Week 23: March 25th & 27th- Who wants to be a millionaire and building a time machine!

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- We discussed opinions about prisons.
- We did a listening on another type of prisons.
- We saw prepositional phrases and practised them a bit.
- We did the dictation of Review nº 4.
- We started unit 9: Careers and studying. We saw a bit of vocabulary and a listening in The World of Work.
- We revised prepositional phrases giving opinions about sentences.
- We revised the content we had seen with Who wants to be a millionaire?
- We revised all types of conditional sentences.
- We built a time machine and wrote instructions for another team to do the same.
Homework:
- Exercises 1 and 2 of the conditional handout.
- Page 83 from the book, exercises 4, 5 and 6.
- Photo description.
- Caption translation.

Take a look at this video of our Sherlock Holmes play!!!

We are delighted to invite you to the opening of the exhibition "Sirios, el largo viaje a Europa"

We are happy to invite you to the opening of the photo exhibition Sirios, el largo viaje a Europa, which will be displayed in our school from March 27th to April 3rd.

Come to join us Monday March 27th at 18.30 at the Assembly room, basement floor.

Week 22: March 22nd- On Sherlock and Alex

- We revised what we had done last Wednesday.
- We listened to a story on Sherlock Holmes and identified fifteen mistakes in it.
- We corrected the homework on modals.
- We did the vocabulary and a listening on page 72.
- We got to know a person from Leicester a bit better.
- We corrected exercise 4 on the reading on page 74.

Homework:
- Exercises 11 and 12 page 72.

Week 21: March 13th & 15th— Let's go to the theatre!

- We warmed up with images from Lifted and described them while talking about the part of the film they belonged to.

- We went on with unit 8 and did pages 70 and 71, with a revision of modal verbs to make deductions.

- We received feedback from the February test written and oral productions.

- We had a special Sherlock Holmes class with a video with comprehension and grammar tasks, a speaking deduction crime solving card game and a very mysterious song!

Homework:
- Ex. 2 page 175 on modals, ex. 12 page 71 and ex. 4 page 74

Week 20: March 6th & 8th- Extraterrestrial and terrestrial forms of life

- We started warming up with the description of opinions about trends with structures in ex.9 page 64.

- We practised present participles with the activity Encounters of a Spooky Kind (dictation)

- We saw a video on Chimps and tried to answer some questions about it.

- We did pages 66 and 67 and worked with different meanings of words.

- We answered the questions on Lifted's worksheet.

- We practised how to give explanations about strange behaviour with cards.

- We revised the grammar, vocabulary, reading and listening parts of the February test.

KEY TO FEBRUARY TEST

- For ideas about structures to use in formal and informal emails please have a look at this webpage.

- For ideas about punctuation, check the link.

- We started unit 8 Crime and Punishment and did exercises 1 and 2 on page 70.

Homework:

- Read about a piece of news related to animals to open the class in a pair work activity on Wednesday.

- Think about coming to the theatre on March 15th, Wed, 19.30 at José María Rodero Theatre in Torrejón.

- Exercise 4 page 74.

Week 19: 27th & 29th February 2017- Resuming lessons

NASA

- We exchanged information about what we had read on NASA's website.
- We saw and answered some questions on Why does NASA study Earth?
- We started unit 7 Nature and we worked on vocabulary and a listening on weather and extreme weather, pages  62 and 63.
- We revised and practised narrative tenses.
- We prepared and had a conversation on extreme weather. You can have these structures in mind, they are taken from the first six units of the book.
- We talked about our favourite idioms from exercise 13 on page 55.
- We corrected ex. 11 on page 55, as revision of GET/HAVE sth DONE.
- We read about animals making headlines on pages 65 and 187 and did exercises 2 and 5, page 64.
- We practised narratives tenses with cards with stories in note form.
- We saw how present and past participles work.
- We talked about the other side of NASA's activities: the possibility of extraterrestrial life. We saw a video that confirms its existance!

Homework:
Ex. 11 & 13 page 55
Ex. 9 page 64, pick two or three trends to explain at the beginning of the class.

VOCABULARY SHEETS from Outcomes Upper Intermediate:

• Unit 1
• Unit 2
• Unit 3
• Unit 4
• Unit 5
• Unit 6
• Unit 7
• Unit 8
• Unit 9
• Unit 10
• Unit 11
• Unit 12
• Unit 13
• Unit 14
• Unit 15
• Unit 16