Friday, 31 May 2013

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

Friday, 24 May 2013

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
 

Thursday, 23 May 2013

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.

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

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

Friday, 17 May 2013

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)

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

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

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

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

Friday, 3 May 2013

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

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

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

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