Week 22: March 19th & 21st- To get/have something done

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- We exchanged our sentences revising too/enough and so/such.
- We revised the structure have/get something done in 7B and practised it with a spoken activity.
- We sang Remember Me, the song from Coco's soundtrack that won this year's Oscar.
- We saw the vocabulary on film and TV on page 160.
- We saw the sounds and spelling of letter o.
- We compared formal and informal structures in writings.
- We did a reading/grammar test. You can do it at home if you missed the class.
- We did a speaking find-the-difference activity.
- As a homage to the great scientist Stephen Hawking we saw a video of The Big Bang Theory in which Sheldon meets Stephen Hawking.
Holiday time!!
Homework:
- Ex. 1 page 92.
- Ex. 4 page 94.
- Writing ex. 4 page 89.

You can also have a look at:
- Empower Upper Intermediate Vocabulary List.
- Reading to practise predicting information in a text.
Key to Reading Plus 1.
- Reading to practise inferring.
Key to Reading Plus 2.
- Reading to practise predicting the content of a text.
Key to Reading Plus 3

KEY TO THE TEST

Exercise 1: 1D, 2A, 3B, 4A, 5D, 6B, 7C, 8A, 9C, 10B

Exercise 2: 11 had/ (also: actually and really), 12 used/needed (also: had and got), 13 whether/ if (also: why), 14 have (also: can), 15. might/ may/ will

Exercise 3: 16D, 17A, 18B, 19B, 20D

Exercise 4: 21 Seb Prior, 22 Justin Stubbs, 23 Wendy Burrows, 24 Justin Stubbs, 25 Seb Prior, 26 Naomi Killingsworth, 27 Seb Prior, 28 Anna Lindley, 29 Anna Lindley, 30 Justin Stubbs.

Week 21: March 12th & 14th- Dying and interesting languages in unit 6

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- We had a look at the vocabulary page of unit 6 on page 159: Travel and tourism.
- We practised consonant sounds.
- We revised the reading on Dying languages. - We heard languages that have clicking sounds.
- We saw how to use and build passive sentences and we practised the exercises.
- We did a card game to practise the passive mode.
- We heard an example of another language: El Príncipe Gitano's English version of Elvis Presley.
- We revised the passive and did a warm up exercise with it.
- We revised the reading on Slowing down and practised how to use too/enough and so/such.
- We saw how to introduce requests in conversation.
- We did two listenings in class for the teacher to correct.
- We started a new round of reduced groups with the practice of the conversation of 6E.

Homework:
- Reading on page 80.
- Exercise 3g page 81 to do as a warmer next Monday.
- Reading on page 83, excs. 1d and 1e.
- Reading on Women on top jobs and exercise.

Slowing Down// The Bridge Maker

Week 20: March 5th & 7th- Visiting places

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- We read our descriptive paragraphs to our classmates.
- We read and listened to tourist comments.
- We revised the use of to infinitives and gerunds after prepositions, adjectives, for subjects and to express purpose.
- We practised the above.
- We practised the pronunciation and meaning of descriptive adjectives.
- We practised convincing our classmates about a holiday destination.
- We saw again our video on unsual tourist attractions and answered our classmates questions.
Homework:
- Ex. 2a and 2b page 71
- Exs. a and b page 159.

Cohesion:

• How to give cohesion to your writings: How to write English
• Linkers and connectors.
• Exercises on linkers and connectors
• More exercises.