Our Twenty Fourth Session (6 May 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected exercise 7 on page 99 and exercises 1 and 4 on page 101.

2- Corrected the exercises about "Used to". (The photocopy that I gave you on Wednesday 29th April.

3- Explained what modals of abilty are.

4- Did exercise 6 on page 99.

5- Thought of decisions or events that changed the world (Speaking).

6- Spoke around 10 minutes about changes that changed your lives.

7- Did exercises 1 and 3 on page 105.

8- Explained second and third conditionals:

e.g. If I were you, I would study harder (2nd conditional).

9- Did exercise 5 on page 118 and exercises 5 and 6 (speaking) on page 107.

Useful videos for your oral presentation

Have a look at these useful videos:

You can as well check this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9c0ohGGuFuSh7g23NeQm1Q

Somebody that I used to know

If you want to practise a bit more, here you have a really nice song. You just need to fill in the gaps and look up all the words that you don't know.

I hope you enjoy it!

Here you are the same song but with the lyrics!

Our Twenty Third Session (29 April 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected exercise 9 on page 83 and exercises 10 and 12 on page 86.

2- Played a guessing game where we had to describe words related to the expression: "education".

3- Listened to exercise 1 and 2 on page 92.

4- Spoke a bit about our learning experiences: "What was your best/worst learning experience?"

5- Read the text on page 95 and did exercises 3, 4 and 5.

6- We watched a video about Matilda and discovered what kind of teacher she had: frightening and strict.

7- What type of teacher are you? 

boring-calm-clear-encouraging-enthusiastic-frightening-imaginative-inspiring-interesting-knowledgeable-patient-strict-tolerant-understanding

Happy Mother's Day

Hi all,

If you want your children to learn some nice lyrics, here you are a very easy song for a very special day. 

Happy Mother's Day!

Our Twenty Second Session (22 April 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected the exercise taken from the video "Dream Holidays".

2- Explained how to use the "Past Perfect Simple".

3- Did exercises 6 and 7 on page 79.

4- Listened to exercise 10 on page 80.

5- Spoke about the difference between "castle and palace, pub and café", etc. on page 81.

6- Listened to exercises 2, 3 and 4 on page 81.

7- Explained some differences we can find in the word "get" and did exercise 3 on page 87.

8- Learnt how to write and article and an essay.

Our Twenty First Session (15 April 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected exercise 5 on page 67 and the exercise about the verbs followed by -ing and infinitives (remember, regret, forget, stop and try).

2- Spoke about our hobbies and likes and dislikes (ex. 5, page 67).

3- Listened to exercise 1 on page 70 and discovered what Argentinian people eat.

4- Explained countable and uncountable nouns an the use of quantifiers.

Common uncountable nouns:

accommodation, experience, knowledge, noise, shampoo, time, advice, food, luggage, paper, smoke, transport, countryside, furniture, make-up, pollution, software, work, damage, homework, money, rain, space, electricity, housework, music, research, sugar, equipment, information, news, scenery, sunshine...

5- Exercises 6 and 7 on page 71.

6- Had a look at "lifelong learning" box on page 73.

7- Watched the video "Dream Holidays" and did exercise 3.