Week 19: February 26th & 28th- Working on your own

     These are ideas for you to do during the week beginning on Monday 26th February, in which English classes are cancelled due to C1 examinations.
     Remember we're having a wonderful talk in English on Wednesday 28th at 19 h. at the Assembly room on the ground floor. It's by David Sánchez, from Al Gore's Climate Reality Project and it'll take about an hour. Hope to see you all there!
     By Monday March 5th I would like you to have written the five questions on the video on tourist attractions and the paragraph using descriptive vocabulary, read the texts on pages 77 and 72 and Al Gore's website and practised some speaking on Talk English.

DAY 1: listening, writing and reading

• Watch this video on unsual tourist attractions and devise five questions for your classmates. They can't be answered with opinions. Have a key prepared.
• Read Around the Grand Canyon on page 77 and do exercise 3.
• Write a paragraph on a place you have visited (where you went, what you did, what you saw, what it was like...) using vocabulary from exercise 3 on page 77. Don't mention the name of the place. When you read it to your classmate see if they can guess about the place you're talking about.

DAY 2: listening, speaking and reading

• Warm up your English as if you were at the school: Go to Talk English.com and practise with some of the interactive lessons. Ex. Greeting Interactive Practice. Listen to Listen All and then choose Person A or B and say aloud the other part in the silence provided. The best practice would be to record yourself, listen to your recording and compare it to the original.

Tomorrow's Plan Interactive Practice
Yesterday Interactive Practice.
Movies Interactive practice.

• Do the reading DANGER! Dying languages on page 72 and exercise 3 on the same page.
• As we're going to have the possibility of seeing Al Gore's documentaries, read a little bit about his project: The Climate Reality Project. Do the quiz to see whether you are an activist or not, and scroll down on the home page of the website to read the latest about solutions.

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• Watch the trailer of An Inconvenient Truth and its sequel: An Inconvenient Sequel.

Week 18: February 19th & 21st- Tackling climate change

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- We talked about the song Summercat and about music we like and reminds us of something.
- We did 5D:, a listening on extreme weather reports and a reading on Climate Change.
- We saw the different parts of an essay and how to report opinions and organise a for/against essay.
- We revised tense usage with a photocopied handout.
- We saw how inversion works.

Homework:
- Writing on page 65 ex.4
- Ex. 3a and 3b page 70.

Week 17: February 12th & 14th!!- The week of Saint Valentine

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- We told each other about famous people who had been born in our British cities.
- We finished the correction of the handout on the use of modals for requests and offers.
- We were given a letter to the minister by the representative of an endangered species. You need to answer it: you're the minister involved.
- We read about cooking in Antarctica in 5B and saw future perfect and future continuous forms.
- We practised future perfect and continuous with two speaking activities: In 40 years' time and finding a moment to do a photoshoot in a diary.
- We saw how to discuss advantages and disadvantages and responding to an idea in 5C Everyday English.
- We did a speed reading with the Story of Saint Valentine.
- We put the different lines of the lyrics in order and sang a summer love song, Summercat by Billy the Vision and the Dancers.
Homework:
- Complete the handout on tense revision.

Week 16: February 5th & 7th- Reading on optimism: chance!

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- We warmed up by telling lucky moments.
- We checked whether we were optimistic or pessimistic and read about optimism in human beings.
- We revised adjectives describing attitude and listened about chances to talk about future probability.
- We practised future probability in a speaking activity.
- We revised the grammar of modal verbs and had a look at the photocopy.
- We saw the importance of minimal pairs in the video ad We're sinking.

Homework:
- Reading page 60, ex. 2a and 2c.

Week 15: January 29th & 31st- Rounding up Houdini

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- We talked about last week's play and corrected the jumbled Houdini tricks.
- We saw a Houdini video 5 Things that You May not Have Known about Houdini.
- We corrected modals and present perfect exercises.
- You had back some of the work you had handed in.
KEY TO THE READING Struggle to Survive: 1B, 2B, 3A, 4B, 5A, 6B, 7B, 8A, 9A, 10C.
. We practised describing photos, expressing careful disagreement and contrastive stress in 4C
- We tried to understand and sing a The Police song, Every Little Thing... (very difficult!!)
- We listened about experiences abroad and saw how to give a positive impression in writing.
Homework:
- Writing exercise 4 page 53.
- Exercises 1d, 1e and 2a pages 56 and 57.

NEW!! Reduced classes schedule from January onwards