Week 17: 22nd&24th February- Oral exams

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- We are doing oral exams: check your time and remember to come ten minutes in advance with your best pronunciation!

• Group Advanced 2 A
• Group Advanced 2 B

Week 16: February 15th &17th- Mid-year exam to test the water

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- We did the reading and listening part on Monday.

- Writing on Wednesday.

- We did some exercises related to the theatre play we are going to see on March 2nd.

Homework: 

- Reading and Writing portfolio 3: write a proposal.
- Exercise 25 of the theatre pack.

- Read the readings on pages 56 and 57.

- Look for a joke or a funny cartoon in English and bring it to class for February 29th.

- Look for an add you like very much and prepare an explanation of why you like it. It might be on paper or on video. For example, one of my favourite adds ever!!

Check out these webs (it might be in Spanish or any other language if you want, we are interested in your explanation really)

• Best Adds on TV
• Best Adds Ever
• AddWeek

Week 15: February 11th- Going on with success

-We warmed up with the main ideas of Alain de Botton's A kinder, gentler philosophy of success.
-We did 5B The young ones.
-We wrote a valentine card for a classmate. We read our valentines!
Homework:
-Do some research on a person you consider successful for a short presentation on February 29th.

Week 14: February 1st & 3rd- Starting unit 5 and Success!

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- We revised the story and structures we liked from IT Crowd's The Red Door.
- We discussed about the job of personal assistant and read about it in 5A Behind the glamour.
- We saw the meaning of a few prefixes in words related to the reading.
- We listened to a listening on the job of extra and practised intonation for emphasis.
- We saw the use of reflexive pronouns.
- We saw vocabulary related to work in 5C: Priorities.
- We listened to a conversation on work.
- We saw and practised conversational strategies.
- We talked about success and saw a short video by Alain de Botton titled Success.

Homework: exs. 2,3 4 and 5 page 43
- Listen to Alain de Botton's TED talk A kinder, gentler philosophy of success and extract the main ideas of it. Here you have the transcript too.

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.