Week 11: 15th & 17th December 2014- End of the year

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- At course level, it's time to evaluate your work up to now and to set goals for the rest of the course. I'll be giving you the general objectives for the year, which I also include here in more detailed fashion, as they appear in the BOCM.
- We practised strees and rhythm in conditionals on page 31.
- We practised making, accepting and refusing offers with ex. 6 page 31.
- We did a reading exercise on the making of a play.
- We did a couple of listening exercises on acting and a famous mistake.
- We practised third conditional sentences in spoken interaction.
- We saw connecting words in 4C: Very funny.
- We wrote the story and meaning of 3x3 from Film English. (15')

Homework: - Writing of Portfolio 7 from the Workbook.
                     - Parts 1E and 3E pages 16 and 17 from the Handbook.
                     - Take at least 5 photos to explain your holidays on the day back to school. You can have them in the gallery of your mobile or use a web tool to create a collage with all your photos. You can use Be Funky, register for free and go to Create Collage. There you can select the photos you want, on the template you prefer and save in your personal BeFunky gallery. It's also a free app for the mobile phone that is even easier to use. Here you have an example from a sample photo in BeFunky:

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Week 10: 10th & 12th December, 2014 - The rehearsal starts: Jingle Bell Rock

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- We started rehearsing Jingle Bell Rock, by Bobby Helms to see if we finally win the contest this year!! Here goes the lyrics for you to practice.
- We spoke about the books we had read with the dice and we wrote a crazy story of different books.
- We revised recurrent mistakes  from the correction of Portfolio 1 and the second writing on The IT Crowd, Calamity Jen.
- We corrected the exercises on the 3rd conditional from page 27 and the ones about verbs with prepositions from page 29.
- We practised second conditionals with the activity about Life threatening situations.
- We did 3D: How can I help? making, accepting and refusing offers.

Homework: reading April Fool, page 36 ex.2 and reading And the Oscar goes to..., page 73 ex.2b and 3.

Week 9: 1st & 3rd December - The aftermath of the festival

- We went through the handout about the films and we extracted useful vocabulary from them.
- We went through a vocabulary sheet on film vocabulary.
- We practised the intonation for agreeing and disagreeing tag questions.
- We practised crime vocabulary in speaking with Laws from around the world.
- We did 3B: It shouldn't be allowed!
- We practised the pronunciation of contractions in conditionals.

Homework:
-Speaking recording on the film handout to be sent by e-mail. Up to five minutes.
-Exercises 8 and 9 page 27.

Week 8: 24th &26th Novembre, 2014 - Film festival!!

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-We practised second conditional structures with ex.6 page 25.
-We did 3C: The cost of crime, where we practised listening, reading and speaking about crimes and sentences.
-We got the results of the listening placement test and revised different strategies to study and revise effectively.
-We saw the trailer of the films in the Film Festival: Maleficent and Grand Budapest Hotel.
-We saw the film and had a handout to prepare for next day's warming up.

Homework: Preparation of the film handout.

Week 7: 17th, 19th & 21st November, 2014 - Beginning of Unit 3

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- We presented the Film Festival.

- We revised the emergency evacuation instructions.

- We did 2D: I know what you mean.

- We practised pronunciation patterns with different suffixes.

- We practised usually/ used to/ get used to with a speaking activity.

- We did 3A: Against the law.

- We examined the first Reading & Writing Portfolio from the Workbook.

- We guessed the story of the films Maleficent and Grand Budapest Hotel from different images.

- We practised second conditional structures with speaking cards.

- We revised the phonemic system of the English language.

- We watched The IT Crowd's second episode Calamity Jen.

Homework:

• Writing from Portfolio 1: an article.
• Story from Calamity Jen.

Week 6: 10th & 12th November, 2014- Go Animate

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- We discussed the meaning of Little Talks.
- We did 2B: Life's different here.
- We saw how to express the process of things becoming familiar for us with be and get used to.
- We did 2C: At a glance. We saw different suffixes to make different types of words.
- We practised linking words and linking r.
- We did and handed in the last listening from the placement test.
- We saw a video on the remembrance poppies and on the fall of the Berlin wall.

Homework: page 21, reading and exercises.

• Speaking production: make a video with GoAnimate. I've prepared a short tutorial to help you.
• Prepare a five-minute presentation with topics: from the handout, from the news or from a special date for you (eg. your birthday: what was happening in your familiy, in your country, in the world). You can check notes, a visual presentation or prepare an exercise for your classmates. Please save a date with your teacher and send any file beforehand.