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.

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!