Week 10: December 12th & 14th- Things that go wrong

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- We imagined Elvis's love-life situation and  gave him advice by using should structures.
- We wrote a plan or promise for him for the wall poster.
- We revised vocabulary of how things can go wrong and saw a moment in which everything went wrong in Mog's Christmas Calamity.
- We practised -ed pronunciation and rhyming.
- We had a look at this year's Christmas Carol, We Three Kings.
- We practised -ed pronunciation with a board game and explanations of questions in the past.
- We started Unit 4: Society. We did page 34, we practised vocabulary on the government, economics and society.
- We worked with a listening about the situation of the countries of two university students.
- We saw the use of so and such in cause and result sentences and practised with the exercises at the grammar reference at the back of the book.

Homework:
- Exercise 7 page 35.
- Research a little about the name of the country I gave you to exchange information in the warming up at the beginning of Monday's class. If you didn't come to class on Wednesday and want to do some research on a country choose one of these: Kiribati, Comoros, Tuvalu or Nauru.
- Revise grammar and vocabulary of the first three units, as we are going to have a little test on grammar and vocabulary, as well as a reading comprehension exercise.

Week 9: December 5th & 7th- Getting to know The IT Crowd and regretting with Elvis

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- We revised how to talk about purpose with everyday objects.
- We saw how to talk about faulty objects.
- We listened to a costumer's complaint in a radio programme.
- We saw the first episode of IT Crowd, Yesterday's Jam.
- We took note of interesting vocabulary.
- We checked how should/should have work.
- We practised telling a moment in which things had go wrong.
- We did a short exercise on Always on my mind, by Elvis Presley.

Homework:
- Nothing new, either do the last writing or the recorded presentation if you haven't already done them.

Week 8: November 28th & 30th- Practising purpose

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- We revised the story of the Chinese Artist in Harlem.
- We studied some vocabulary of useful things.
- We practised structures to talk about purpose
- We practised weak and strong forms of function words.
- We practised conversation strategies for explaining and checking.
- We read about Mr Trebus and compulsive hoarding.
- We saw how suffixes work.
- We had a look at the library and agreed to have a book read by January 25th.

Homework:
- Writing an email making a request, page 14 from the Workbook.

Week 7: November 21th & 23th- Tribute to Mister Leonard Cohen

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- We remembered the film by telling each other about the plot of The Intern.
- We talked about the handout of the film.
- We got feedback on the writing of The Passenger.
- We practised some future forms with a photocopy with cards.
- We finished page 21 of the book with practice of future forms.
- We did the dictation on page 23.
- We tried to understand Hallelujah, by Leonard Cohen, sang by Rufus Wainwright and then we sang!!
- We warmed up by discussing and interpreting Leonard Cohen's lyrics.

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- We got feedback on the review of a concert that we had written.
- We did A Chinese Artist in Harlem, on page 22.
- We practised synonyms and how to politely agree using them with a synonym bingo!

Homework:
- Record a presentation on The Intern (organised, with a beginning and a conclusion ;-))) or another film, if you didn't see it, around these topics:
     1. What the film is about. The plot.
     2. Mention the main themes that are dealt with in the film.
     3. How does it compare to other films you have seen.
- Exercises 3,4 and 5 on page 28.

Week 6: November 14th & 16th- Film Festival!!!

- We talked about the films we had read about.
- We read about vocabulary related to films and had a look at the handout we are going to talk about next Monday.
- We saw and guessed a little bit about the trailer of The Intern.
- We did Worth a Visit, pages 20 & 21.
- We worked a listening about extracts related to different places.
- We revise different ways to talk about the future.
- We corrected exercise 2 (and 3 in class A) on page 168.
- We watched The Intern.

Homework:
- Page 21, exercises 7&9.
- Preparation of content for the handout about the film.

Week 5: November 7th & 9th, 2016- Starting unit 2

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- We warmend up talking about the places we have visited.
- We practised vocabulary on cities and buildings.
- We listened to and took notes about a listening of a guided tour.
- We revised and practised relative sentences.
- We practised how to agree using synonyms.
- We listened to the beginning of the first speech of President elect Donald Trump  with the transcript and try to interpret it (scroll down to November 9th)
- We saw vocabulary on festivals and carnivals.
- We did the reading on the Venice Carnival.
- We practised vocabulary and interpreted the imagined story of our partners.
- We got the diagnostic vocabulary and grammar exercises back. This is the KEY
- We prepared for the Film Festival with a group competition on Famous Film Quotes.
Homework:
- Page 168, exs. 2 and 3.
- Pick up a film on the quotes handout and do a little bit of research about it to tell your partner in class.

Week 4: November 2nd, 2016- Voting for the Halloween winners

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- We interpreted and described modern artworks.
- We voted the WINNERS!! of the Halloween competition: Marta Tobares and Paco Lluna!!!

Many congrats to both of you!!

- We saw The Passenger again and wrote the activity.
- We corrected the diagnostic listenings we had done the week before.
- We explained the security measures in case of an emergency.
- We did a grammar and speaking Find someone who... activity to revise the verb system.
- We had a look at the Sounds  of English (in class A, pending for class B)

Homework:
- Write a review as explained on page 7 in the Workbook. You need to do all the exercises on the page to write a better one!