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.
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.
Last Wednesday we: 1- Listened to Naomi speaking about her hobbies and we did a comprehension quiz about it. 2- Explained what a creative person is and we named some jobs that only a creative person can do. 3- Did exercise 2 on page 64. 4- Learnt how to describe a picture. 5- Did exercise 3 on page 64 and described some famous paintings in English. By the way, Edvard Munch is Norwegian and the painting is located in Oslo. (A piece of advice for you: you should study a bit more about Van Gogh, Da Vinci and Dalí) ;)
6- Explained the Present Perfect Continuous and the Present Perfect Simple:
e.g. I've done my homework, mum. I've been doing my homework for 5 hours, mum. 7- Did exercise 6 and 9 on page 65. 8- Listened to exercise 2 on page 67 and did exercises 2 and 3. 9- Learnt the difference between verbs followed by -ing and infinitive. (See page 75 on your textbooks).
I hope you had a very Happy Easter. Here you are a listening where you can listen to David Cameron wishing a happy Easter to all the British families. Here is a challenge for you:
1- Listen to it without subtitles. 2- Listen to it again with English subtitles and try to check what you understood in the first listening you did.
Last Wednesday we: 1- Checked the compositions you wrote in your exams. 2- Corrected exercises 1, 2 and 4 on page 59. 3- Did exercises 2, 3 and 4 on page 63.