Week 14: January 23rd & 25th- Arriving to mid-course!

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- We revised The Big Bang Theory vocabulary in context (coming, toe touch, bear claw, we'll never know, Thank you, they're my mother's, pedometer, stretch)
- We did You should't have been there from the book, pages 46 and 47, except from exercises 1 to 5.
- We revised present perfect continuous with a speaking exercise with a game of cards.
- We did a couple of exercises (speaking and writing) on the books in English we had recently read: Cards in the book and What's the story?
- We got feedback on the writings of the annecdote and Serial Taxi.
- We did a course evaluation questionnaire.

Homework:
- Exercise 2 page 171, ex.9 page 46.
- Exercises 2,3 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 pages 152 and 153 in preparation for the next writing task.
- If you read a book in English and you haven't done any writing on it but are willing to, you can do this: Write about 150 words on the end of the book you've read. Explain what the end was, what you thought of it and how you would have changed it in any way and why.
   

Week 13: January 16th & 18th- Starting unit 5 Sports and Interests

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- We did Make a Difference, from unit 4.
- We revised the reading and we saw how to compare using the structure The... the.
- We were given and corrected together the vocabulary, reading and grammar test from December, together with the Serial Taxi writing. Find here the KEY to the test.
- We practised the structure with a photocopy with beginnings of examples of it.
- We started unit 5, on Sports and Interests, A Bit Extreme. We saw a little bit of vocabulary on extreme sports, we did a listening on a peculiar uncle and saw vocabulary about injuries and accidents.
- We revised using present perfect simple and continuous.
- We worked with a scene of The Big Bang Theory in which Sheldon is trying to do some jogging with Penny. Here is the transcript if you want to check it all.

Homework:
Do Review 2 on page 41 and exercise 7 on page 46.

Week 12: January 9th & 11th- New Year Resolutions

- We warmed up with our photos from the Christmas break.
- We saw the first nine minutes of the film Bridget Jones's Diary and we completed a table about the six main characters.
- We shared out views and saw it again while checking the script. We checked the vocabulary.
- We did Gabrielle's Out of Reach song from the original soundtrack of the film.
- We revised the vocabulary from the trascript.
- We did Big Issues on pages 36 and 37. We got familiar with social issues and saw fixed phrases to comment on them.
- We exchanged the good news stories we had researched during the break.

Homework:
- Find a positive item of news.
- Write a new year resolution for the class poster.
- Write on the Good News virtual wall.

Happy new year!!

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Dear students,

I wish you all the best possible year and also one in which your 

English experiences are positive and motivating.

Week 11: December 19th & 21st- Goodbye to 2016

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- We exchanged information about the strange countries we had read about.
- We corrected exercise 7 on page 35 to revise cause and result sentences.
- We saw a few structures on how to show understanding in conversations and we practised them with a speaking activity which was also meant to revise present and past habitual actions.
- We did a short test on grammar, vocabulary and reading.
- We practised verb tenses by answering scrambled  questions.
- We saw Serial taxi and wrote an account of it for Gema to correct.
- We exchanged information about our newspapers.
- We sang We Three Kings for the last time and wished the English Department luck in tomorrow's competition!!



Homework: - Read a bit of the newspaper you got to be able to say something about it the next day.
Homework for Christmas:
- Find a positive item of news to tell the class.
- Take photos of the holidays to show your classmates on the first day after holidays.
- Do the writing on page 20 in the workbook

Week 10: December 12th & 14th- Things that go wrong

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- We imagined Elvis's love-life situation and  gave him advice by using should structures.
- We wrote a plan or promise for him for the wall poster.
- We revised vocabulary of how things can go wrong and saw a moment in which everything went wrong in Mog's Christmas Calamity.
- We practised -ed pronunciation and rhyming.
- We had a look at this year's Christmas Carol, We Three Kings.
- We practised -ed pronunciation with a board game and explanations of questions in the past.
- We started Unit 4: Society. We did page 34, we practised vocabulary on the government, economics and society.
- We worked with a listening about the situation of the countries of two university students.
- We saw the use of so and such in cause and result sentences and practised with the exercises at the grammar reference at the back of the book.

Homework:
- Exercise 7 page 35.
- Research a little about the name of the country I gave you to exchange information in the warming up at the beginning of Monday's class. If you didn't come to class on Wednesday and want to do some research on a country choose one of these: Kiribati, Comoros, Tuvalu or Nauru.
- Revise grammar and vocabulary of the first three units, as we are going to have a little test on grammar and vocabulary, as well as a reading comprehension exercise.

Week 9: December 5th & 7th- Getting to know The IT Crowd and regretting with Elvis

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- We revised how to talk about purpose with everyday objects.
- We saw how to talk about faulty objects.
- We listened to a costumer's complaint in a radio programme.
- We saw the first episode of IT Crowd, Yesterday's Jam.
- We took note of interesting vocabulary.
- We checked how should/should have work.
- We practised telling a moment in which things had go wrong.
- We did a short exercise on Always on my mind, by Elvis Presley.

Homework:
- Nothing new, either do the last writing or the recorded presentation if you haven't already done them.