Week 7: 17th, 19th & 21st November, 2014 - Beginning of Unit 3

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- We presented the Film Festival.

- We revised the emergency evacuation instructions.

- We did 2D: I know what you mean.

- We practised pronunciation patterns with different suffixes.

- We practised usually/ used to/ get used to with a speaking activity.

- We did 3A: Against the law.

- We examined the first Reading & Writing Portfolio from the Workbook.

- We guessed the story of the films Maleficent and Grand Budapest Hotel from different images.

- We practised second conditional structures with speaking cards.

- We revised the phonemic system of the English language.

- We watched The IT Crowd's second episode Calamity Jen.

Homework:

• Writing from Portfolio 1: an article.
• Story from Calamity Jen.

Week 6: 10th & 12th November, 2014- Go Animate

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- We discussed the meaning of Little Talks.
- We did 2B: Life's different here.
- We saw how to express the process of things becoming familiar for us with be and get used to.
- We did 2C: At a glance. We saw different suffixes to make different types of words.
- We practised linking words and linking r.
- We did and handed in the last listening from the placement test.
- We saw a video on the remembrance poppies and on the fall of the Berlin wall.

Homework: page 21, reading and exercises.

• Speaking production: make a video with GoAnimate. I've prepared a short tutorial to help you.
• Prepare a five-minute presentation with topics: from the handout, from the news or from a special date for you (eg. your birthday: what was happening in your familiy, in your country, in the world). You can check notes, a visual presentation or prepare an exercise for your classmates. Please save a date with your teacher and send any file beforehand.

Week 5: 3rd & 5th November, 2014 - Little Talks

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- We corrected the Halloween crossword and revised its vocabulary on the following day.
- We did 2A: It's bad fot you.
- We finished correcting the written placement test.
- We practised present and past habits, repeated actions and states with Nightmare neighbours speaking activity.
- We did the listening exercise for the placement test.
- We listened to and completed a gapped text of Little Talks, by Of Monsters and Men. We sang.
Homework: ex.6 page 17 and ex.1 page 18.

Week 4: 27th & 29th October, 2014 - Halloween with Hitchcock

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- We revised verb tenses and uses of auxiliaries.
- We did 1C: Getting results.
- We corrected part of the face2face placement test.
- We practised sentence stress and rhythm.
- We commented on the written assignment My childhood friends.
- We started the auto-correction ISE paper.
- We had a look at a Halloween written example.

- We saw the original trailer of Psycho and did a sentence order exercise from Film English.

Homework:

- Do the Halloween crossword.

- Write the vampire assignment, following the structure of the example we saw.

Week 3: 20th & 22nd October - The IT Crowd writing week

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- We practised structures to show interest and keep a conversation going with Shocking sentences cards.
- We finished 1D: Evening classes.
- We did peer correction of the short writing on Yesterday's Jam of The IT Crowd.
- We did face2face placement written test.
- Here you have the Key to the placement written test
- We did 1B: Open learning.
Homework: ex. 8 page 11 and ex.3 page 13.

Week 2: 13th, 15th & 17th October- At work.

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- We revised last week's activities, the verb system and -ed pronunciation in the warm-up activities.
- We saw a video about pronunciation We're sinking
- We analysed the structure of a summary and wrote another in class about Childhood friends.
- We revised the pronunciation of -ed past forms.
- We did pages 8 and 9, 2A: A global language.
- We visited the library.
- Class B did the grammar test.
- We did 1D: Evening classes (how to show interest and keep a conversation going)
- We saw Yesterday's Jam, The IT Crowd.

Homework: ex. 4 and 5 page 9, ex.1 page 10, ex. 5 page 15 and writing about The IT Crowd Yesterday's Jam (following the handout)

Week 1: October 6th & 8th- Welcome back to school!!

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- We revised the course information about registration, the course organisation, the coursebook, the web and blog.
- We had a look at the course questionnaire, to be filled in at home.
- We did the speaking game Circle of information.
- We did pronunciation exercises of long and short vowels and a listening exercise on childhood friends.
HOMEWORK: page 8 from the Student's Book