Week 13: 25th & 27th January- Newspaper language and IT Crowd!!

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- We revised structures to talk about the future in newspaper headlines.
- We did 4B: Cities and technology, we saw a couple of listenings on Star Trek and structures to talk about the future in the past.
- We explained and drew our classmates' crazy inventions.
- We received feedback from exercise on inversion This is my life.
- We did 4C: Making a splash, revised the differences between tabloids and broadsheets and went through the photocopy on newspaper language.
- We corrected the writing exercises on page 33.
- We saw The Red Door, the 4th episode of the first season of IT Crowd.
Homework:
-Writing on page 33, ex. 6 and 7.
- Ex. 2 page 46
- Writing about the story of The Red Door.

Week 12: January 18th & 20th- Breaking news!

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- We revised the structure "Not only + inversion" and euphemism and strategies to be tactful.
- We presented our pieces of news in small groups.
- We started 4A: Society and the media.
- We practised phonetic transcription with David Bowie's Starman. This is the exercise we did.
- We saw structures to speak about the future in 4A.
- We got feedback on Portfolio 1.
- We read our classmates inversion exercises This is my life.
Homework:
- Photocopy of inversion This is my life.
- Exercises 2 and 3 page 40.

Week 11: January 11th & 13th- Coming back after Christmas- Good bye Mr Jones!

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- We talked about the best day we remembered from the break and we saw the results of the Christmas party.
- We corrected the  reading comprehensions we had for homework.
- We did 3B, revised health vocabuary, talked about health advice and saw inversion after restictive and negative adverbials.
- We practised the use of fillers and redundancy.
- We practised a task on quick reading.
Homework: Exs. 2, 3, 4 and 5 on page 33.

Happy New Year 2016

Dear students, let me start the year by wishing you all the best for the days to come... and with a little joke I suppose you, advanced students, all understand by now.

Take care and all the best from your teacher.

Week 10: December 21st- Last day before the Christmas break

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- We revised the use of structures with "it".
- We practised intonation and stress in speech  units.
- We saw positive and negative connotation in adjectives.
- We did a spoken crossword of adjectives.
- You received all your written productions revised with feedback and we saw some feedback together.
- We did the vocabulary exercise 1 on page 30.
- We rehearsed the Christmas carol.

Homework: -Ex. 1,2 and 3 from pages of 4A.
- The two reading comprehension handouts.
- Look for an item of news during the break or any day before January 11th and be prepared to present it to yout classmates on Monday January 11th.
- Read and assess the review from your classmate I gave you.
- Reading and writing portfolio 1 from the Workbook.

Week 9: December 14th&16th- Serious rehearsing of the Christmas carol ;-))

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- We revised strategies to be tactful.

- We corrected a reading exercise with short extracts and headings.

- We practised participles in speaking with the story of Steven Callaghan.

- We saw and practised vocabulary to talk about character.

- We discussed and corrected the reading "Born to Lose" in 3A: Being confident.

- We explained and practised Patterns with it on page 28.

- We did a listening on The impostor syndrome.

- We wrote wishes for 2016.

- We rehearsed this year's Christmas carol.

Homework: - Correct and assess a review from another student. Consider the overall impression and adequation, cohesion, richness and correctness.

- Two reading exercises I gave you.

- Exercise 1 page 30.

Week 8: December 9th- We start the rehearsal of the winning Christmas carol

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- We practised the use of adverbs.
- We did 3C It's the way you say it, where we saw and practised strategies to be tactful or less direct when giving opinions, criticising or complaining in English.
- We tried to understand British politeness with this table.
- We corrected the writing exercises on page 13.
- We distributed the photocopy on As/Like.
- We read and sang Deck the Halls, the Christmas carol for this year's competition.

Homework: - Reading pages 26 and 27 and exercises 1, 3 and 4.
- Reading handout of short texts.
- Exercises on As/Like