Week 27: May 9th & 11th- Revising and presenting information

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- We revised past structures with present and future meaning.
- We did a speaking quizz with Impersonal Reporting Structures and amazing facts.
- We practised linking words.
- We corrected the exercises of 8B Fear.
- We did a listening and speaking exercise making questions about a Gandhi video.
- We practised making questions to the class and reporting the results.
- We contrasted a video about First World Problems and the one What Matters to You.
- We did 9C: World Issues and practised telling the same short monologue to two classmates.

Homework:

• Here you have topics to practise the monologues.
• You can do portfolio 8 if you want to practise writing .

Week 26: May 4th- Results of our survey

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- We exchanged results of our surveys and did another one in class, practising language to explain choices
- We shared the results of our surveys.
- We went through the grammar on page 78.
- We did the listening on Hazel Henderson.
- We practised linking sounds in pronunciation on page 79.
- We practised spoken structures to keep the conversation going.
Homework:
Exercises 5 and 6 page 81

Week 25: April 25th & 27th- Celebrating Shakespeare

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- We exchanged information about the research on the different aspects of the play.
- We watched the film Much Ado About Nothing.
- We did and corrected the quizz about the film.
- We shared opinions about the film.
- We started 8A: Finding time. We saw phrases with the word "time" and read about a writer compromised with the climate change.
- We sang a song from the film, written by Shakespeare: Sigh no More

Homework:
- Ex.7 page 85: pick up two or three questions and do a little survey among two or three friends or family to use in the warming up the next day.
- Exs. 2 and 3 page 80

Week 24: April 18th & 20th- Preparing Cervantes & Shakespeare's celebration

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- We did 7B Every step you take.
- We read We'll be watching you and did the comprehension activities.
- We saw how to use impersonal report structures.
- We did a listening about state intervention on page 72.
- We practised impersonal structures with parts of real newspapers.
- We did 8C The pros and cons.

Homework:
-Describe the news on your newspapers using impersonal report structures.
- Exercises 7 and 8 page 72.
- Choose two questions from exercise 7 on page 85 and ask them to some of your friends, just a few. Take notes.
- Do a little research about the aspect of Much Ado About Nothing that your group is working on. If you didn't come on Wednesday and you don't know what we're talking about, then read a little bit about the celebrations in Britain to commemorate the 400th anniversary of his death. You'll be telling a group of classmates on Monday.
- Have a look at Much Ado About Nothing, we'll be watching it on Monday!

Week 23: April 11th & 13th- Mixing conditionals

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- We revised the use of non-standard verb tenses in conditional sentences.
- We practised vocabulary with literal and metaphorical meanings.
- We listened to a police questioning and found out discrepancies in the criminal's alibi.
- We practised the writing pages of units 4 and 5.
- We tried to work out the lyrics of Your Song, by Elton John and sang!!
Homework:
- Exs. 2, 3 and 4 pages 43 and 53.
- Photocopy of purpose.
- Excs. 1 and 2 page 70
- Exs. 5 and 6 page 53

Week 22: April 4th & 6th - Telling stories

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- We told the stories we had prepared with the tips and strategies learnt in 6C.
- We practised pronunciation with the transcript of Obvious to You, Amazing to Others.
- We did 7A: Getting Away with it, exercises 1 to 4.
- We saw the commercial SunLife Launches Courtesy Pet Cover, an April Fool's joke. Try to do the exercise that comes with it. Go down to the entry on April 1st.
- We went through the grammar of mixed conditionals and the use of other verb tenses in the habitual conditional structures. We practised with the exercises of the workbook.
- We told stories with the joke exercise.
- We revised punctuation rules and received a photocopy to practise to/ing for purpose.

Week 21: March 30th- Resuming lessons after the break

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- We warmed up by telling our stories from the sound file.
- We did 6C: Short Story Radio.
- We practised normal and extreme adjectives with Obvious to You, Amazing to Others, by Derek Sivers.

Homework:
- Prepare a story to be told at the beginning of the class as suggested in ex.8 on page 64 and having in mind the techniques in ex.9, page 65.
- Exs. 1 and 2 page 66.