 3

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This week we started unit 3

• We revised and practised second conditional sentences.
• We revised and practised third conditional sentences.

Week 8: November 25th & 27th, 2013 - Finishing unit 2

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• We revised repeated actions and states.
• We saw how to use suffixes.
• We saw how to agree and disagree politely.

Week 7: Novembre 18th, 20th & 22nd, 2013 - Film Festival

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This week we saw The Ghost Writer on Wednesday. Before that:

• We went on with unit 2
• We revised vocabulary on films
• We did oral practice on Friday

Week 6: November 11th & 13th, 2013 - Unit 2

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     This week we fully entered unit 2, while we also revised unit 1's components.

• We revised habitual actions in the past.
• We did 2B: Life is different here and 2C: At a glance.
• We saw a documentary on Mongolia and devised questions for our partners.
• We corrected the placement test.
• We saw general feedback from the already corrected writings.

Week 5: November 4th & 6th, 2013 - The week with the fire drill

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     During this week we escaped a fire... drill and we also

• Finished unit 1
• Practised verb tenses in speaking and writing
• We started 2A: It's bad for you.

Week 4: October 28th & 30th, 2013- Finishing the first month

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• During this week we went on reading your Halloween stories, of which Ricardo Lopes's was going to be the winner, followed by Mª Jesús de la Torre's and Marisa del Castillo's.
• We did a listening test and corrected it together.
• We chose the representatives of the class: Beatriz Escudero and Mariano Redondo.
• We did some Halloween activities.
• We revised the consonants in phonetics.
• We set up Portfolio 1 in the Workbook as homework.

Week 3: October 21st & 23rd - Getting scared with our Halloween stories

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     We started reading the stories we had prepared, one or two every day, so that we could vote our favourite when we finished.

• We revised vocabulary on education.
• We finished off 1B: Open learning.
• We did a placement test to revise and to self-assess our level.
• We did speaking practice of tense revision with the cards Reasons to be famous.
• We did 1C: Getting results
• We saw a video about the importance of pronunciation: We're sinking

Week 2: October 14th,16th & 18th, 2013- On track

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     Now that we know each other a little bit we are going to start every lesson with a warming up speaking exercise in pairs that revises previous content and sets us in the mood for the rest of the session.

• We revised last week contents.
• We finished off 1A: A global language.
• We went through the sounds of English with the New English File chart.
• We listened to some Spanish people fluent in English and the characteristics of their English.
• We started 1B: Open learning.
• For homework we set the assignment of a Halloween story including the words: jack'o lantern, witches, pumpkin and cementery.
• We practised oral dialogues with feedback on the spot.

Week 1: October 7th &9th, 2013- Getting to know each other

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     We got to know each other a little bit.

• I broke the ice with the explanation of the school's information leaflet for students and the
• Presentation of the book we were going to use throughout the year.
• We did the speaking activity Information in a circle: make a guess.
• We talked about our contact with the English language.
• We introduced phonetics

• We started 1A in the book: A global language
• We started singing with I'm a believer.
• You got a writing assignment: writing about your first English lesson, course or teacher

Welcome again! This blog five years after its birth

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     This is another spring five years after I started this blog as practice for a teaching course I was doing.
     I now resume it with a different angle I had in 2009. I have only kept a few entries as a memoir from then.
     This blog is now for my students to revisit and remember what we do in class and to include stuff I find interesting and I think may stimulate your contact with the language. If you ever ask yourselves What to do in English? this is my answer.
     I hope I can include many ingredients that work as the seeds in the picture, that may be dispersed away and go with you even when you stop your contact with the school.