Week 20: March 14th & 16th- Arriving to Easter holidays

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- We practised words with double meaning.
- We listened to some specialists talking about advertising campaigns.
- We revised the mock exam.
- We did a speaking exercise practising interactive phrases.

Homework:
- Reading and writing portfolio 5.
- Imagine a story with this background sound.

Advertising: virtual wall

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Take a look at the ads or commercials your classmates chose and why!

Week 19: March 7th & 11th- Going on with unit 6 and some results from the mid-year test

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- We talked about the theatre play we had seen the previous week.
- We talked about a joke or a cartoon we liked and exchanged them in small groups.
- We went on practising how to show interest with pronunciation.
- We saw vocabulary with different meanings.
- We talked about strange behaviour and did the reading at the beginning of 6B on advertising.
- We presented a commercial or ad we liked very much.
- We saw the position of different types of adverbials in the sentences.
- We corrected the reading exercises from the test and went through the most interesting feedback from the oral test.
Homework:
- Complete the virtual wall in the entry above with the ad you chose.

Week 18: February 29th March 2nd: Acting and theatre!

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- We resumed classes and warmed up with the game Strangers on a train.
- We started unit 6 and had a look at the readings on different kinds of research and had a look at formal and less formal ways of comparing.
- We did exercises on a listening on some bizarre behaviour.
- We corrected a mixed-up sentences exercise on The Final Answer.
- We talked about our favourite actors and films.
- We did a listening on acting.
- We played a game in which we acted as thieves or police officers.
- We solved a Quotation Speed Game.
- We completed a gap exercise on Writing's on the Wall, this year's Oscar winning song by Sam Smith (from Spectre)
Homework:
-Ex. 5 page 58, exs. 1 and 2 page 60.
- And the old homework of the information of the people you consider successful, the ad and the joke or cartoon.

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.