Week 29: May 12th & 14th, 2014 - Apologising

 Joachim Ehemann 

This week we practised about:

• Apologies (8D) and regrets.
• More quantifiers.
• Used to and get used to structures.
• More Da da language.

Week 28: May 5th & 7th, 2014 - Big Bang Theory Week

• We did some work about quantifiers in 10B: The youth of today.
• We practised stress and intonation with Da da language.
• We saw a video of Joey learning French.
• We revised quantifiers with comparisons.
• We saw how to talk about wishes with 8A: I'm broke.
• We saw a short video from Big Bang Theory about Sheldon being impolite.
• After that we wrote a short apology from Sheldon to his boss. 

Week 27: April 28th & 30th, 2014 - The artistic week

• We saw how to speak about having something done in 10A: How practical are you?
• We discussed about roles and genres and saw the video Ban Bossy.
• We saw compound words in 10C: Battle of the sexes.
• We listened to the work of three British composers to be inspired by their music and produce a work of art. They were:  Benjamin Britten, Henry Purcell and Michael Nyman.

Week 26: April 23rd & 25th, 2014 - World Book Day

• We talked about our favourite reading on World book Day.
• We listened to Sonnet 18 by W. Shakespeare.
• We understood the meaning and wrote our own version, which are displayed on the class wall.
• We did the second day of the oral exam, both monologue and dialogue.

Week 25: April 7th & 9th, 2014 - The week before Easter holidays

Momoko Kim

• We started unit 9, 9A: The silver screen, practising the passive voice.
• We practised speaking of present perfect simple and continuous.
• We did the extra listening of unit 6.
• We saw phone vocabulary.

Week 24: March 31st & April 2nd, 2014 - One day week

• We revised reporting verbs.
• We discussed the exhibition.
• We revised vocabulary from the exhibition.
• We saw a video about his work.
• We saw more discussion language.

Week 23: March 24th & 26th, 2014 - We went to the Salgado's exhibition

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• We finished 11C: The coffee shop.
• We talked about President Adolfo Suárez.
• We saw a video about his figure and importance.
• We distributed a reading on him with the task of choosing the most important ten words of it.
• We went to see Genesis by Sebastiao Salgado at Caixa Fórum.

Week 22: March 17th, 19th & 21st, 2014 - Saint Patrick's week

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• We revised present perfect simple and continuous.
• We saw reported speech in 11B: Going into business.
• We talked and saw video about Saint Patrick's day. 
• We practised back referencing and reporting verbs.
• We did the first day of the oral exam, both monologue and dialogue.

Week 21: March 10th & 12th - Resuming lessons

Gabriel Rinaldi

This week we went on with unit 7:

• We practised how to talk about changes with present perfect simple and continuous in 7B: Showpiece of China.
• We wrote about Long live EOI Torrejón de Ardoz.
• We revised prefixes in 7C: Life online.

Week 20: March 3rd & 5th, 2014 - Mock exam!

This was the week of the mock exam.

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• On Monday we did the reading, grammar and listening parts.
• On Wednesday we did the writing bit and the mid-course questionnaire.

Week 19: February 24th & 26th, 2014 - Starting unit 7

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This week we practised:

• How to be polite and interrumpt in 6D: Sorry to interrupt...
• Simple and continuous aspects with state and activity verbs in 7A: At the airport.
• We did a listening on a flight from Randall's ESL-lab.
• We read about Shanghai and we saw the trailer of Her, shot in Shanghai.

Week 18: February 17th & 19th, 2014 - Post-Saint Valentine

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This week we put some emphasis on love and:

• We practised verbs followed by -ing and to infinitive. 
• We also practised how to talk about different levels of certainty with modal verbs in 6B: Rebel.
• We talked about romantic and non-romantic ideas.
• We practised back referencing in 6C: Dress Code. 
• We revised discussion language. 
• We saw the video How to date a twin in Video Jug.

Week 17: February 10th, 12th & 14th, 2014 - Music from the Goya Awards

Sutrisno Yang

This week we had a look at:

• Revision of how to talk about future actions in a continuous aspect.
• We also saw how to talk about actions finished in a point in the future in 11A: Meeting up.
• We started 6A: Codes of conduct.
• We did an exercise with Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles, as it is the song from which this year's winner of the Goya best film award took its title.
• We did oral practice on monologues.

Week 16: February 3rd & 5th, 2014 - Comparing and talking about the future

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This week we practised:

• Guessing meaning from context in 5C: The nature of cities.
• More discussion language in 5D: Carbon footprint.
• Writing biographies, in file 4 from the Workbook.

Week 15: January 27th & 29th, 2014 - Telling stories

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- We practised telling stories.
- We did a speaking quizz with relatives.
- We practised how to show surpise with 4D: How was your day?
- We practised a little bit of The Phonemic Alphabet.

Week 14: January 20th & 22nd, 2014 - I wonder... Rodríguez

Promotional poster of Searching for Sugar Man by Malik Bendjelloul

- We finished 4A and 4B and practised narrative tenses and relatives with the story of Pay It Forward.
- We talked about urban legends.

- We met Sixto Rodríguez, we saw the trailer of Searching for Sugar Man.

- We did an exercise on Rodriguez's song I wonder.

Week 13: January 13th & 15th, 2014 - Starting unit 4

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- I gave you personal and general feedback from your writing on Pay it Forward.
- We did 4A: Urban legends.
- We also started 4B: First Books.
- We talked about books and their characteristics.

Week 12: January 8th, 2014 - Welcome back

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- We talked about New Year Resolutions.
- We saw a part of Bridget Jones's Diary on New Year resolutions and did the activities proposed in Jeffrey Hill's blog.
- We corrected all unit 3 homework and I received Portfolio 2 for assessment.

Week 11: December 16th & 18th, 2013 - Christmas in the air

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- We revised 2nd and 3rd conditionals.
- We practised rhythm in conditional sentences.
- We saw a video on Mandela.
- We  received and started completing our ISE (Improvement Sheet for English)
- We practise this year's Christmas Carol Twelve Days of Christmas.
- We did 3D: How can I help.
- We wrote the story of Pay It Forward.

Week 10: December 9th &11th, 2013 - Mandela's week

Sunday Times, 8 December 2013

- We finished 3B: It should't be allowed!
- We did 3C: The cost of crime
- As Nelson Mandela had died on 6th December we had a look at some cartoon on Jeffrey Hill's website, did a reading on him and his political history against apartheid and completed a short text on the piece of news.
- We did an exercise with the lyrics of Simple Mind's Mandela Day.
- We talked about general feedback from writings.