May, Thursday 8th

Hi there!

Now that´s what I call extreme commuting!

Today we first checked exercise b on page 150 but before, as we usually do, we tested our knowledge on gerunds & infinitives with an interactive  activity. Then, we skipped some pages and worked on pages 80-81 in order to learn what to show in a report . Please, don´t forget to write your report for Thursday next week the latest. We continued with Travel & tourism on page 165, and briefly saw some more vocabulary (AMERICAN & BRITISH VOCABULARY ).Then, we continued skipping pages and "landed" on page 85, where we did the questionnaire in 2c. Then, we moved on  and did exercise b (page 86) and read "Extreme commuting - would you do it?" That was all then, folks!

Please, remember to do exercise 1c on page 84 in your textbooks (read my 25,000 wonders of the world ) and the revise & check section on page 83 (also in your books).Check your answersHERE

Enjoy your weekend, guys!

Emiliano

May, Tuesday 6th

Hi people!

Yesterday´s class was devoted to gerunds & infinitives ( the last thing to see before finishing unit 5C). We first had a breaking-the-ice activity to test our knowledge on the topic. Then we saw exercise 3a (see ANSWER KEY) and 3b on page 77, and from there we learned everything about THE GERUNDS & THE INFINITIVES (page 150). Once done with it, we did exercise a. Please do exercise b (same page 150) for Thursday.

Do also work in your workbook, page 51 exercise 4A.

Then Toby´s card & speaking game. It was fun, wasn´t it?  and he got you all speaking in the end!

These were the sentences: 

¶ Can you remember – meeting Toby in this class for the first time?

¶ Do you mind – being kept waiting for long?

¶ Do you regret – giving up an old hobby / pastime?

¶ Would you have liked – to live and work in a different city?

¶ Are you good at – giving compliments to other people?

¶ Do you ever dream about – being someone famous?

¶ Can you afford – to go on holidays this summer?

¶ Is it difficult for you – to say no to friends or family very  often?

See you all on Thursday!

Emiliano

April, Tuesday 29th

Hi there!

In our shortest week ever, we started by correcting exercise 6b (page 79) and did exercises 4a, 4b and 4c on the previous page. Right after that, we went back to the beginning of the unit (page 76) where we had a ball with exercise 1b (Never shower in a thuderstorm). It was fun to see your faces when you knew some myths were actually truths or viceversa ;-)

Then, Toby and his medical & simile definitions activity (copies still available in the classroom).
Please, for Tuesday next (month!) do exercises 1 & 2 on page 50 in your workbooks.

See you then! Enjoy your time guys!

Emiliano

April, Friday 25th

OUR LAST FRIDAY!! HURRAAAYY!!

Yesterday we first began with a spot the difference activity in order to revise the use of prepositions of place & movement. Then, we revised the verbs of the senses on the screen ( "! I´m smelling the fish because I want to check it´s fresh" ... food for thought). We then moved on to unit 5C. Trick or treatment ,where we did exercises 1a on page 76 and 2a on 77 - the former on medical vocabulary, the latter on similes-. ....And that was all!

Please, don´t forget to do exercise 6b on page 79 in your books (right after reading Trick or treatment? Alternative medicine on trial )

See you on Tuesday next week!

Emiliano

April, Thursday 24th

Hi there!

Yesterday we resumed speaking about bizarre artworks in unit 8A. We first did exercises 2a and 2b on page 72-73 and then learned about the verbs of the senses (CLICK HERE) . We then did the exercises on page 149. Right after that, we skipped the longish listening activity ( you can listen & read at home if you fancy) and then worked on page 164 PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE AND MOVEMENT

That was all folks!

Please, do work on photocopy 7 for today´s class.

See you in a few hours ...

Emiliano

April, Tuesday 22nd

WELCOME BACK GUYS!

"And they call it art..."

Our last weeks ahead! Summer time is just round the corner!!

We resumed classes today. We started unit 5B - Just any old bed?- where we just had time to do exercises 1a, 1b and the first four questions of 1c. We´ll continue on Thursday.

Then, Toby´s time and our special guest (Melvin, Toby´s dad). They gave you the Mini-debates speaking activity, where both of them gave you expressions such as That´s that! or So there!, aside from others like "We agreed to disagree" or "additionally". It was a fun and vibrant debate!

See you on Thursday, guys! No homework....

HOLIDAYS!!

Hi guys!!

Our last class before Easter break was devoted to the rest of unit 5A exclusively.We first corrected exercise 4c (page 70), and then moved on to listening & speaking on the following page. We first did the QI quiz speaking activity and then did exercises c and d. That was all!

Please, enjoy your holidays ( do revise English :-) and I hope to see you all again on April 22nd full of beans!!

Emiliano

April, Tuesday 1st

Hi there!

Our first week before Easter break! Today we just corrected exercises on Welcome to Nannyfornia: true, false or doesn´t say & phrasal verbs (pages 68 -69). We also did exercise b on page 148 - we could only use three words for the blanks!- and then started wordbuiliding (on page70). There we just did exercises a and b.

Then, Toby´s time with April´s fool day! There are copies still available in the classroom, but you might want to know about Google Nose ... enjoy the video, fact or prank? :-)

Please do exercise 4c on page 70 in your books for Thursday!

See you then!

Emiliano

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

February, Thursday 27th

Hi there!

Today we resumed unit 3 just where we left it before the exam. We worked  on Writing: a review, where we did all of the activities on pages 48-49. Remember ! Thursday next week is your headline to hand in your review on a book / film (read the Planning what to write and the Writing sections for more info)

We also did past & present participles on page 48, here´s the extra PARTICIPLES activity for next Tuesday´s class. Besides, we did a bit of weak/strong adjectives on the same page, please find more info in this STRONG / WEAK ADJECTIVES REMINDER ...

And then we just had time for one video activity on Microfinance -page 50- (the interview with Sarita Gupta). That was all!

Please, do exercise 1b on page 52 in your textbooks for Tuesday. We´re starting unit 4 already!

Have a nice weekend and see you then!

Emiliano

WELCOME BACK! February, 25th

Hi guys!

Back we are from our February tests, which we checked in class last night. Please, keep in mind they are just indicators of your progress, and also that I feel sorry for those who did not pass some part(s). Fortunately, there´s still lots of time ahead and we can get things better.  Definitely!

Here are some of the most recurrent mistakes (please, see how they can be fixed!)

Then, Toby came in the class and he asked you about the exam: its parts, marks, what you found more difficult, the easiest, etc. He also gave you this DICTATION, which proved not to be a harsh one :-)

On Thursday (tomorrow!) we´ll go back briefly to the exams and then we´ll have to move with our lessons, guys!

See you then!

Emiliano

February, Thursday 6th

Hi there!

We finished our first term!

We did grammar exercises a and b on page 144 (unreal uses of the past tenses). We then moved on to two listening activities: 6b and 6c on page 47 and we brought the class to an end with world famous Money makes the world go round ( click HERE to see the lyrics ). 

And that was all folks!!

See you ALL on Friday next week at 16 sharp in room 15 

(upstairs on the second floor). Please, don´t forget to bring your IDs 

in case you need them. 

Please , do your revise & check of unit 3 (page 51) - answer key HERE-. 

Likewise, answer keys for the other two units are available HERE (UNIT 2) and UNIT 1

See you on Friday next week!

Emiliano