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