March, Thursday 27th

Hi guys!

Yesterday we began our class with the pre-writing activities on pages 64-65 .We also did a couple of revision exercises, click here to see the one on ADJECTIVES & PREPOSITIONS 

We moved on skipping the video activities and started unit 5A. Who´s in control? We did exercises 1a ,1b and 1c. Then we did exercise 2a (page 69) and did the GRAMMAR BANK (page 148) and its first exercise.

That was all folks!

Please, for Tuesday next week don´t forget to do exercise 1d (read the text Welcome to Nannyfornia) in your books. You can also do the revise & check on page 67 ( answer key HERE). One last thing, the photocopy belonging to 5A (sorry!  I don´t remember the page number!)

Please remember to choose ONE of the topics suggested on page 65 ( or write about a topic of your  interest!)to work on you Discursive essay and hand it in on Thursday next week the latest.

Have a nice weekend and see you next month!

Emiliano

March, Tuesday 25th

HI everybody!

Great numerous class tonight! Way to go!

We  just resumed classes at six today so as to "finish" unit 4C. We corrected Are you hooked on addiction? ( answered some questions on the text and checked exercises), did exercises 5a and 5b on page 63 - adjectives+prepositions-, and finally back to page 61 where we did the pronunciation activityies 2a, 2b and 2c.CLICK HERE FOR INFO

Then, Toby´s time with his case studies, which had you debate weird examples of genuine obsession. Copies still available in the classroom!

Please, don´t forget to do exercises c and d on pages 64-65 in your books (pre-writing activities).

See you in two days!

Emiliano

March, Friday 21st

Hi guys!

Very few people did show up, what happened to you???

Yesterday we just carried on with unit 4C. We first worked on the second part of Are you a slave to your mobile? - worksheet 2 - and did a couple of pre-writing activities. Remember ! You need to write a complaint letter following the instructions present in that photocopy  and hand it in before Thursday next week (photocopy available HERE NOW and also in the classroom). Then we first did the grammar part (click HERE ) and the usual exercises and finished the class by working on the listening  & speaking activity on page 63 (exercise 6). That was all!

Please, don´t forget to do exercises 4c and 4d on page 62 (read Are we hooked on addiction? first) and also exercises 4a and 4b on page 43 in your workbooks.

Have a great weekend!

Emiliano

March, Thursday 20th

Hi guys!

She just doesn´t know what nomophobia is...

In today´s class we started unit 4C. Can´t be without it! , and it proved many of us are a bit of a nomophobe, right? :-)

We did the whole of exercise 1 with all its parts, and also worked with the Are you a slave to your mobile? worksheet (available in the classroom), which made us find out who´s more enslaved (normally, our partner ! :-)

Then back to the book. We had time to do exercise 3a and 3b on conditionals. We´ll get into more detail tomorrow.

Please, don´t forget to do exercise 2 (phone language) on page 41 in your workbooks. 

See you tomorrow in the usual at the usual!

Emiliano

March, Tuesday 18th

Top o´the night to ya´!

If you came to class, then you´ll remember what this saying "resembles" :-)

Today, we first checked exercise 5c on page 59 in our books, and then we also did the whole of  History and warfare on page 163. Since we are experts on the topìc, we did a pairwork activity with Warfare crosswords. We asked about missing words in our crosswords and our partners would define them so that we could guess them. Good job everyone!

Toby´s time later on. He first answered (and asked you back) the questions contanining compound adjectives. Right after that and changing the topic completely,. he told you about SAINT PATRICK´S DAY . Finally, he gave you thisSaint Patrick´s cloze text and checked pronunciation when reading aloud.

That was all!!

Happy Father´s day too guys! See you in two days!

Emiliano

March, Thursday 13th

Need a self-help book?

Hi there!

Today we moved on with unit 4B. Help yourself. Firstly, we worked on intonation in polite requests (page 3a and 3b). We were tested on the different structures when there´s a verb + another : infinitive or gerund? and then saw this POWER POINT ON THE TOPIC. Please, pay attention especially to the last 3 slides with info about stop, try, mean ,etc...

When finished, we then did the whole of page 58: reading and working out "obscure" words, and listening activities c and d. Finally, we had time to do exercise 5a on the next page and there we stopped working! Since we   didn´t have time to check the sentences in 5a, please help yourself here!

1. second-hand          6. home-made
2. long-term              7. air-conditioned
3. last-minute            8. part-time
4. duty-free               9. narrow-minded
5. worn-out              10. well-behaved

Please, don´t forget to do the following for Tuesday´s class:

• Exercise 5c page 59 ( textbooks). Please write three questions for Toby with different compound adjectives.
• Do the whole of activities present in page 163: History and warfare.
• Photocopy 2 

Enjoy your time guys and see you on Tuesday!

Emiliano

March, Tuesday 11th

Hi guys!

Today ( yes ) we had our class with lightning speed!  We began unit 4B, Help yourself where we only did exercises 1a and 1b, and also read The persuaders on page 56. Right after that, we moved on to exercise 2: grammar  verb + object + ( full / bare) infinitive or gerund

We then got to page 146 (CLICK HERE TO SEE PP PRESENTATION ) and did the activity there just as we went along. There we stopped! There was time for no more!

Toby´s time was for Do you think you could possibly...?, a genuine activity for language of requests and persuasion. That was fun!

Please, don´t forget to do exercises 1a and 1b on page 37 in your workbooks.

See you on Thursday!

Emiliano

March, Thursday 6th

Hi there!

Are you William Wallace?? Really?

Yesterday we carried on with unit 4A. We first corrected exercises on page 55 and then resumed the listening activity we had started on Tuesday (exercise 5c). We also listened to find out all the " lies " in famous Braveheart, and also saw more about OTHER FILM INACCURACIES.

Then , we moved on to grammar ( page 55, exercise 6a). We then watched this PRESENTATION ON NEW DISCOURSE MARKERS and did exercises a and b on page 145. We had time just for the first activity, but please find the answers for the second activity HERE.

That was all! Please, don´t forget to do exercises in your workbooks: page 35 exercises 3a, 3b and 3c. Also exercises 4 and 5 on the next page. 

Enjoy your weekend!

See you all on Tuesday!

Emiliano

March, Tuesday 4th

Hi there!

"Inaccuracy? Where??"

Tonight we moved on and started unit 4A. History goes to the movies, where we first corrected exercise 1b on page 52 (textbooks) and then skipped page 53 in order to have a read of the preface of History goes to the movies (page 54), where we did exercise 4b. Finally, we had time to do the first part of the listening activity 5c (page 55)  and we will check the inaccuracies of Titanic in our next class!

Then at 7 we had Toby and his film festival activity. Please feel free to download the MOVIE LANGUAGE , the MOVIE DIALOGUE and the MOVIE POSTERS worksheets used in his activity.

Please, don´t forget to do exercises 4c, 4d and 4e on page 55 in your textbooks for Thursday´s class.

See you then!

Emiliano