Week 12: January 9th & 11th- New Year Resolutions

- We warmed up with our photos from the Christmas break.
- We saw the first nine minutes of the film Bridget Jones's Diary and we completed a table about the six main characters.
- We shared out views and saw it again while checking the script. We checked the vocabulary.
- We did Gabrielle's Out of Reach song from the original soundtrack of the film.
- We revised the vocabulary from the trascript.
- We did Big Issues on pages 36 and 37. We got familiar with social issues and saw fixed phrases to comment on them.
- We exchanged the good news stories we had researched during the break.

Homework:
- Find a positive item of news.
- Write a new year resolution for the class poster.
- Write on the Good News virtual wall.

Happy new year!!

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Dear students,

I wish you all the best possible year and also one in which your 

English experiences are positive and motivating.

Week 11: December 19th & 21st- Goodbye to 2016

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- We exchanged information about the strange countries we had read about.
- We corrected exercise 7 on page 35 to revise cause and result sentences.
- We saw a few structures on how to show understanding in conversations and we practised them with a speaking activity which was also meant to revise present and past habitual actions.
- We did a short test on grammar, vocabulary and reading.
- We practised verb tenses by answering scrambled  questions.
- We saw Serial taxi and wrote an account of it for Gema to correct.
- We exchanged information about our newspapers.
- We sang We Three Kings for the last time and wished the English Department luck in tomorrow's competition!!



Homework: - Read a bit of the newspaper you got to be able to say something about it the next day.
Homework for Christmas:
- Find a positive item of news to tell the class.
- Take photos of the holidays to show your classmates on the first day after holidays.
- Do the writing on page 20 in the workbook

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.