Summer time!!

Dear students, I hope you can have a great summer!

If you are coming in Septiembre ;-) remember the written part of the test is going to be on the very same September 1st and I'm linking here your oral schedule, which is also on our class board.

Take care, see you soon!

Week 29: May 23rd & 25th- Our last week before the summer break

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- We exchanged ideas about learning a second language.
- We listened to two learners and the strategies and tips they had to offer in 10C Learning English.
- We prepared and delivered a monologue on gender equality.
- We practised a dialogue task.
- We did an end-of-year questionnaire.
- We saw The Haunting of Bill Crouse, episode 5, series 1 of IT Crowd.
- We did a rhyming exercise on Romeo and Juliet, by Dire Straits.

Week 28: May 16th & 18th- Practising presentations

- We revised FWP and vocabulary related to world issues.
- We saw a video on a more optimistic vision of Spain.
- We practised intonation and structures from the booklet.
- We practised rising and falling intonation.
- We prepared and delivered a presentation on Shopping.
- We saw Joey speaking French.

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!