Exámenes septiembre 2013

CALENDARIO EXÁMENES           SEPTIEMBRE 2013- GUARDO


CURSO Y DÍA          EXPRESIÓN ESCRITA            COMPRENSIÓN ORAL               COMPRENSIÓN LECTORA

3 SEPTIEMBRE
1º N. BÁSICO           16.00-16.45(45’)                16.45-17.05(20’)                   17.05-17.35(30’)


5 SEPTIEMBRE
1º N. INT.                   16.30-17.30(60’)               17.30-18.0(30’)                     18.00-18.45(45’)


ORAL EXAMS- 4TH SEPTEMBER  17.00 HRS

key to rephrasing 4- and other exercises

Rephrasing 4

1. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE AN EXAM, YOU DON'T HAVE TO
2. THERE SHOULD BE A QUIET ROOM FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE SILENCE
3. IF I WERE YOU, I WOULDN'T WORK AT THE WEEKENDS
4. I LIKE ICE CREAM MORE THAN MY SISTER DOES
5. THE PARK WAS SO FANTASTIC THAT WE'D LIKE TO GO BACK
6. THE PARK HAS MANY PLACES TO EAT, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BRING FOOD WITH YOU
7. PENNY HASN'T BEEN TO/VISITED A SAFARI PARK BEFORE
8. MY DAD HASN'T BEEN TO THE DOCTOR FOR A LONG TIME
9. THE PATIENT TOOK A LONG TIME TO RECOVER...
10. MONEY IS BEING RAISED FOR THE ORPHANAGE
11. SUSAN STARTED TO WORK AS A VOLUNTEER SEVERAL YEARS AGO
12. COULD YOU PASS ME THE BREAD?
13. THEY ADVISED US TO TELL THE TRUTH

Cloze test - Stop till you drop

1. daily   2.just   3.shown   4.so   5.out   6.hired   7.help   8.such   9.find   10.relaxing   11.their   12.trip   13.some   14.increase   15.to   16.on   17. out of   18.changes   19.with    20. most

Reading comprehension- exam -style task

1.c   2.a   3.c   4.c   5.b

30th May

Review day 4

Exam sample 2

Listening 1

Listening 2-1

Listening 2-2

Listening 2-3

Listening 3

rephrase review 4

28th MAy

Review day 3
Listening 1
Listening 2
Listening 3
Exam- sample
Rephrase review 3

23rd May

We continued with the course review.
We did 2 cloze tests, a reding comprehension and 2 listening exercises: MArk Foster , School trip

Complete at home the second half of rephrasing: Rephrasing review 2

Grammar revise and check, New English File

1. finishes   2.studying   3.hadn't locked   4.was raining   5.have you been learning   6.won't be able to   7.did  
8.see   9.have had   10.need   11.didn't watch   12.shall I make   13.be   14.to go   15.not to tell   16.works  
17. would have been   18.will win/is going to win   19.is being repaired   20. have been working
 

21st May

From now onwards, we'll have some review classes.
We started practising rephrasing:Rephrasing review 1
And some listening comprehension exercises: alton towers , films

We also had some oral and writing practice.

20th May

Grammar Exercises

7B- question tags, indirect questions
a- 2.are you   3. aren't you   4.are you   5. have you   6. wouldn't you   7. don't you   8. didn't you   9. can't you   10. isn't it   11. didn't you
b- 2. what time the bank opens   3.if this train goes   4. how this photocopier works   5.if there's a hotel near here

7C- phrasal verbs
a. 2. out   3. in   4.on   5. up   6. out   7. down   8.off
b. 2.going   3.growing   4. get   5. calm   6. set   7.go
c. 2. them down   3.ok   4. is looking for a new job   5.ok   6.I pick you up   7. look after my little sister     8. ok   9.ok   10.give it back

16th May

We finished the coursebook watching the video from the Practical English section.
We learnt how to apologize and excusing oneself (t. 7.17-7.19)
Then, we studied how to write an opinion article and we finished the session doing some exam practice: rephrasing and listening comprehension . You can have access to it on this link:a dance marathon


 Homework: Writing task p.113- write an article. Deadline: 28th May (150-180 words)

14th May

We started the class, working with the phrasal verbs on p.108 from the coursebook. The students had to read 3 texts and complete the gaps with the most suitable phrasal from the list.
Then, we read the grammar point and we learnt there are different types of phrasals in English, depending on their structure. We practised how to use them in everyday language by asking some personal questions to our classmates.
Finally, we reviewed the text on p.111 and corrected the vocabulary exercise which consisted of matching phrasals and definitions.
Finally, we listened to 4 different people explaining what 2 things they couldn't live without for 1 week.(t.7.16)




english grammar in use- key

9th May- I'm off...supporting the state school, specially our Language Schools.Thanks! See you on 14th May

7th May

During this class, we studied and worked the indirect questions. We started the session reading and listening to an extract form a detective novel. Then, the students had to identify the questions asked by an inspector.

Once they were identified, we compared them and found out that some were direct and others indirect. We practised how to maske indirect questions with the grammar exercises on p.143 (7B-b).
Then, we listened to some questions on the CD and we turned them immediately into indirect questions and ckecked. To consolidate this new structure we did two oral activities, one in which the students asked some personal questions to their classmates in a polite way, and other in which the students acted out as tourist guides and were asked some information questions.

After that, we moved to the vocabulary section and talked about compouns: they consist of two nouns that go together. The first noun works as an adjective and qualifies the second noun. They're normally written separately (police station), with a hyphen (can-opener) or together (sunbathe).
To check our knowledge about compounds, we did a race game. The student had to answer a series of questions in 2 minutes, using compound nouns.

To finish the class, we talked about TV habits, first, we checked the vocabulary and then answered the questionnaire in pairs.
Homework: Read the text on p.111 and complete exercises 5a,b,c,d,e

2nd May

During this class we finished the topic about good and bad luck, correcting the exercises from the text on p.102 and listening to a song written by Alannis Morriset "Ironic" (videos)
After that, we explained the difference in use between which and what as relative pronouns.
We mainly use which, after nouns and what after prepositions and vers, and always when it means "the thing/s which".
Then, we moved to a new topic, and started to talk about murder and mystery. We read a text on p.104 about Jack the Ripper", we answered the comprehension questions and finally we listened to a detective talking about the suspects of the crimes.(T.7.6,7.7)
We finished the class, explaining the grammar point about question tags, we completed the grammar bank exercises and did an oral activity to consolidate this new structure (ex.3c)

Homework: Grammar bank p.143, ex.7B-b

30th April

We started the session revising the grammar points studied in unit 6. To do so, we did some rephrasing sentences. Here's a direct link to that practice:
Rephrasing unit 6
If you'd like to get some more practice on rephrasing check this site:
Rephrasing exercises

After that, we started a new unit from the coursebook, unit 7.
First, we explained and elicited some ideas of what is good or bad luck in Spain, then, we read two texts about two different situations in which some people experienced good and bad luck.(TT.7.1,7.2)
These stories were unfinished, and the students, before listening to what happened next, had to make their own speculations and then, check if they were right.
Then, we read a questionnaire about how lucky they were. They answered the questions, compared their answers in pairs and finally, checked what their scored meant.

To finish, we studied how to make adjectives from nouns adding suffixes like, -able or -y. And how to form their negative form adding prefixes like im- or un-

Homework: Read the text on p.102 and do exercises 5a,b,c

25th April

We finished unit 6 in the coursebook talking about heroes and icons. To start the session, we listened to a competition on the radio. The students had to guess the name of the famous person described.

Then, we completed a chart in the book with the nouns which refer to professions. We classified the nouns according to their endings(-er,-or,-ian,-ist).

After that, we played a game similar the the competition we listened before. The student took a card radomly and they had to describe that famous person so thier classmates could guess it.

Then, we moved to Practical English section. We watched the video and learnt how to show surprise and interest in a conversation. To consolidate these new structures, we did an oral activity. The students had to tell their partners an anecdote and they had to keep the conversation going showing interest and surprise using the expression from the book.

To finish, we worked the writing section: writing a review. We did the exercises and analysed the structure.

Homework: WB pp.60-62

                    Writing a film review. Words 150-180. Deadline 7th May

Key to Reading 3,p.94

a. Aung San Kuy 5

    Bono 1

    Thierry Henry 2

    Bernard Kouchner  3

    Queen Rania of Jordan 4

b. A. Thierry

    B. Queen Rania

    c. Bono

    D. Aung San 

    E. Bernard

c. 1. Bono   2.Queen Rania   3. Aung San   4.Bernard    5.Bono and Thierry

d. 2. modernity   3.hunger   4.poverty   5.choice   6.operation   7.sale

cloze tests- grammar key

Cloze tests

To the top of the world
1. world   2.ago   3.spent   4.because   5.on   6.arrived   7.birthday   8.a   9.best   10.saw   11. have

How to be happier
1. in    2.realise   3.can   4.surprising   5.about   6.have   7.should   8.every   9.of   10.habit   11.with

Grammar key-
6A
a. 2.would have to   3.were going to   4.this could   5.had just come   6.had agreed   7.hoped   8.would agree   9.had to
b. 1.who he thought would be the next President of the UN
    2.if more countries would be present at the next meeting
    3. if he had discussed that with the US President
    4. what the rich countries should do to eliminate world poverty
c. 1. asked us to put our seatblets on   2.told her boyfirend not to worry   3.told us not to cheat   4.asked his friend to slow down   5.asked me not to tell

6B
a. 2. were used   3.will be seen   4.have been made   5. was nominated   6.was paid   7.was being made,was asked   8.had been murdered   9.were used   10.are being made
b. 2.was directed   3.is set   4.is sent   5. takes   6.speaks   7.falls   8.is rescued   9.learns   10.was written   11.have been sold

18th April

We started the class listening to a girl talking about her experience working with Spielberg as a translator (T. 6.6,6.7)
Then, we started a new topic: heros. First, we read a quiz and tried to completed, then we read some short texts which explained the relationship between those people and Che Guevara.
We analysed the grammar point: relative clauses, read the grammar bank on p.140 and did the exercises
On this link you can have more practice online:
Defining
Non-defining
To finish the class we worked in groups and tried to create a story using 9 images from the "story cubes" using relatives as connectors.

Homework: Read the text on p.94, ex.3 a,b,c,d

16th April

We started a new section from the coursebook. The topic to work with is "cinema".
First , we read 3 texts about three famous films and the students had to guess the title and their location. Then, we answered some conprehension questions and searched some examples of passive voice sentences.
After that, we completed a chart with the correct forms of the passive voice and went to the grammar bank on p.140 to read and do the practice exercises.
Then, we analysed the vocabulary related to cinema on p.154 and to consolidate the new structures we did a questionnaire about cinema edand play the "20 questions" game to guess the title of a film.

11th April

During this session we continued working with the reported speech. We started correcting the pending exercises about shopping vocabulary.
Then, we moved to a new section in which we learnt how to report commands and requests.
We studied that the reporting verbs in this kind of sentences is:

 told+ person+to+infinitive

 asked+ person+ to+ infinitive

First, we analysed two sentences and tried to guess the words originally pronounced in a conversation, we wrote some others into reported speech and finally we read the grammar rules on p.140.
After that, we listened to three different people talking about a bbad service and the students answered the comprehension questions (t 6.4)
To practise the new structures we did a role-play activity. The students acted as clients and shop assistants in a complaint.
To fonish, we read the text on p.86, we reordered the paragraphs and answered the vocabulary exercise.

Homework: read the text on p.88, ex.1b,c,d.
                   WB pp.55-57

9th April

During this class we started a new unit in the coursebook, unit 6.
First, we asked some questions to our classmates about their shopping habits, like:

Do you ever go to a supermaret? Which one?

How often do you go there?

Why do you go to that supermarket?

What do you like or don't you like about it?

Do you ever talk to other people who are shopping there?

Then, back to the book, we read a short introduction to a love story, we looked at some pictures and completed the speech bubbles with the lines in ex.1b
To check it out, we listened to the cd (6.1)
We tried to remember the grammar rules about the reported speech and rewrote a couple of sentences in that style.
We also read and did the grammar exercises from the grammar bank and to consolidate this point, we played a game of correspondence. The stidents had to write short messages to a classmates and finally report their dialogue to the rest of the class.
To finish the session, we tried to find the differences in meaning in some pairs of expressions related to shopping.

Homework: Vocabulary bank, shopping, p.153

9th April

Answer keys:
Each and every (photocopy)
Exercise 1
2.every   3.each   4.every   5. each    6.each    7.each    8.every
Exercise 2
3. every    4.each   5.every    6.every   7.each    8.every    9.every    10.each   11.every    12.each
Exercise 3
2. had $10 each/ each has $10
3. postcard cost 40p. each
4. paid $40 each/ we each paid $40
Exercise 4
2.everyone   3. every one   4.everyone   5.every one

Another,other and others (photocopy)

1. another   2.another   3.other   4.another   5.other   6.another   7.other   8.other   9.other   10.another   11.other   12.other   13.another   14.others   15.another   16.other    17.another    18.another   19.another   20.another

Cloze test

Here you have a cloze to keep on practising. The asnwers are at the end of the text. So check it up as soon as you complete it.
Cloze test+key

Grammar  5B- articles a, an, the, no article

a. 2a   3a   4the   5 the   6 a   7 the   8 a   9 a   10-   11 -   12 the   13 the   14 -
b. 1 -    2 -   3 a   4 a   5 a    6 the   7 a   8 a   9 the
c. 1 -   2 -   3 the   4 -   5 a   6 -   7 a   8a   9 -   10 the   11 a   12 -    13 -    14 the

Grammar in use- bloque fotocopias- key

Grammar in use- key

Easter cake pops

21st March

We finished unit 5 in the coursebook, talking about work. The students first reviewed their knowledge about this topic, matching some pictures with a sentence each ans Then, studied the vocabulary bank on p.152.
We continued the class, studying the grammar point for this last section, gerunds and infinitives. To introduce the topic, the students completed a gapped questionnaire either with the gerund or the infinitive, and then they found out about their right job.
After that, we learnt the grammar rules  on p.138 and did an oral practice to consolidate the new structures.
To finish the class, we listened to a girl who joined a contest and decided to try a different job. Her teachers and her will talk about the experience. The students had to listen and answer some comprehension questions.(t. 5.14-5.17)

Homework: Read the test on p.78, ex.4
                  Grammar bank,p.139, 5C

19th March

We continued talking about men and women. First, We read a text which explained the different topics men and women usually talk about, we expressed our opinion and then, we tried to demonstrate the article was wrong asking the girls in the class to talk about football for about 2 minutes, and the boys about shopping.
After that, we listened to 2 journalists explaining an experiment they carried out to find out if men could enjoy spas as much as women (T.5.8-5.11).

To finish the class, the students discussed in small groups about the things men and women usually do and then, we listened to a song by Avril Lavigne.

Homework: WB pp.47-49

14th March

During this class, we reviewed the grammar point about an/other, each and every.
To practise these new structures, we did an oral activity to talk about our lifestyles.

We continued the session watching a video of an American cemedian explaining the differences between men and women's brains.
Then, we read a gapped text and completed it with an article. We read and worked the exercises about the articles in English and finally completed a second text with the same type of words.

Homework: Exercises from photocopy Another and other, Each and every.

Quantifiers, grammar+exercises
Each and every
Other and another

12th March

We started the session reading the texts about Slow food movement on pp.70-71. Every student read one of the texts and reported the information to his/her classmates. Then, answered in  pairs to the comprehension questions.
After that, we read a political leaflet and match the verbs with their definitions and did a word formation exercise. The student learnt how to create nouns form verbs, using endings like -ment, -al, -ion or -ation, and from adjectives, using endings like, -ness, -(i)ty.

We finished the class discussing in groups how we thought a slow town should be.

Homework: Read the grammar explanation about each/every, other/another.

Key to Grammar 4C- usually and used to
 2. don't live    3.used to dream   4.used to be   5. didn't use to worry   6.used to share   7.don't go   8.didn't use to like   9.don't ride    10.used to ride    11.spend    12.didn't use to eat    13.didn't used to    14.used to have

key to Grammar 5A- Quantifiers
2. too much   3.a lot of   4.little   5. how many   6.none   7.a lot of   8. enough time   9. any   10.plenty   11.a few   12.little   13.too   14. few  15.too much   16. enough   17.no

7th March

We started a new unit form the coursebook, unit 5. In this unit we'll work the quantifiers and word formation.
To open the topic, some expressions of time were written on the board, and the students had to say another way of expressing those times.

15 minutes= a quarter of an hour

30 minutes=half an hour

60 minutes= an hour

90 minutes=an hour and a half

150 minutes= two hours and a half

Then, we continued the class, discussing in pairs some questions about how much time we spent on a weekday doing certain activities.

After that, we read 3 short texts by 3 different people and we had to decide if they had a good wokk-life balance or not. And then, choose the correct form of the quantifier to complete the texts.
Then, we went to the grammar bank section and studied some of the most common quantifiers in English, we learnt about their meaning and grammatical structure. To consolidate this point, we did the grammar exercises.
To finish the class, we listened to an expert giving some tips about how to slow down in our lives (T5.3)

Homework: Read either text A or B on p.70 and answer questions in ex.4c

Practise online-quantifiers

5th March

We finished unit 5 watching the video about practical English. We learnt how to suggest, agree and refuse those suggestions. To consolidate these new structures we did a role-play activity in which the students had to decide how to spend a day out in London with little money.

Then we corrected the pending reading exercises and finished the class working out the rephrasing stage.




You can work already the revise and check section. File test 4, Quicktest 4

28th February

We started the lesson correcting the grammar exercises from Grammar bank 4c (usually/used to).
The nwe went back to the coursebook and listened to Carol and Alex talking about their experiences with the meeting. The students listened and answered some comprehension questions.(T.4.11,4.12)

To consolidate the structures with used to, we did an oral activity in which the students had to write some personal information about their past habits and their classmates had to guess if it was true or a lie.

We continued the class, studying some expressions with the verb "to get". First we matched the expressions with their meanings, and then completed a gapped text.

We finished the class listening to 3 speakers talking about friendship and the students had to choose the statements they were talking about and then if these speakers agreed or not with them.

After listening, the students had to agree or disagree with those staements themselves.

Homework: p.65, Describing a house or flat. Ex.b,c.
                    Writing task, A description of your house, 120 words.

26th February

During this class we corrected the pending exercises about grammar (second conditional). Then, we practised with an oral activity in which the students had to talk about choices (If I had to choose...).

We continued with the coursebook and we listened to 4 speakers talking about their dreamed houses. The students had to match speakers with the pictures. To close this topic, the students talked in pairs about hteir dreamed houses.

We finished the class dealing with a new issue: frienship.First we read a short text and completed it with some phrases and then discussed about our close friends.
Finally, we read other three texts in which we learnt about a website which helped people to find old friends and how 2 different people tried this site and the results of their search.

We could also analysed the grammar point (used to) and for next day we'll complete the grammar exercises (Grammar bank 4C).


Key to grammar activities
4A- Future time clauses
2. finish 3. 'll text  4. finishes   5.come   6.can   7.don't phone   8.get   9are   10. are   11. won't be able to   12.pass   13. meet   14. don't study    15. won't have
4B- Second conditional
a. 2. had,could   3. would be, didn't go out   4. wouldn't argue, didn't borrow   5. went, wouldn't be   6.painted, wouldn't look   7. would feel, went   8.shared, would get on   9. didn't have to, could   10. did, would improve
b. 2. could   3. don't reduce   4. see   5.were   6.doesn't have   7.had   8.wouldn't drive   9. didn't have too, could   10.would look

CLOZE TEST- EDUCATION
1.A   2.C   3.C   4.D   5.A   6.B   7.D   8.B   9.C   10.B   11.D   12.B

21st February

We started the session correcting the pending exercises from the Grammar Bank about the first conditional and continued with a speaking activity on p.55. The students in groups had to choose one topic, and write 3 reasons for or against it. Then, they exposed their ideas in the group and the rest had to express their agreement or not.

After that, we continued with a new grammar point, second conditional. To introduce the topic, we read a questionnaire from a magazine, and the students had to find the answers to the questions and decide who answered what.
We reviewed the grammar point: second conditional (if+ past / would)

To consolidate the new structure, we did a communication activity. The students had to complete some questions with the correct verb form and then, their classmated needed to answer them.

We finished the class completing the vocabulary bank about houses and listening to a famous English song form Madness "Our house".

Homework: Reading on p.59 ex.5b,c
                   Workbook pp.34-36

Check this site about 

rephrasing (on the left side column, you can choose the grammar point you would like to practise)

http://www.xtec.cat/~ogodoy/sac/rephrasing/rephrexercises.htm

ANd some cloze tests:
http://eoipiedralavesvenus.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/cloze-tests-intermediate.pdf

19th February

We started the session studying the grammatical structures of the first conditional and the future time clauses.

First we answered some questions in pairs about studying and exams. Then, we listened to two students talking about their exam results and tried to answer some comprehension querstions (T.4.3,T.4.4,T.4.5,T.4.6).

We reviewed the grammar bank in the book and paid attention to some slides on the board and did the practice exercises reordering words and playing a toc-tac-toe game.

To finish the class, we continued listening to an extract from a TV programme in which some 16-year-old student were asent to a very special 1950's boarding school. After listening we did the comprehension exercises.

Homework: Grammar bank p.136, ex.4a,b

                    Grammar exercise from photocopy (video comprehension)

14th February

We started a new unit from the coursebook, unit 4. In this unit we'll talk about education and we'll study the first contiditional together with the future time clauses.

To start with, we thought about our favourite school subjects and tried to answer in pairs some general knowledge questions, and immediately after, we matched those questions with the school subjects they referred to.

We completed the vocabulary bank from page 150 and debated about our education.

To finish, we watched an extract from the news and did a video comprehension exercise about Finnish education ( you can find the video uploaded on videos section- 14th Feb.)

Homework:
For next day, the sutendt need to read the text on p.53 "So school these days is easy?" and do ex. 3d,e.

Pruebas de progreso febrero 2013

Ya tenéis publicadas los resultados de las pruebas de progreso de febrero. Para consultarlos debéis acceder a través de la EOI PALENCIA- sección Guardo e intruducir vuestros datos: DNI+número matrícula.
Para aprobar recordad que es el 60% de la nota. Es decir, hay que sacar un 12 sobre 20 y un 48 sobre el total de 80, una vez sumadas las 4 destrezas.
Si no se aprueba alguna de las partes no computa, aparece como 0 y no os calcula la media.
El jueves 14 febrero nos vemos en clase y comentamos los resultados.

31st January

Progress test 1-3
Progress test 1-3- answer key
Progress test listening 1
Progress test listening 2

Rephrasing
Rephrasing practice key

grammar and cloze test- keys

Grammar activity- FILE 3C CAN,COULD,BE ABLE TO

a. 2. ok    3. be able to    4. be able to    5. ok     6. will be able to     7.ok    8.ok    9. being able to         10. ok

b. be able to    3. can't    4. been able to    5. could    6. be able to    7.being able to    8. can    9. couldn't 10. could    11. be able to

Cloze test -LONDON TUBE

1. JOURNEY    2.EVERY    3.DURING    4.THAT    5.EVENTUALLY    6.DEVELOPMENT   7.CURRENTLY    8. AS    9. FOR     10.ON

29th January

During this class we corrected some pending exercises from the coursebook and practised the pronunciation of the -ed regular past and -igh/-aigh/-eigh.
We could also rehearse the oral exam asking some conversation questions about the topics studied in class. Here you are the link to those questions:
Conversation questions
Here's the key to those grammatical exercises you printed at Christmas:
Grammar in use- key(fotocopias navidad)

24th January

In this class, we studied the differences between -ed/-ing adjectives.
We learnt that -ed adjectives are used to describe the person who has the feeling:
I'm bored
And -ing adjectives are used to describe the person or thing that causes the feeling:
The film is boring.
We did some grammatical practice in the coursebook. (ex.4a,b,c,d)
Then an oral activity which consisted of interviewing our classmate to guess how emotive s/he was.

After that, we listened to a psychologist talking about how to succeed at learning new things. We had to tick the tips we heard and then write an exmaple of each. (T3.3).

We finished the session with the Practical English section in the book(p.48). We listened to Mark asking directions and completed a gapped text. After that, we put into practice the new structures and vocabulary with an oral activity (p.117/120).

Homework: WB pp.30-33
                   File test 3, File 3 Quicktest, Progress test 1-3
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EXAMENES FEBRERO

5 FEBRERO- 18.15

COMPRENSION LECTORA

COMPRENSION ORAL

EXPRESION ESCRITA

7/12 FEBRERO

ORALES

22nd January

During this session we studied the differences between so and such.

so+ adjective

such+ adjective+ plural or uncountable noun

such+ a/an+ adjective+ singular noun

That dress is so beautiful

It's such a beautiful dress!

Practice online:

so/such

We also revised how to write personal letters. First we compared it to personal emails and than analysed an example and looked for its different parts. On this slide you can find the different writing structures (describing a person, telling a story and personal letter), and also some useful language.

key to grammar exercises 3A/3B 3A- must, have to, should a. 2.mustn't 3. ok 4.had to 5.ok 6. don't have to b. 2. don't have to 3. must/have to 4.should 5.mustn't 6.must/have to 7.shouldn't 8.don't have to 3B. must, may, might, can't a. 2.might 3.must 4.can't 5.may b. 1.must 2. might not/may not, must 3.might/may, can't,must 4.might/may, can't, must

17th January

During this class, we studied the modals verbs with a meaning of ability and possibility.
But to start with, we learned about "in case" expression. It is mainly used to say what may happen, so you'd better take precaution before it happens.
To introduce the topic, we did a matching activity. We had to match the two parts of 8 travel tips. Then, we did some grammatical exercises to distinguished between "if" and "in case" and finally, we wrote some pieces of advice including the new phrase.
Get some practice online

if or in case
in case

We continued the session, reading a text about some people to tried to learn something, but failed.
We had to complete this text with some missing phrases and then, analyse the tenses of the verbs included in those phrases.
To finish the class, We studied the grammatical rules about the modals verbs of possibility (can, could, be able to) and did an oral activity which consisted of interviewing our partner to find out his/her abilities.

Note: GO TO DOCUMENTS SECTION AND DOWNLOAD CLOZE TEST 3 AND REPHRASING EXERCISES.

Homework: grammar exercise 3C, p.135.

15th January

During this session we studied the modals of deduction: must, can't, may and might. To start with, we read a text from the coursebook. We had to analyse some photos and then express our judge about the girls. At the end, we found out who they were. We read the grammar point on some slides showed in class, did the practice and read the explanations in the book. For next day, we need to complete the grammar exercises from p.135. (3B). To finish, we listened to a Flamenco guitarist and did the comprehension exercises 5a/b/c/d (T.3.8/3.9). Homework: Workbook pp.22-29 Complete the photocopies about modals of obligation and deduction. Modals of deduction/possibility

10th January

We started the class revising the meaning and function of the modal verbs of obligation but in a different context: to describe street signs.

To do so, the students had to watch some slides with specific signs and try to explain their meaning and the country where they could be found.

Then we continued with the course book and a new section: modals of deduction.

To start with, we read a text about some people and their passport photos, we completed the comprehension exercises(1a-e) and did the vocabulary bank exercises to describe people.

Slides to describe people's appearance

We also studied the differences between look and look like.

Look+adjectives

look like+ nouns/pronouns

Here you have some slides to practise these structures. (I'm unable to show them in class, so you need to revise them at home).

To finish the class, we listened to two ladies describing a criminal and the students had to spot him out from a series of photos(t.3.5)

8th January

During this lesson we learnt about English manners.
We started reading a postcard and then a text in which a woman expressed the differences between the Russian and the British, in means of politeness.
After reading, the students had to decide if the statements on exercise 4c were true or false and correct the false ones.
Then, we listened to 4 people talking about their experiences while living in England. The ss had to say whether the speakers thought the English were too polite or not and answer some comprehension exercises.
To finish the session, we discussed in groups 5 different situations about manners and read about other strange customs in different countries and say if they were true or not.
Homework
Read the text on p. 40, do ex. 1c,d,e.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!!!

ACTIVITY ANSWERS

Hand out- 2C

Comparatives and superlatives:

2. more nervous than    3.ok   4. ok    5. nicer than    6. the worst one    7. ok    8.ok    9.ok    10. lazier than    11. the highest divorce rate in the world    12. more slowly    13 the best chocolate cake    14. ok  15. as cold as   16. the most affectionate    17. hotter than    18. ok   19. same school as

Listening comprehension 2- February exam- answer key

1.T       2.T       3.F       4.F       5.T       6.T

Cloze test- Lottery winners- key

1.book    2. most    3. Since    4. Have won    5. work    6. job    7. On    8. A third     9. A quarter     

10. Small    11. Majority    12. Worth    13. In     14. winners     15. further