Happy Christmas!

Here you are one of my favourite's this Christmas! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Our Eighth Session (17 December 2014)

First of all, I would like to say sorry again for starting a bit late last Wednesday (we'll make up the time in May).

For those who couldn't make it (no pudisteis venir) I'll tell you what we did:

1- We described our favourite objects and I really enjoyed doing this with you. We'll continue working on this after Christmas. 

2- We explained what a review is. Remember that's a kind of crítica of a book, film, play, etc. Have a look at what I gave you in class and you'll be able to do your own review.

3- We ate popcorn and watched "Love Actually" (I hope you don't hate it now, J.C.) hehe. Remember that I sent you the film and now you can watched it at home with English subtitles.

Well, I wish you a very happy Christmas. I'll see you on the 7th of January.

Don't forget your English! ;)

Interesting post

If you have problems with prepositions (IN, ON, AT), here you are an interesting chart you may find useful for your future compositions.

American English at State

Our Seventh Session (10 December 2014)

Hi folks, here you are a brief summary about what we did last Wednesday.

1- We corrected the exam we sat the week before. Congratulations! Although it was a pop quiz, you all succeeded: Well done! :)

2- We listened to a listening taken from the Preliminary English Test (PET-B1). I'll send you the listening to practise at home.

3- We asked each other some questions about the listening. Writing the questions was the most difficult part of the task. (You should continue doing it at home).

4- We created our own interview and tried to discover our classmate's hobbies. We were speaking English for more than half an hour. WOW!

Have a nice week and see you on Wednesday.

Our Sixth Session (3 December 2014)

After our week off we came back ready to start speaking English almost like a native speaker! :O

1- We listened to a listening taken from the Preliminary English Test (PET-B1). We found it a bit difficult, but it was fine (it was our first time). The clue to improve our listening is practising, practising and practising (as I'm always saying). PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!

2- We corrected our homework and explained at the same time the Present Perfect Simple and the Past Simple (page 19 of our textbook).

3- We watched again the second part of "Tom and his family": Skateboarding, and did some exercises.

We learnt how to use: this, that, these and those.

4- We learnt different ways to express our feelings about something using these words:

like - love - hate - can't stand (remember that you have to use a noun or a verb-ing after these verbs).

5- We took a very interesting test (at least for me). Are you ready to start Unit 2? We'll see tomorrow.

26 November 2014

Remember we don't have English class next Wednesday (26 November)!

¡Recordad que el próximo miércoles 26 de noviembre no hay clase!

Enjoy your week ;) I recommend you to study everything we have learnt so far.

The keep calm-o-matic

¡A ponerse las pilas! :)

Our Fifth Session (19 November 2014)

I really enjoyed this special session with you because we learnt some basic structures in English:

1- We corrected our homework (exercise 5 and 6 on page 12).

2- We learnt what an action and a state verb is. We did exercise 9 and 11 on page 13. 

3- Do you know when do we use the present simple and the present continuous? If you don't, just check page 19 on your book. You can practise it doing this short exercise:

Below are some sentences that should be in the present tense. Choose the more appropriate of each of the two options to complete the sentences.

1) Dave _________________ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald at school this term.
(is reading / reads)

2) He ________________ his novel for the last week.
(is reading / has been reading)

3) She _______________ reading every night before bed.
(has enjoyed / enjoys)

4) She _____________ reading all her life.
(is loving / has loved)

MOMBOOKS (2011)

Maybe it's a bit difficult for you but you can try your luck.

4- We explained frequency adverbs:

Always-Usually-Normally-Often-Sometimes-Seldom-Hardly ever-Rarely-Never

We use them before the main verb except for the verb "to be".

5- We asked our classmates some questions using the present simple and the present continuous. In this game Student A had to guess Student B's questions and the other way round. 

6-We corrected exercise 3 on page 153 and explained how to write formal and informal letters. If you want to remember everything we did, you just need to have a look at the page about letters I sent you some weeks ago.

7- We watched the second part of the video "Tom and his family". Skateboarding.

That's all folks!

Answers: 1) is reading, 2) has been reading, 3) enjoys, 4) has loved