Week 20: 2nd & 4th March - Finishing unit 6

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- We revised and practised modal verbs and structures to express different levels of certainty about the future in 6B: Rebel.
- We saw feedback about written and oral productions in the february exam.
- We saw different ways to interrupt with different levels of politeness in 6D: Sorry to interrupt!
- We practised polite intonation.
- We practised stress in compound adjectives.

Homework:
- Exs.2 and 3 page 98.
- Beautiful seconds in a five-second video (see week 18)

Week 19: 23rd & 25th February - Exam results

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- We practised reduced infinitives to avoid repetition.
- We did 6A: Codes of conduct and practised the uses of the -ing.
- We corrected the reading and grammar and listening of the mock exam in February. This is the key.
- We gave feedback of the written composition.
- We did 6C: Dress Code and practised back referencing.
- We did a gapped exercise on Fix you by Coldplay (the use of will)

Homework: reading plus multiple choice questions in a photocopy.
Portfolio 1 plus from the handbook (page 22), about 80 words.

Extra exercises on used to and relatives with Perfect English Grammar
More grammar exercises in Grammar 4you, Learn English Today, English Grammar 4 you.

Week 18: 16th & 18th February - Back to normal

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- We revised the future continuous tense with imagined sentences about 2050.
- We saw work vocabulary and collocations in 11A: Meeting up.
- We did a gapped exercise on the dialogue on page 76.
- We saw the future perfect tense and practised on page 77.
- We did another gapped exercise on a dialogue about art exhibitions in 9C: Is it art?
- We saw how to avoid repetition with reduced infinitives and missing words.
- We read and saw a video about Michael Landy's Break Down.
- We practised homonyms.
- We saw two videos about Montblanc's contest. The first compilation of videos and the presentation by Wim Wenders.

• Homework: Make a video about something beautiful and send it to teacher. Five seconds maximum.
• Ex. 1 and 2c page 48

Week 17: 9th & 11th February - Break for the mock exam

- We did the grammar, vocabulary and reading part on Monday, together with the listening comprehension exercises.
- We did one writing production on Wednesday.
- We told stories from cards about past experiences.
- We did a listening comprehension about reading in English.

Homework: ex. 5 and 6 page 77 Student Book

Week 16: 2nd, 4th & 6th February- Future forms

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- We told the jokes we knew using relatives.
- We did 5B: Royal treasures.
- We saw some phrasal verbs.
- We listened to a conversation using those phrasal verbs and future forms.
- We revised future forms and future continuous.
- We did 5C: The nature of cities.
- We practised homophones and how to guess meaning from context.
- We saw a video called Songs that include the future tense.
- We saw that Jeffrey Hill is back and the possibility to do a MOOC by the British Council.
- We did oral practice on conversation on Friday.

Homework: Ex. 7 page 43, extra exercises on the, as/like and relatives.

Week 15: 26th & 28th January - Relatives

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- We told stories exaggerating our days.
- We saw defining and non-defining relative clauses in 4B: First books.
- We got feedback on writing on Portfolio 7.
- We told jokes with dramatic present.
- We revised the use of article the, and like/as.
- We completed and read a story with relatives.
- We practised rhythm and stress in weak/strong forms of auxiliaries.
Homework: -Complete extra exercises on like/as, the, will/going to from English Grammar in Use.
- Ex.3 page 44 in the book.

Week 14: 19th & 21st January - Full into narrating stories

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- We revised verb tenses related to narrating.

- We told each other two new urban legends.

- We saw the parts of the film Kangaroo Jack related to our urban legend.

- We did a listening exercise on the narrating of an annecdote on page 37 and learnt about how to mark or predict what we are saying next.

- We reviewed and got feedback on the recordings you had sent on the film.

- We learnt vocabulary and expressions to exaggerate and to show surprise or lack of it.

Homework: - Prepare a story to tell, do ex.7 page 39 using exaggerations.

- Do Reading and writing portfolio 4 from the workbook: the writing of a biography.