Our Fifteenth Session (18 January 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected a letter about the Coca-Cola ad.

2- We explained how to write a report.

3- We listened to exercise 2 on page 46 and filled in the gaps. "Living in the country or the city?"

4- We spoke about our dreams and hopes (look at exercise 3 on page 46).

Our Fourteenth Session (11 January 2015)

Last Wednesday we:


Do you know the difference between:


"I want to clean the floor" and

"I want you to clean the floor"?


1- Corrected some exercises about "the passive". I encourage you to do some more.

2- We corrected exercise 1 on page 34.

3- We learnt that the modal verbs "could", "might" and "may" are used to express possibility. Rememeber not to use the negative with "could" to express possibility. 

4- We did exercises 1, 2 and 4 on page 45. You can reinforce your ideas doing the exercise about prefixes and suffixes that I sent you on Monday.

5- We saw how different our grandparents' lifestyle was while we watched a video about Coca-Cola. 

6- We discussed in class those differences using the comparatives and superlatives.

Our Thirteenth Session (04 January 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Corrected exercise 6 on page 26.

2- We watched the video corresponding to Unit 3 with English subtitles. 

3- We did exercises 2 and 3 on page 35.

4- We corrected exercises 1 and 2 on page 36.

5- We listened to exercise 4 on page 37 and completed parts "a" and "b".

6- We learnt how to build the future tense and did exercises 5 and 6 on page 37.

7- We read the chart "How to...complain" and learnt different ways to express ourselves if something goes wrong in a hotel, restaurant, shop, etc.

8- We did a role-play in which the students had to split in two groups: one of them was the manager of a hotel and the other one was the client who wanted to complain about the cleanliness and noise in the hotel.

9- We listened to exercise 1 on page 39 and tried to differentiate between city sounds and country sounds.

10- We explained how to build the comparative and superlative adjectives and discussed about our likes and dislikes while we compared our decisions.

Taken from New Total English

Our Twelfth Session (28 January 2015)

Last Wednesday we:

1- Watched the video "The Mag" and answered some questions.

2- We also created our own interview. That was awesome!

3- We corrected these exercises:

• 8 and 9 on page 26. (Textbook)
• 10 on page 27. (Textbook)
• 2 and 3 on page 28. (Textbook)
• 4 and 5 on page 29. (Textbook)

4- We learnt the differences between "past simple" and "past continuous".

5- We did exercise 8 on page 30.

6- We listened to exercise 2 on page 32.

7- We watched a video where some people explained the differences between living in a city or in the country. Finally, we completed a worksheet using these differences.