Week 4: October 30th- Starting unit 2: Survival!

Alma

- We warmed up with questions about different uses of the verb make.
- We started unit 2: Survival.
- We did a listening on surfing and practised different meanings of the verb get.
- We saw the reading Lost in the Sea.
- We revised narrative tenses and practised a little bit.
- We saw a creepy video, Alma, to go on with the Halloween mood.

Homework:
- Page 155, Expressions with get, exercises a and b.
- Page 137: Narrative tenses, exercises b and c.
- Page 23.
- Write your findings on the detective case sheet I gave you. The findings about your investigation of the disappearance of children in the neighbourhood (following the video Alma).
- Find here the key to the diagnostic test.

Have a nice week!!

Week 3: October 23rd & 25th- Beginning of Halloween week!!

- We warmed up with character adjectives and ways to break off a conversation.
- We practised question formation.
- We did Everyday English on pages 14 and 15 and saw how to break off a conversation, rapid speech and explaining and checking information.
- We saw the organisation of an article on pages 16 and 17.

- We revised Trying and succeeding vocabulary.
- We did the listening on technological devices on page 16.
- We saw and described two Halloween videos to our classmates. Kit Kat and Lux.
- We did a short diagnostic writing.
- We completed the verbs of the gapped lyrics of Rocket Man by Elton John.
- We have started learning Da Da language in our second round of reduced groups.
Homework:
- Vocabulary sheet.
- Writing an article, page 17 of the Student's Book.
- Reading and excercises on page 21.

Week 2: October 16th & 18th- Challenges and diagnostic test

- We warmed up with information about our cities and revising character adjectives.
- We revised character adjectives with the Vocabulary Focus on page 154.
- We did the listening, vocabulary and readings on 30-day challenges.
- We practised word stress.
- We did a reading and a couple of grammar exercises as a diagnostic test and we corrected them.
- We did a listening to test this skill.
- We saw a video of Elmo learning things, to try and identify what he was singing about. You can play it with and withour subtitles.
Homework:
Exercise 2b on page 16 and 3a to 3f on pages 16-17.

Week 1: October 9th & 11th- Let's get started!!

Sesame Street

- We exchanged information about what we remembered.
- We saw a little bit about the blog and webpage.
- We did pages 8 and 9 from the book, the readings about Apple and Sesame Street, revised the verb system and also exercise 4 on page 10: pronunciation of letter e.
- We did a Find someone who... speaking activity to revise the verb system.
Reduced groups: we're revising -ed pronunciations.
Homework:
- Find information about the population of your city.
- Do the vocabulary page on character description, page 154

Welcome to the new course!!

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Dear students,

Welcome to another year full of English at the school!!

Today we´ll be having a look at general information of the course, our new book, teacher and classmates.

We´re just starting another course full of challenges and activities. Get the right set of mind to make the most of all of them and enjoy the process!!
Objectives for the advanced 1 course
Reduced groups calendar