Our Eleventh Session (21 January 2015)

Do you remember what "gripping" means? 

Eg. I love "Los Otros". Nicole Kidman and Alakina Mann star in this gripping thriller by Alejandro Amenábar. 

1- We corrected exercise 3 on page 23, but before we explained again the relative pronouns.

2- We corrected exercises 4 and 5 on page 23.

3- We completed exercise 9 on page 24. We learnt how to show our agreement or disagreement on any subject.

4- We listened to exercise 10 on page 24 and spoke in pairs while we practised what we've already learnt.

5- We read exercise 11 on page 24 and gave examples of real English outside the classroom.

6- We completed the "How to..." box with the correct prepositions. Do you remember the exercise we did last Wednesday about objects? It's just the same:

Eg. Pen: It's a kind of pencil, it's used for writing and it's made of plastic.

7- We played "Shh!". We made two teams and tried to describe an object or a word withouth saying three essential expressions related to that object:

Eg.  TV channel: we couldn't pronounce the words "to watch", "programme" or "film".

Finally, the Superwomen won.

8- We explained the passive voice and did exercise 11, 12 and 13 on page 27.

9- We watched the video "The Mag" and we discovered where Leicester is in the map of the UK.

Our Tenth Session (14 January 2015)

Last Wednesday:

1- We were considering the positive and not so positive aspects of your oral presentations. To do so, we paid special attention to pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.

2- We described some of the main characters of the film "Love Actually" and the rest of the class had to find out who was the actor we were describing.

3- We named the different types of relationships in "Love Actually":

• Brotherly
• Unfaithful
• Open
• International
• Friendship
• Paternal
• Impossible
• Unbelievable

4- We explained what a relative clause is. (Bear in mind the relative pronouns):

                          which - who - where - when - whose - that

Our Ninth Session (7 January 2015)

Happy New Year!!

I hope you had a good time and that the 3 wise men treated you well. Last Wednesday:

1- We brainstormed some new vocabulary related to Christmas time! Here you are a link to listen again to some of the words we learnt. Keep in mind the word "New Year's resolution (NYRs)", in Spanish, "propósitos de año nuevo".

2- We briefly explained the future tense and the conditional "would". We used these three forms to express our NYRs.

• Will / will not = won't (to speak about promises)

 Example: I will eat less chocolate. / I won't eat unhealthy food.

• Be going to / not be going to (to speak about plans)

Example: I'm going to read a book every week. / I'm not going to drink alcohol.

• I would like to = "me gustaría" (to speak about conditions)

Example: I would like to have a baby in 2015. 

=> BE CAREFUL WITH THE "TO", you have to add "to" after the word "like" just in this case.

3- We did an exercise to recap on these new verbs. We also put in order our NYRs.

4- What are your 2015 resolutions? Write them down and practise your English! ;)

5- We saw an example of formal and informal letters and an email.

6- We corrected our "writing folder" (Reviews).

Have a nice week, mates and don't forget to do your homework!