30th October

During this session we studied the different structures used in English to express the future time:

be going to, will, present continuous

Then, we listened to 3 different conversations and the ss first identified the speakers and later, the meaning of different future sentences.

Finally, we read a text about two sisters and did the comprehension and vocabulary exercises.

30th October

Grammar present simple /continuous key- photocopy

a) 2.I'm doing  3.do you come  4.do you have  5.it depends  6.are you going  7.do you mean  8.I need  9.I'm moving  10.are you living  11.I'm staying  12.are you doing  13.want  14.I'm meeting

b)2.'m visiting  3.don't mind  4.are you staying  5.'m going  6.do you like  7.do you know  8.comes  9.are you doing  10.are waiting  11.do you live  12 aren't doing  13.are you carrying  14.have  15.do you want  16.says

25th October

We started the class revising the text they had to read at home (p.11) about the right time to retire from sporting life. First, We corrected the comprehension exercises and then we discussed in class about a famous sportsperson in Spain. They did this oral activity in pairs and then we elicited some examples as a whole group.

Then we started a new topic:the family. to review the vocabulary about relatives, we answered some questions in group: what do you call...your mother's brother? and so on.

After that, we went to the book and looked at two different family pictures. The ss had to decide which picture represented the typical family of the future and then, they read the 1st paragraph to find it out.

We continued reading the article and answered some vocabulary questions and finally we dicussed in pairs about what's happening in Spain at the moment. The ss had to use the useful language from the book and also, some extra expressions.

Homework: My nightmare exam (photocopy), read Grammar Bank 1C and also read the text you'll find on p.14 (We are family...)

23rd October

We started the session listening to a Spanish referee talking about his job as a professional. The ss had to choose the correct answer a,b or c.

Then, we did a quick quiz about sports in pairs and went to the vocabulay bank and completed the exercises (p.145).
To consolidate the new structures, we continued talking in pairs about a sports team in our town/country and interviewed our classmate using a questionnaire from the student's book and finally discussed as a whole group about the things some sports had in common and whether they should be used with go, play or do.

Homework: Reading comprehension, p.11, ex.7 b,c,d.

18th October

We've started to talk about a new topic: sports (unit 1B).
To introduce it, the ss had to think about different ways of cheating: in an exam, in a card game, etc...).
Then they discussed in which sports there were more cases of cheating and finally they read the texts in pairs to find out how those people had cheated.

After that, we analysed the tenses in the text and went to the grammar bank 1B to read about the past tenses.

To consolidate the grammatical structures the ss did 2 oral activities. In the first one, they had to retell the stories offrom the text to their classmates, and in the second, they had to tell an anecdote of their own, choosing one of the topics suggested on p.9, ex.2a.

For next day, the ss have to watch the video podcast and do ex.3; read grammar bank and complete exercises from 1B

In our next class we'll study the vocabulary related to sports.

16th October

We continued the class talking about food and restaurants. To start with, we did a quiz in pairs to elicit the vocabulary we knew about this topic and then we moved to the back of the book, p.144, and completed the vocabulary bank exercises.
To consolidate the new words we did a survey to our partner to find out more about his/her eating habits.

Then, we listened to an English chef who opened a resaurant in Chile. For the comprehension exercises 5b/c, the ss listened the CD (track 1.5) twice.

Finally, we did an oral activity in groups which consisted of reading some statement and expressing our agrement/disagreement with them.
Just below you can read more expressions of this type to be used in your future oral expressions.


Note: I have uploaded the document we're going to work next Thursday. It's a video comprehension exercise, I've already given you a copy but I could check that its quality is really bad. You can print it at home if you like (Video Podcast). We only need the first two pages.

Homework: Workbook pp.4-6

11th October

We started the session talking about the tenses to be worked in this unit: present simple and continuous. 

We elicited some information about them and wrote it on the board. Then, we continued talking about food and the ss had had to interview each other using the questions from Alice and Jaqueline's interview.

After that, we listened to Rumiko (p.5, T1.1) and did the comprehension exercises. Then, we analysed some sentences and chose the best option (ex.2c) and finally, we read the grammar explanation on p.130 and did the grammar exercises in class.

To finish the class, we used the prompts from (ex.2e) to make questions to our classmates in the present simple or continuous.

The ss were asked to work at home a photocopy about the grammar point and it'll be corrected in our next session.

9th October

We started the session correcting the pending gramatical exercises, in which the ss had to decide if some phrases written in bold letters were right or not.
For homework, the ss were asked to write a similar composition to be handed in to the teacher or sent by email (olgapelaezster@gmail.com).

Then, we started the students coursebook. In this unit 1A we'll review the present tenses and study the vocabulary about food and restaurants.

In the first exercise, we made a list of food and dishes from different countries and chose our favourite ones.


After that, we read two interviews with 2 different women and first, they decided whether their relationship with food was for fuel or pleasure. Then, they matched the interview questions with their answers and finally anwered some comprehension questions.

To finish the class we found the words and phrases from the text and matched them with their definitions.

In our next class we'll watch a video about other people's tastes and study the grammar point related to present tenses.

4th October

During the first session we had a revision class.

To start with, the students were asked to work in pairs to learn more about each other. They did an activity which consisted of filling up some shapes (stars, squares and circles) with some kind of personal information, and their partners had to read such information and then ask them about it to find out why they had written it.

We continued the class with grammar review exercises. The students had to complete some gapped sentences with the correct information. And finally, they had to read a text and guessed if the words/phrases in bold letters were correct or not.

In our next class we'll correct the last exercise and we'll start working with the course book.