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

Week 16: February 6th & 8th- The Ice Hotel

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- We reviewed about our favourite type of accommodation.
- We saw a video on an Ice Hotel in Sweden and did a listening exercise.
- We practised the preparation and delivery of a presentation on a trip we had done.
- We practised modifiers and their intonation.
- We saw how to show surprise and transmit an opinion by using negative questions.
- We talked about the emails by Ben and some vocabulary related to them.
- We did a listening exercise on acculturation, page 57.
- We also heard about accomodation problems and practise the structure Have/get something done.

Homework:
- Revise for next week (workbook very useful, for instance)
- Do review page 59.
During week 18 (February 20th & 22nd) try to do the following:
- Exercise 13 page 55
- Readings pages 65 and 187
- Exercise 1 page 62
- Have a look at Jeffrey Hill's blog to see what's up in the international political scene.
- Read whatever you prefer on NASA's website on Climate change and Global warming to warm up on the very first day after the exam break.

Remember our timetable for the oral test

Remember to give me a call to the school if you can't make it!