Week 14: January 22nd & 24th- A visit to the theatre: The Spirit of Harry Houdini

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- We revised vocabulary to talk about cause and result.
- We read about people's jobs and modals to speak about necessity.
- We worked with vocabulary meaning different levels of difficulty and read about the training in the Pekin Opera School and the Swiss Guards.
- We did a listening about The Spirit Harry Houdini.
- We went to the theatre to see the play: 19.30 at José María Rodero Theatre.

Homework:
- Exercises page 141: 4B
- Put the scrambled sentenced of the Houdini tricks in the correct order.

Week 13: January 15th&17th- Life Lessons

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- We warmed up remembering the details of the two stories of lottery winers that we read about.

- We learnt and revised about used to and would.

- We did a listening about the importance of money regarding happiness.

- We corrected unit 10 of the photocopy on the present perfect.

- We did a writing in class about the H&M Christmas ad.

- We revised habitual actions in the past.

- We did the NPR listening and the tasks designed by all the students.

- We did the vocabulary on cause and result and the listening on page 46.

Homework:

- Exercise 5d page 46.

- Exercise 4a and 4b page 48.

Week 12: January 8th & 10th- Resuming lessons in a new year!

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- We showed and explained Christmas photos to our classmates.

- We revised pages 40 and 41 with the key on the blog.

- We revised the BBC webpage on Make your Move and Get Inspired.

- We did the listening on page 40, ex.1 about people taking up different sports.

- We did a reading on people struggling for survival, that I collected.

- We're choosing our favourite photo to talk about at the beginning of Wednesday's class.

- We've started another round of reduced groups activities with a listening from unit 2 in the workbook to practise how to improve your listening and speaking skills.
- We also explained our favourite pictures from the links below. Here is the virtual wall I'd like you to write on: Best 2017 photo wall.
- We corrected unit 10 from the present perfect photocopy.
- We started unit 4 and read about two people who had won the lottery.
- We got familiar with past and present habits.

Homework:
- Unit 11 from the photocopy.
- Writing on our Best 2017 photo wall.
- Giving back the corrected version of the letters to the ministers.

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Dear students,

Welcome to the new year of English lessons!

Please find below my links to ideas of the best photos of 2017 for you to choose from and the current reduced group list (We're starting with Cambridge today!!)

• National Geographic.
• The Guardian.
• Time

CURRENT REDUCED GROUP SCHEDULE

Week 11: December 18th&20th- Last class of the year and Christmas party!

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- We told each other about the extraordinary things (out of the ordinary) that we normally do over Christmas.

- We saw our Artistic Video Creation! and told each other about our individual videos.
- We did a listening on people following their interests.
- We finished page 37.

Homework:
- Grammar over the holidays: handout I gave you.

- Writing over the holidays: Reading and writing pages 40 and 41 (exercises 2, 3 and 4)

KEY: 2- Reading a) 1T, 2T, 3F- only the years 2005/2006 and 2012/2013 are shown, 4. F- three of the sports had more participation in 2005-2006.
b) yes,
c) 1. No, there has been no rush by British people to become involved in sport.
    2. No, it represents a range of related sports.
    3. A decrease in the number of people swimming.
    4. The inclusion of BMX.
    5. People are getting involved in a wide range of sports.

3. Writing skills
a) 1C, 2E, 3D, 4A, 5B
b) 1. noticeable, 2. change, 3. slight/ significant, 4. slight/ significant, 5. slightly/ noticeably, 6. slightly/ noticeably, 7. hasn't decreased
c) 1. back, 2. a
d) Possible answers 
1. The number of people playing tennis has increased slightly.
2. The number of football teams has decreased significantly.
3. Gym memberships have increased noticeably.
4. There has been a slight decrease in the number of volleyball teams.

4 Writing
a) It shows what sport people who are above 14 years old do once a week in a specific sports complex.

- Preparing speaking in the holidays: take some photos to tell your classmates about the holiday.

- Reading in the holidays: A challenge.

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• What was Make your Move?

• Read and watch: Get Inspired: How to get into Running: Watch about Stuart's story
• Read about one more story in the Get Inspired page to tell us about.

- Listening over the holidays: In unit 4 we'll see some live changing events. Listen to this one on NPR and prepare five questions about the listening for your classmates.

Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2018!!

Week 10: December 13th- 3B: Born to be the best

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- We warmed up by telling your teacher what you had done instead of coming to English class on December 11th, when your teacher could not come.
- We practised making careful suggestions on page 39.
- We did a reading and a listening on The Sport Gene, on pages 35 and 36.
- We practised present perfect simple and continuous.
- We sang our Christmas carol. Holy Jolly Christmas.

Homework:
- Exercise 4c and 4d. Exercise 5.

Week 9: December 4th- Everyday English

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- We warmed up by giving a little presentation on an activity you have put a lot of effort into.
- We did pages 38 and 39: Everyday English.
- We practiced how to keep the topic of a conversation, consonant sounds and making careful suggestions.

Homework:
- Exercise 2 page 36.
- Vocabulary exercises on page 156. We'll do the pronunciation together in class.
- We didn't have time to see the Christmas carol together, but here it is if you want to have a look: Holy Jolly Christmas.

Week 8: November 27th & 29th- Starting Unit 3: Talent

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- We exchanged information about the endangered animals we have read about.
- We started unit 3: Talent.
- We read  and did a listening on Learning to Learn.
- We saw vocabulary about ability and achievement and a listening about learning experiences.
- We did two pages on formal and informal letters or emails to prepare our letter to the minister.
-  We learnt about multi word verbs and practised a little.

Homework:
- Page 35.
- Write an email to the minister of the country of your choice in order to deal with the problems your species is facing.
- Send a five-second video on something beautiful.


NEW REDUCED GROUP SCHEDULE (after Film Festival and Christmas party)